2025 AFL Preliminary Final 2: Geelong v Hawthorn

This is the match report for the match played on 19 September 2025 between Geelong and Hawthorn in the second preliminary final of the 2025 AFL season. Geelong "hosted" Hawthorn at MCG. Patrick Dangerfield captained the hosts with Tom Stewart as vice-captain. James Sicily captained the visitors with Dylan Moore as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Chris Scott and the visitors were coached by Sam Mitchell.

Geelong
Back: C. O'Sullivan, S. De Koning, J. Henry
Half-back: M. O'Connor, T. Stewart (vice-capt.), Z. Guthrie
Centre: O. Mullin, M. Holmes, O. Dempsey
Half-forward: T. Stengle, S. Mannagh, B. Close
Forward: S. Neale, J. Cameron, P. Dangerfield (capt.)
Follower: M. Blicavs, B. Smith, T. Atkins
Int.: J. Bowes, L. Humphries, J. Martin, G. Miers
Sub.: J. Clark

Hawthorn
Back: J. Battle, T. Barrass, B. Hardwick
Half-back: J. Impey, J. Sicily (capt.), M. D'Ambrosio
Centre: K. Amon, J. Ward, D. Moore (vice-capt.)
Half-forward: J. Weddle, M. Chol, N. Watson
Forward: J. Gunston, M. Lewis, J. Ginnivan
Follower: L. Meek, J. Newcombe, J. Worpel
Int.: S. Butler, C. MacDonald, C. Nash, J. Scrimshaw
Sub.: C. Jiath

Geelong (17.13.115) defeated Hawthorn (13.7.85).

Goalkickers
Geelong: J. Cameron (3), P. Dangerfield (3), T. Stengle (3), S. Mannagh (2), M. Blicavs, M. Holmes, J. Martin, G. Miers, S. Neale, B. Smith
Hawthorn: J. Gunston (3), M. Lewis (3), M. Chol, J. Ginnivan, J. Impey, C. MacDonald, D. Moore, C. Nash, N. Watson

As a result of this match, Geelong faced Brisbane Lions in the grand final and Hawthorn were eliminated (finishing 4th overall).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Preliminary Final 2
Teams: Geelong v Hawthorn
Date: Friday 19 September 2025
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 99,567

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. Hawthorn
Score: 17.13.115 - 13.7.85

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	1	.	3	6	.	7	13	.	11	17	.	13	17	.	13	(115)
Hawthorn	3	.	4	6	.	6	9	.	7	13	.	7	13	.	7	(85)
Margin	HWTH by 13			GEEL by 1			GEEL by 28			GEEL by 30			GEEL by 30
Duration	31:38			32:18			35:16			32:53			2:12:05

Honour Roll

Coaches: Chris Scott (Geelong), Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn)
Captains: Patrick Dangerfield (Geelong), James Sicily (Hawthorn)
Vice-Captains: Tom Stewart (Geelong), Dylan Moore (Hawthorn)

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Atkins, Tom	RO	76%	0	0	25	12	13	1	0	11	7	5	3	1	0	2
46	Blicavs, Mark	RU	83%	1	0	12	6	6	3	29	11	4	4	0	2	0	1
12	Bowes, Jack	INT	69%	0	1	12	9	3	1	0	3	2	2	1	0	1	4
5	Cameron, Jeremy	FF	92%	3	2	16	14	2	9	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	3
13	Clark, Jhye	SUB↑	62%	0	0	14	7	7	2	0	0	4	5	0	0	2	2
45	Close, Brad	HFFR	75%	0	2	15	9	6	2	0	3	1	0	1	0	1	2
35	Dangerfield, Patrick (c)	FPR	78%	3	0	31	14	17	5	0	2	8	6	4	1	0	9
16	De Koning, Sam	FB	79%	0	0	18	8	10	6	4	3	2	4	1	1	1	5
28	Dempsey, Oliver	WR	87%	0	2	14	9	5	1	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	3
39	Guthrie, Zach	HBFR	87%	0	0	21	13	8	3	0	2	1	5	0	1	6	4
38	Henry, Jack	BPR	87%	0	0	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
9	Holmes, Max	C	81%	1	0	25	19	6	3	0	7	3	3	1	1	4	2
17	Humphries, Lawson	INT	72%	0	0	8	7	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	1
7	Mannagh, Shaun	CHF	82%	2	0	15	12	3	5	0	4	4	7	0	2	0	8
19	Martin, Jack	INT	62%	1	1	8	6	2	3	0	4	0	2	1	1	0	2
32	Miers, Gryan	INT	79%	1	1	27	14	13	3	0	2	4	1	1	0	0	5
34	Mullin, Oisin	WL	81%	0	0	8	4	4	3	0	2	1	2	0	1	1	0
33	Neale, Shannon	FPL	97%	1	0	3	1	2	1	6	3	0	3	0	1	0	1
42	O'Connor, Mark	HBFL	83%	0	0	7	2	5	1	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	0
14	O'Sullivan, Connor	BPL	91%	0	0	7	6	1	2	0	2	0	2	3	2	0	0
3	Smith, Bailey	RR	88%	1	1	36	21	15	5	0	6	6	5	0	0	3	8
18	Stengle, Tyson	HFFL	86%	3	0	15	11	4	3	0	6	0	2	1	0	0	4
44	Stewart, Tom (vc)	CHB↓	21%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				17	13	347	211	136	67	39	77	50	66	19	16	26	66

