2025 AFL Season Round 15: Essendon v Geelong

This is the match report for the match played on 14 June 2025 between Essendon and Geelong during round fifteen of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon hosted Geelong at the MCG. Zach Merrett captained the hosts with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. Patrick Dangerfield captained the visitors with Tom Stewart as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Chris Scott.

Essendon (8.8.56) were defeated by Geelong (23.13.151).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 15
Teams: Essendon v Geelong
Date: Saturday 14 June 2025
Time: 4:15 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 61,643

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. by Geelong
Score: 8.8.56 - 23.13.151

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	2	.	4	3	.	7	8	.	7	8	.	8	8	.	8	(56)
Geelong	6	.	3	9	.	6	16	.	8	23	.	13	23	.	13	(151)
Margin	GEEL by 23			GEEL by 35			GEEL by 49			GEEL by 95			GEEL by 95
Duration	30:21			29:50			35:18			30:29			2:05:58

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: Zach Merrett
Vice-Captain: Andrew McGrath
Coach: Brad Scott

Geelong

Captain: Patrick Dangerfield
Vice-Captain: Tom Stewart
Coach: Chris Scott

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Bailey Smith	GEEL	3	3
Jeremy Cameron	GEEL	5	2
Max Holmes	GEEL	9	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
46	Blakiston, Lachlan	HFFL	85%	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
30	Caddy, Nate	CHF	87%	0	1	9	3	6	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1
6	Caldwell, Jye	RR	76%	0	0	28	14	14	5	0	10	8	7	0	1	2	4
36	Clarke, Angus	HBFR	80%	0	0	10	8	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	1
44	Day-Wicks, Archer	INT↓	49%	0	1	10	3	7	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1
28	Duursma, Xavier	WL	81%	1	1	20	11	9	6	0	5	3	4	2	1	2	3
17	Goldstein, Todd	RU	80%	0	0	21	7	14	4	31	0	7	6	3	1	1	2
11	Gresham, Jade	HBFL	75%	1	1	9	4	5	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1
35	Guelfi, Matt	RO	83%	2	1	12	7	5	2	0	3	0	2	1	2	1	2
40	Johnson, Zak	INT	77%	0	0	29	17	12	8	0	1	0	5	1	0	2	2
10	Kako, Isaac	INT	77%	1	0	13	3	10	4	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1
15	Laverde, Jayden	FB	99%	0	0	19	16	3	13	0	1	0	2	0	1	4	0
34	Lual, Luamon	WR	78%	0	0	9	2	7	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	2	1
37	Martin, Nic	HFFR	80%	0	1	26	11	15	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	3
26	May, Archie	FPL	72%	0	1	7	5	2	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	2
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	BPL	82%	0	0	19	5	14	3	0	1	0	4	0	1	1	3
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	C	86%	0	0	29	16	13	1	0	5	4	5	3	2	0	6
3	Parish, Darcy	INT	62%	0	0	26	8	18	1	0	2	5	4	0	0	0	2
16	Perkins, Archie	SUB↑	28%	0	0	7	4	3	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	0
25	Prior, Jaxon	CHB	100%	0	0	28	20	8	7	0	0	1	5	1	1	8	0
21	Roberts, Archie	BPR	83%	1	0	27	13	14	5	0	2	0	4	0	1	4	0
12	Setterfield, Will	FPR	84%	0	0	31	17	14	7	0	10	5	4	1	1	2	2
20	Wright, Peter	FF	95%	2	1	11	5	6	4	12	1	2	5	0	2	0	1
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				8	8	404	201	203	98	43	50	35	70	13	16	39	38

A. Perkins replaced A. Day-Wicks.

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Atkins, Tom	INT	67%	0	0	18	5	13	2	0	9	7	1	1	0	1	1
46	Blicavs, Mark	WL	79%	0	0	17	9	8	5	5	1	0	0	4	0	2	1
5	Cameron, Jeremy	FF	94%	6	1	14	13	1	6	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	1
45	Close, Brad	CHF	88%	1	0	12	8	4	4	0	3	2	2	1	1	1	5
35	Dangerfield, Patrick (c)	FPR	73%	2	1	11	7	4	3	0	2	0	2	1	1	0	3
16	De Koning, Sam	FB↓	36%	0	0	7	7	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
28	Dempsey, Oliver	WR	92%	2	1	17	9	8	6	0	1	0	3	1	1	1	3
22	Duncan, Mitch	SUB↑	39%	0	0	6	2	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	Guthrie, Zach	INT	82%	0	0	20	8	12	8	0	2	2	0	1	0	2	2
38	Henry, Jack	BPL	86%	0	0	8	5	3	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1
9	Holmes, Max	C	82%	1	0	36	25	11	4	0	4	8	5	0	0	2	10
17	Humphries, Lawson	HBFL	87%	1	0	19	15	4	8	0	2	0	3	0	0	1	5
7	Mannagh, Shaun	HFFL	87%	3	1	14	11	3	3	0	5	1	7	0	2	2	2
19	Martin, Jack	INT	61%	0	0	15	11	4	10	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	2
32	Miers, Gryan	INT	86%	1	1	25	17	8	6	0	5	0	3	0	0	2	7
34	Mullin, Oisin	RO	73%	0	0	13	5	8	2	0	3	1	2	2	1	0	2
33	Neale, Shannon	FPL	83%	4	1	13	10	3	9	2	2	0	5	0	3	0	2
42	O'Connor, Mark	HBFR	89%	0	1	22	15	7	12	0	3	0	2	0	0	2	3
14	O'Sullivan, Connor	BPR	93%	0	0	13	9	4	10	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	1
3	Smith, Bailey	RR	76%	0	0	41	28	13	7	0	2	6	6	0	1	3	9
1	Stanley, Rhys	RU	81%	1	1	11	7	4	4	27	1	3	1	1	1	0	2
18	Stengle, Tyson	HFFR	83%	1	2	17	8	9	4	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	1
44	Stewart, Tom (vc)	CHB	83%	0	0	23	19	4	16	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	0
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				23	13	392	253	139	141	34	51	33	49	16	13	30	63

M. Duncan replaced S. De Koning.

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

Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	38	J. Henry	16	S. De Koning	14	C. O'Sullivan	17	T. Goldstein	44	A. Day-Wicks
	12	W. Setterfield	20	P. Wright	26	A. May	6	J. Caldwell	40	Z. Johnson
FORWARD							35	M. Guelfi	10	I. Kako
HALF-BACK									3	D. Parish
	17	L. Humphries	44	T. Stewart (vc)	42	M. O'Connor			16	A. Perkins
	37	N. Martin	30	N. Caddy	46	L. Blakiston
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	46	M. Blicavs	9	M. Holmes	28	O. Dempsey
	34	L. Lual	7	Z. Merrett (c)	28	X. Duursma	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							1	R. Stanley	30	T. Atkins
HALF-FORWARD							3	B. Smith	39	Z. Guthrie
	7	S. Mannagh	45	B. Close	18	T. Stengle	34	O. Mullin	19	J. Martin
	36	A. Clarke	25	J. Prior	11	J. Gresham			32	G. Miers
HALF-BACK									22	M. Duncan
FORWARD
	33	S. Neale	5	J. Cameron	35	P. Dangerfield (c)
	21	A. Roberts	15	J. Laverde	1	A. McGrath (vc)
BACK
Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GEEL	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:58
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh goal	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	03:21
	ESSE	Jade Gresham goal	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	04:51
	ESSE	Peter Wright behind	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	07:07
	ESSE	Nic Martin behind	1.2.8	-	1.1.7	07:30
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	11:26
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	1.2.8	-	3.1.19	15:17
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh goal	1.2.8	-	4.1.25	16:37
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi goal	2.2.14	-	4.1.25	17:57
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	2.3.15	-	4.1.25	20:09
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle behind	2.3.15	-	4.2.26	21:50
	GEEL	Mark O'Connor behind	2.3.15	-	4.3.27	23:07
	GEEL	Shannon Neale goal	2.3.15	-	5.3.33	24:20
	GEEL	Shannon Neale goal	2.3.15	-	6.3.39	26:13
	ESSE	Jade Gresham behind	2.4.16	-	6.3.39	28:18
Q2	ESSE	Archer Day-Wicks behind	2.5.17	-	6.3.39	00:25
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	2.5.17	-	7.3.45	01:31
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	2.5.17	-	8.3.51	03:55
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey behind	2.5.17	-	8.4.52	11:38
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi behind	2.6.18	-	8.4.52	13:51
	GEEL	Rushed behind	2.6.18	-	8.5.53	18:33
	GEEL	Brad Close goal	2.6.18	-	9.5.59	19:42
	ESSE	Archie May behind	2.7.19	-	9.5.59	24:44
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi goal	3.7.25	-	9.5.59	26:10
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield behind	3.7.25	-	9.6.60	29:43
Q3	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	4.7.31	-	9.6.60	01:14
	GEEL	Max Holmes goal	4.7.31	-	10.6.66	03:09
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma goal	5.7.37	-	10.6.66	05:40
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	5.7.37	-	11.6.72	10:08
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	5.7.37	-	12.6.78	11:22
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh behind	5.7.37	-	12.7.79	13:27
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron behind	5.7.37	-	12.8.80	15:55
	GEEL	Lawson Humphries goal	5.7.37	-	13.8.86	16:56
	GEEL	Shannon Neale goal	5.7.37	-	14.8.92	20:37
	ESSE	Archie Roberts goal	6.7.43	-	14.8.92	24:38
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	6.7.43	-	15.8.98	27:15
	ESSE	Isaac Kako goal	7.7.49	-	15.8.98	29:29
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	8.7.55	-	15.8.98	31:16
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	8.7.55	-	16.8.104	33:06
Q4	ESSE	Xavier Duursma behind	8.8.56	-	16.8.104	01:19
	GEEL	Shannon Neale behind	8.8.56	-	16.9.105	03:50
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle behind	8.8.56	-	16.10.106	07:32
	GEEL	Gryan Miers goal	8.8.56	-	17.10.112	08:10
	GEEL	Shannon Neale goal	8.8.56	-	18.10.118	11:48
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey goal	8.8.56	-	19.10.124	13:58
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	8.8.56	-	20.10.130	15:18
	GEEL	Gryan Miers behind	8.8.56	-	20.11.131	17:58
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh goal	8.8.56	-	21.11.137	18:48
	GEEL	Rhys Stanley goal	8.8.56	-	22.11.143	22:13
	GEEL	Rhys Stanley behind	8.8.56	-	22.12.144	26:14
	GEEL	Rushed behind	8.8.56	-	22.13.145	27:15
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey goal	8.8.56	-	23.13.151	28:31

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