2027 season · VIC · version 3786ad6
Melbourne
23 games · 12 home · 11 away · bye A round in which a club does not play. Round 16
ladder position Where Melbourne finished on the 2026 ladder (the home-and-away ladder: the order after the last home-and-away round, before the finals were played). The fixture's double-up rule splits that ladder into thirds of six and uses them to choose which six clubs Melbourne plays twice. · middle 6
Stored on this device only. Nothing is sent. Calendar entries use the modelled kickoff time and say so; a game with no time is all-day.
Season opener
SAT 20 MAR
Saturday nightModelled time (assumption). A kickoff clock copied from the ground's usual start for that weekday and band in recent seasons, used only to estimate which games suit TV. Not a fact about 2027.
Geelong
- Broadcast
- Slot band: Saturday night Kickoff: 7:45 pm AEDT · modelled TV channel: not recorded
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Season at a glance
Home games
How this is counted
Counted from the home and away roles each game records.
12
Away games
11
Interstate trips
How this is counted
Games at a ground outside Victoria, including home games played interstate.
8
Prime time
How this is counted
Thursday-night and Friday-night games, from each game’s recorded time slot.
6
2 Thu · 4 Fri
Byes
1
R16
Longest away run
How this is counted
Rounds in a row listed away. A bye does not break the run.
2
R1–R2
Who they play twice
Melbourne meets 6 clubs twice. By where they finished in 2026: 2 from the top six, 2 from the middle six and 2 from the bottom six.
Top 6 finished 1st–6th 2
Middle 6 finished 7th–12th 2
- Western Bulldogs 8th · R4 and R17
- Collingwood 9th · R13 and R24
Bottom 6 finished 13th–18th 2
- Port Adelaide 15th · R3 and R20
- West Coast 16th · R5 and R19
Ladder: the home-and-away ladder. See every club's double-ups
Home and away rhythm
- Round 1: away v Geelong
- Round 2: away v Sydney
- Round 3: home v Port Adelaide
- Round 4: home, played interstate v Western Bulldogs
- Round 5: away v West Coast
- Round 6: home v Richmond
- Round 7: home v North Melbourne
- Round 8: away v St Kilda
- Round 9: home v Adelaide
- Round 10: away v Brisbane Lions
- Round 11: away v Fremantle
- Round 12: home v Gold Coast
- Round 13: home v Collingwood
- Round 14: away v Essendon
- Round 15: home, played interstate v Carlton
- Round 16: bye
- Round 17: away v Western Bulldogs
- Round 18: home v Hawthorn
- Round 19: home v West Coast
- Round 20: away v Port Adelaide
- Round 21: away v Adelaide
- Round 22: home v Greater Western Sydney
- Round 23: home v Geelong
- Round 24: away v Collingwood
H homeA away– bye· not recorded* home game played interstate
Breaks · days since the previous game: red 5 or fewer, amber 6, green 7+
- R1–first game
- R28-day break
- R37-day break
- R47-day break
- R57-day break
- R66-day break
- R78-day break
- R85-day break
- R96-day break
- R108-day break
- R118-day break
- R128-day break
- R138-day break
- R146-day break
- R156-day break
- R16Bye
- R1715-day break across the bye
- R187-day break
- R195-day break
- R207-day break
- R216-day break
- R2210-day break
- R237-day break
- R246-day break
The season, game by game · break The number of days between a club's two consecutive games. are days between recorded dates
Times marked modelled are a modelled assumption A value we chose because the AFL has not published the 2027 fact, or because a convention is only visible in past fixtures., not announced kickoffs.
March
April
7-day break
R3SUN 4 APRSunday day
Port Adelaide
7-day break
R4SUN 11 APRSunday twilight
Western Bulldogs
7-day break
R5SUN 18 APRSunday night
West Coast
6-day break
R6SAT 24 APRSaturday night
Richmond
May
8-day break
R7SUN 2 MAYSunday twilight
North Melbourne
5-day break
R8FRI 7 MAYFriday night
St Kilda
6-day break
R9THU 13 MAYThursday night
Adelaide
8-day break
R10FRI 21 MAYFriday night
Brisbane Lions
8-day break
R11SAT 29 MAYSaturday day
Fremantle
June
8-day break
R12SUN 6 JUNSunday twilight
Gold Coast
8-day break
R13MON 14 JUNMonday twilight
Collingwood
6-day break
R14SUN 20 JUNSunday twilight
Essendon
6-day break
R15SAT 26 JUNSaturday twilight
Carlton
July
MelbourneByeR16
15-day break across the bye
R17SUN 11 JULSunday twilight
Western Bulldogs
7-day break
R18SUN 18 JULSunday twilight
Hawthorn
5-day break
R19FRI 23 JULFriday night
West Coast
7-day break
R20FRI 30 JULFriday night
Port Adelaide
August
6-day break
R21THU 5 AUGThursday night
Adelaide
10-day break
R22SUN 15 AUGSunday day
Greater Western Sydney
7-day break
R23SUN 22 AUGSunday twilight
Geelong
6-day break
R24SAT 28 AUGSaturday night
Collingwood