2025 AFL Season Round 1: Sydney v Hawthorn

This is the match report for the match played on 7 March 2025 between Sydney and Hawthorn during round one of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Hawthorn at the SCG. James Sicily captained the visitors with Dylan Moore as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Dean Cox and the visitors were coached by Sam Mitchell.

Sydney (11.10.76) were defeated by Hawthorn (14.12.96).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Sydney v Hawthorn
Date: Friday 7 March 2025
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 40,310

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. by Hawthorn
Score: 11.10.76 - 14.12.96

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	4	.	3	6	.	4	11	.	5	11	.	10	11	.	10	(76)
Hawthorn	5	.	3	9	.	6	11	.	10	14	.	12	14	.	12	(96)
Margin	HWTH by 6			HWTH by 20			HWTH by 5			HWTH by 20			HWTH by 20
Duration	36:45			31:41			32:50			28:23			2:09:39

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Dean Cox

Hawthorn

Captain: James Sicily
Vice-Captain: Dylan Moore
Coach: Sam Mitchell

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Will Day	HWTH	12	3
James Sicily	HWTH	6	2
Chad Warner	SYDN	1	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Adams, Taylor	INT	54%	1	0	8	4	4	3	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	2
36	Amartey, Joel	FF	82%	3	1	11	7	4	4	1	2	0	0	2	0	0	0
22	Blakey, Nick	BPL	87%	1	0	26	21	5	3	0	0	0	4	2	0	13	1
16	Campbell, Braeden	HFFL	80%	0	0	8	6	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	4
13	Florent, Oliver	INT	77%	0	2	16	9	7	3	0	2	0	5	2	2	1	1
4	Grundy, Brodie	RU	80%	0	0	11	3	8	2	40	1	1	4	0	2	0	0
40	Hanily, Tom	SUB↑	31%	0	0	6	2	4	1	0	3	1	3	1	0	0	0
9	Hayward, Will	FPL	79%	1	0	5	4	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	0
5	Heeney, Isaac	C	82%	0	0	21	9	12	1	0	7	10	1	1	1	3	2
17	Jordon, James	FPR	82%	0	0	20	10	10	0	0	4	7	5	1	3	1	2
44	Lloyd, Jake	WL	87%	0	0	19	11	8	3	0	4	1	4	2	0	6	1
30	McCartin, Tom	CHF	89%	1	1	7	7	0	7	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	3
27	McInerney, Justin	WR	87%	0	1	16	11	5	6	0	2	1	4	1	4	0	2
43	Melican, Lewis	FB	89%	0	0	11	8	3	6	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	0
11	Papley, Tom	HFFR	81%	1	1	13	6	7	3	0	0	1	6	2	3	0	1
25	Paton, Ben	HBFR	73%	0	0	12	4	8	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0
24	Rampe, Dane	CHB	90%	0	0	11	10	1	4	0	2	1	4	1	1	4	1
34	Roberts, Matt	HBFL	95%	0	0	26	20	6	9	0	2	0	2	0	1	4	4
8	Rowbottom, James	RO	80%	1	0	16	13	3	2	0	2	3	2	0	0	0	4
12	Sheldrick, Angus	INT↓	48%	0	0	9	6	3	1	0	2	1	3	0	1	0	4
1	Warner, Chad	RR	87%	2	1	21	16	5	5	0	2	2	3	1	1	3	6
37	Warner, Corey	INT	71%	0	0	10	3	7	1	0	4	3	0	0	0	2	1
15	Wicks, Sam	BPR	90%	0	0	18	13	5	3	0	4	0	2	3	1	3	1
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				11	10	321	203	118	71	41	54	33	60	21	23	44	40

T. Hanily replaced A. Sheldrick.

Hawthorn

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Amon, Karl	RO	82%	1	2	27	21	6	6	0	1	2	4	2	0	3	6
37	Barrass, Tom	BPL	94%	0	0	9	6	3	6	0	1	0	3	1	2	0	1
24	Battle, Josh	HBFR	88%	0	1	13	11	2	6	0	1	0	2	0	1	3	3
18	Chol, Mabior	FF	90%	1	0	9	4	5	3	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0
16	D'Ambrosio, Massimo	HFFL	79%	0	0	19	16	3	6	0	1	2	3	0	1	4	4
12	Day, Will	FPR	73%	3	0	26	17	9	4	0	6	9	1	6	0	4	6
8	Frost, Sam	SUB↑	44%	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0
33	Ginnivan, Jack	FPL	75%	0	1	16	9	7	1	0	3	2	4	1	1	0	3
15	Hardwick, Blake	FB	91%	0	0	9	6	3	3	0	4	0	1	2	1	1	1
4	Impey, Jarman	CHB	83%	0	0	12	10	2	7	0	0	0	4	0	1	3	0
31	MacDonald, Connor	WR	70%	1	0	8	5	3	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	3
28	Mackenzie, Cam	INT	73%	0	0	16	6	10	4	0	7	3	2	0	1	0	4
20	Maginness, Finn	INT	72%	1	2	13	7	6	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	3
17	Meek, Lloyd	RU	83%	2	0	14	7	7	4	30	5	6	1	1	0	0	3
13	Moore, Dylan (vc)	WL	84%	2	1	18	10	8	3	0	1	1	1	2	0	0	3
1	Morrison, Harry	CHF	79%	0	0	15	11	4	7	0	2	1	1	0	0	2	3
11	Nash, Conor	INT	80%	1	0	20	8	12	2	0	5	6	2	1	2	0	3
3	Newcombe, Jai	C	89%	1	0	19	9	10	1	0	7	9	6	1	3	1	1
14	Scrimshaw, Jack	INT	77%	0	0	18	12	6	8	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	1
6	Sicily, James (c)	BPR	91%	1	0	20	15	5	8	0	0	0	4	2	2	2	3
34	Watson, Nick	HFFR	74%	0	0	4	1	3	1	0	2	0	4	0	3	0	1
23	Weddle, Josh	HBFL	86%	0	0	12	8	4	3	1	1	1	2	1	0	1	2
5	Worpel, James	RR↓	44%	0	1	11	7	4	2	0	3	5	2	1	0	1	4
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				14	12	331	208	123	89	33	59	47	51	23	21	28	58

