2025 AFL Season Round 16: Fremantle v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 19 June 2025 between Fremantle and Essendon during round sixteen of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Fremantle hosted Essendon at Optus Stadium. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Justin Longmuir and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Fremantle (16.8.104) defeated Essendon (9.9.63).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 16
Teams: Fremantle v Essendon
Date: Thursday 19 June 2025
Time: 6:10 PM
Venue: Optus Stadium
Attendance: 37,570

Match Results

Outcome: Fremantle def. Essendon
Score: 16.8.104 - 9.9.63

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Fremantle	3	.	2	9	.	3	13	.	3	16	.	8	16	.	8	(104)
Essendon	2	.	2	6	.	5	6	.	8	9	.	9	9	.	9	(63)
Margin	FREM by 6			FREM by 16			FREM by 37			FREM by 41			FREM by 41
Duration	28:17			36:39			27:44			31:19			2:03:59

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Fremantle

Captain: unknown
Coach: Justin Longmuir

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Luke Jackson	FREM	9	3
Caleb Serong	FREM	3	2
Luke Ryan	FREM	13	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Fremantle

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
11	Aish, James	SUB↑	18%	0	0	6	1	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
24	Amiss, Jye	FPR	85%	0	0	10	4	6	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	2
41	Banfield, Bailey	INT	76%	0	0	13	7	6	1	0	3	0	2	1	0	2	0
15	Bolton, Shai	C	84%	2	2	15	7	8	0	0	1	3	3	1	1	0	1
8	Brayshaw, Andrew	RO	79%	1	1	29	14	15	3	0	4	4	1	0	0	1	3
5	Chapman, Heath	HBFL	78%	0	0	22	15	7	4	0	2	0	2	2	0	4	3
6	Clark, Jordan	HBFR	92%	0	0	33	23	10	8	0	5	0	5	3	1	3	3
36	Cox, Brennan	BPR	84%	0	0	13	7	6	9	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
37	Draper, Josh	FB	93%	0	0	8	7	1	3	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	0
28	Erasmus, Neil	INT	61%	0	0	21	7	14	4	0	1	7	2	1	0	0	1
32	Frederick, Michael	HFFR	80%	2	1	5	4	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1
7	Fyfe, Nat	CHF↓	67%	0	0	11	5	6	3	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	4
9	Jackson, Luke	RU	81%	3	0	21	11	10	4	48	4	10	3	3	2	1	2
44	Johnson, Matthew	WL	79%	0	0	18	5	13	5	0	1	3	3	1	2	1	4
30	O'Driscoll, Nathan	WR	80%	1	1	17	11	6	7	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	4
16	Reid, Murphy	HFFL	86%	1	0	13	7	6	3	0	4	1	3	0	2	0	4
13	Ryan, Luke	BPL	93%	0	0	32	24	8	12	0	2	0	2	1	2	5	1
3	Serong, Caleb	RR	83%	2	0	35	24	11	5	0	4	7	2	3	1	1	10
14	Sharp, Jeremy	INT	74%	0	1	12	8	4	6	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	1
35	Treacy, Josh	FF	88%	3	0	11	6	5	3	1	2	0	0	2	0	0	3
20	Voss, Patrick	FPL	81%	1	2	13	6	7	2	4	3	3	3	1	2	1	1
34	Wagner, Corey	INT	72%	0	0	16	12	4	4	0	2	2	3	1	1	3	6
23	Worner, Karl	CHB	84%	0	0	18	10	8	7	0	2	1	2	0	0	2	2
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				16	8	392	225	167	99	53	49	44	48	23	16	25	57

J. Aish replaced N. Fyfe.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
46	Blakiston, Lachlan	HFFL	88%	0	0	11	3	8	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	0
30	Caddy, Nate	CHF	100%	1	0	15	9	6	8	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
6	Caldwell, Jye	RR	77%	0	1	32	17	15	2	0	5	8	1	1	0	3	6
36	Clarke, Angus	HBFR	86%	0	0	21	11	10	4	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	0
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT↓	40%	1	0	11	6	5	3	0	0	1	2	1	1	1	0
11	Gresham, Jade	HBFL	66%	1	1	9	7	2	3	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	1
35	Guelfi, Matt	WR	78%	0	1	7	3	4	0	0	3	0	3	0	3	0	0
8	Hobbs, Ben	INT	62%	0	0	16	6	10	1	0	5	1	3	3	2	2	0
40	Johnson, Zak	INT	68%	0	0	9	7	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
10	Kako, Isaac	FPR	85%	1	1	12	7	5	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	1
15	Laverde, Jayden	FB	96%	0	0	18	12	6	9	0	3	0	1	0	1	3	0
34	Lual, Luamon	INT	65%	2	0	9	5	4	2	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	4
37	Martin, Nic	HFFR	83%	0	0	21	14	7	7	0	2	0	1	0	0	4	2
26	May, Archie	FPL	78%	2	0	14	8	6	6	0	3	0	3	2	2	0	3
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	BPL	93%	0	0	22	8	14	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	C	92%	0	0	17	6	11	1	0	3	2	0	2	0	0	4
3	Parish, Darcy	RO	79%	0	1	31	11	20	4	0	3	6	1	1	1	3	2
16	Perkins, Archie	SUB↑	40%	0	0	10	6	4	2	0	0	1	6	0	2	3	1
25	Prior, Jaxon	CHB	100%	0	0	15	11	4	6	0	2	1	2	0	1	6	1
21	Roberts, Archie	BPR	77%	0	0	25	12	13	8	0	2	1	1	2	0	6	0
12	Setterfield, Will	WL	82%	0	0	17	11	6	4	0	5	1	6	0	3	2	1
39	Visentini, Vigo	RU	79%	0	0	15	5	10	3	17	2	4	5	3	3	1	1
20	Wright, Peter	FF	85%	1	1	8	5	3	5	7	2	0	2	0	1	1	0
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				9	9	365	190	175	85	24	52	26	49	16	23	40	34

