2025 AFL Season Round 21: St Kilda v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 27 July 2025 between St Kilda and Melbourne during round twenty-one of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. St Kilda hosted Melbourne at Marvel Stadium. Jack Steele captained the hosts. Max Gawn captained the visitors with Jack Viney as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Ross Lyon and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

St Kilda (15.6.96) defeated Melbourne (13.12.90).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 21
Teams: St Kilda v Melbourne
Date: Sunday 27 July 2025
Time: 3:15 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 22,570

Match Results

Outcome: St Kilda def. Melbourne
Score: 15.6.96 - 13.12.90

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
St Kilda	2	.	1	4	.	4	6	.	4	15	.	6	15	.	6	(96)
Melbourne	6	.	2	9	.	4	13	.	8	13	.	12	13	.	12	(90)
Margin	MELB by 25			MELB by 30			MELB by 46			STKL by 6			STKL by 6
Duration	33:19			29:49			32:49			32:41			2:08:38

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

St Kilda

Captain: Jack Steele
Coach: Ross Lyon

Melbourne

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jack Viney	MELB	7	3
Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera	STKL	7	2
Christian Petracca	MELB	5	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

St Kilda

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
38	Boxshall, Hugh	SUB↑	48%	0	0	15	6	9	4	0	3	2	3	2	1	1	0
13	Byrnes, Ryan	INT	65%	0	0	11	4	7	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
47	Caminiti, Anthony	BPR	98%	1	0	11	9	2	5	1	1	2	5	1	3	3	0
11	Clark, Hunter	RR	78%	0	1	20	13	7	6	0	6	2	3	0	2	1	5
4	Collard, Lance	INT↓	19%	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
40	Hall, Max	CHF	81%	0	0	19	7	12	2	0	7	6	1	0	0	1	5
24	Hastie, Angus	INT	79%	0	0	10	5	5	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	3	3
1	Higgins, Jack	HFFR	88%	4	0	10	9	1	8	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	0
8	Hill, Bradley	HFFL	88%	1	1	15	12	3	5	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	3
3	Jones, Zak	INT	78%	0	0	26	14	12	6	0	1	3	2	0	0	2	4
6	Macrae, Jack	C	71%	0	0	24	10	14	4	0	6	5	0	0	0	1	1
19	Marshall, Rowan	RU	87%	0	0	15	9	6	3	30	4	3	5	3	3	2	1
10	Owens, Mitch	FPL	87%	0	0	10	4	6	1	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	1
27	Schoenmaker, Arie	WR	72%	0	0	11	9	2	8	0	0	0	1	0	1	7	2
43	Sharman, Cooper	FPR	81%	2	1	9	5	4	2	0	1	0	2	1	2	0	2
35	Sinclair, Jack	HBFR	86%	0	0	32	20	12	7	0	5	0	2	0	0	4	3
9	Steele, Jack (c)	RO	71%	1	0	13	3	10	1	0	5	3	6	0	4	0	1
14	Stocker, Liam	HBFL	84%	0	0	12	7	5	2	0	3	1	3	1	2	1	1
26	Tauru, Alix	BPL	79%	1	0	5	3	2	2	0	1	0	2	1	1	1	0
7	Wanganeen-Milera, Nasiah	CHB	86%	4	1	34	25	9	5	0	4	6	8	1	1	4	6
44	Wilkie, Callum	FB	100%	0	0	13	12	1	7	0	2	1	1	1	0	5	0
2	Windhager, Marcus	WL	84%	0	0	22	10	12	5	0	3	3	3	1	0	1	3
32	Wood, Mason	FF	90%	1	1	17	8	9	4	0	2	1	1	1	0	0	1
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				15	6	355	204	151	96	32	60	41	55	16	21	38	43

H. Boxshall replaced L. Collard.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
17	Bowey, Jake	BPL	73%	0	0	13	12	1	5	0	5	1	0	1	0	2	2
37	Chandler, Kade	WL	82%	2	0	13	11	2	2	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	3
31	Fritsch, Bayley	CHF	85%	3	2	11	7	4	8	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	0
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	89%	0	0	17	10	7	8	45	2	7	5	2	0	2	4
22	Howes, Blake	HBFR	86%	0	0	16	7	9	5	0	3	0	2	0	1	2	1
15	Langdon, Ed	RO	86%	0	0	14	6	8	6	0	4	1	0	0	0	1	2
19	Langford, Harvey	WR	76%	1	0	10	7	3	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	3
20	Lindsay, Xavier	HFFR	73%	2	1	9	5	4	1	0	1	3	1	2	1	0	0
25	McDonald, Tom	FB	100%	0	0	12	9	3	8	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1
4	McVee, Judd	BPR	87%	0	0	12	9	3	7	0	0	1	3	0	0	2	0
18	Melksham, Jake	FPL	77%	2	1	8	7	1	4	0	3	0	1	2	0	0	3
13	Oliver, Clayton	INT	76%	0	1	23	13	10	3	0	9	3	5	2	3	3	2
5	Petracca, Christian	C	82%	1	1	21	14	7	4	0	2	5	3	1	0	0	10
35	Petty, Harry	FF	80%	0	0	5	3	2	4	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	2
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	FPR	81%	1	1	19	11	8	1	0	7	4	4	0	2	2	3
24	Rivers, Trent	RR	80%	0	1	25	17	8	8	0	3	0	1	3	0	3	4
3	Salem, Christian	INT	82%	0	0	22	18	4	7	0	1	1	1	0	0	5	0
9	Spargo, Charlie	SUB↑	17%	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	1
32	Sparrow, Tom	INT	78%	0	0	15	7	8	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	3
10	Turner, Daniel	CHB	97%	0	0	9	7	2	7	0	1	0	2	0	2	1	1
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	INT	69%	0	1	10	5	5	3	10	2	1	4	0	2	0	0
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	HFFL	83%	1	1	23	12	11	1	0	16	8	5	5	1	1	4
6	Windsor, Caleb	HBFL↓	61%	0	0	9	6	3	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	3
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				13	12	318	205	113	98	58	76	40	43	21	15	28	52