S. Frost replaced J. Worpel.

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

Sydney							Coach: Dean Cox
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	37	T. Barrass	15	B. Hardwick	6	J. Sicily (c)	4	B. Grundy	3	T. Adams
	17	J. Jordon	36	J. Amartey	9	W. Hayward	1	C. Warner	13	O. Florent
FORWARD							8	J. Rowbottom	12	A. Sheldrick
HALF-BACK									37	C. Warner
	23	J. Weddle	4	J. Impey	24	J. Battle			40	T. Hanily
	11	T. Papley	30	T. McCartin	16	B. Campbell
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	13	D. Moore (vc)	3	J. Newcombe	31	C. MacDonald
	27	J. McInerney	5	I. Heeney	44	J. Lloyd	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							17	L. Meek	28	C. Mackenzie
HALF-FORWARD							5	J. Worpel	20	F. Maginness
	16	M. D'Ambrosio	1	H. Morrison	34	N. Watson	10	K. Amon	11	C. Nash
	25	B. Paton	24	D. Rampe	34	M. Roberts			14	J. Scrimshaw
HALF-BACK									8	S. Frost
FORWARD
	33	J. Ginnivan	18	M. Chol	12	W. Day
	15	S. Wicks	43	L. Melican	22	N. Blakey
BACK
Hawthorn							Coach: Sam Mitchell

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	HWTH	Karl Amon behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	00:41
	HWTH	Dylan Moore behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	03:08
	SYDN	Chad Warner goal	1.0.6	-	0.2.2	04:03
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	2.0.12	-	0.2.2	06:10
	HWTH	Dylan Moore goal	2.0.12	-	1.2.8	07:38
	HWTH	Lloyd Meek goal	2.0.12	-	2.2.14	11:26
	SYDN	Taylor Adams goal	3.0.18	-	2.2.14	14:29
	HWTH	Jai Newcombe goal	3.0.18	-	3.2.20	16:14
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	4.0.24	-	3.2.20	19:31
	SYDN	Oliver Florent behind	4.1.25	-	3.2.20	22:32
	HWTH	Dylan Moore goal	4.1.25	-	4.2.26	25:24
	SYDN	Tom McCartin behind	4.2.26	-	4.2.26	27:10
	HWTH	James Worpel behind	4.2.26	-	4.3.27	29:06
	HWTH	Will Day goal	4.2.26	-	5.3.33	30:12
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	4.3.27	-	5.3.33	31:49
Q2	HWTH	Finn Maginness behind	4.3.27	-	5.4.34	03:25
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	5.3.33	-	5.4.34	06:40
	HWTH	Karl Amon goal	5.3.33	-	6.4.40	11:15
	HWTH	Jack Ginnivan behind	5.3.33	-	6.5.41	13:04
	HWTH	Will Day goal	5.3.33	-	7.5.47	16:41
	SYDN	Rushed behind	5.4.34	-	7.5.47	21:56
	HWTH	Lloyd Meek goal	5.4.34	-	8.5.53	24:41
	HWTH	Will Day goal	5.4.34	-	9.5.59	26:42
	SYDN	James Rowbottom goal	6.4.40	-	9.5.59	28:29
	HWTH	Josh Battle behind	6.4.40	-	9.6.60	31:10
Q3	HWTH	Rushed behind	6.4.40	-	9.7.61	00:33
	HWTH	Mabior Chol goal	6.4.40	-	10.7.67	02:29
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	7.4.46	-	10.7.67	04:15
	SYDN	Justin McInerney behind	7.5.47	-	10.7.67	06:03
	SYDN	Chad Warner goal	8.5.53	-	10.7.67	07:55
	SYDN	Tom McCartin goal	9.5.59	-	10.7.67	11:58
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	10.5.65	-	10.7.67	14:44
	HWTH	Karl Amon behind	10.5.65	-	10.8.68	16:16
	HWTH	Conor Nash goal	10.5.65	-	11.8.74	21:47
	SYDN	Nick Blakey goal	11.5.71	-	11.8.74	25:31
	HWTH	Finn Maginness behind	11.5.71	-	11.9.75	27:22
	HWTH	Rushed behind	11.5.71	-	11.10.76	29:21
Q4	SYDN	Rushed behind	11.6.72	-	11.10.76	01:19
	HWTH	Finn Maginness goal	11.6.72	-	12.10.82	02:14
	SYDN	Joel Amartey behind	11.7.73	-	12.10.82	03:24
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	11.8.74	-	12.10.82	04:40
	SYDN	Rushed behind	11.9.75	-	12.10.82	05:31
	HWTH	Connor MacDonald goal	11.9.75	-	13.10.88	12:20
	HWTH	Rushed behind	11.9.75	-	13.11.89	20:00
	HWTH	James Sicily goal	11.9.75	-	14.11.95	21:13
	HWTH	Rushed behind	11.9.75	-	14.12.96	27:24
	SYDN	Oliver Florent behind	11.10.76	-	14.12.96	28:18

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