2025 AFL Season Round 20: Carlton v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 19 July 2025 between Carlton and Melbourne during round twenty of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Carlton "hosted" Melbourne at the MCG. Patrick Cripps captained the hosts. Max Gawn captained the visitors with Jack Viney as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Michael Voss and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

Carlton (12.6.78) defeated Melbourne (10.10.70).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 20
Teams: Carlton v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 19 July 2025
Time: 7:35 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 40,869

Match Results

Outcome: Carlton def. Melbourne
Score: 12.6.78 - 10.10.70

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Carlton	4	.	2	6	.	4	9	.	5	12	.	6	12	.	6	(78)
Melbourne	3	.	0	3	.	3	7	.	7	10	.	10	10	.	10	(70)
Margin	CARL by 8			CARL by 19			CARL by 10			CARL by 8			CARL by 8
Duration	32:06			27:44			32:27			33:55			2:06:12

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Carlton

Captain: Patrick Cripps
Coach: Michael Voss

Melbourne

Captain: Max Gawn
Vice-Captain: Jack Viney
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Kysaiah Pickett	MELB	36	3
Patrick Cripps	CARL	9	2
Max Gawn	MELB	11	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Carlton

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
32	Carroll, Matt	HBFR	75%	1	0	15	15	0	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	3	3
5	Cerra, Adam	WR	78%	1	0	20	11	9	3	0	2	8	3	2	1	0	4
2	Cowan, Lachie	HBFL	80%	0	0	16	12	4	6	0	2	1	3	1	0	1	2
9	Cripps, Patrick (c)	C	80%	0	0	29	17	12	2	0	5	8	3	3	0	2	5
30	Curnow, Charlie	CHF	94%	3	0	15	15	0	8	0	1	1	3	1	1	0	2
12	De Koning, Tom	FF	75%	0	0	12	6	6	4	5	0	0	2	3	2	1	3
15	Docherty, Sam	INT	83%	1	0	18	8	10	4	0	3	3	1	3	0	3	2
19	Durdin, Corey	SUB↑	33%	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	1
44	Evans, Francis	HFFL↓	46%	1	0	8	5	3	2	0	4	0	3	2	1	0	3
8	Fogarty, Lachie	HFFR	79%	0	0	11	8	3	1	0	3	0	3	1	1	1	3
26	Haynes, Nick	BPL	90%	0	0	13	8	5	3	0	2	0	6	1	2	4	0
29	Hewett, George	INT	85%	0	0	19	9	10	2	0	0	4	2	3	1	0	3
4	Hollands, Oliver	RO	89%	0	0	14	9	5	5	0	3	0	2	0	1	3	4
36	Lord, Cooper	RR	85%	0	0	16	12	4	6	0	4	4	1	0	0	2	4
43	Moir, Ashton	WL	82%	4	0	11	9	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2
3	Motlop, Jesse	FPL	79%	0	1	10	5	5	3	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	2
22	O'Farrell, Harry	CHB	87%	0	0	10	9	1	4	0	1	0	4	1	3	6	1
27	Pittonet, Marc	RU	68%	0	0	8	2	6	0	21	4	2	3	3	1	0	1
42	Saad, Adam	BPR	91%	0	0	17	11	6	1	0	1	2	3	0	1	4	2
23	Weitering, Jacob	FB	100%	0	0	11	10	1	8	0	2	0	2	2	1	10	0
38	White, Will	INT	72%	0	1	5	4	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1
6	Williams, Zac	FPR	74%	0	0	16	9	7	1	0	3	2	3	1	2	3	2
45	Young, Flynn	INT	73%	1	2	8	8	0	3	0	4	0	4	1	1	2	0
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				12	6	305	204	101	77	26	48	37	59	29	21	47	50

C. Durdin replaced F. Evans.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
17	Bowey, Jake	BPL	84%	0	0	26	17	9	5	0	1	0	3	0	1	5	1
37	Chandler, Kade	WL	84%	0	0	14	3	11	4	0	5	4	1	0	0	1	2
31	Fritsch, Bayley	CHF	90%	2	1	20	14	6	8	0	1	1	5	3	3	0	6
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	88%	0	1	19	10	9	6	38	1	4	6	2	3	3	2
21	Jefferson, Matthew	INT	60%	1	0	9	3	6	2	0	1	0	6	2	0	0	1
15	Langdon, Ed	INT	69%	0	0	21	9	12	6	0	4	3	2	2	1	1	5
19	Langford, Harvey	WR	82%	0	0	20	10	10	6	0	0	1	6	0	1	1	1
20	Lindsay, Xavier	SUB↑	31%	0	0	7	5	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	4
1	May, Steven	FB	88%	0	0	18	15	3	7	0	1	0	3	0	1	4	1
25	McDonald, Tom	CHB	90%	0	0	12	10	2	5	0	2	1	2	2	1	3	0
4	McVee, Judd	BPR	76%	0	0	15	8	7	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
18	Melksham, Jake	FPL	79%	1	0	7	7	0	2	0	2	1	5	1	2	0	2
13	Oliver, Clayton	RR	84%	0	0	26	15	11	4	0	5	7	6	2	4	3	4
5	Petracca, Christian	C	82%	0	0	23	11	12	5	0	1	3	2	0	2	1	4
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	FPR	88%	5	2	23	19	4	3	0	2	2	8	1	3	2	3
24	Rivers, Trent	RO	80%	0	0	27	18	9	5	0	3	1	2	2	0	5	3
3	Salem, Christian	INT	90%	0	0	25	21	4	10	0	2	0	3	0	2	4	4
30	Sharp, Harry	HFFR	74%	0	0	10	6	4	6	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	3
12	Tholstrup, Koltyn	INT↓	47%	0	0	6	2	4	0	0	2	0	3	1	1	0	1
10	Turner, Daniel	HBFR	97%	0	0	10	7	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	FF	72%	1	1	10	5	5	5	0	1	0	5	0	2	0	1
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	HFFL	82%	0	0	21	11	10	4	0	5	5	3	2	2	1	4
6	Windsor, Caleb	HBFL	83%	0	1	16	9	7	3	0	2	0	4	0	0	2	5
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				10	10	385	235	150	104	38	44	34	78	21	29	38	58

