2026 AFL Season Round 2: Gold Coast v West Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 15 March 2026 between Gold Coast and West Coast during round two of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Gold Coast hosted West Coast at People First Stadium. Noah Anderson captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Damien Hardwick and the visitors were coached by Andrew McQualter.

Gold Coast (20.11.131) defeated West Coast (10.12.72).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Gold Coast v West Coast
Date: Sunday 15 March 2026
Time: 5:10 PM
Venue: People First Stadium
Attendance: 13,309

Match Results

Outcome: Gold Coast def. West Coast
Score: 20.11.131 - 10.12.72

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Gold Coast 7 . 3 13 . 6 16 . 8 20 . 11 20 . 11 (131)
West Coast 1 . 1 3 . 4 8 . 8 10 . 12 10 . 12 (72)
Margin GCST by 38 GCST by 62 GCST by 48 GCST by 59 GCST by 59
Duration 33:06 30:14 32:55 28:59 2:05:14

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 (West Coast) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Gold Coast

Captain: Noah Anderson
Coach: Damien Hardwick

West Coast

Captain: unknown
Coach: Andrew McQualter

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Christian Petracca GCST 3 3
Noah Anderson GCST 15 2
Ben King GCST 34 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 76% 0 0 6 3 3 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1
15 Anderson, Noah (c) RR 77% 1 1 34 17 17 3 0 2 4 6 3 2 2 5
1 Andrew, Mac BPL 90% 0 0 15 8 7 5 0 1 0 5 1 3 3 1
33 Clohesy, Sam WR 82% 1 0 17 13 4 7 0 2 2 3 1 1 0 2
25 Collins, Sam BPR 87% 0 0 8 4 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
5 Davies, Alex INT 62% 1 2 25 7 18 0 0 4 3 3 1 0 1 6
50 Farrar, Jy INT 60% 1 1 9 5 4 4 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 2
26 Graham, Will HFFR 80% 0 0 8 4 4 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4
16 Jeffrey, Joel HBFR 79% 0 0 28 17 11 4 0 2 3 2 3 0 4 3
34 King, Ben FF 92% 5 1 8 6 2 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
8 Lombard, Leo FPR 89% 2 2 11 8 3 3 0 3 0 4 1 2 0 1
22 Long, Ben CHF 80% 1 0 9 4 5 2 0 2 0 4 0 2 0 4
11 Miller, Touk HFFL 80% 1 0 24 12 12 6 0 2 3 1 0 0 4 5
2 Noble, John HBFL 84% 0 0 25 14 11 7 0 1 0 3 0 1 5 2
3 Petracca, Christian RO 81% 4 1 23 13 10 4 0 3 6 1 0 0 0 8
27 Powell, Wil C 78% 0 1 20 10 10 4 0 7 3 3 2 1 2 4
20 Read, Ethan FPL 78% 0 1 11 6 5 3 2 2 0 7 1 4 0 1
17 Rioli, Daniel CHB 77% 1 0 12 4 8 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 2
29 Rogers, Jake INT 63% 1 0 15 4 11 2 0 3 3 1 1 0 0 1
6 Uwland, Bodhi FB 87% 0 0 24 13 11 6 0 3 2 1 1 0 1 1
32 Uwland, Zeke INT 66% 0 0 5 4 1 2 0 0 2 1 2 1 0 2
14 Weller, Lachie WL 77% 0 0 12 5 7 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1
28 Witts, Jarrod RU 77% 1 0 20 9 11 2 51 1 7 6 2 1 0 3
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 20 11 369 190 179 80 53 46 40 59 19 21 27 60

West Coast

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
26 Allan, Bo BPR 78% 0 0 15 9 6 6 0 1 0 6 1 4 1 3
28 Cole, Tom WR 91% 0 0 9 7 2 7 0 1 1 3 0 1 2 1
15 Cripps, Jamie FPR 82% 0 1 13 8 5 6 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 1
38 Davis, Hamish INT 80% 0 0 14 11 3 6 0 4 0 2 2 0 2 4
21 Duff-Tytler, Cooper INT 72% 0 1 8 5 3 1 5 5 2 1 1 0 1 2
14 Duggan, Liam HBFL 75% 0 0 21 16 5 7 0 3 1 0 0 0 6 1
1 Duursma, Willem HFFR 80% 0 0 14 6 8 5 0 5 1 2 0 0 2 2
25 Flynn, Matt RU 76% 0 0 9 2 7 2 18 2 2 4 0 3 0 0
7 Ginbey, Reuben BPL 88% 0 0 11 6 5 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0
17 Graham, Jack WL 78% 0 0 19 10 9 4 0 8 4 3 2 1 1 3
19 Hough, Brady CHB 85% 0 0 10 9 1 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
5 Lindsay, Josh INT 71% 0 0 16 12 4 4 0 3 0 2 1 1 2 0
23 Maric, Ryan HBFR 79% 0 0 19 10 9 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 1
18 McCarthy, Tom RO 64% 0 0 17 14 3 6 0 5 3 2 2 0 3 4
47 Murdock, Milan INT 76% 2 1 22 13 9 2 0 5 4 3 2 1 2 4
46 Newton, Jacob HFFL 79% 1 1 9 4 5 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 0
22 Reid, Archer FPL 81% 1 1 8 6 2 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 0
9 Reid, Harley RR 81% 0 0 23 10 13 2 0 2 5 5 1 3 0 3
40 Robertson, Deven INT 73% 0 0 17 12 5 3 0 12 5 2 1 0 4 2
35 Shanahan, Jobe CHF 88% 1 1 10 6 4 4 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0
2 Waterman, Jake FF 87% 3 3 11 11 0 9 0 1 0 4 1 2 0 4
6 Yeo, Elliot C 57% 2 0 17 9 8 3 0 3 2 3 1 2 1 3
20 Young, Tylar FB 81% 0 0 16 10 6 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 1
Rushed 3
Total (23 players) 10 12 328 206 122 98 24 73 34 48 21 19 40 39

