2026 AFL Season Round 3: Richmond v Gold Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 21 March 2026 between Richmond and Gold Coast during round three of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Richmond hosted Gold Coast at the MCG. Toby Nankervis captained the hosts with Tim Taranto as vice-captain. Noah Anderson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Adem Yze and the visitors were coached by Damien Hardwick.

Richmond (9.6.60) were defeated by Gold Coast (19.14.128).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 3
Teams: Richmond v Gold Coast
Date: Saturday 21 March 2026
Time: 1:15 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 30,468

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. by Gold Coast
Score: 9.6.60 - 19.14.128

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Richmond	2	.	2	5	.	4	8	.	5	9	.	6	9	.	6	(60)
Gold Coast	2	.	2	10	.	5	14	.	9	19	.	14	19	.	14	(128)
Margin	level			GCST by 31			GCST by 40			GCST by 68			GCST by 68
Duration	27:39			36:28			29:53			29:53			2:03:53

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Richmond

Captain: Toby Nankervis
Vice-Captain: Tim Taranto
Coach: Adem Yze

Gold Coast

Captain: Noah Anderson
Coach: Damien Hardwick

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Ben King	GCST	34	3
Touk Miller	GCST	11	2
Bodhi Uwland	GCST	6	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
34	Armstrong, Harry	FPR	87%	1	0	4	3	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
21	Balta, Noah	BPL	93%	0	0	11	8	3	5	0	0	0	3	0	1	4	0
6	Banks, Sam	CHB	78%	0	0	19	13	6	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	4	3
35	Broad, Nathan	BPR	79%	0	0	9	5	4	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
30	Brown, Tom	INT	86%	0	0	7	6	1	3	0	2	0	4	0	2	0	2
44	Campbell, Seth	HFFL	84%	3	2	19	14	5	4	0	1	4	4	1	1	1	4
48	Green, Steely	INT	80%	0	1	7	2	5	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	3
24	Grlj, Sam	HBFL	73%	0	0	13	7	6	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	1
2	Hopper, Jacob	RO	82%	0	0	26	11	15	4	0	3	6	10	1	1	2	2
4	Lalor, Sam	FPL	73%	1	2	17	11	6	4	0	4	1	4	1	1	2	4
42	Lefau, Mykelti	INT	71%	1	0	7	3	4	2	4	5	2	2	1	2	0	1
19	Lynch, Tom	FF	28%	0	0	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Miller, Ben	FB	88%	0	0	12	9	3	7	1	0	1	3	1	0	3	0
25	Nankervis, Toby (c)	RU	51%	0	0	13	9	4	3	18	6	4	3	3	1	4	1
3	Prestia, Dion	CHF	79%	1	0	18	7	11	4	0	5	2	2	1	0	3	1
13	Ralphsmith, Hugo	WL	84%	1	0	17	9	8	3	0	1	2	5	0	1	3	2
17	Rioli, Maurice	HFFR	86%	0	0	8	4	4	1	0	3	1	1	3	1	0	2
5	Ross, Jack	C	83%	0	0	24	10	14	4	0	4	5	5	2	0	2	1
15	Short, Jayden	INT	82%	0	0	33	27	6	13	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	4
40	Sonsie, Tyler	INT	81%	0	0	18	7	11	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1
14	Taranto, Tim (vc)	RR	82%	0	0	26	10	16	3	0	12	6	6	1	2	3	3
36	Trezise, James	WR	90%	0	0	7	3	4	1	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	1
1	Vlastuin, Nick	HBFR	82%	1	0	12	7	5	3	0	3	0	4	0	1	1	0
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				9	6	330	186	144	83	24	59	38	63	17	15	41	36

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
15	Anderson, Noah (c)	RR	80%	0	1	21	16	5	6	0	4	5	3	1	0	2	6
1	Andrew, Mac	CHB	89%	0	0	18	9	9	3	0	2	0	2	2	1	2	2
10	Ballard, Charlie	BPL	76%	0	0	16	11	5	8	0	0	0	1	1	1	3	0
33	Clohesy, Sam	WR	79%	1	1	21	12	9	6	0	4	0	3	0	1	0	0
25	Collins, Sam	FB	89%	0	0	14	10	4	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
5	Davies, Alex	INT	64%	0	1	18	8	10	3	0	6	2	2	1	0	1	3
26	Graham, Will	HFFR	82%	1	0	15	5	10	3	0	5	1	4	1	1	0	3
19	Humphrey, Bailey	FPL	74%	0	2	14	10	4	3	0	2	2	4	2	2	0	6
16	Jeffrey, Joel	INT	72%	1	0	23	18	5	13	0	2	1	3	0	2	3	7
34	King, Ben	FF	92%	7	0	11	8	3	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
8	Lombard, Leo	FPR	85%	0	1	11	6	5	4	0	1	0	6	0	3	0	5
22	Long, Ben	INT	74%	1	0	12	4	8	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	2
11	Miller, Touk	HFFL	74%	1	0	31	12	19	8	0	1	4	3	0	0	2	5
2	Noble, John	HBFL	82%	1	0	20	9	11	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2
3	Petracca, Christian	RO	55%	0	2	20	9	11	3	0	2	1	2	1	0	0	2
27	Powell, Wil	C	82%	1	0	19	8	11	4	0	8	3	2	1	0	1	3
20	Read, Ethan	CHF	84%	4	1	12	10	2	11	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
17	Rioli, Daniel	HBFR	82%	0	0	15	7	8	4	0	3	0	2	1	1	2	1
29	Rogers, Jake	INT	64%	1	0	9	5	4	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	2
6	Uwland, Bodhi	BPR	92%	0	0	29	22	7	16	0	1	0	3	1	0	3	1
32	Uwland, Zeke	INT	66%	0	2	15	8	7	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	3
14	Weller, Lachie	WL	79%	0	0	7	6	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3
28	Witts, Jarrod	RU	85%	0	1	14	8	6	2	34	6	8	7	2	4	0	3
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				19	14	385	221	164	127	37	57	27	50	15	17	27	61

