One game per ground per day
VT-13Catalogue name: One match per venue per day
What it means
A ground hosts at most one game per day, never two in the same slot. Gather RoundThe round in which every game is played in one host city. Every club appears once.Read more in the glossary grounds may host two games in a day. At most twice a season, Docklands may host a day game and a night game on the same date.
Why it exists
The AFLAustralian Football League.Read more in the glossary's head of scheduling has said a ground cannot play two games in a day. The exceptions match what the AFL has actually done.
For example
If the MCGMelbourne Cricket Ground.Read more in the glossary hosts a Saturday night game, no other game can be at the MCG that Saturday.
How strictly it applies
Must-follow The fixture must obey this rule. A separate checker tests the finished fixture afterwards.
Must-follow. Checked from the 30 September release. The Docklands and Gather Round exceptions are modelling assumptions calibrated to the 2023 to 2025 fixtures.
Where to see it
Who plays where shows how this plays out across the season.
How it played out across versions
One cell per release, oldest first. Each shows the verdict that release recorded for this rule; a release with no row for the rule says so.
- Preview 13 September2027 · Generated
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- Preview 14 September (seed 42)2027 · Generated
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- Repeat-qualified (seed 42)2027 · Generated
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- Corrected (seed 43)2027 · Generated
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- Rules release (seed 43)2027 · Generated
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- B009 nominal (seed 43)2027 · Generated
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- B010 nominal (weight 0.10)2027 · Generated
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- B011 nominal2027 · Generated
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- B012 Wednesday opening2027 · Generated
Met, met
- 20252025 season as played2025 · As played
Off, switched off by these settings
rule source not recorded
First checked independently in Realism rules added, 30 Sep 2026.
Related
For analysts: catalogue text and codes
- Rule id
VT-13- Catalogue text
- At most one match per venue per local calendar date (Gather Round: two); never two at one venue in one slot.
- Catalogue type
- Hard
- Catalogue family
- Venue and Time-Slot Assignment
- Class
hard· The fixture must never break it.- Step
S3· Step 4: home ground and venue- Recorded status
met· source rowevaluated- Catalogue reason
- The AFL's head of scheduling has said a venue cannot play two games in a day; the Gather Round and Docklands exceptions are calibrated to what the AFL has actually done.