J. Clark replaced T. Stewart.

Hawthorn

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Amon, Karl	WL	87%	0	0	28	18	10	7	0	1	1	3	0	1	6	2
37	Barrass, Tom	FB	85%	0	0	10	4	6	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0
24	Battle, Josh	BPL	95%	0	0	18	11	7	4	0	2	0	2	1	0	4	1
30	Butler, Sam	INT↓	43%	0	0	7	3	4	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	Chol, Mabior	CHF	87%	1	0	14	8	6	6	14	6	2	5	1	3	0	2
16	D'Ambrosio, Massimo	HBFR	73%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	6	2	1	0	0	3	3
33	Ginnivan, Jack	FPR	84%	1	0	24	13	11	3	0	2	1	8	1	2	2	3
19	Gunston, Jack	FPL	88%	3	1	15	12	3	7	0	2	0	4	1	1	0	2
15	Hardwick, Blake	BPR	93%	0	0	10	9	1	3	0	5	0	2	1	1	2	0
4	Impey, Jarman	HBFL	84%	1	0	14	9	5	1	0	4	1	4	0	0	5	1
9	Jiath, Changkuoth	SUB↑	30%	0	0	5	4	1	1	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	2
2	Lewis, Mitch	FF	76%	3	1	9	7	2	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
31	MacDonald, Connor	INT	74%	1	0	13	6	7	4	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	3
17	Meek, Lloyd	RU	72%	0	0	13	4	9	4	32	4	1	5	1	1	0	2
13	Moore, Dylan (vc)	WR	90%	1	0	26	13	13	4	0	6	3	3	5	2	3	4
11	Nash, Conor	INT	69%	1	0	23	13	10	3	0	6	7	3	1	1	0	3
3	Newcombe, Jai	RR	84%	0	0	20	9	11	3	0	4	5	5	2	2	4	1
14	Scrimshaw, Jack	INT	82%	0	0	15	8	7	4	0	5	0	2	0	0	3	0
6	Sicily, James (c)	CHB	88%	0	0	16	12	4	7	0	0	1	4	0	3	4	1
25	Ward, Josh	C	75%	0	0	8	4	4	1	0	6	1	0	0	0	1	2
34	Watson, Nick	HFFR	81%	1	0	5	3	2	0	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0
23	Weddle, Josh	HFFL	87%	0	1	12	7	5	2	6	2	1	3	1	0	5	2
5	Worpel, James	RO	70%	0	0	16	10	6	1	0	5	5	4	0	1	3	4
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				13	7	333	194	139	77	52	79	33	67	16	19	48	40

