2027 season · VIC · version b02a02c
North Melbourne
23 games · 11 home · 12 away · bye A round in which a club does not play. Round 12
ladder position Where North 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 North Melbourne plays twice. · bottom 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.
Greater Western Sydney
- Broadcast
- Slot band: Saturday night Kickoff: 7:35 pm AEDT · modelled TV channel: not recorded
- Why here?
- Matchup: Step 1: opponentsRound: Step 2: roundsDate: Step 3: datesVenue: Step 4: home club and groundSlot: Step 5: TV slotEvidence for this version
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Season at a glance
Home games
How this is counted
Counted from the home and away roles each game records.
11
Away games
12
Interstate trips
How this is counted
Games at a ground outside Victoria, including home games played interstate.
9
Prime time
How this is counted
Thursday-night and Friday-night games, from each game’s recorded time slot.
4
1 Thu · 3 Fri
Byes
1
R12
Longest away run
How this is counted
Rounds in a row listed away. A bye does not break the run.
2
R6–R7
Who they play twice
North 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
- St Kilda 11th · R6 and R21
- Greater Western Sydney 12th · R1 and R23
Bottom 6 finished 13th–18th 2
- Gold Coast 13th · R3 and R19
- Port Adelaide 15th · R8 and R20
Ladder: the home-and-away ladder. See every club's double-ups
Home and away rhythm
- Round 1: away v Greater Western Sydney
- Round 2: home v Carlton
- Round 3: home v Gold Coast
- Round 4: away v Hawthorn
- Round 5: home, played interstate v West Coast
- Round 6: away v St Kilda
- Round 7: away v Richmond
- Round 8: home v Port Adelaide
- Round 9: away v Sydney
- Round 10: home, played interstate v Fremantle
- Round 11: away v Melbourne
- Round 12: bye
- Round 13: away v Brisbane Lions
- Round 14: home v Adelaide
- Round 15: away v Collingwood
- Round 16: away v Essendon
- Round 17: home v Geelong
- Round 18: home v Western Bulldogs
- Round 19: away v Gold Coast
- Round 20: away v Port Adelaide
- Round 21: home v St Kilda
- Round 22: away v Fremantle
- Round 23: home v Greater Western Sydney
- Round 24: home v Hawthorn
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
- R26-day break
- R37-day break
- R49-day break
- R57-day break
- R67-day break
- R77-day break
- R86-day break
- R98-day break
- R107-day break
- R117-day break
- R12Bye
- R1312-day break across the bye
- R146-day break
- R159-day break
- R167-day break
- R176-day break
- R189-day break
- R197-day break
- R207-day break
- R217-day break
- R227-day break
- R237-day break
- R247-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
R1SAT 20 MARSaturday night
Greater Western Sydney
6-day break
R2FRI 26 MARFriday twilight
Carlton
April
7-day break
R3FRI 2 APRFriday night
Gold Coast
9-day break
R4SUN 11 APRSunday twilight
Hawthorn
7-day break
R5SUN 18 APRSunday day
West Coast
7-day break
R6SUN 25 APRSunday twilight
St Kilda
May
7-day break
R7SUN 2 MAYSunday twilight
Richmond
6-day break
R8SAT 8 MAYSaturday twilight
Port Adelaide
8-day break
R9SUN 16 MAYSunday day
Sydney
7-day break
R10SUN 23 MAYSunday twilight
Fremantle
7-day break
R11SUN 30 MAYSunday twilight
Melbourne
June
North MelbourneByeR12
12-day break across the bye
R13FRI 11 JUNFriday night
Brisbane Lions
6-day break
R14THU 17 JUNThursday night
Adelaide
9-day break
R15SAT 26 JUNSaturday night
Collingwood
July
7-day break
R16SAT 3 JULSaturday twilight
Essendon
6-day break
R17FRI 9 JULFriday night
Geelong
9-day break
R18SUN 18 JULSunday day
Western Bulldogs
7-day break
R19SUN 25 JULSunday day
Gold Coast
August
7-day break
R20SUN 1 AUGSunday day
Port Adelaide
7-day break
R21SUN 8 AUGSunday twilight
St Kilda
7-day break
R22SUN 15 AUGSunday day
Fremantle
7-day break
R23SUN 22 AUGSunday twilight
Greater Western Sydney
7-day break
R24SUN 29 AUGSunday twilight
Hawthorn