2025 AFL Season Round 13: Sydney v Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 31 May 2025 between Sydney and Adelaide during round thirteen of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Adelaide at the SCG. Jordan Dawson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Dean Cox and the visitors were coached by Matthew Nicks.

Sydney (5.11.41) were defeated by Adelaide (21.5.131).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 13
Teams: Sydney v Adelaide
Date: Saturday 31 May 2025
Time: 7:35 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 35,229

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. by Adelaide
Score: 5.11.41 - 21.5.131

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	1	.	2	1	.	4	5	.	7	5	.	11	5	.	11	(41)
Adelaide	5	.	3	12	.	3	18	.	4	21	.	5	21	.	5	(131)
Margin	ADEL by 25			ADEL by 65			ADEL by 75			ADEL by 90			ADEL by 90
Duration	32:09			34:14			36:14			31:10			2:13:47

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 (Adelaide) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Dean Cox

Adelaide

Captain: Jordan Dawson
Coach: Matthew Nicks

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Alex Neal-Bullen	ADEL	28	3
Ben Keays	ADEL	2	2
James Peatling	ADEL	25	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	FPR	74%	0	0	11	5	6	2	0	9	2	5	0	3	0	1
26	Bice, Riley	INT↓	37%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
22	Blakey, Nick	CHB	85%	0	0	11	5	6	0	0	3	0	2	0	1	3	1
16	Campbell, Braeden	HFFL	84%	1	2	8	6	2	2	0	3	0	4	0	1	0	0
33	Cleary, Caiden	SUB↑	45%	0	0	4	0	4	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0
4	Grundy, Brodie	RU	78%	0	0	23	11	12	6	35	5	8	5	3	3	5	0
29	Hamling, Joel	CHF	90%	0	0	9	4	5	2	0	3	0	2	1	1	3	0
9	Hayward, Will	FPL	81%	1	0	10	6	4	2	0	7	1	5	0	2	0	1
5	Heeney, Isaac	C	83%	1	1	23	13	10	0	0	4	3	6	2	1	3	3
17	Jordon, James	HFFR	78%	0	0	11	7	4	1	0	3	4	4	0	1	2	1
19	Ladhams, Peter	INT	61%	0	0	11	6	5	2	5	0	4	2	0	0	0	1
44	Lloyd, Jake	WL	89%	0	0	11	8	3	3	0	5	2	4	0	0	4	2
30	McCartin, Tom	FB	100%	0	0	20	18	2	11	0	3	0	3	1	0	7	1
27	McInerney, Justin	HBFR	86%	0	0	27	12	15	4	0	2	5	2	4	0	1	6
2	McLean, Hayden	FF	76%	2	0	11	7	4	1	0	0	0	4	2	1	0	1
43	Melican, Lewis	BPL	85%	0	0	12	9	3	3	0	6	1	2	3	0	1	3
35	Mitchell, Caleb	WR	92%	0	0	13	8	5	4	0	2	1	3	0	1	1	0
24	Rampe, Dane	BPR	82%	0	0	13	12	1	6	0	4	1	5	1	2	8	3
34	Roberts, Matt	HBFL	74%	0	0	21	18	3	8	0	3	1	4	2	0	6	2
8	Rowbottom, James	RO	82%	0	1	20	12	8	1	0	9	4	6	3	3	0	4
12	Sheldrick, Angus	INT	74%	0	1	22	15	7	2	0	6	4	4	1	1	1	5
1	Warner, Chad	RR	85%	0	3	19	16	3	1	0	4	12	6	1	1	1	7
37	Warner, Corey	INT	76%	0	1	10	4	6	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	1	3
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				5	11	322	203	119	61	40	83	55	84	24	22	49	45

C. Cleary replaced R. Bice.

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Berry, Sam	HFFR	73%	1	0	16	10	6	0	0	5	8	3	1	1	2	8
41	Butts, Jordon	FB	85%	0	0	4	3	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
44	Cumming, Isaac	WL	77%	2	0	21	16	5	5	0	3	1	4	0	0	3	7
6	Curtin, Dan	WR	86%	0	0	16	9	7	7	0	5	1	2	0	1	1	1
12	Dawson, Jordan (c)	C	77%	1	1	21	15	6	4	0	3	2	3	1	1	0	5
34	Draper, Sid	SUB↑	21%	0	0	4	1	3	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0
32	Fogarty, Darcy	FPR	83%	2	0	7	4	3	3	0	3	0	4	0	3	0	0
20	Hinge, Mitch	BPR	83%	0	0	13	9	4	5	0	4	0	2	0	0	5	2
48	Keane, Mark	CHB	94%	0	0	23	21	2	10	0	2	0	6	3	3	4	3
2	Keays, Ben	HFFL	92%	3	0	17	10	7	2	0	6	2	2	0	0	0	4
16	Michalanney, Max	HBFL	88%	0	0	10	4	6	0	0	8	0	0	1	0	2	2
30	Milera, Wayne	HBFR	87%	1	0	17	13	4	6	0	4	2	2	0	0	5	4
28	Neal-Bullen, Alex	FPL	80%	1	0	25	14	11	6	0	4	0	5	1	2	1	5
43	O'Brien, Reilly	RU	85%	0	0	13	9	4	1	37	7	6	6	3	4	0	4
25	Peatling, James	INT	77%	0	0	21	12	9	5	0	4	7	6	3	2	1	3
10	Pedlar, Luke	INT	63%	1	0	10	3	7	2	0	5	0	1	2	0	0	0
8	Rachele, Josh	INT	81%	3	1	13	12	1	3	0	1	1	3	1	2	0	2
23	Rankine, Izak	RR	86%	1	0	18	11	7	4	0	1	3	4	0	2	0	5
33	Smith, Brodie	INT	82%	1	0	17	14	3	2	0	2	1	0	1	0	7	3
14	Soligo, Jake	RO	76%	1	0	15	8	7	1	0	6	2	4	2	1	0	5
7	Thilthorpe, Riley	CHF↓	62%	2	0	14	10	4	6	5	4	3	5	1	1	1	1
13	Walker, Taylor	FF	81%	1	0	9	6	3	3	3	1	1	3	1	1	0	3
24	Worrell, Josh	BPL	81%	0	0	24	15	9	6	0	2	1	2	1	0	7	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				21	5	348	229	119	83	45	84	42	68	22	24	39	70

