2026 AFL Season Round 7: North Melbourne v Richmond

This is the match report for the match played on 19 April 2026 between North Melbourne and Richmond during round seven of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Richmond at Marvel Stadium. Nick Larkey captained the hosts with Harry Sheezel as vice-captain. In the absence of Toby Nankervis, vice-captain Tim Taranto captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Alastair Clarkson and the visitors were coached by Adem Yze.

North Melbourne (20.10.130) defeated Richmond (7.13.55).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 7
Teams: North Melbourne v Richmond
Date: Sunday 19 April 2026
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 36,584

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. Richmond
Score: 20.10.130 - 7.13.55

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	5	.	3	10	.	3	14	.	8	20	.	10	20	.	10	(130)
Richmond	1	.	7	2	.	12	4	.	12	7	.	13	7	.	13	(55)
Margin	NMLB by 20			NMLB by 39			NMLB by 56			NMLB by 75			NMLB by 75
Duration	32:06			31:07			29:25			33:17			2:05:55

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 (Richmond) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

Captain: Nick Larkey
Vice-Captain: Harry Sheezel
Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Richmond

Captain: Tim Taranto (acting)
Coach: Adem Yze

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Harry Sheezel	NMLB	3	3
Luke Davies-Uniacke	NMLB	9	2
Paul Curtis	NMLB	25	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
39	Blamires, Tom	FPL	79%	0	1	21	16	5	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	6
21	Coleman-Jones, Callum	RU	56%	0	0	15	8	7	4	13	3	8	8	0	3	0	1
30	Comben, Charlie	BPR	90%	0	0	15	7	8	7	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	0
4	Corr, Aidan	BPL	80%	0	0	13	5	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
25	Curtis, Paul	HFFL	71%	6	0	13	10	3	6	0	4	1	6	2	3	0	2
5	Daniel, Caleb	CHB	90%	0	0	32	20	12	3	0	0	1	3	0	2	3	2
27	Darling, Jack	INT	69%	1	0	20	8	12	5	6	4	4	0	1	0	1	0
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	RR	79%	1	0	26	12	14	3	0	3	4	2	1	0	2	10
1	Dovaston, Lachy	INT	71%	0	1	6	4	2	2	0	1	2	2	0	1	0	3
7	Duursma, Zane	HFFR	69%	2	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	1	3	1	2	0	0
20	Larkey, Nick (c)	FF	97%	2	1	7	5	2	3	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	3
19	Logue, Griffin	FB	87%	0	0	10	5	5	5	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
11	McDonald, Luke	FPR	88%	0	0	25	16	9	9	0	2	0	1	0	0	7	2
10	McKercher, Colby	HBFL	79%	1	0	26	14	12	4	0	3	0	6	0	2	3	4
26	Parker, Luke	HBFR	86%	0	0	26	18	8	6	0	1	1	4	0	1	9	2
24	Powell, Tom	C	75%	1	1	18	9	9	9	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	1
3	Sheezel, Harry (vc)	RO	75%	1	3	39	19	20	8	0	2	7	6	1	1	2	6
12	Simpkin, Jy	WL	84%	0	0	24	13	11	3	0	4	3	6	0	3	1	4
13	Spargo, Charlie	INT	67%	1	0	10	5	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
15	Stephens, Dylan	WR	83%	1	0	21	13	8	6	0	3	2	3	1	1	3	4
47	Trembath, Cooper	CHF	84%	3	0	9	4	5	4	12	3	0	0	1	0	0	0
6	Wardlaw, George	INT	62%	0	0	25	11	14	5	0	5	3	4	1	2	1	1
44	Zurhaar, Cameron	INT	80%	0	0	23	18	5	11	0	4	0	2	0	0	4	5
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				20	10	428	244	184	116	31	50	38	63	11	21	42	58

Richmond

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Balta, Noah	FB	95%	1	0	11	6	5	6	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1
6	Banks, Sam	HBFL	5%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
35	Broad, Nathan	INT	83%	0	0	18	12	6	8	0	0	0	2	1	0	5	1
44	Campbell, Seth	FF	91%	2	2	14	9	5	6	0	1	1	2	1	0	2	0
8	Faull, Jonty	FPR	94%	0	0	5	3	2	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	0
43	Fawcett, Liam	INT	82%	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
50	Gray, Campbell	BPR	85%	0	0	6	5	1	3	1	2	0	1	2	1	2	0
48	Green, Steely	HFFR	88%	1	0	6	2	4	1	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	0
24	Grlj, Sam	INT	70%	0	0	16	10	6	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	3	2
4	Lalor, Sam	RR	79%	1	0	22	9	13	6	0	1	4	1	1	0	1	6
42	Lefau, Mykelti	FPL	88%	0	1	5	5	0	3	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	1
28	McAuliffe, Kane	INT	74%	0	1	23	13	10	5	0	7	3	3	3	3	2	4
12	Miller, Ben	BPL	98%	0	0	6	5	1	2	0	2	0	2	0	1	5	0
3	Prestia, Dion	C	76%	0	1	22	8	14	4	0	5	2	4	0	1	0	5
13	Ralphsmith, Hugo	WL	93%	0	1	12	9	3	3	0	1	2	2	0	0	1	4
33	Retschko, Patrick	WR	87%	0	0	13	9	4	6	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	2
17	Rioli, Maurice	HFFL	34%	0	1	2	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Ross, Jack	CHF	87%	2	0	26	10	16	6	0	8	8	4	2	1	0	6
32	Ryan, Samson	RU	86%	0	0	13	9	4	3	24	4	4	4	3	1	1	6
15	Short, Jayden	CHB	86%	0	1	26	19	7	8	0	0	1	0	3	0	5	5
40	Sonsie, Tyler	INT	90%	0	1	10	7	3	6	0	2	0	1	1	0	1	2
14	Taranto, Tim (ac)	RO	45%	0	1	10	4	6	1	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	2
1	Vlastuin, Nick	HBFR	85%	0	1	13	9	4	2	0	4	1	2	1	0	2	2
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				7	13	280	165	115	82	31	50	30	42	21	11	34	49

