2026 AFL Season Grand Final: Fremantle v Brisbane Lions

This is the match report for the match played on 26 September 2026 between Fremantle and the Brisbane Lions in the grand final of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Fremantle hosted the Brisbane Lions at the MCG. Alex Pearce captained the hosts. Harris Andrews captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Justin Longmuir and the visitors were coached by Chris Fagan.

Fremantle (12.17.89) were defeated by the Brisbane Lions (14.12.96).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Grand Final
Teams: Fremantle v Brisbane Lions
Date: Saturday 26 September 2026
Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 100,023

Match Results

Outcome: Fremantle def. by Brisbane Lions
Score: 12.17.89 - 14.12.96

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Fremantle 3 . 4 6 . 7 10 . 12 12 . 17 12 . 17 (89)
Brisbane Lions 3 . 5 6 . 7 9 . 8 14 . 12 14 . 12 (96)
Margin BRIL by 1 level FREM by 10 BRIL by 7 BRIL by 7
Duration 31:38 29:33 31:46 31:12 2:04:09

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 (Brisbane Lions) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Fremantle

Captain: Alex Pearce
Coach: Justin Longmuir

Brisbane Lions

Captain: Harris Andrews
Coach: Chris Fagan

Norm Smith Votes

Player Team # Votes 3 2 1
Shai Bolton FREM 10 10 2 1 2
Will Ashcroft BRIL 8 6 1 1 1
Dayne Zorko BRIL 15 6 2 0 0
Caleb Serong FREM 3 4 0 2 0
Hayden Young FREM 26 3 0 1 1
Charlie Cameron BRIL 23 1 0 0 1

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Will Ashcroft BRIL 8 9 1 1 0 0 0
Caleb Serong FREM 3 8 1 0 1 0 0
Josh Dunkley BRIL 5 4 0 ? 0 ? 0
Luke Jackson FREM 9 4 0 ? 0 ? 0
Shai Bolton FREM 10 3 0 0 1 0 0
Hayden Young FREM 26 1 0 0 0 0 1
Dayne Zorko BRIL 15 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Fremantle

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
24 Amiss, Jye FPL 95% 2 0 10 8 2 4 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 2
10 Bolton, Shai RO 79% 0 2 26 17 9 7 0 5 2 4 2 0 1 9
8 Brayshaw, Andrew C 81% 0 0 16 9 7 3 0 7 6 4 2 0 3 4
5 Chapman, Heath HBFR 85% 0 0 10 4 6 4 0 2 1 1 0 1 2 2
6 Clark, Jordan BPL 85% 0 0 14 11 3 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 7 1
18 Cox, Mason INT 32% 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
43 Dudley, Isaiah INT 64% 2 1 13 10 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 2 1 5
28 Erasmus, Neil WR 68% 0 0 11 4 7 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 1
32 Frederick, Michael HFFL 78% 1 1 9 9 0 5 0 4 2 0 2 0 0 3
9 Jackson, Luke RU 86% 0 0 15 10 5 2 47 4 4 2 1 0 0 2
44 Johnson, Matthew WL 77% 0 2 16 10 6 6 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 3
21 McDonald, Oscar CHB 100% 0 1 13 8 5 5 0 2 0 2 1 1 3 1
17 McVee, Judd BPR 78% 0 0 10 10 0 4 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 0
25 Pearce, Alex (c) FB 49% 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
16 Reid, Murphy CHF 83% 1 0 21 13 8 2 0 4 3 3 0 0 0 6
13 Ryan, Luke INT 78% 0 0 13 10 3 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 5 0
3 Serong, Caleb RR 78% 0 0 24 15 9 1 0 1 13 6 0 0 0 5
39 Switkowski, Sam HFFR 86% 0 0 16 6 10 6 0 4 2 1 0 0 0 4
35 Treacy, Josh FF 97% 1 2 9 8 1 6 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 3
20 Voss, Patrick FPR 93% 3 2 9 6 3 5 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 2
34 Wagner, Corey INT 69% 0 0 11 6 5 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 2
23 Worner, Karl HBFL 82% 0 1 16 12 4 3 0 2 1 1 0 0 7 2
26 Young, Hayden INT 76% 2 1 22 14 8 5 0 9 4 3 1 1 0 5
Rushed 4
Total (23 players) 12 17 308 203 105 77 51 70 45 35 12 7 34 62

