AFL practice matches 2024: Results, scores, fixture, schedule, dates, venues for pre-season Community Series

Kieran Francis

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The AFL 2024 pre-season is in full swing.

Collingwood and Richmond were the first cabs off the rank in the AFL Community Series on Thursday, February 27 at IKON Park.

Every team will be playing across six days until St Kilda vs. North Melbourne wraps up the exhibition games on Sunday, March 3.

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Five matches will be staged outside of Victoria including Hawthorn's contest against Western Bulldogs at the University of Tasmania.

The South Australian clubs Adelaide and Port Adelaide will host West Coast and Fremantle respectively in South Australia, while Sydney will welcome Brisbane south.

GWS' second home at Manuka Oval in Canberra will be the venue to host Gold Coast Suns.

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AFL Match Simulation games

Feb 18-Feb 24

Date Match Local Time (AEDT) Venue
Sun Feb 18 Melbourne 14.10 (94) def. by Richmond 18.9 (117) 10:00am Casey Fields
Wed Feb 21 North Melbourne 15.12 (102) def. Collingwood 10.8 (68) 10:00am AIA Centre
Thu Feb 22 Sydney 16.16 (112) def. GWS 13.8 (86) 10:00am Tramway Oval
Thu Feb 22 Carlton 8.8 (56) def. by Geelong 10.13 (73) 11:00am Ikon Park
Thu Feb 22 Brisbane 15.12 (102) def. Gold Coast 8.7 (55)  5:00pm (6:00pm) Brighton Homes Arena
Fri Feb 23 Western Bulldogs 16.12 (108) def. Hawthorn 12.11 (83) 11:00am Whitten Oval
Fri Feb 23 St Kilda 16.10 (106) def. Essendon 5.10 (40) 2:00pm RSEA Park
Fri Feb 23 Port Adelaide 14.9 (93) draw with Adelaide 14.9 (93) 5:00pm (5:30pm) Alberton Oval
Sat Feb 24 West Coast 5.16 (46) def. by Fremantle 14.14 (98) 4:45pm (7:45pm) Mineral Resources Park

AFL Community Series pre-season fixture

Feb 27-Mar 3 (Official practice matches)

Date Match Local Time (AEDT) Venue
Tues Feb 27 Collingwood 10.16 (76) def. Richmond 5.16 (46) 6:40pm IKON Park
Wed Feb 28 Carlton 10.3 (63) def. by Melbourne 15.11 (101) 6:40pm IKON Park
Thu Feb 29 Sydney 8.8 (56) def. by Brisbane Lions 12.9 (81) 7:10pm Blacktown International Sportspark
Thu Feb 29 GWS 15.15 (105) def. Gold Coast Suns 9.7 (61) 7:10pm Manuka Oval
Fri Mar 1 Geelong 11.17 (83) def. Essendon 10.11 (71) 5:10pm GMHBA Stadium
Fri Mar 1 Port Adelaide 13.14 (92) def. Fremantle 8.5 (53) 7:30pm (8:00pm) Alberton Oval
Sat Mar 2 Adelaide Crows 17.15 (115) def. West Coast Eagles 7.8 (50) 2:40pm (3:10pm) Hisense Stadium
Sat Mar 2 Hawthorn 9.8 (62) def. by Western Bulldogs 17.17 (119) 6:10pm University of Tasmania Stadium
Sun Mar 3 St Kilda 11.18 (84) def. North Melbourne 10.5 (65) 2:10pm RSEA Park

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The full fixture for the 2024 AFL season has dropped and, as confirmed earlier, the year will kick off with an "opening round" ahead of round one, seeing four matches played across Sydney and Queensland, one week before the traditional season start.

A full nine-match round will then follow a week later, with each of the eight clubs playing in the "opening round" having a bye between rounds two and six.

Sydney and Melbourne will kick off the season at the SCG on Thursday, March 7, while the traditional MCG blockbuster between Carlton and Richmond will be played a week later.

Reigning premiers Collingwood will face GWS in Sydney on Saturday, March 9, while they will face grand final opponents Brisbane for the first time at the Gabba in Round 3, on Thursday March 28 at 7:30pm.

Click here to see the full AFL fixture for the 2024 season.

Kieran Francis

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Kieran Francis is a senior editor at The Sporting News based in Melbourne, Australia. He started at Sportal.com.au before being a part of the transition to Sporting News in 2015. Just prior to the 2018 World Cup, he was appointed chief editor of Goal.com in Australia. He has now returned to The Sporting News where his passions lay in football, AFL, poker and cricket - when he is not on holiday.