2025 AFL Season Elimination Final 2: Fremantle v Gold Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 6 September 2025 between Fremantle and Gold Coast in the second elimination final of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Fremantle hosted Gold Coast at Optus Stadium. Alex Pearce captained the hosts. Noah Anderson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Justin Longmuir and the visitors were coached by Damien Hardwick.

Fremantle (12.7.79) were defeated by Gold Coast (11.14.80).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Second Elimination Final
Teams: Fremantle v Gold Coast
Date: Saturday 6 September 2025
Time: 5:35 PM
Venue: Optus Stadium
Attendance: 57,507

Match Results

Outcome: Fremantle def. by Gold Coast
Score: 12.7.79 - 11.14.80

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Fremantle	1	.	2	5	.	2	8	.	4	12	.	7	12	.	7	(79)
Gold Coast	1	.	6	8	.	9	9	.	13	11	.	14	11	.	14	(80)
Margin	GCST by 4			GCST by 25			GCST by 15			GCST by 1			GCST by 1
Duration	31:07			37:16			30:25			32:21			2:11:09

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Fremantle) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Gold Coast) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Fremantle

Captain: Alex Pearce
Coach: Justin Longmuir

Gold Coast

Captain: Noah Anderson
Coach: Damien Hardwick

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Caleb Serong	FREM	3	10	2	0	0	0	0
Matt Rowell	GCST	18	6	0	?	?	?	0
Sam Collins	GCST	25	4	0	?	?	?	?
Wil Powell	GCST	27	4	0	?	?	?	?
Noah Anderson	GCST	15	3	0	0	?	?	?
Andrew Brayshaw	FREM	8	2	0	0	0	1	0
Bodhi Uwland	GCST	32	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Fremantle

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
24	Amiss, Jye	FPL↓	66%	1	1	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
41	Banfield, Bailey	INT	64%	0	0	11	7	4	3	0	4	0	3	0	1	3	1
15	Bolton, Shai	C	87%	1	1	15	8	7	1	0	6	5	9	2	6	0	1
8	Brayshaw, Andrew	RO	83%	0	0	32	15	17	5	0	6	6	2	0	1	1	9
5	Chapman, Heath	HBFL	88%	0	0	15	7	8	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	5	1
6	Clark, Jordan	HBFR	96%	0	0	20	11	9	1	0	4	1	1	0	0	4	1
36	Cox, Brennan	FB	91%	0	0	8	5	3	3	0	3	0	3	0	2	1	0
4	Darcy, Sean	INT	64%	0	0	12	8	4	1	29	6	5	4	1	2	0	2
43	Dudley, Isaiah	HFFL	61%	2	0	5	3	2	2	0	3	0	2	0	0	1	1
28	Erasmus, Neil	WR	78%	1	0	18	10	8	2	0	6	5	2	2	0	1	1
32	Frederick, Michael	FPR	82%	0	1	7	5	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	4
7	Fyfe, Nat	SUB↑	14%	0	0	5	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
9	Jackson, Luke	RU	86%	1	1	18	8	10	3	12	8	2	0	1	0	1	4
30	O'Driscoll, Nathan	INT	71%	0	0	12	5	7	1	0	3	2	2	0	1	1	1
2	O'Meara, Jaeger	WL	82%	0	0	9	3	6	0	0	4	1	3	0	1	0	0
25	Pearce, Alex (c)	BPR	85%	0	0	13	7	6	8	0	2	1	2	1	1	2	0
16	Reid, Murphy	HFFR	90%	1	1	20	10	10	2	0	2	1	3	1	1	0	6
13	Ryan, Luke	BPL	91%	0	0	23	20	3	7	0	1	0	2	2	1	9	2
3	Serong, Caleb	RR	81%	0	0	35	20	15	2	0	9	13	3	5	0	0	11
35	Treacy, Josh	FF	94%	2	0	15	12	3	7	0	3	0	4	2	0	0	6
20	Voss, Patrick	CHF	85%	3	0	9	6	3	4	0	0	0	5	0	3	0	0
23	Worner, Karl	CHB	85%	0	0	14	8	6	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	1
26	Young, Hayden	INT	74%	0	0	28	14	14	1	0	3	7	1	1	0	0	6
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				12	7	346	198	148	71	41	76	49	56	18	22	36	59

