2027 season · VIC · version ddd7469
Melbourne
23 games · 12 home · 11 away · bye A round in which a club does not play. Round 14
ladder position Where 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 Melbourne plays twice. · middle 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.
Hawthorn
- 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.
7
Prime time
How this is counted
Thursday-night and Friday-night games, from each game’s recorded time slot.
7
2 Thu · 5 Fri
Byes
1
R14
Longest away run
How this is counted
Rounds in a row listed away. A bye does not break the run.
2
R8–R9
Who they play twice
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
- Western Bulldogs 8th · R2 and R17
- Collingwood 9th · R13 and R24
Bottom 6 finished 13th–18th 2
- Port Adelaide 15th · R4 and R16
- Richmond 17th · R6 and R22
Ladder: the home-and-away ladder. See every club's double-ups
Home and away rhythm
- Round 1: away v Hawthorn
- Round 2: home, played interstate v Western Bulldogs
- Round 3: away v Fremantle
- Round 4: home, played interstate v Port Adelaide
- Round 5: away v Sydney
- Round 6: home v Richmond
- Round 7: home v West Coast
- Round 8: away v St Kilda
- Round 9: away v Adelaide
- Round 10: home v Brisbane Lions
- Round 11: home v North Melbourne
- Round 12: away v Essendon
- Round 13: home v Collingwood
- Round 14: bye
- Round 15: home v Carlton
- Round 16: away v Port Adelaide
- Round 17: away v Western Bulldogs
- Round 18: home v Fremantle
- Round 19: away v Geelong
- Round 20: home v Greater Western Sydney
- Round 21: home v Adelaide
- Round 22: away v Richmond
- Round 23: home v Gold Coast
- Round 24: away v Collingwood
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
- R36-day break
- R49-day break
- R57-day break
- R66-day break
- R77-day break
- R86-day break
- R96-day break
- R108-day break
- R119-day break
- R126-day break
- R139-day break
- R14Bye
- R1512-day break across the bye
- R167-day break
- R178-day break
- R187-day break
- R197-day break
- R205-day break
- R216-day break
- R228-day break
- R239-day break
- R246-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
R1SUN 21 MARSunday twilight
Hawthorn
6-day break
R2SAT 27 MARSaturday day
Western Bulldogs
April
6-day break
R3FRI 2 APRFriday night
Fremantle
9-day break
R4SUN 11 APRSunday twilight
Port Adelaide
7-day break
R5SUN 18 APRSunday day
Sydney
6-day break
R6SAT 24 APRSaturday night
Richmond
May
7-day break
R7SAT 1 MAYSaturday night
West Coast
6-day break
R8FRI 7 MAYFriday night
St Kilda
6-day break
R9THU 13 MAYThursday night
Adelaide
8-day break
R10FRI 21 MAYFriday night
Brisbane Lions
9-day break
R11SUN 30 MAYSunday twilight
North Melbourne
June
6-day break
R12SAT 5 JUNSaturday day
Essendon
9-day break
R13MON 14 JUNMonday twilight
Collingwood
MelbourneByeR14
12-day break across the bye
R15SAT 26 JUNSaturday twilight
Carlton
July
7-day break
R16SAT 3 JULSaturday day
Port Adelaide
8-day break
R17SUN 11 JULSunday twilight
Western Bulldogs
7-day break
R18SUN 18 JULSunday twilight
Fremantle
7-day break
R19SUN 25 JULSunday twilight
Geelong
5-day break
R20FRI 30 JULFriday night
Greater Western Sydney
August
6-day break
R21THU 5 AUGThursday night
Adelaide
8-day break
R22FRI 13 AUGFriday night
Richmond
9-day break
R23SUN 22 AUGSunday day
Gold Coast
6-day break
R24SAT 28 AUGSaturday night
Collingwood