2027 season · VIC · version ddd7469
Hawthorn
23 games · 12 home · 11 away · bye A round in which a club does not play. Round 12
ladder position Where Hawthorn 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 Hawthorn plays twice. · top 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
SUN 21 MAR
Sunday twilightModelled 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.
Melbourne
- Broadcast
- Slot band: Sunday twilight Kickoff: 3:15 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.
9
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
R12
Longest away run
How this is counted
Rounds in a row listed away. A bye does not break the run.
2
R2–R3
Who they play twice
Hawthorn meets 6 clubs twice. By where they finished in 2026: 3 from the top six, 1 from the middle six and 2 from the bottom six.
Top 6 finished 1st–6th 3
- Brisbane Lions 3rd · R9 and R21
- Geelong 5th · R2 and R22
- Adelaide 6th · R8 and R20
Middle 6 finished 7th–12th 1
- Collingwood 9th · R11 and R23
Bottom 6 finished 13th–18th 2
- North Melbourne 14th · R4 and R24
- Essendon 18th · R7 and R19
Ladder: the home-and-away ladder. See every club's double-ups
Home and away rhythm
- Round 1: home, played interstate v Melbourne
- Round 2: away v Geelong
- Round 3: away v Western Bulldogs
- Round 4: home, played interstate v North Melbourne
- Round 5: away v Port Adelaide
- Round 6: away v West Coast
- Round 7: home, played interstate v Essendon
- Round 8: away v Adelaide
- Round 9: home v Brisbane Lions
- Round 10: home, played interstate v Carlton
- Round 11: away v Collingwood
- Round 12: bye
- Round 13: home v Fremantle
- Round 14: away v Richmond
- Round 15: home v Sydney
- Round 16: away v St Kilda
- Round 17: home v Gold Coast
- Round 18: home v Greater Western Sydney
- Round 19: away v Essendon
- Round 20: home v Adelaide
- Round 21: away v Brisbane Lions
- Round 22: home v Geelong
- Round 23: home, played interstate v Collingwood
- Round 24: away v North Melbourne
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
- R36-day break
- R47-day break
- R56-day break
- R67-day break
- R76-day break
- R86-day break
- R98-day break
- R108-day break
- R117-day break
- R12Bye
- R1314-day break across the bye
- R147-day break
- R156-day break
- R169-day break
- R176-day break
- R188-day break
- R195-day break
- R206-day break
- R219-day break
- R228-day break
- R236-day break
- R248-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
6-day break
R3SUN 4 APRSunday twilight
Western Bulldogs
7-day break
R4SUN 11 APRSunday twilight
North Melbourne
6-day break
R5SAT 17 APRSaturday day
Port Adelaide
7-day break
R6SAT 24 APRSaturday twilight
West Coast
6-day break
R7FRI 30 APRFriday night
Essendon
May
6-day break
R8THU 6 MAYThursday night
Adelaide
8-day break
R9FRI 14 MAYFriday night
Brisbane Lions
8-day break
R10SAT 22 MAYSaturday twilight
Carlton
7-day break
R11SAT 29 MAYSaturday twilight
Collingwood
June
July
9-day break
R16SUN 4 JULSunday twilight
St Kilda
6-day break
R17SAT 10 JULSaturday day
Gold Coast
8-day break
R18SUN 18 JULSunday twilight
Greater Western Sydney
5-day break
R19FRI 23 JULFriday night
Essendon
6-day break
R20THU 29 JULThursday night
Adelaide
August
9-day break
R21SAT 7 AUGSaturday day
Brisbane Lions
8-day break
R22SUN 15 AUGSunday day
Geelong
6-day break
R23SAT 21 AUGSaturday night
Collingwood
8-day break
R24SUN 29 AUGSunday twilight
North Melbourne