S. Draper replaced R. Thilthorpe.

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
	24	J. Worrell	41	J. Butts	20	M. Hinge	4	B. Grundy	26	R. Bice
	3	T. Adams	2	H. McLean	9	W. Hayward	1	C. Warner	19	P. Ladhams
FORWARD							8	J. Rowbottom	12	A. Sheldrick
HALF-BACK									37	C. Warner
	16	M. Michalanney	48	M. Keane	30	W. Milera			33	C. Cleary
	17	J. Jordon	29	J. Hamling	16	B. Campbell
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	44	I. Cumming	12	J. Dawson (c)	6	D. Curtin
	35	C. Mitchell	5	I. Heeney	44	J. Lloyd	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							43	R. O'Brien	25	J. Peatling
HALF-FORWARD							23	I. Rankine	10	L. Pedlar
	2	B. Keays	7	R. Thilthorpe	3	S. Berry	14	J. Soligo	8	J. Rachele
	27	J. McInerney	22	N. Blakey	34	M. Roberts			33	B. Smith
HALF-BACK									34	S. Draper
FORWARD
	28	A. Neal-Bullen	13	T. Walker	32	D. Fogarty
	24	D. Rampe	30	T. McCartin	43	L. Melican
BACK
Adelaide							Coach: Matthew Nicks

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ADEL	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	00:56
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	03:28
	ADEL	Rushed behind	1.0.6	-	0.2.2	05:05
	ADEL	Izak Rankine goal	1.0.6	-	1.2.8	06:01
	SYDN	James Rowbottom behind	1.1.7	-	1.2.8	08:09
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell behind	1.2.8	-	1.2.8	10:28
	ADEL	Josh Rachele goal	1.2.8	-	2.2.14	11:40
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty goal	1.2.8	-	3.2.20	19:00
	ADEL	Brodie Smith goal	1.2.8	-	4.2.26	20:53
	ADEL	Wayne Milera goal	1.2.8	-	5.2.32	28:10
	ADEL	Jordan Dawson behind	1.2.8	-	5.3.33	31:17
Q2	ADEL	Jake Soligo goal	1.2.8	-	6.3.39	01:25
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	1.2.8	-	7.3.45	07:20
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	1.2.8	-	8.3.51	10:52
	SYDN	Corey Warner behind	1.3.9	-	8.3.51	17:40
	ADEL	Luke Pedlar goal	1.3.9	-	9.3.57	22:44
	ADEL	Sam Berry goal	1.3.9	-	10.3.63	26:21
	ADEL	Josh Rachele goal	1.3.9	-	11.3.69	28:01
	ADEL	Isaac Cumming goal	1.3.9	-	12.3.75	29:50
	SYDN	Angus Sheldrick behind	1.4.10	-	12.3.75	31:31
Q3	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	1.5.11	-	12.3.75	00:52
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	1.6.12	-	12.3.75	01:52
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell behind	1.7.13	-	12.3.75	02:32
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	2.7.19	-	12.3.75	04:47
	ADEL	Josh Rachele behind	2.7.19	-	12.4.76	06:58
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	3.7.25	-	12.4.76	11:08
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	3.7.25	-	13.4.82	12:54
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	4.7.31	-	13.4.82	15:26
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell goal	5.7.37	-	13.4.82	17:54
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty goal	5.7.37	-	14.4.88	19:10
	ADEL	Alex Neal-Bullen goal	5.7.37	-	15.4.94	21:54
	ADEL	Jordan Dawson goal	5.7.37	-	16.4.100	25:07
	ADEL	Josh Rachele goal	5.7.37	-	17.4.106	27:22
	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	5.7.37	-	18.4.112	31:08
Q4	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	5.7.37	-	19.4.118	05:43
	ADEL	Isaac Cumming goal	5.7.37	-	20.4.124	10:04
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	5.8.38	-	20.4.124	13:39
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	5.9.39	-	20.4.124	17:05
	SYDN	Rushed behind	5.10.40	-	20.4.124	19:05
	ADEL	Rushed behind	5.10.40	-	20.5.125	23:23
	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	5.10.40	-	21.5.131	24:31
	SYDN	Rushed behind	5.11.41	-	21.5.131	29:04

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