2025 AFL Season Round 25: North Melbourne v Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 23 August 2025 between North Melbourne and Adelaide during round twenty-five of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Adelaide at Marvel Stadium. Jy Simpkin captained the hosts. Jordan Dawson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Alastair Clarkson and the visitors were coached by Matthew Nicks.

North Melbourne (15.10.100) were defeated by Adelaide (17.11.113).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 25
Teams: North Melbourne v Adelaide
Date: Saturday 23 August 2025
Time: 1:20 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 17,494

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Adelaide
Score: 15.10.100 - 17.11.113

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	3	.	3	7	.	6	10	.	7	15	.	10	15	.	10	(100)
Adelaide	4	.	3	9	.	5	14	.	8	17	.	11	17	.	11	(113)
Margin	ADEL by 6			ADEL by 11			ADEL by 25			ADEL by 13			ADEL by 13
Duration	33:39			33:43			30:18			34:48			2:12:28

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

Captain: Jy Simpkin
Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Adelaide

Captain: Jordan Dawson
Coach: Matthew Nicks

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Luke Davies-Uniacke	NMLB	9	3
Harry Sheezel	NMLB	3	2
Riley Thilthorpe	ADEL	7	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
45	Banch, Zac	INT	65%	1	0	9	6	3	1	0	2	0	3	4	1	0	2
30	Comben, Charlie	BPL	95%	0	1	12	6	6	6	0	0	0	3	0	1	2	1
4	Corr, Aidan	WL	76%	0	0	4	2	2	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	0
25	Curtis, Paul	HFFL	82%	3	1	11	8	3	3	0	4	0	2	3	0	0	2
5	Daniel, Caleb	CHB	86%	0	0	22	17	5	4	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	3
28	Darling, Jack	FF	90%	1	0	5	4	1	2	1	3	0	2	1	1	0	2
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	C	88%	1	0	31	16	15	3	0	3	12	4	1	0	1	5
37	Harvey, Cooper	SUB↑	30%	1	1	6	3	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
41	Konstanty, Jacob	FPR	55%	0	3	14	8	6	3	0	5	1	3	1	0	0	5
19	Logue, Griffin	BPR	92%	0	0	14	8	6	10	0	0	0	3	0	2	1	0
10	McKercher, Colby	WR	88%	0	0	23	12	11	1	0	2	0	3	1	2	2	1
2	O'Sullivan, Finn	HBFR	92%	0	0	17	10	7	10	0	0	1	4	0	3	1	1
26	Parker, Luke	INT	73%	1	0	27	10	17	5	0	5	10	1	2	0	0	0
23	Payne, Geordie	INT↓	40%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	Pink, Toby	FB	88%	0	0	10	9	1	8	0	0	0	2	0	2	4	1
24	Powell, Tom	HBFL	75%	1	0	16	6	10	4	0	2	2	2	0	0	1	3
8	Scott, Bailey	FPL	81%	1	0	10	8	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	3
3	Sheezel, Harry	RR	87%	0	0	32	15	17	7	0	3	6	6	1	0	2	5
12	Simpkin, Jy (c)	HFFR	91%	0	0	33	22	11	8	0	1	3	3	0	1	6	5
15	Stephens, Dylan	INT	82%	2	0	22	13	9	3	0	1	2	4	1	1	0	1
47	Trembath, Cooper	CHF	80%	3	2	11	7	4	4	0	3	0	0	3	0	0	1
6	Wardlaw, George	RO	75%	0	1	18	11	7	4	0	9	4	2	2	1	0	9
38	Xerri, Tristan	RU	89%	0	0	25	12	13	3	35	12	7	3	6	2	1	2
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				15	10	374	214	160	94	36	61	48	54	28	17	30	52

C. Harvey replaced G. Payne.

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Berry, Sam	RR	77%	0	1	24	13	11	2	0	8	5	9	1	1	1	4
40	Bond, Hugh	BPR	91%	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	2	0	5	1	4	0	1
44	Cumming, Isaac	WL	75%	0	0	11	6	5	6	0	3	0	2	0	1	1	3
6	Curtin, Dan	WR	81%	0	0	7	3	4	3	0	4	0	2	0	1	1	0
12	Dawson, Jordan (c)	C	87%	0	1	23	15	8	6	0	7	4	4	1	2	1	6
31	Dowling, Billy	INT	76%	2	0	14	6	8	2	0	0	4	3	1	0	0	1
34	Draper, Sid	INT↓	46%	0	0	5	3	2	0	0	2	0	5	1	2	0	1
32	Fogarty, Darcy	FPR	76%	1	1	17	9	8	5	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	3
20	Hinge, Mitch	INT	79%	0	0	13	6	7	2	0	1	0	4	1	2	1	0
48	Keane, Mark	FB	84%	0	0	11	8	3	3	0	0	0	2	0	2	7	0
2	Keays, Ben	HFFL	92%	3	2	19	9	10	5	0	6	1	0	2	0	0	4
29	Laird, Rory	HBFR	84%	1	0	23	11	12	5	0	5	3	1	0	0	4	2
30	Milera, Wayne	HBFL	84%	0	0	18	10	8	6	0	1	0	4	0	3	4	0
9	Murray, Nick	CHB	91%	0	0	7	5	2	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	3	0
28	Neal-Bullen, Alex	HFFR	76%	1	0	9	2	7	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
43	O'Brien, Reilly	RU	82%	0	0	11	7	4	2	27	7	2	1	5	1	2	2
25	Peatling, James	INT	72%	3	1	19	9	10	5	0	4	5	4	1	0	2	4
33	Smith, Brodie	SUB↑	26%	1	0	6	5	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	1
14	Soligo, Jake	RO	84%	0	1	14	7	7	3	0	1	2	2	0	2	0	3
19	Taylor, Zac	FPL	75%	1	0	7	3	4	0	0	3	0	2	0	2	1	3
7	Thilthorpe, Riley	CHF	88%	3	2	18	15	3	12	6	2	0	2	2	1	1	5
13	Walker, Taylor	FF	85%	1	0	13	8	5	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	3
24	Worrell, Josh	BPL	87%	0	0	19	11	8	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	2
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				17	11	311	173	138	81	33	62	27	59	17	28	36	48

