2025 AFL Season Round 9: Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 3 May 2025 between the Western Bulldogs and Port Adelaide during round nine of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. The Western Bulldogs hosted Port Adelaide at Mars Stadium. Marcus Bontempelli captained the hosts with Tom Liberatore as vice-captain. Connor Rozee captained the visitors with Zak Butters as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Luke Beveridge and the visitors were coached by Ken Hinkley.

The Western Bulldogs (20.11.131) defeated Port Adelaide (5.11.41).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 9
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide
Date: Saturday 3 May 2025
Time: 1:20 PM
Venue: Mars Stadium
Attendance: 4,814

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs def. Port Adelaide
Score: 20.11.131 - 5.11.41

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Western Bulldogs 2 . 1 8 . 3 15 . 6 20 . 11 20 . 11 (131)
Port Adelaide 2 . 4 3 . 7 5 . 8 5 . 11 5 . 11 (41)
Margin PADL by 3 WBUL by 26 WBUL by 58 WBUL by 90 WBUL by 90
Duration 32:07 33:05 34:01 31:47 2:11:00

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Western Bulldogs) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Port Adelaide) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Western Bulldogs

Captain: Marcus Bontempelli
Vice-Captain: Tom Liberatore
Coach: Luke Beveridge

Port Adelaide

Captain: Connor Rozee
Vice-Captain: Zak Butters
Coach: Ken Hinkley

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Marcus Bontempelli WBUL 4 3
Tim English WBUL 44 2
James Harmes WBUL 22 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1

Player Statistics

Western Bulldogs

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
4 Bontempelli, Marcus (c) RR 82% 3 1 23 15 8 4 0 8 1 2 2 0 3 4
29 Bramble, Lachie BPR 75% 0 0 15 8 7 4 0 4 4 1 1 0 5 2
5 Busslinger, Jedd SUB↑ 13% 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
36 Cleary, Luke INT 81% 1 0 13 7 6 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
31 Dale, Bailey HBFR 83% 0 0 31 22 9 4 0 1 0 2 1 1 8 2
42 Davidson, Sam INT↓ 67% 0 2 14 10 4 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 3
44 English, Tim RU 82% 3 1 27 15 12 6 30 2 4 2 4 1 2 4
27 Freijah, Joel WR 85% 1 0 19 13 6 5 0 4 5 2 0 1 2 7
22 Harmes, James HFFL 78% 0 1 20 13 7 6 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 3
39 Johannisen, Jason HBFL 81% 0 0 17 13 4 3 0 4 1 3 0 0 1 5
8 Kennedy, Matthew HFFR 81% 0 1 26 12 14 5 0 8 11 3 2 1 1 4
24 Khamis, Buku CHF 77% 2 0 8 4 4 4 5 1 1 0 1 0 1 0
21 Liberatore, Tom (vc) RO 81% 0 0 19 6 13 2 0 2 5 2 0 2 1 2
7 Lobb, Rory CHB 100% 0 0 11 5 6 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 1
30 McNeil, Lachlan INT 80% 1 1 16 8 8 4 0 1 3 2 1 1 0 2
33 Naughton, Aaron FF 84% 3 1 19 12 7 7 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 3
18 O'Donnell, James FB 93% 0 0 10 7 3 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 0
20 Richards, Ed C 82% 2 1 30 17 13 5 0 3 5 1 2 0 1 11
9 Sanders, Ryley INT 81% 1 0 17 2 15 0 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 2
1 Treloar, Adam FPL 71% 1 0 27 14 13 2 0 2 3 3 2 0 0 7
23 Vandermeer, Laitham BPL 73% 0 1 15 6 9 4 0 3 0 6 1 3 0 1
14 West, Rhylee FPR 83% 2 0 15 5 10 1 0 2 1 4 0 2 0 3
34 Williams, Bailey WL 89% 0 0 21 10 11 8 0 1 1 2 0 1 3 1
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 20 11 415 225 190 87 35 57 49 45 22 15 35 67

J. Busslinger replaced S. Davidson.

Port Adelaide

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
21 Aliir, Aliir FB 100% 0 0 7 5 2 3 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 1
14 Bergman, Miles HBFL 90% 0 0 14 11 3 6 0 1 0 4 0 2 5 2
5 Berry, Joe INT↓ 36% 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
7 Burgoyne, Jase WL 91% 0 0 21 10 11 4 0 4 0 5 0 1 3 3
9 Butters, Zak (vc) RR 84% 0 0 24 12 12 3 0 9 6 4 0 0 3 7
33 Byrne-Jones, Darcy HFFL 83% 0 0 10 4 6 3 0 4 0 2 1 0 0 1
28 Drew, Willem C 86% 0 1 16 4 12 0 0 4 5 2 0 0 1 2
22 Evans, Logan INT 78% 0 0 14 7 7 1 0 4 0 0 1 0 6 1
6 Farrell, Kane HBFR 75% 0 0 15 15 0 3 0 3 0 3 1 1 6 1
11 Finlayson, Jeremy SUB↑ 46% 0 0 6 5 1 4 6 0 1 3 0 1 2 2
19 Georgiades, Mitch FF 94% 1 2 11 6 5 2 0 2 0 3 1 2 0 0
18 Horne-Francis, Jason RO 68% 0 2 22 14 8 4 0 3 7 4 2 1 2 4
34 Jones, Lachie BPR 69% 0 0 5 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1
30 Lord, Ollie FPR 86% 0 0 7 4 3 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0
36 Lorenz, Will WR 80% 0 0 15 7 8 2 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 2
44 Mead, Jackson INT 79% 0 0 7 2 5 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
2 Powell-Pepper, Sam HFFR 78% 1 1 18 6 12 2 0 3 3 4 1 1 1 3
27 Ratugolea, Esava BPL 97% 0 0 11 4 7 3 0 4 1 3 0 1 2 0
35 Richards, Joe CHF 78% 0 2 13 7 6 3 0 5 1 1 1 1 0 2
15 Rioli, Willie FPL 77% 2 0 6 4 2 2 0 5 1 2 0 2 0 2
1 Rozee, Connor (c) CHB 82% 0 0 29 17 12 3 0 1 3 4 2 1 7 3
24 Sweet, Jordon RU 76% 1 0 9 3 6 2 46 4 3 6 1 3 0 1
16 Wines, Ollie INT 66% 0 1 22 10 12 1 3 3 3 5 1 1 4 2
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 5 11 305 162 143 57 55 65 35 61 15 22 47 41

J. Finlayson replaced J. Berry.

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

Western Bulldogs Coach: Luke Beveridge
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
27 E. Ratugolea 21 A. Aliir 34 L. Jones 44 T. English 36 L. Cleary
14 R. West 33 A. Naughton 1 A. Treloar 4 M. Bontempelli (c) 42 S. Davidson
FORWARD 21 T. Liberatore (vc) 30 L. McNeil
HALF-BACK

9 R. Sanders
14 M. Bergman 1 C. Rozee (c) 6 K. Farrell

5 J. Busslinger
8 M. Kennedy 24 B. Khamis 22 J. Harmes



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



7 J. Burgoyne 28 W. Drew 36 W. Lorenz



27 J. Freijah 20 E. Richards 34 B. Williams FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 24 J. Sweet 5 J. Berry
HALF-FORWARD 9 Z. Butters (vc) 22 L. Evans
33 D. Byrne-Jones 35 J. Richards 2 S. Powell-Pepper 18 J. Horne-Francis 44 J. Mead
31 B. Dale 7 R. Lobb 39 J. Johannisen