Brisbane Lions

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
4 Allen, Oscar INT 66% 2 1 9 4 5 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 2
31 Andrews, Harris (c) FB 97% 0 0 11 11 0 6 0 1 0 2 0 1 4 2
10 Ashcroft, Levi INT 60% 1 0 19 14 5 7 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 2
8 Ashcroft, Will C 83% 0 0 31 19 12 2 0 2 9 2 0 1 1 5
33 Bailey, Zac WR 81% 1 0 20 13 7 5 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 2
7 Berry, Jarrod WL 76% 0 0 17 10 7 3 0 5 2 2 0 0 2 2
23 Cameron, Charlie HFFL 76% 3 0 16 9 7 2 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 2
2 Draper, Sam RU 72% 1 0 11 9 2 1 17 2 3 1 0 0 2 2
5 Dunkley, Josh RR 82% 0 0 21 6 15 2 0 12 1 5 2 3 3 2
3 Fletcher, Jaspa HBFL 79% 0 0 20 15 5 4 0 3 1 3 0 0 5 3
32 Fort, Darcy INT 46% 0 0 8 4 4 3 16 1 1 1 0 0 2 0
22 Gallop, Ty BPL 88% 0 0 9 8 1 5 0 3 0 1 0 1 4 1
27 Gardiner, Darcy CHB 85% 0 0 7 5 2 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 0
30 Hipwood, Eric FPL 69% 0 2 6 6 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
35 Lester, Ryan BPR 86% 0 0 15 13 2 7 0 4 0 3 0 1 2 4
1 Lohmann, Kai FPR 82% 2 0 14 7 7 1 0 10 0 3 0 0 0 3
6 McCluggage, Hugh RO 84% 0 1 18 11 7 3 0 4 4 5 1 2 1 2
26 McKenna, Conor HFFR 81% 1 3 10 10 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1
13 Morris, Logan CHF 87% 3 1 10 6 4 2 0 1 0 3 1 2 0 2
9 Neale, Lachie INT 76% 0 1 20 10 10 5 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 4
16 Rayner, Cam FF 79% 0 2 18 13 5 3 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 4
44 Wilmot, Darcy INT 74% 0 0 20 19 1 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 6 0
15 Zorko, Dayne HBFR 90% 0 0 28 23 5 9 0 7 0 2 0 0 9 1
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 14 12 358 245 113 84 33 69 31 45 7 12 50 48

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
22 T. Gallop 31 H. Andrews (c) 35 R. Lester 9 L. Jackson 18 M. Cox
20 P. Voss 35 J. Treacy 24 J. Amiss 3 C. Serong 43 I. Dudley
FORWARD 10 S. Bolton 13 L. Ryan
HALF-BACK

34 C. Wagner
3 J. Fletcher 27 D. Gardiner 15 D. Zorko

26 H. Young
39 S. Switkowski 16 M. Reid 32 M. Frederick



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



7 J. Berry 8 W. Ashcroft 33 Z. Bailey



28 N. Erasmus 8 A. Brayshaw 44 M. Johnson FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 2 S. Draper 4 O. Allen
HALF-FORWARD 5 J. Dunkley 10 L. Ashcroft
23 C. Cameron 13 L. Morris 26 C. McKenna 6 H. McCluggage 32 D. Fort
5 H. Chapman 21 O. McDonald 23 K. Worner

