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AFL 2025 fixture: five must-watch games in the first month
The 2025 AFL fixture has been released. So, to whet your appetite for the upcoming season, we've picked out the five must-watch games from the opening month.
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AFL DRAFT COUNTDOWN
AFL Draft: ESPN's final, top 50 Power Rankings
The 2024 AFL Draft is rapidly approaching, with clubs finalising their preferences and making their decisions. Here's ESPN's extended, final Power Rankings for the class of 2024.
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AFLW
Is the rise of the Hawks just luck of the draw or another redemption story?
Talk around the Hawks' rise through the ranks this year has been tempered with by the supposed difficulty of their draw. So, with the need to 'do it the hard way' to make the Grand Final, are they really contenders, or pretenders, asks Sarah Burt.
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2024 AFL Phantom Draft: Every pick in the first two rounds
AFLW
'We need to do more': Tanya Hosch on building pathways for Indigenous players in AFLW
As Indigenous numbers in the AFLW fall, Tanya Hosch highlights the need for culturally responsive pathways to empower aspiring players.
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Every AFLW side's Indigenous Round guernsey for 2024
ANALYSING EVERY CLUB
WHO MOVED WHERE?
Every AFL club's trade and free agency period graded
And just like that the 2024 AFL trade and free agency period is over. Some teams improved, some stagnated, and others, well, got worse. Here's how every team fared over the last two weeks:
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Trade period as it happened: Smith one of nine players traded in frantic final minutes
With the 2024 AFL season complete, clubs, players, and fans can turn their attention to the trade and free agency periods, with player movement the big focus ahead of the offseason.
AFL DRAFT
AFL Draft: Bolters emerge as combine takes centre stage
One of the most important weekends on the junior footy calendar has been run and won, with standout performances littered across the combine making ESPN's draft board for October a little clearer.
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Records challenged and prospects shine: Six takeaways from the 2024 AFL Draft Combine
Jasper Chellappah takes a look at the top performances and standout prospects from this year's AFL Draft Combine.
Top Headlines
- AFL releases 2025 fixture; Hawks in prime time
- Kangaroos to play 'home' games in WA
- AFL reveals Opening Round, '25 season start date
- Lions' Dawes cleared, free for AFLW prelim
- Lions fight past Hawks in AFLW finals thriller
- Lions, QLD cricket plea for new Brisbane stadium
- Dees settle out of court with ex-pres Bartlett
- AFLW confirms night GF, end to condensed draw
- AFL umpire suspended for dressing as Bin Laden
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AFL player record holders, statistical leaders, and more
Who has played the most AFL games? Who has kicked the most AFL goals? Here are the league leaders in history for all the stats that matter.
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Pass or fail: How every club fared with their pass marks in 2024
Before the 2024 AFL season kicked off, ESPN's footy writers put their heads together to come up with every club's pass mark for the upcoming year. How did your team fare?
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Join ESPN's footy team for some of the best AFL and AFLW analysis and insight on the ESPN Footy Podcast.
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AFL trade and free agency grades - Every club's report card from a wild 2024 transfer period
And just like that the 2024 AFL trade and free agency period is over. Some teams improved, some stagnated, and others, well, got worse. Here's how every team fared over the last two weeks:
