2025 AFL Qualifying Final 1: Adelaide v Collingwood

This is the match report for the match played on 4 September 2025 between Adelaide and Collingwood in the first qualifying final of the 2025 AFL season. Adelaide hosted Collingwood at Adelaide Oval. Jordan Dawson captained the hosts. Darcy Moore captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Matthew Nicks and the visitors were coached by Craig McRae.

Adelaide
Back: J. Worrell, M. Keane, R. Laird
Half-back: W. Milera, N. Murray, H. Bond
Centre: I. Cumming, J. Dawson (capt.), D. Curtin
Half-forward: B. Keays, R. Thilthorpe, A. Neal-Bullen
Forward: M. Michalanney, T. Walker, D. Fogarty
Follower: R. O'Brien, S. Berry, J. Soligo
Int.: M. Hinge, J. Peatling, L. Pedlar, Z. Taylor
Sub.: B. Smith

Collingwood
Back: B. Frampton, D. Moore (capt.), B. Maynard
Half-back: H. Perryman, J. Daicos, I. Quaynor
Centre: J. Crisp, J. De Goey, D. Houston
Half-forward: S. Sidebottom, T. Membrey, P. Lipinski
Forward: J. Elliott, M. Cox, L. Schultz
Follower: D. Cameron, S. Pendlebury, N. Daicos
Int.: N. Long, B. McCreery, B. Mihocek, W. Parker
Sub.: R. Steele

Adelaide (8.7.55) were defeated by Collingwood (11.13.79).

Goalkickers
Adelaide: L. Pedlar (3), R. Thilthorpe (2), T. Walker (2), J. Dawson
Collingwood: J. Elliott (4), S. Sidebottom (3), D. Cameron, N. Daicos, J. De Goey, P. Lipinski

As a result of this match, Collingwood faced Brisbane Lions in the first preliminary final and Adelaide faced Hawthorn in the first semi final.

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Qualifying Final 1
Teams: Adelaide v Collingwood
Date: Thursday 4 September 2025
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 52,187

Match Results

Outcome: Adelaide def. by Collingwood
Score: 8.7.55 - 11.13.79

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Adelaide	2	.	1	5	.	1	8	.	4	8	.	7	8	.	7	(55)
Collingwood	2	.	3	5	.	7	10	.	11	11	.	13	11	.	13	(79)
Margin	COLL by 2			COLL by 6			COLL by 19			COLL by 24			COLL by 24
Duration	31:36			32:44			33:00			26:11			2:03:31

Honour Roll

Coaches: Matthew Nicks (Adelaide), Craig McRae (Collingwood)
Captains: Jordan Dawson (Adelaide), Darcy Moore (Collingwood)

Player Statistics

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Berry, Sam	RR	67%	0	0	12	7	5	0	0	1	5	2	2	1	2	3
40	Bond, Hugh	HBFR	74%	0	0	12	8	4	3	0	2	1	1	1	1	4	1
44	Cumming, Isaac	WL	80%	0	0	7	6	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
6	Curtin, Dan	WR	86%	0	0	17	11	6	6	0	2	3	1	0	0	2	2
12	Dawson, Jordan (c)	C	91%	1	0	19	15	4	3	0	4	4	3	0	0	1	1
32	Fogarty, Darcy	FPR	86%	0	0	10	6	4	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	5
20	Hinge, Mitch	INT↓	56%	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
48	Keane, Mark	FB	100%	0	0	16	15	1	3	0	1	0	2	2	0	6	1
2	Keays, Ben	HFFL	95%	0	1	15	5	10	2	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	3
29	Laird, Rory	BPR	65%	0	0	24	9	15	3	0	4	6	1	0	0	2	2
16	Michalanney, Max	FPL	78%	0	0	10	5	5	3	0	2	0	3	1	1	0	1
30	Milera, Wayne	HBFL	81%	0	0	11	5	6	4	0	5	2	1	0	0	2	0
9	Murray, Nick	CHB	100%	0	0	5	4	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	3	1
28	Neal-Bullen, Alex	HFFR	83%	0	0	17	13	4	5	0	7	1	2	2	0	0	6
43	O'Brien, Reilly	RU	81%	0	0	9	6	3	4	35	4	2	3	0	1	1	1
25	Peatling, James	INT	69%	0	0	9	5	4	2	0	2	1	2	0	1	1	1
10	Pedlar, Luke	INT	71%	3	1	9	7	2	6	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	1
33	Smith, Brodie	SUB↑	28%	0	0	6	4	2	2	0	2	1	2	1	0	0	2
14	Soligo, Jake	RO	79%	0	1	21	17	4	2	0	5	1	5	1	3	0	3
19	Taylor, Zac	INT	73%	0	0	8	5	3	2	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	2
7	Thilthorpe, Riley	CHF	86%	2	0	15	12	3	5	6	4	4	1	3	0	1	4
13	Walker, Taylor	FF	82%	2	3	18	11	7	9	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	5
24	Worrell, Josh	BPL	89%	0	0	26	18	8	6	0	1	2	5	0	2	8	3
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				8	7	303	198	105	77	41	56	35	45	15	15	37	50