C. Spargo replaced C. Windsor.

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

St Kilda							Coach: Ross Lyon
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	17	J. Bowey	25	T. McDonald	4	J. McVee	19	R. Marshall	13	R. Byrnes
	43	C. Sharman	32	M. Wood	10	M. Owens	11	H. Clark	4	L. Collard
FORWARD							9	J. Steele (c)	24	A. Hastie
HALF-BACK									3	Z. Jones
	6	C. Windsor	10	D. Turner	22	B. Howes			38	H. Boxshall
	1	J. Higgins	40	M. Hall	8	B. Hill
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	37	K. Chandler	5	C. Petracca	19	H. Langford
	27	A. Schoenmaker	6	J. Macrae	2	M. Windhager	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn (c)	13	C. Oliver
HALF-FORWARD							24	T. Rivers	3	C. Salem
	7	J. Viney (vc)	31	B. Fritsch	20	X. Lindsay	15	E. Langdon	32	T. Sparrow
	35	J. Sinclair	7	N. Wanganeen-Milera	14	L. Stocker			2	J. van Rooyen
HALF-BACK									9	C. Spargo
FORWARD
	18	J. Melksham	35	H. Petty	36	K. Pickett
	47	A. Caminiti	44	C. Wilkie	26	A. Tauru
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	STKL	Anthony Caminiti goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:02
	MELB	Harvey Langford goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	02:32
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	05:10
	MELB	Jack Viney goal	1.0.6	-	3.0.18	10:03
	MELB	Xavier Lindsay goal	1.0.6	-	4.0.24	11:35
	STKL	Cooper Sharman behind	1.1.7	-	4.0.24	15:27
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	1.1.7	-	4.1.25	16:24
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	1.1.7	-	5.1.31	18:28
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	1.1.7	-	5.2.32	24:05
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	1.1.7	-	6.2.38	25:23
	STKL	Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera goal	2.1.13	-	6.2.38	29:35
Q2	STKL	Bradley Hill behind	2.2.14	-	6.2.38	02:39
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	2.2.14	-	7.2.44	03:59
	STKL	Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera behind	2.3.15	-	7.2.44	10:37
	MELB	Kade Chandler goal	2.3.15	-	8.2.50	12:08
	MELB	Trent Rivers behind	2.3.15	-	8.3.51	15:54
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	2.3.15	-	8.4.52	16:57
	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	2.3.15	-	9.4.58	18:11
	STKL	Jack Higgins goal	3.3.21	-	9.4.58	22:08
	STKL	Hunter Clark behind	3.4.22	-	9.4.58	23:57
	STKL	Alix Tauru goal	4.4.28	-	9.4.58	25:15
Q3	MELB	Xavier Lindsay goal	4.4.28	-	10.4.64	03:37
	STKL	Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera goal	5.4.34	-	10.4.64	05:59
	MELB	Xavier Lindsay behind	5.4.34	-	10.5.65	08:41
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	5.4.34	-	11.5.71	10:45
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	5.4.34	-	12.5.77	15:05
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	5.4.34	-	12.6.78	17:06
	STKL	Jack Higgins goal	6.4.40	-	12.6.78	18:07
	MELB	Kade Chandler goal	6.4.40	-	13.6.84	21:03
	MELB	Rushed behind	6.4.40	-	13.7.85	27:28
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen behind	6.4.40	-	13.8.86	32:45
Q4	STKL	Jack Higgins goal	7.4.46	-	13.8.86	01:15
	STKL	Rushed behind	7.5.47	-	13.8.86	02:51
	MELB	Jack Viney behind	7.5.47	-	13.9.87	03:43
	STKL	Bradley Hill goal	8.5.53	-	13.9.87	05:03
	STKL	Cooper Sharman goal	9.5.59	-	13.9.87	06:16
	MELB	Clayton Oliver behind	9.5.59	-	13.10.88	09:06
	MELB	Jake Melksham behind	9.5.59	-	13.11.89	11:09
	STKL	Jack Steele goal	10.5.65	-	13.11.89	14:24
	STKL	Mason Wood goal	11.5.71	-	13.11.89	16:21
	STKL	Mason Wood behind	11.6.72	-	13.11.89	18:07
	STKL	Cooper Sharman goal	12.6.78	-	13.11.89	21:45
	STKL	Jack Higgins goal	13.6.84	-	13.11.89	22:57
	MELB	Rushed behind	13.6.84	-	13.12.90	24:04
	STKL	Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera goal	14.6.90	-	13.12.90	29:50
	STKL	Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera goal	15.6.96	-	13.12.90	32:38

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