Rules · Season shape · Must-follow · the model’s own rule
One game per club per round
internal:round.ASSIGN-02
What it means
No club plays more than once in a round.
Why it exists
A sanity check on the round stageOne of five steps that build the fixture: opponents, rounds, dates, home ground and venue, TV slot.Read more in the glossary.
For example
Carlton cannot play both Thursday and Sunday of the same round.
How strictly it applies
Must-follow The fixture must obey this rule. A separate checker tests the finished fixture afterwards.
Must-follow. A model-integrity check, not an AFLAustralian Football League.Read more in the glossary rule.
Where to see it
How the fixture is made 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
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- Preview 14 September (seed 42)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- Repeat-qualified (seed 42)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- Corrected (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- Rules release (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- B009 nominal (seed 43)2027 · Generated
Off, switched off by these settings
no checker yet
- B010 nominal (weight 0.10)2027 · Generated
Met, met
- B011 nominal2027 · Generated
Met, met
- 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 TV slots added, 18 Sep 2026.
Related
For analysts: catalogue text and codes
- Rule id
internal:round.ASSIGN-02- Catalogue text
- No club plays more than once in a round.
- Catalogue type
- modelled rule (not a catalogue row)
- Catalogue family
- internal
- Class
hard· The fixture must never break it.- Step
S2· Step 2: rounds- Recorded status
met· source rowevaluated- Catalogue reason
- A model-integrity check on the round assignment.