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
	12	B. Miller	21	N. Balta	50	C. Gray	21	C. Coleman-Jones	27	J. Darling
	11	L. McDonald	20	N. Larkey (c)	39	T. Blamires	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	1	L. Dovaston
FORWARD							3	H. Sheezel (vc)	13	C. Spargo
HALF-BACK									6	G. Wardlaw
	6	S. Banks	15	J. Short	1	N. Vlastuin			44	C. Zurhaar
	7	Z. Duursma	47	C. Trembath	25	P. Curtis
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	13	H. Ralphsmith	3	D. Prestia	33	P. Retschko
	15	D. Stephens	24	T. Powell	12	J. Simpkin	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							32	S. Ryan	35	N. Broad
HALF-FORWARD							4	S. Lalor	43	L. Fawcett
	17	M. Rioli	5	J. Ross	48	S. Green	14	T. Taranto (ac)	24	S. Grlj
	26	L. Parker	5	C. Daniel	10	C. McKercher			28	K. McAuliffe
HALF-BACK									40	T. Sonsie
FORWARD
	42	M. Lefau	44	S. Campbell	8	J. Faull
	30	C. Comben	19	G. Logue	4	A. Corr
BACK
Richmond							Coach: Adem Yze

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	RICH	Seth Campbell behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	02:40
	RICH	Dion Prestia behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	04:08
	NMLB	Zane Duursma goal	1.0.6	-	0.2.2	05:23
	RICH	Jayden Short behind	1.0.6	-	0.3.3	08:00
	RICH	Kane McAuliffe behind	1.0.6	-	0.4.4	10:24
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	2.0.12	-	0.4.4	11:36
	RICH	Seth Campbell goal	2.0.12	-	1.4.10	13:18
	NMLB	Charlie Spargo goal	3.0.18	-	1.4.10	15:50
	NMLB	Rushed behind	3.1.19	-	1.4.10	17:23
	RICH	Hugo Ralphsmith behind	3.1.19	-	1.5.11	20:03
	NMLB	Rushed behind	3.2.20	-	1.5.11	23:03
	NMLB	Tom Blamires behind	3.3.21	-	1.5.11	23:27
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	4.3.27	-	1.5.11	24:59
	RICH	Tim Taranto behind	4.3.27	-	1.6.12	27:44
	RICH	Mykelti Lefau behind	4.3.27	-	1.7.13	28:49
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	5.3.33	-	1.7.13	30:15
Q2	RICH	Nick Vlastuin behind	5.3.33	-	1.8.14	04:45
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	6.3.39	-	1.8.14	07:31
	RICH	Maurice Rioli behind	6.3.39	-	1.9.15	09:38
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke goal	7.3.45	-	1.9.15	12:09
	RICH	Tyler Sonsie behind	7.3.45	-	1.10.16	13:51
	NMLB	Dylan Stephens goal	8.3.51	-	1.10.16	16:31
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel goal	9.3.57	-	1.10.16	18:17
	NMLB	Jack Darling goal	10.3.63	-	1.10.16	20:36
	RICH	Rushed behind	10.3.63	-	1.11.17	24:52
	RICH	Rushed behind	10.3.63	-	1.12.18	26:20
	RICH	Seth Campbell goal	10.3.63	-	2.12.24	29:08
Q3	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	11.3.69	-	2.12.24	03:56
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	12.3.75	-	2.12.24	09:06
	NMLB	Tom Powell behind	12.4.76	-	2.12.24	10:42
	NMLB	Nick Larkey behind	12.5.77	-	2.12.24	12:22
	NMLB	Lachy Dovaston behind	12.6.78	-	2.12.24	15:09
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel behind	12.7.79	-	2.12.24	16:47
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	13.7.85	-	2.12.24	19:15
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel behind	13.8.86	-	2.12.24	21:22
	RICH	Sam Lalor goal	13.8.86	-	3.12.30	25:24
	NMLB	Colby McKercher goal	14.8.92	-	3.12.30	26:55
	RICH	Jack Ross goal	14.8.92	-	4.12.36	28:03
Q4	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	15.8.98	-	4.12.36	05:20
	RICH	Noah Balta goal	15.8.98	-	5.12.42	06:26
	RICH	Jack Ross goal	15.8.98	-	6.12.48	10:59
	NMLB	Zane Duursma behind	15.9.99	-	6.12.48	13:28
	NMLB	Tom Powell goal	16.9.105	-	6.12.48	15:38
	RICH	Seth Campbell behind	16.9.105	-	6.13.49	19:26
	NMLB	Zane Duursma goal	17.9.111	-	6.13.49	22:00
	RICH	Steely Green goal	17.9.111	-	7.13.55	25:55
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	18.9.117	-	7.13.55	27:55
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel behind	18.10.118	-	7.13.55	29:36
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	19.10.124	-	7.13.55	31:27
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	20.10.130	-	7.13.55	33:16

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