A. Perkins replaced X. Duursma.

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

Fremantle							Coach: Justin Longmuir
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	1	A. McGrath (vc)	15	J. Laverde	21	A. Roberts	9	L. Jackson	41	B. Banfield
	24	J. Amiss	35	J. Treacy	20	P. Voss	3	C. Serong	28	N. Erasmus
FORWARD							8	A. Brayshaw	14	J. Sharp
HALF-BACK									34	C. Wagner
	11	J. Gresham	25	J. Prior	36	A. Clarke			11	J. Aish
	32	M. Frederick	7	N. Fyfe	16	M. Reid
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	12	W. Setterfield	7	Z. Merrett (c)	35	M. Guelfi
	30	N. O'Driscoll	15	S. Bolton	44	M. Johnson	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							39	V. Visentini	28	X. Duursma
HALF-FORWARD							6	J. Caldwell	8	B. Hobbs
	46	L. Blakiston	30	N. Caddy	37	N. Martin	3	D. Parish	40	Z. Johnson
	6	J. Clark	23	K. Worner	5	H. Chapman			34	L. Lual
HALF-BACK									16	A. Perkins
FORWARD
	26	A. May	20	P. Wright	10	I. Kako
	36	B. Cox	37	J. Draper	13	L. Ryan
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	FREM	Shai Bolton behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	03:14
	ESSE	Darcy Parish behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	05:08
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	09:01
	FREM	Shai Bolton goal	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	12:55
	ESSE	Isaac Kako goal	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	16:27
	ESSE	Jye Caldwell behind	1.1.7	-	2.2.14	18:34
	FREM	Josh Treacy goal	2.1.13	-	2.2.14	20:14
	FREM	Luke Jackson goal	3.1.19	-	2.2.14	22:46
	FREM	Andrew Brayshaw behind	3.2.20	-	2.2.14	25:00
Q2	FREM	Luke Jackson goal	4.2.26	-	2.2.14	00:22
	ESSE	Peter Wright behind	4.2.26	-	2.3.15	02:08
	FREM	Caleb Serong goal	5.2.32	-	2.3.15	03:10
	FREM	Michael Frederick goal	6.2.38	-	2.3.15	06:13
	FREM	Murphy Reid goal	7.2.44	-	2.3.15	09:15
	ESSE	Rushed behind	7.2.44	-	2.4.16	13:42
	ESSE	Archie May goal	7.2.44	-	3.4.22	14:48
	FREM	Patrick Voss behind	7.3.45	-	3.4.22	17:34
	ESSE	Luamon Lual goal	7.3.45	-	4.4.28	23:47
	FREM	Josh Treacy goal	8.3.51	-	4.4.28	26:28
	FREM	Shai Bolton goal	9.3.57	-	4.4.28	28:47
	ESSE	Isaac Kako behind	9.3.57	-	4.5.29	30:07
	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	9.3.57	-	5.5.35	31:10
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma goal	9.3.57	-	6.5.41	33:46
Q3	FREM	Josh Treacy goal	10.3.63	-	6.5.41	02:14
	ESSE	Rushed behind	10.3.63	-	6.6.42	07:32
	ESSE	Matt Guelfi behind	10.3.63	-	6.7.43	11:35
	ESSE	Jade Gresham behind	10.3.63	-	6.8.44	16:23
	FREM	Caleb Serong goal	11.3.69	-	6.8.44	19:20
	FREM	Luke Jackson goal	12.3.75	-	6.8.44	23:10
	FREM	Andrew Brayshaw goal	13.3.81	-	6.8.44	24:32
Q4	ESSE	Archie May goal	13.3.81	-	7.8.50	01:52
	FREM	Patrick Voss goal	14.3.87	-	7.8.50	03:05
	FREM	Nathan O'Driscoll goal	15.3.93	-	7.8.50	08:50
	FREM	Shai Bolton behind	15.4.94	-	7.8.50	10:20
	FREM	Nathan O'Driscoll behind	15.5.95	-	7.8.50	11:48
	ESSE	Luamon Lual goal	15.5.95	-	8.8.56	14:03
	ESSE	Jade Gresham goal	15.5.95	-	9.8.62	18:17
	FREM	Jeremy Sharp behind	15.6.96	-	9.8.62	21:38
	FREM	Michael Frederick behind	15.7.97	-	9.8.62	23:10
	ESSE	Rushed behind	15.7.97	-	9.9.63	25:01
	FREM	Michael Frederick goal	16.7.103	-	9.9.63	27:18
	FREM	Patrick Voss behind	16.8.104	-	9.9.63	30:33

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