N. Fyfe replaced J. Amiss.

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Ainsworth, Ben	CHF↓	65%	0	0	5	3	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1
15	Anderson, Noah (c)	RO	92%	0	2	32	21	11	4	0	3	6	6	1	4	3	8
1	Andrew, Mac	CHB	95%	1	0	20	8	12	8	0	0	0	2	1	1	3	0
35	Budarick, Connor	INT	76%	2	0	10	5	5	1	0	6	0	1	0	0	1	1
25	Collins, Sam	BPR	100%	0	0	13	6	7	3	0	1	1	1	1	1	3	0
5	Davies, Alex	RR	67%	1	0	19	4	15	0	0	7	6	2	1	1	3	1
50	Farrar, Jy	FF	69%	1	0	9	4	5	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
8	Fiorini, Brayden	WR	86%	1	1	14	8	6	1	0	4	0	2	1	0	1	2
3	Flanders, Sam	INT	73%	0	0	14	7	7	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	2	2
19	Humphrey, Bailey	HFFR	78%	3	1	10	8	2	2	0	3	1	2	0	1	0	1
40	Jeffrey, Joel	INT	72%	0	0	19	15	4	4	0	4	0	3	2	2	8	4
34	King, Ben	FPR	90%	0	3	11	8	3	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	4
22	Long, Ben	FPL	79%	2	1	9	7	2	5	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	3
11	Miller, Touk	HFFL	81%	0	0	18	8	10	4	0	11	3	1	0	0	2	2
2	Noble, John	HBFL	79%	0	0	20	11	9	5	0	3	2	3	2	0	4	1
27	Powell, Wil	BPL	82%	0	0	18	8	10	5	0	1	0	2	1	0	4	1
20	Read, Ethan	INT	64%	0	0	7	6	1	3	5	1	2	4	1	2	0	1
17	Rioli, Daniel	HBFR	85%	0	0	13	6	7	3	0	2	2	1	1	0	5	0
18	Rowell, Matt	C	89%	0	1	34	14	20	2	0	6	4	3	0	1	0	11
24	Swallow, David	SUB↑	18%	0	1	4	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
32	Uwland, Bodhi	FB	88%	0	0	13	10	3	3	0	2	1	1	5	1	4	2
14	Weller, Lachie	WL	82%	0	0	17	8	9	1	0	3	1	3	1	0	1	3
28	Witts, Jarrod	RU	90%	0	0	21	6	15	1	44	3	8	7	1	2	0	1
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				11	14	350	184	166	60	49	65	41	53	22	18	45	49

D. Swallow replaced B. Ainsworth.

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s

Player Line-Up

Fremantle							Coach: Justin Longmuir
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	27	W. Powell	32	B. Uwland	25	S. Collins	9	L. Jackson	41	B. Banfield
	32	M. Frederick	35	J. Treacy	24	J. Amiss	3	C. Serong	4	S. Darcy
FORWARD							8	A. Brayshaw	30	N. O'Driscoll
HALF-BACK									26	H. Young
	2	J. Noble	1	M. Andrew	17	D. Rioli			7	N. Fyfe
	16	M. Reid	20	P. Voss	43	I. Dudley
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	14	L. Weller	18	M. Rowell	8	B. Fiorini
	28	N. Erasmus	15	S. Bolton	2	J. O'Meara	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							28	J. Witts	35	C. Budarick
HALF-FORWARD							5	A. Davies	3	S. Flanders
	11	T. Miller	9	B. Ainsworth	19	B. Humphrey	15	N. Anderson (c)	40	J. Jeffrey
	6	J. Clark	23	K. Worner	5	H. Chapman			20	E. Read
HALF-BACK									24	D. Swallow
FORWARD
	22	B. Long	50	J. Farrar	34	B. King
	25	A. Pearce (c)	36	B. Cox	13	L. Ryan
BACK
Gold Coast							Coach: Damien Hardwick