X. Lindsay replaced K. Tholstrup.

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

Carlton							Coach: Michael Voss
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	17	J. Bowey	1	S. May	4	J. McVee	27	M. Pittonet	15	S. Docherty
	6	Z. Williams	12	T. De Koning	3	J. Motlop	36	C. Lord	29	G. Hewett
FORWARD							4	O. Hollands	38	W. White
HALF-BACK									45	F. Young
	6	C. Windsor	25	T. McDonald	10	D. Turner			19	C. Durdin
	8	L. Fogarty	30	C. Curnow	44	F. Evans
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	37	K. Chandler	5	C. Petracca	19	H. Langford
	5	A. Cerra	9	P. Cripps (c)	43	A. Moir	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn (c)	21	M. Jefferson
HALF-FORWARD							13	C. Oliver	15	E. Langdon
	7	J. Viney (vc)	31	B. Fritsch	30	H. Sharp	24	T. Rivers	3	C. Salem
	32	M. Carroll	22	H. O'Farrell	2	L. Cowan			12	K. Tholstrup
HALF-BACK									20	X. Lindsay
FORWARD
	18	J. Melksham	2	J. van Rooyen	36	K. Pickett
	42	A. Saad	23	J. Weitering	26	N. Haynes
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:36
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	05:02
	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	06:52
	CARL	Ashton Moir goal	3.0.18	-	1.0.6	08:54
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	3.0.18	-	2.0.12	10:56
	CARL	Rushed behind	3.1.19	-	2.0.12	12:38
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	3.1.19	-	3.0.18	17:04
	CARL	Will White behind	3.2.20	-	3.0.18	23:05
	CARL	Adam Cerra goal	4.2.26	-	3.0.18	29:37
Q2	CARL	Ashton Moir goal	5.2.32	-	3.0.18	02:54
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	5.2.32	-	3.1.19	13:46
	CARL	Jesse Motlop behind	5.3.33	-	3.1.19	19:57
	CARL	Flynn Young behind	5.4.34	-	3.1.19	20:49
	MELB	Max Gawn behind	5.4.34	-	3.2.20	22:53
	MELB	Caleb Windsor behind	5.4.34	-	3.3.21	23:57
	CARL	Ashton Moir goal	6.4.40	-	3.3.21	26:11
Q3	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	6.4.40	-	4.3.27	01:29
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	6.4.40	-	5.3.33	05:30
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	6.4.40	-	6.3.39	07:32
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	6.4.40	-	7.3.45	12:02
	CARL	Francis Evans goal	7.4.46	-	7.3.45	14:04
	MELB	Rushed behind	7.4.46	-	7.4.46	16:42
	CARL	Ashton Moir goal	8.4.52	-	7.4.46	20:26
	MELB	Rushed behind	8.4.52	-	7.5.47	22:47
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	8.4.52	-	7.6.48	24:25
	CARL	Flynn Young goal	9.4.58	-	7.6.48	26:14
	CARL	Rushed behind	9.5.59	-	7.6.48	29:48
	MELB	Rushed behind	9.5.59	-	7.7.49	31:26
Q4	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	9.5.59	-	8.7.55	00:51
	CARL	Flynn Young behind	9.6.60	-	8.7.55	02:21
	CARL	Sam Docherty goal	10.6.66	-	8.7.55	08:15
	CARL	Matt Carroll goal	11.6.72	-	8.7.55	09:39
	MELB	Rushed behind	11.6.72	-	8.8.56	11:16
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	11.6.72	-	8.9.57	16:50
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen behind	11.6.72	-	8.10.58	18:05
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	11.6.72	-	9.10.64	20:43
	MELB	Matthew Jefferson goal	11.6.72	-	10.10.70	22:38
	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	12.6.78	-	10.10.70	27:35

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