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

Richmond							Coach: Adem Yze
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	10	C. Ballard	25	S. Collins	6	B. Uwland	25	T. Nankervis (c)	30	T. Brown
	34	H. Armstrong	19	T. Lynch	4	S. Lalor	14	T. Taranto (vc)	48	S. Green
FORWARD							2	J. Hopper	42	M. Lefau
HALF-BACK									15	J. Short
	2	J. Noble	1	M. Andrew	17	D. Rioli			40	T. Sonsie
	17	M. Rioli	3	D. Prestia	44	S. Campbell
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	14	L. Weller	27	W. Powell	33	S. Clohesy
	36	J. Trezise	5	J. Ross	13	H. Ralphsmith	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							28	J. Witts	5	A. Davies
HALF-FORWARD							15	N. Anderson (c)	16	J. Jeffrey
	11	T. Miller	20	E. Read	26	W. Graham	3	C. Petracca	22	B. Long
	1	N. Vlastuin	6	S. Banks	24	S. Grlj			29	J. Rogers
HALF-BACK									32	Z. Uwland
FORWARD
	19	B. Humphrey	34	B. King	8	L. Lombard
	35	N. Broad	12	B. Miller	21	N. Balta
BACK
Gold Coast							Coach: Damien Hardwick

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GCST	Ben King goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	00:58
	GCST	Ben King goal	0.0.0	-	2.0.12	05:02
	RICH	Dion Prestia goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	13:26
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey behind	1.0.6	-	2.1.13	14:44
	RICH	Steely Green behind	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	16:48
	RICH	Seth Campbell behind	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	22:28
	GCST	Christian Petracca behind	1.2.8	-	2.2.14	24:46
	RICH	Mykelti Lefau goal	2.2.14	-	2.2.14	26:05
Q2	RICH	Seth Campbell goal	3.2.20	-	2.2.14	00:46
	GCST	Will Graham goal	3.2.20	-	3.2.20	04:16
	GCST	Christian Petracca behind	3.2.20	-	3.3.21	05:26
	RICH	Nick Vlastuin goal	4.2.26	-	3.3.21	06:57
	RICH	Rushed behind	4.3.27	-	3.3.21	09:59
	GCST	Noah Anderson behind	4.3.27	-	3.4.22	10:57
	RICH	Seth Campbell behind	4.4.28	-	3.4.22	12:21
	GCST	Ben King goal	4.4.28	-	4.4.28	13:31
	RICH	Seth Campbell goal	5.4.34	-	4.4.28	16:02
	GCST	Zeke Uwland behind	5.4.34	-	4.5.29	18:21
	GCST	Jake Rogers goal	5.4.34	-	5.5.35	20:24
	GCST	Joel Jeffrey goal	5.4.34	-	6.5.41	24:05
	GCST	John Noble goal	5.4.34	-	7.5.47	28:48
	GCST	Ethan Read goal	5.4.34	-	8.5.53	30:38
	GCST	Ben King goal	5.4.34	-	9.5.59	33:42
	GCST	Ethan Read goal	5.4.34	-	10.5.65	35:26
Q3	GCST	Ethan Read goal	5.4.34	-	11.5.71	02:56
	RICH	Sam Lalor behind	5.5.35	-	11.5.71	04:38
	RICH	Harry Armstrong goal	6.5.41	-	11.5.71	06:02
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey behind	6.5.41	-	11.6.72	10:01
	GCST	Ben Long goal	6.5.41	-	12.6.78	11:53
	RICH	Hugo Ralphsmith goal	7.5.47	-	12.6.78	13:40
	GCST	Touk Miller goal	7.5.47	-	13.6.84	18:54
	GCST	Rushed behind	7.5.47	-	13.7.85	20:16
	GCST	Leo Lombard behind	7.5.47	-	13.8.86	22:14
	RICH	Sam Lalor goal	8.5.53	-	13.8.86	23:20
	GCST	Alex Davies behind	8.5.53	-	13.9.87	25:46
	GCST	Ben King goal	8.5.53	-	14.9.93	27:02
Q4	GCST	Wil Powell goal	8.5.53	-	15.9.99	01:06
	GCST	Ben King goal	8.5.53	-	16.9.105	04:48
	GCST	Ethan Read behind	8.5.53	-	16.10.106	07:36
	GCST	Ben King goal	8.5.53	-	17.10.112	11:24
	RICH	Sam Lalor behind	8.6.54	-	17.10.112	13:26
	RICH	Seth Campbell goal	9.6.60	-	17.10.112	15:41
	GCST	Sam Clohesy behind	9.6.60	-	17.11.113	20:21
	GCST	Rushed behind	9.6.60	-	17.12.114	21:01
	GCST	Zeke Uwland behind	9.6.60	-	17.13.115	21:43
	GCST	Ethan Read goal	9.6.60	-	18.13.121	23:20
	GCST	Sam Clohesy goal	9.6.60	-	19.13.127	25:43
	GCST	Jarrod Witts behind	9.6.60	-	19.14.128	28:48

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