16 O. Wines
HALF-BACK

11 J. Finlayson
FORWARD



15 W. Rioli 19 M. Georgiades 30 O. Lord



29 L. Bramble 18 J. O'Donnell 23 L. Vandermeer



BACK



Port Adelaide Coach: Ken Hinkley

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 PADL Willie Rioli goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 02:01
PADL Rushed behind 0.0.0 - 1.1.7 04:20
PADL Willem Drew behind 0.0.0 - 1.2.8 10:59
PADL Sam Powell-Pepper behind 0.0.0 - 1.3.9 11:46
PADL Joe Richards behind 0.0.0 - 1.4.10 14:46
WBUL Buku Khamis goal 1.0.6 - 1.4.10 17:40
PADL Willie Rioli goal 1.0.6 - 2.4.16 19:20
WBUL Rhylee West goal 2.0.12 - 2.4.16 22:18
WBUL Sam Davidson behind 2.1.13 - 2.4.16 24:06
Q2 WBUL Ed Richards goal 3.1.19 - 2.4.16 02:32
WBUL Marcus Bontempelli behind 3.2.20 - 2.4.16 04:38
WBUL Buku Khamis goal 4.2.26 - 2.4.16 06:59
WBUL Ryley Sanders goal 5.2.32 - 2.4.16 09:45
WBUL Aaron Naughton behind 5.3.33 - 2.4.16 11:25
WBUL Aaron Naughton goal 6.3.39 - 2.4.16 12:28
WBUL Luke Cleary goal 7.3.45 - 2.4.16 19:04
PADL Jordon Sweet goal 7.3.45 - 3.4.22 23:05
PADL Mitch Georgiades behind 7.3.45 - 3.5.23 28:06
PADL Jason Horne-Francis behind 7.3.45 - 3.6.24 29:35
WBUL Aaron Naughton goal 8.3.51 - 3.6.24 30:36
PADL Mitch Georgiades behind 8.3.51 - 3.7.25 32:59
Q3 PADL Joe Richards behind 8.3.51 - 3.8.26 02:23
WBUL Tim English goal 9.3.57 - 3.8.26 03:40
WBUL Tim English behind 9.4.58 - 3.8.26 05:45
WBUL Ed Richards goal 10.4.64 - 3.8.26 07:42
WBUL Rushed behind 10.5.65 - 3.8.26 09:16
PADL Mitch Georgiades goal 10.5.65 - 4.8.32 09:49
PADL Sam Powell-Pepper goal 10.5.65 - 5.8.38 14:28
WBUL Joel Freijah goal 11.5.71 - 5.8.38 16:04
WBUL Marcus Bontempelli goal 12.5.77 - 5.8.38 17:26
WBUL Marcus Bontempelli goal 13.5.83 - 5.8.38 21:36
WBUL Tim English goal 14.5.89 - 5.8.38 25:09
WBUL Aaron Naughton goal 15.5.95 - 5.8.38 28:11
WBUL James Harmes behind 15.6.96 - 5.8.38 33:36
Q4 WBUL Lachlan McNeil behind 15.7.97 - 5.8.38 00:48
WBUL Matthew Kennedy behind 15.8.98 - 5.8.38 01:53
WBUL Lachlan McNeil goal 16.8.104 - 5.8.38 06:36
PADL Ollie Wines behind 16.8.104 - 5.9.39 08:25
WBUL Tim English goal 17.8.110 - 5.9.39 09:38
WBUL Sam Davidson behind 17.9.111 - 5.9.39 12:08
PADL Rushed behind 17.9.111 - 5.10.40 14:00
PADL Jason Horne-Francis behind 17.9.111 - 5.11.41 16:08
WBUL Marcus Bontempelli goal 18.9.117 - 5.11.41 17:39
WBUL Adam Treloar goal 19.9.123 - 5.11.41 21:22
WBUL Ed Richards behind 19.10.124 - 5.11.41 26:12
WBUL Rhylee West goal 20.10.130 - 5.11.41 28:35
WBUL Laitham Vandermeer behind 20.11.131 - 5.11.41 31:22