B. Smith replaced M. Hinge.

Collingwood

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
14	Cameron, Darcy	RU	78%	1	0	15	10	5	4	24	0	0	1	0	0	2	0
46	Cox, Mason	FF	70%	0	0	8	3	5	4	8	2	2	3	0	2	0	0
25	Crisp, Jack	WL	81%	0	0	22	12	10	5	0	4	1	7	0	2	0	4
7	Daicos, Josh	CHB	90%	0	0	24	14	10	4	0	2	4	1	0	0	5	3
35	Daicos, Nick	RO	86%	1	1	24	15	9	2	0	7	3	6	1	3	1	7
2	De Goey, Jordan	C	80%	1	0	26	11	15	3	0	7	6	2	1	0	2	3
5	Elliott, Jamie	FPL	84%	4	1	13	12	1	7	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1
17	Frampton, Billy	BPL	97%	0	0	13	8	5	4	0	1	0	5	2	1	2	2
9	Houston, Dan	WR	82%	0	0	16	11	5	3	0	3	1	1	0	0	1	3
1	Lipinski, Patrick	HFFR	82%	1	1	18	9	9	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
44	Long, Ned	INT	80%	0	0	23	9	14	1	0	9	5	3	3	1	1	3
4	Maynard, Brayden	BPR	82%	0	0	20	15	5	8	0	4	1	1	2	0	7	1
31	McCreery, Beau	INT	78%	0	0	14	5	9	1	0	4	2	3	0	1	0	4
28	Membrey, Tim	CHF	81%	0	1	10	7	3	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
41	Mihocek, Brody	INT	79%	0	5	10	7	3	2	0	2	0	4	2	3	0	1
30	Moore, Darcy (c)	FB	91%	0	0	13	10	3	10	0	3	0	2	0	0	5	0
15	Parker, Wil	INT↓	70%	0	0	12	10	2	5	0	3	0	2	0	1	2	1
10	Pendlebury, Scott	RR	79%	0	0	23	10	13	3	0	5	3	1	0	0	4	0
12	Perryman, Harry	HBFL	89%	0	0	14	7	7	5	0	1	0	3	0	1	3	2
3	Quaynor, Isaac	HBFR	78%	0	0	16	11	5	6	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	1
8	Schultz, Lachie	FPR	80%	0	0	18	10	8	6	0	3	3	1	1	0	0	5
22	Sidebottom, Steele	HFFL	77%	3	0	15	9	6	4	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	1
45	Steele, Roan	SUB↑	7%	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				11	13	369	217	152	96	32	65	33	48	15	15	41	49

