2026 AFL Season Round 1: Gold Coast v Geelong

This is the match report for the match played on 6 March 2026 between Gold Coast and Geelong during round one of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Gold Coast hosted Geelong at People First Stadium. Noah Anderson captained the hosts. In the absence of Patrick Dangerfield, vice-captain Tom Stewart captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Damien Hardwick and the visitors were coached by Chris Scott.

Gold Coast (19.11.125) defeated Geelong (10.9.69).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Gold Coast v Geelong
Date: Friday 6 March 2026
Time: 7:05 PM
Venue: People First Stadium
Attendance: 19,859

Match Results

Outcome: Gold Coast def. Geelong
Score: 19.11.125 - 10.9.69

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Gold Coast 7 . 1 11 . 5 18 . 8 19 . 11 19 . 11 (125)
Geelong 2 . 2 4 . 5 5 . 7 10 . 9 10 . 9 (69)
Margin GCST by 29 GCST by 42 GCST by 79 GCST by 56 GCST by 56
Duration 32:50 31:59 33:34 32:24 2:10:47

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Gold Coast

Captain: Noah Anderson
Coach: Damien Hardwick

Geelong

Captain: Tom Stewart (acting)
Coach: Chris Scott

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Christian Petracca GCST 3 3
John Noble GCST 2 2
Bailey Humphrey GCST 19 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1

Player Statistics

Gold Coast

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
48 Adams, Oscar INT 71% 0 0 12 3 9 1 0 3 0 0 2 0 1 1
15 Anderson, Noah (c) RR 84% 1 4 24 17 7 5 0 3 6 3 1 1 2 10
1 Andrew, Mac BPL 84% 0 0 26 9 17 5 0 1 2 4 1 1 5 3
33 Clohesy, Sam WR 79% 0 0 19 10 9 5 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 4
25 Collins, Sam BPR 88% 0 0 17 5 12 8 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0
5 Davies, Alex INT 59% 0 0 17 5 12 0 0 8 4 6 1 4 2 3
50 Farrar, Jy INT 66% 0 0 5 1 4 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 0
26 Graham, Will HFFR 62% 0 1 8 5 3 4 0 4 2 4 1 3 0 2
19 Humphrey, Bailey CHF 77% 4 2 15 11 4 4 0 3 1 5 1 2 1 2
16 Jeffrey, Joel HBFR 80% 0 0 22 16 6 5 0 2 0 2 0 1 6 4
34 King, Ben FF 96% 4 0 5 4 1 2 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 0
8 Lombard, Leo FPR 80% 2 2 15 9 6 4 0 4 0 4 0 2 0 5
22 Long, Ben INT 83% 2 0 14 7 7 1 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 1
11 Miller, Touk RO 77% 1 0 30 10 20 3 0 6 4 2 0 0 2 3
2 Noble, John HBFL 83% 2 0 28 17 11 6 0 3 0 2 0 0 6 2
3 Petracca, Christian HFFL 77% 3 0 34 15 19 5 0 2 6 3 0 1 0 10
27 Powell, Wil C 79% 0 0 19 10 9 2 0 5 2 3 1 2 1 3
20 Read, Ethan FPL 78% 0 1 14 8 6 3 6 4 0 6 0 2 0 1
17 Rioli, Daniel CHB 84% 0 1 24 15 9 4 0 3 3 3 2 0 3 5
6 Uwland, Bodhi FB 89% 0 0 19 10 9 3 0 2 1 5 1 3 6 1
32 Uwland, Zeke INT 62% 0 0 16 10 6 1 0 1 0 7 2 3 0 5
14 Weller, Lachie WL 81% 0 0 21 10 11 2 0 3 2 2 1 0 2 4
28 Witts, Jarrod RU 79% 0 0 8 3 5 1 52 1 1 1 1 0 1 2
Rushed 0
Total (23 players) 19 11 412 210 202 74 58 69 34 75 17 29 40 71

Geelong

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
30 Atkins, Tom RR 77% 0 0 26 13 13 3 0 6 6 2 4 0 5 3
46 Blicavs, Mark RU 77% 0 0 15 5 10 2 18 2 2 4 1 2 1 0
4 Bruhn, Tanner WR 72% 0 1 31 22 9 5 0 1 2 5 0 2 5 4
13 Clark, Jhye INT 50% 1 0 11 6 5 1 0 1 2 5 0 1 0 3
45 Close, Brad HFFL 82% 0 0 8 2 6 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1
16 De Koning, Sam BPR 81% 0 0 13 6 7 5 1 0 2 4 0 1 2 1
28 Dempsey, Oliver HFFR 85% 4 1 20 8 12 4 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1
39 Guthrie, Zach HBFR 71% 0 0 18 9 9 5 0 3 0 1 3 0 4 0
38 Henry, Jack FB 89% 0 0 15 6 9 4 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 1
36 Henry, Ollie INT 83% 2 0 9 6 3 3 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 5
9 Holmes, Max RO 75% 0 0 29 14 15 8 0 5 9 8 1 3 4 6
17 Humphries, Lawson INT 81% 0 0 16 8 8 1 0 5 0 2 0 0 3 2
10 Knevitt, Mitch FPL 77% 1 1 11 6 5 3 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1
7 Mannagh, Shaun CHF 81% 1 0 10 8 2 3 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 2
19 Martin, Jack FPR 67% 0 0 13 5 8 2 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 2
32 Miers, Gryan INT 78% 0 1 28 16 12 10 0 4 1 3 2 0 5 4
34 Mullin, Oisin CHB 80% 0 0 4 1 3 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0
33 Neale, Shannon FF 90% 1 2 5 4 1 2 6 1 1 1 2 0 0 0
42 O'Connor, Mark C 82% 0 1 17 6 11 4 0 6 2 2 2 0 2 0
14 O'Sullivan, Connor BPL 93% 0 0 18 14 4 5 0 3 0 5 2 2 4 1
3 Smith, Bailey WL 83% 0 0 23 17 6 3 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 7
44 Stewart, Tom (ac) HBFL 80% 0 0 24 16 8 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 9 1
29 Worpel, James INT 66% 0 1 17 10 7 1 0 11 9 3 3 1 2 5
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 10 9 381 208 173 78 25 61 41 61 29 17 51 50