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
7 R. Ginbey 20 T. Young 26 B. Allan 28 J. Witts 48 O. Adams
8 L. Lombard 34 B. King 20 E. Read 15 N. Anderson (c) 5 A. Davies
FORWARD 3 C. Petracca 50 J. Farrar
HALF-BACK

29 J. Rogers
14 L. Duggan 19 B. Hough 23 R. Maric

32 Z. Uwland
26 W. Graham 22 B. Long 11 T. Miller



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



17 J. Graham 6 E. Yeo 28 T. Cole



33 S. Clohesy 27 W. Powell 14 L. Weller FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 25 M. Flynn 38 H. Davis
HALF-FORWARD 9 H. Reid 21 C. Duff-Tytler
46 J. Newton 35 J. Shanahan 1 W. Duursma 18 T. McCarthy 5 J. Lindsay
16 J. Jeffrey 17 D. Rioli 2 J. Noble

47 M. Murdock
HALF-BACK

40 D. Robertson
FORWARD



22 A. Reid 2 J. Waterman 15 J. Cripps



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



BACK



West Coast Coach: Andrew McQualter

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 WCST Rushed behind 0.0.0 - 0.1.1 01:36
GCST Ben King goal 1.0.6 - 0.1.1 04:11
GCST Christian Petracca goal 2.0.12 - 0.1.1 05:43
WCST Milan Murdock goal 2.0.12 - 1.1.7 08:01
GCST Leo Lombard behind 2.1.13 - 1.1.7 11:42
GCST Alex Davies behind 2.2.14 - 1.1.7 14:34
GCST Noah Anderson goal 3.2.20 - 1.1.7 16:29
GCST Jy Farrar behind 3.3.21 - 1.1.7 19:30
GCST Alex Davies goal 4.3.27 - 1.1.7 20:11
GCST Christian Petracca goal 5.3.33 - 1.1.7 21:44
GCST Christian Petracca goal 6.3.39 - 1.1.7 23:49
GCST Jarrod Witts goal 7.3.45 - 1.1.7 30:59
Q2 GCST Noah Anderson behind 7.4.46 - 1.1.7 01:07
WCST Jake Waterman goal 7.4.46 - 2.1.13 02:19
GCST Ben King goal 8.4.52 - 2.1.13 04:02
GCST Jy Farrar goal 9.4.58 - 2.1.13 06:55
GCST Jake Rogers goal 10.4.64 - 2.1.13 09:40
WCST Jobe Shanahan behind 10.4.64 - 2.2.14 11:44
GCST Ben King goal 11.4.70 - 2.2.14 12:49
GCST Daniel Rioli goal 12.4.76 - 2.2.14 17:32
GCST Ben Long goal 13.4.82 - 2.2.14 19:14
WCST Rushed behind 13.4.82 - 2.3.15 21:11
WCST Jake Waterman behind 13.4.82 - 2.4.16 22:24
GCST Ethan Read behind 13.5.83 - 2.4.16 24:58
GCST Alex Davies behind 13.6.84 - 2.4.16 26:31
WCST Milan Murdock goal 13.6.84 - 3.4.22 28:36
Q3 GCST Ben King goal 14.6.90 - 3.4.22 01:22
GCST Christian Petracca behind 14.7.91 - 3.4.22 02:35
WCST Elliot Yeo goal 14.7.91 - 4.4.28 03:25
WCST Jacob Newton behind 14.7.91 - 4.5.29 05:01
WCST Elliot Yeo goal 14.7.91 - 5.5.35 06:40
GCST Wil Powell behind 14.8.92 - 5.5.35 07:47
WCST Jamie Cripps behind 14.8.92 - 5.6.36 14:42
WCST Jobe Shanahan goal 14.8.92 - 6.6.42 15:52
WCST Jake Waterman behind 14.8.92 - 6.7.43 18:38
GCST Sam Clohesy goal 15.8.98 - 6.7.43 22:03
GCST Leo Lombard goal 16.8.104 - 6.7.43 24:26
WCST Jake Waterman goal 16.8.104 - 7.7.49 27:20
WCST Archer Reid behind 16.8.104 - 7.8.50 29:14
WCST Jacob Newton goal 16.8.104 - 8.8.56 31:30
Q4 WCST Jake Waterman goal 16.8.104 - 9.8.62 02:20
WCST Rushed behind 16.8.104 - 9.9.63 03:44
WCST Milan Murdock behind 16.8.104 - 9.10.64 05:14
GCST Christian Petracca goal 17.8.110 - 9.10.64 06:38
GCST Rushed behind 17.9.111 - 9.10.64 07:46
GCST Leo Lombard behind 17.10.112 - 9.10.64 09:11
WCST Cooper Duff-Tytler behind 17.10.112 - 9.11.65 13:11
GCST Ben King behind 17.11.113 - 9.11.65 15:36
GCST Leo Lombard goal 18.11.119 - 9.11.65 19:14
GCST Touk Miller goal 19.11.125 - 9.11.65 20:45
GCST Ben King goal 20.11.131 - 9.11.65 22:53
WCST Archer Reid goal 20.11.131 - 10.11.71 25:20
WCST Jake Waterman behind 20.11.131 - 10.12.72 28:17