9 L. Neale
HALF-BACK

44 D. Wilmot
FORWARD



30 E. Hipwood 16 C. Rayner 1 K. Lohmann



17 J. McVee 25 A. Pearce (c) 6 J. Clark



BACK



Brisbane Lions Coach: Chris Fagan

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 FREM Patrick Voss behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 02:43
BRIL Charlie Cameron goal 0.1.1 - 1.0.6 03:11
FREM Josh Treacy goal 1.1.7 - 1.0.6 04:46
BRIL Cam Rayner behind 1.1.7 - 1.1.7 09:50
BRIL Conor McKenna behind 1.1.7 - 1.2.8 11:12
BRIL Rushed behind 1.1.7 - 1.3.9 11:43
FREM Rushed behind 1.2.8 - 1.3.9 15:24
FREM Isaiah Dudley behind 1.3.9 - 1.3.9 15:58
FREM Isaiah Dudley goal 2.3.15 - 1.3.9 18:28
BRIL Oscar Allen goal 2.3.15 - 2.3.15 22:20
BRIL Oscar Allen behind 2.3.15 - 2.4.16 23:26
FREM Oscar McDonald behind 2.4.16 - 2.4.16 24:17
BRIL Kai Lohmann goal 2.4.16 - 3.4.22 25:32
BRIL Eric Hipwood behind 2.4.16 - 3.5.23 26:40
FREM Murphy Reid goal 3.4.22 - 3.5.23 27:50
Q2 FREM Patrick Voss goal 4.4.28 - 3.5.23 01:06
BRIL Conor McKenna goal 4.4.28 - 4.5.29 03:20
FREM Jye Amiss goal 5.4.34 - 4.5.29 05:10
FREM Shai Bolton behind 5.5.35 - 4.5.29 06:28
BRIL Levi Ashcroft goal 5.5.35 - 5.5.35 08:14
FREM Patrick Voss behind 5.6.36 - 5.5.35 11:59
FREM Patrick Voss goal 6.6.42 - 5.5.35 14:10
BRIL Eric Hipwood behind 6.6.42 - 5.6.36 17:06
BRIL Sam Draper goal 6.6.42 - 6.6.42 18:15
BRIL Lachie Neale behind 6.6.42 - 6.7.43 20:10
FREM Karl Worner behind 6.7.43 - 6.7.43 27:14
Q3 FREM Josh Treacy behind 6.8.44 - 6.7.43 01:09
FREM Jye Amiss goal 7.8.50 - 6.7.43 04:05
FREM Rushed behind 7.9.51 - 6.7.43 06:28
FREM Rushed behind 7.10.52 - 6.7.43 08:06
FREM Isaiah Dudley goal 8.10.58 - 6.7.43 12:14
BRIL Kai Lohmann goal 8.10.58 - 7.7.49 16:21
FREM Michael Frederick behind 8.11.59 - 7.7.49 17:31
BRIL Oscar Allen goal 8.11.59 - 8.7.55 19:31
FREM Matthew Johnson behind 8.12.60 - 8.7.55 21:21
BRIL Charlie Cameron goal 8.12.60 - 9.7.61 22:38
FREM Hayden Young goal 9.12.66 - 9.7.61 23:41
BRIL Logan Morris behind 9.12.66 - 9.8.62 28:47
FREM Hayden Young goal 10.12.72 - 9.8.62 30:13
Q4 FREM Rushed behind 10.13.73 - 9.8.62 02:12
BRIL Hugh McCluggage behind 10.13.73 - 9.9.63 04:47
BRIL Conor McKenna behind 10.13.73 - 9.10.64 06:52
BRIL Logan Morris goal 10.13.73 - 10.10.70 07:35
FREM Shai Bolton behind 10.14.74 - 10.10.70 08:54
BRIL Conor McKenna behind 10.14.74 - 10.11.71 10:26
BRIL Cam Rayner behind 10.14.74 - 10.12.72 11:29
FREM Hayden Young behind 10.15.75 - 10.12.72 14:24
FREM Michael Frederick goal 11.15.81 - 10.12.72 16:27
FREM Josh Treacy behind 11.16.82 - 10.12.72 19:21
FREM Matthew Johnson behind 11.17.83 - 10.12.72 20:48
FREM Patrick Voss goal 12.17.89 - 10.12.72 21:49
BRIL Charlie Cameron goal 12.17.89 - 11.12.78 23:10
BRIL Zac Bailey goal 12.17.89 - 12.12.84 24:29
BRIL Logan Morris goal 12.17.89 - 13.12.90 27:59
BRIL Logan Morris goal 12.17.89 - 14.12.96 30:02