R. Steele replaced W. Parker.

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

Adelaide							Coach: Matthew Nicks
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	17	B. Frampton	30	D. Moore (c)	4	B. Maynard	43	R. O'Brien	20	M. Hinge
	32	D. Fogarty	13	T. Walker	16	M. Michalanney	3	S. Berry	25	J. Peatling
FORWARD							14	J. Soligo	10	L. Pedlar
HALF-BACK									19	Z. Taylor
	12	H. Perryman	7	J. Daicos	3	I. Quaynor			33	B. Smith
	28	A. Neal-Bullen	7	R. Thilthorpe	2	B. Keays
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	25	J. Crisp	2	J. De Goey	9	D. Houston
	6	D. Curtin	12	J. Dawson (c)	44	I. Cumming	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							14	D. Cameron	44	N. Long
HALF-FORWARD							10	S. Pendlebury	31	B. McCreery
	22	S. Sidebottom	28	T. Membrey	1	P. Lipinski	35	N. Daicos	41	B. Mihocek
	40	H. Bond	9	N. Murray	30	W. Milera			15	W. Parker
HALF-BACK									45	R. Steele
FORWARD
	5	J. Elliott	46	M. Cox	8	L. Schultz
	29	R. Laird	48	M. Keane	24	J. Worrell
BACK
Collingwood							Coach: Craig McRae

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	COLL	Jamie Elliott goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	03:19
	ADEL	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	06:25
	COLL	Nick Daicos goal	0.1.1	-	2.0.12	11:15
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	1.1.7	-	2.0.12	14:06
	ADEL	Jordan Dawson goal	2.1.13	-	2.0.12	15:55
	COLL	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	2.1.13	22:25
	COLL	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	2.2.14	24:31
	COLL	Brody Mihocek behind	2.1.13	-	2.3.15	26:48
Q2	COLL	Jamie Elliott goal	2.1.13	-	3.3.21	01:12
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	3.1.19	-	3.3.21	10:58
	ADEL	Luke Pedlar goal	4.1.25	-	3.3.21	14:05
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	5.1.31	-	3.3.21	15:56
	COLL	Rushed behind	5.1.31	-	3.4.22	18:16
	COLL	Steele Sidebottom goal	5.1.31	-	4.4.28	20:11
	COLL	Jamie Elliott behind	5.1.31	-	4.5.29	23:27
	COLL	Darcy Cameron goal	5.1.31	-	5.5.35	28:21
	COLL	Brody Mihocek behind	5.1.31	-	5.6.36	29:39
	COLL	Brody Mihocek behind	5.1.31	-	5.7.37	31:35
Q3	COLL	Steele Sidebottom goal	5.1.31	-	6.7.43	01:40
	COLL	Jordan De Goey goal	5.1.31	-	7.7.49	03:46
	COLL	Steele Sidebottom goal	5.1.31	-	8.7.55	05:44
	ADEL	Ben Keays behind	5.2.32	-	8.7.55	07:18
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	5.3.33	-	8.7.55	09:42
	COLL	Nick Daicos behind	5.3.33	-	8.8.56	12:33
	COLL	Jamie Elliott goal	5.3.33	-	9.8.62	14:22
	COLL	Patrick Lipinski goal	5.3.33	-	10.8.68	15:45
	ADEL	Luke Pedlar goal	6.3.39	-	10.8.68	17:07
	COLL	Patrick Lipinski behind	6.3.39	-	10.9.69	18:20
	COLL	Brody Mihocek behind	6.3.39	-	10.10.70	19:25
	COLL	Rushed behind	6.3.39	-	10.11.71	21:46
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	6.4.40	-	10.11.71	22:26
	ADEL	Luke Pedlar goal	7.4.46	-	10.11.71	24:08
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	8.4.52	-	10.11.71	31:35
Q4	ADEL	Jake Soligo behind	8.5.53	-	10.11.71	03:39
	ADEL	Luke Pedlar behind	8.6.54	-	10.11.71	08:54
	COLL	Tim Membrey behind	8.6.54	-	10.12.72	12:37
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	8.7.55	-	10.12.72	17:22
	COLL	Brody Mihocek behind	8.7.55	-	10.13.73	23:38
	COLL	Jamie Elliott goal	8.7.55	-	11.13.79	24:38

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