Big winner emerges as one club completely snubbed in AFL fixture

The AFL fixture is like a lottery. Here are the biggest winners (and losers)

The fixture arrives like lottery tickets: It might be good, but probably won’t be, and we won’t really know until later. We’ve ranked every club’s 2027 task, in order of difficulty.

Grudge matches galore as AFL releases fixtures for 2027

Sydney have received plenty of prime-time slots for 2027, but the round-eight match when they face their former star Nick Blakey shapes as the spiciest.

Big winner emerges as one club completely snubbed in AFL fixture

The Swans will be the primetime kings in the first half of 2027.

The fixture difficulty of ALL 18 clubs rated and ranked ahead of the 2027 season

Which teams were lucky, and which teams got shortchanged?

Winners and losers: Every 2027 AFL fixture ranked as contender, dark horses given gifts

As much as we’d love a truly balanced AFL fixture, it’s just not practical - playing everyone once is too few games, and playing everyone twice is way too many.