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GCST	Noah Anderson behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	00:12
	GCST	Brayden Fiorini behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	01:55
	GCST	Ben Long behind	0.0.0	-	0.3.3	04:13
	FREM	Patrick Voss goal	1.0.6	-	0.3.3	06:29
	GCST	Ben Long goal	1.0.6	-	1.3.9	12:29
	GCST	Rushed behind	1.0.6	-	1.4.10	14:17
	GCST	Ben King behind	1.0.6	-	1.5.11	18:03
	FREM	Jye Amiss behind	1.1.7	-	1.5.11	20:11
	FREM	Michael Frederick behind	1.2.8	-	1.5.11	27:51
	GCST	Ben King behind	1.2.8	-	1.6.12	30:11
Q2	GCST	Bailey Humphrey goal	1.2.8	-	2.6.18	00:55
	FREM	Jye Amiss goal	2.2.14	-	2.6.18	04:07
	FREM	Neil Erasmus goal	3.2.20	-	2.6.18	05:30
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey goal	3.2.20	-	3.6.24	06:53
	GCST	Connor Budarick goal	3.2.20	-	4.6.30	09:41
	FREM	Patrick Voss goal	4.2.26	-	4.6.30	11:32
	GCST	Rushed behind	4.2.26	-	4.7.31	16:44
	FREM	Murphy Reid goal	5.2.32	-	4.7.31	18:24
	GCST	Rushed behind	5.2.32	-	4.8.32	22:09
	GCST	Alex Davies goal	5.2.32	-	5.8.38	25:13
	GCST	Brayden Fiorini goal	5.2.32	-	6.8.44	27:53
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey goal	5.2.32	-	7.8.50	30:56
	GCST	Matt Rowell behind	5.2.32	-	7.9.51	33:48
	GCST	Connor Budarick goal	5.2.32	-	8.9.57	35:06
Q3	FREM	Josh Treacy goal	6.2.38	-	8.9.57	00:35
	GCST	Ben Long goal	6.2.38	-	9.9.63	02:54
	FREM	Luke Jackson behind	6.3.39	-	9.9.63	06:49
	FREM	Murphy Reid behind	6.4.40	-	9.9.63	07:47
	GCST	Rushed behind	6.4.40	-	9.10.64	09:55
	GCST	Ben King behind	6.4.40	-	9.11.65	16:47
	GCST	Noah Anderson behind	6.4.40	-	9.12.66	20:32
	FREM	Isaiah Dudley goal	7.4.46	-	9.12.66	22:53
	FREM	Isaiah Dudley goal	8.4.52	-	9.12.66	25:45
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey behind	8.4.52	-	9.13.67	27:35
Q4	GCST	Jy Farrar goal	8.4.52	-	10.13.73	00:28
	FREM	Shai Bolton goal	9.4.58	-	10.13.73	03:01
	FREM	Shai Bolton behind	9.5.59	-	10.13.73	06:36
	FREM	Patrick Voss goal	10.5.65	-	10.13.73	11:11
	FREM	Rushed behind	10.6.66	-	10.13.73	14:18
	FREM	Josh Treacy goal	11.6.72	-	10.13.73	18:08
	FREM	Rushed behind	11.7.73	-	10.13.73	22:08
	FREM	Luke Jackson goal	12.7.79	-	10.13.73	24:13
	GCST	Mac Andrew goal	12.7.79	-	11.13.79	28:06
	GCST	David Swallow behind	12.7.79	-	11.14.80	30:05

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