C. Jiath replaced S. Butler.

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

Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	24	J. Battle	37	T. Barrass	15	B. Hardwick	46	M. Blicavs	12	J. Bowes
	35	P. Dangerfield (c)	5	J. Cameron	33	S. Neale	3	B. Smith	17	L. Humphries
FORWARD							30	T. Atkins	19	J. Martin
HALF-BACK									32	G. Miers
	4	J. Impey	6	J. Sicily (c)	16	M. D'Ambrosio			13	J. Clark
	45	B. Close	7	S. Mannagh	18	T. Stengle
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	10	K. Amon	25	J. Ward	13	D. Moore (vc)
	28	O. Dempsey	9	M. Holmes	34	O. Mullin	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							17	L. Meek	30	S. Butler
HALF-FORWARD							3	J. Newcombe	31	C. MacDonald
	23	J. Weddle	18	M. Chol	34	N. Watson	5	J. Worpel	11	C. Nash
	39	Z. Guthrie	44	T. Stewart (vc)	42	M. O'Connor			14	J. Scrimshaw
HALF-BACK									9	C. Jiath
FORWARD
	19	J. Gunston	2	M. Lewis	33	J. Ginnivan
	38	J. Henry	16	S. De Koning	14	C. O'Sullivan
BACK
Hawthorn							Coach: Sam Mitchell

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	HWTH	Mitch Lewis goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	03:27
	GEEL	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	09:09
	HWTH	Mitch Lewis behind	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	10:19
	HWTH	Jack Ginnivan goal	0.1.1	-	2.1.13	10:56
	HWTH	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	2.2.14	14:00
	HWTH	Josh Weddle behind	0.1.1	-	2.3.15	17:54
	HWTH	Conor Nash goal	0.1.1	-	3.3.21	19:52
	HWTH	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	3.4.22	23:18
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	1.1.7	-	3.4.22	28:42
	GEEL	Brad Close behind	1.2.8	-	3.4.22	30:05
	GEEL	Gryan Miers behind	1.3.9	-	3.4.22	31:04
Q2	HWTH	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	3.5.23	02:00
	HWTH	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	3.6.24	02:37
	GEEL	Shannon Neale goal	2.3.15	-	3.6.24	04:17
	GEEL	Mark Blicavs goal	3.3.21	-	3.6.24	06:16
	HWTH	Mitch Lewis goal	3.3.21	-	4.6.30	09:00
	HWTH	Mitch Lewis goal	3.3.21	-	5.6.36	11:54
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh goal	4.3.27	-	5.6.36	14:27
	HWTH	Nick Watson goal	4.3.27	-	6.6.42	18:16
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	5.3.33	-	6.6.42	21:04
	GEEL	Jack Martin behind	5.4.34	-	6.6.42	23:57
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	6.4.40	-	6.6.42	26:01
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron behind	6.5.41	-	6.6.42	28:40
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey behind	6.6.42	-	6.6.42	30:07
	GEEL	Jack Bowes behind	6.7.43	-	6.6.42	31:15
Q3	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	7.7.49	-	6.6.42	00:37
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	8.7.55	-	6.6.42	03:33
	GEEL	Max Holmes goal	9.7.61	-	6.6.42	05:43
	GEEL	Bailey Smith behind	9.8.62	-	6.6.42	07:13
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	10.8.68	-	6.6.42	08:39
	HWTH	Jack Gunston goal	10.8.68	-	7.6.48	12:52
	HWTH	Connor MacDonald goal	10.8.68	-	8.6.54	14:43
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey behind	10.9.69	-	8.6.54	17:51
	HWTH	Jarman Impey goal	10.9.69	-	9.6.60	19:31
	GEEL	Rushed behind	10.10.70	-	9.6.60	21:56
	GEEL	Jack Martin goal	11.10.76	-	9.6.60	22:53
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	12.10.82	-	9.6.60	30:08
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh goal	13.10.88	-	9.6.60	31:44
	HWTH	Jack Gunston behind	13.10.88	-	9.7.61	33:56
	GEEL	Brad Close behind	13.11.89	-	9.7.61	35:02
Q4	HWTH	Jack Gunston goal	13.11.89	-	10.7.67	01:00
	GEEL	Rushed behind	13.12.90	-	10.7.67	02:46
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	14.12.96	-	10.7.67	04:50
	GEEL	Gryan Miers goal	15.12.102	-	10.7.67	07:14
	HWTH	Dylan Moore goal	15.12.102	-	11.7.73	12:34
	HWTH	Jack Gunston goal	15.12.102	-	12.7.79	14:14
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron behind	15.13.103	-	12.7.79	16:10
	HWTH	Mabior Chol goal	15.13.103	-	13.7.85	18:13
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	16.13.109	-	13.7.85	20:01
	GEEL	Bailey Smith goal	17.13.115	-	13.7.85	25:58

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