Season Description The 2026 AFL season is the 130th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season features 18 clubs and will run from 5 March to 26 September, comprising a 23-match home-and-away season over 25 rounds, with a five-week finals series featuring the top ten clubs to occur for the first time.
Fremantle won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 19–4 win–loss record. Collingwood's Nick Daicos won the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player and Sydney's Charlie Curnow won his third Coleman Medal as the league's leading goalkicker.