B. Smith replaced S. Draper.

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

North Melbourne							Coach: Alastair Clarkson
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	24	J. Worrell	48	M. Keane	40	H. Bond	38	T. Xerri	45	Z. Banch
	41	J. Konstanty	28	J. Darling	8	B. Scott	3	H. Sheezel	26	L. Parker
FORWARD							6	G. Wardlaw	23	G. Payne
HALF-BACK									15	D. Stephens
	30	W. Milera	9	N. Murray	29	R. Laird			37	C. Harvey
	12	J. Simpkin (c)	47	C. Trembath	25	P. Curtis
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	44	I. Cumming	12	J. Dawson (c)	6	D. Curtin
	10	C. McKercher	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	4	A. Corr	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							43	R. O'Brien	31	B. Dowling
HALF-FORWARD							3	S. Berry	34	S. Draper
	2	B. Keays	7	R. Thilthorpe	28	A. Neal-Bullen	14	J. Soligo	20	M. Hinge
	2	F. O'Sullivan	5	C. Daniel	24	T. Powell			25	J. Peatling
HALF-BACK									33	B. Smith
FORWARD
	19	Z. Taylor	13	T. Walker	32	D. Fogarty
	19	G. Logue	32	T. Pink	30	C. Comben
BACK
Adelaide							Coach: Matthew Nicks

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLB	Jacob Konstanty behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	00:38
	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	01:25
	NMLB	Rushed behind	0.2.2	-	1.0.6	04:04
	ADEL	Ben Keays behind	0.2.2	-	1.1.7	05:08
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	0.2.2	-	2.1.13	06:58
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	09:17
	ADEL	Ben Keays behind	1.2.8	-	2.2.14	10:36
	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	1.2.8	-	3.2.20	12:40
	NMLB	Bailey Scott goal	2.2.14	-	3.2.20	14:34
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty goal	2.2.14	-	4.2.26	18:24
	NMLB	Dylan Stephens goal	3.2.20	-	4.2.26	23:29
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath behind	3.3.21	-	4.2.26	26:48
	ADEL	Rushed behind	3.3.21	-	4.3.27	33:00
Q2	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	3.3.21	-	5.3.33	02:21
	NMLB	Jacob Konstanty behind	3.4.22	-	5.3.33	03:31
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty behind	3.4.22	-	5.4.34	04:45
	ADEL	Rory Laird goal	3.4.22	-	6.4.40	07:17
	ADEL	Billy Dowling goal	3.4.22	-	7.4.46	09:33
	ADEL	Billy Dowling goal	3.4.22	-	8.4.52	13:34
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	4.4.28	-	8.4.52	17:32
	NMLB	Charlie Comben behind	4.5.29	-	8.4.52	21:37
	NMLB	Dylan Stephens goal	5.5.35	-	8.4.52	23:58
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	5.5.35	-	9.4.58	26:02
	NMLB	Zac Banch goal	6.5.41	-	9.4.58	28:29
	NMLB	George Wardlaw behind	6.6.42	-	9.4.58	29:54
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	7.6.48	-	9.4.58	30:43
	ADEL	Sam Berry behind	7.6.48	-	9.5.59	33:38
Q3	ADEL	Jordan Dawson behind	7.6.48	-	9.6.60	03:02
	ADEL	James Peatling goal	7.6.48	-	10.6.66	04:45
	ADEL	James Peatling goal	7.6.48	-	11.6.72	07:55
	NMLB	Luke Parker goal	8.6.54	-	11.6.72	10:43
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe behind	8.6.54	-	11.7.73	12:40
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe behind	8.6.54	-	11.8.74	14:04
	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	8.6.54	-	12.8.80	17:22
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	9.6.60	-	12.8.80	20:52
	ADEL	Zac Taylor goal	9.6.60	-	13.8.86	22:13
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	10.6.66	-	13.8.86	23:41
	ADEL	Alex Neal-Bullen goal	10.6.66	-	14.8.92	25:47
	NMLB	Cooper Harvey behind	10.7.67	-	14.8.92	27:57
Q4	ADEL	Brodie Smith goal	10.7.67	-	15.8.98	02:01
	ADEL	Rushed behind	10.7.67	-	15.9.99	04:01
	NMLB	Jacob Konstanty behind	10.8.68	-	15.9.99	05:59
	ADEL	Riley Thilthorpe goal	10.8.68	-	16.9.105	08:18
	NMLB	Tom Powell goal	11.8.74	-	16.9.105	12:20
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke goal	12.8.80	-	16.9.105	14:13
	NMLB	Cooper Harvey goal	13.8.86	-	16.9.105	16:10
	NMLB	Jack Darling goal	14.8.92	-	16.9.105	18:05
	ADEL	James Peatling goal	14.8.92	-	17.9.111	20:05
	ADEL	James Peatling behind	14.8.92	-	17.10.112	21:38
	NMLB	Paul Curtis behind	14.9.93	-	17.10.112	23:57
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath behind	14.10.94	-	17.10.112	28:25
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	15.10.100	-	17.10.112	32:03
	ADEL	Jake Soligo behind	15.10.100	-	17.11.113	33:15

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