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

Gold Coast Coach: Damien Hardwick
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
14 C. O'Sullivan 38 J. Henry 16 S. De Koning 28 J. Witts 48 O. Adams
8 L. Lombard 34 B. King 20 E. Read 15 N. Anderson (c) 5 A. Davies
FORWARD 11 T. Miller 50 J. Farrar
HALF-BACK

22 B. Long
44 T. Stewart (ac) 34 O. Mullin 39 Z. Guthrie

32 Z. Uwland
26 W. Graham 19 B. Humphrey 3 C. Petracca



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



3 B. Smith 42 M. O'Connor 4 T. Bruhn



33 S. Clohesy 27 W. Powell 14 L. Weller FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 46 M. Blicavs 13 J. Clark
HALF-FORWARD 30 T. Atkins 36 O. Henry
45 B. Close 7 S. Mannagh 28 O. Dempsey 9 M. Holmes 17 L. Humphries
16 J. Jeffrey 17 D. Rioli 2 J. Noble

32 G. Miers
HALF-BACK

29 J. Worpel
FORWARD



10 M. Knevitt 33 S. Neale 19 J. Martin



25 S. Collins 6 B. Uwland 1 M. Andrew



BACK



Geelong Coach: Chris Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 GCST Bailey Humphrey goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 00:47
GEEL Shaun Mannagh goal 1.0.6 - 1.0.6 03:14
GEEL Mitch Knevitt behind 1.0.6 - 1.1.7 06:37
GCST Noah Anderson behind 1.1.7 - 1.1.7 08:29
GCST Bailey Humphrey goal 2.1.13 - 1.1.7 09:21
GEEL James Worpel behind 2.1.13 - 1.2.8 13:22
GCST Leo Lombard goal 3.1.19 - 1.2.8 15:17
GCST Bailey Humphrey goal 4.1.25 - 1.2.8 17:03
GEEL Jhye Clark goal 4.1.25 - 2.2.14 18:17
GCST Christian Petracca goal 5.1.31 - 2.2.14 25:32
GCST John Noble goal 6.1.37 - 2.2.14 29:03
GCST Ben King goal 7.1.43 - 2.2.14 31:34
Q2 GCST Noah Anderson behind 7.2.44 - 2.2.14 01:48
GCST Bailey Humphrey behind 7.3.45 - 2.2.14 04:10
GCST Christian Petracca goal 8.3.51 - 2.2.14 08:21
GEEL Tanner Bruhn behind 8.3.51 - 2.3.15 09:37
GEEL Mitch Knevitt goal 8.3.51 - 3.3.21 11:21
GCST Ethan Read behind 8.4.52 - 3.3.21 12:58
GCST Ben King goal 9.4.58 - 3.3.21 15:37
GEEL Oliver Dempsey behind 9.4.58 - 3.4.22 19:46
GCST Touk Miller goal 10.4.64 - 3.4.22 22:28
GEEL Ollie Henry goal 10.4.64 - 4.4.28 24:30
GCST Noah Anderson behind 10.5.65 - 4.4.28 27:33
GEEL Mark O'Connor behind 10.5.65 - 4.5.29 28:48
GCST Ben Long goal 11.5.71 - 4.5.29 31:00
Q3 GCST Bailey Humphrey goal 12.5.77 - 4.5.29 01:31
GCST Bailey Humphrey behind 12.6.78 - 4.5.29 03:18
GCST Daniel Rioli behind 12.7.79 - 4.5.29 04:21
GEEL Shannon Neale behind 12.7.79 - 4.6.30 05:30
GEEL Shannon Neale behind 12.7.79 - 4.7.31 06:42
GCST Christian Petracca goal 13.7.85 - 4.7.31 07:53
GCST Noah Anderson behind 13.8.86 - 4.7.31 11:18
GCST Ben King goal 14.8.92 - 4.7.31 12:27
GCST Leo Lombard goal 15.8.98 - 4.7.31 15:15
GCST Ben King goal 16.8.104 - 4.7.31 18:47
GCST Ben Long goal 17.8.110 - 4.7.31 22:11
GCST John Noble goal 18.8.116 - 4.7.31 25:41
GEEL Oliver Dempsey goal 18.8.116 - 5.7.37 29:32
Q4 GEEL Oliver Dempsey goal 18.8.116 - 6.7.43 02:28
GEEL Shannon Neale goal 18.8.116 - 7.7.49 04:34
GCST Leo Lombard behind 18.9.117 - 7.7.49 05:44
GEEL Oliver Dempsey goal 18.9.117 - 8.7.55 08:10
GEEL Oliver Dempsey goal 18.9.117 - 9.7.61 09:41
GEEL Rushed behind 18.9.117 - 9.8.62 17:35
GCST Will Graham behind 18.10.118 - 9.8.62 20:42
GEEL Gryan Miers behind 18.10.118 - 9.9.63 23:04
GCST Noah Anderson goal 19.10.124 - 9.9.63 25:12
GEEL Ollie Henry goal 19.10.124 - 10.9.69 27:40
GCST Leo Lombard behind 19.11.125 - 10.9.69 30:47