2026 AFL Season Round 12: Geelong v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 23 May 2026 between Geelong and Sydney during round twelve of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Geelong hosted Sydney at GMHBA Stadium. Patrick Dangerfield captained the hosts with Tom Stewart as vice-captain. Callum Mills captained the visitors with Isaac Heeney as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Chris Scott and the visitors were coached by Dean Cox.

Geelong (15.17.107) defeated Sydney (12.8.80).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 12
Teams: Geelong v Sydney
Date: Saturday 23 May 2026
Time: 4:15 PM
Venue: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 35,869

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. Sydney
Score: 15.17.107 - 12.8.80

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	3	.	4	8	.	10	12	.	13	15	.	17	15	.	17	(107)
Sydney	4	.	2	6	.	2	11	.	5	12	.	8	12	.	8	(80)
Margin	SYDN by 4			GEEL by 20			GEEL by 14			GEEL by 27			GEEL by 27
Duration	30:22			31:12			33:08			29:24			2:04:06

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Geelong

Captain: Patrick Dangerfield
Vice-Captain: Tom Stewart
Coach: Chris Scott

Sydney

Captain: Callum Mills
Vice-Captain: Isaac Heeney
Coach: Dean Cox

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Max Holmes	GEEL	9	3
Lawson Humphries	GEEL	17	2
Jeremy Cameron	GEEL	5	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Atkins, Tom	INT	69%	1	0	13	7	6	1	0	4	1	5	0	2	1	3
46	Blicavs, Mark	WL	77%	0	0	12	4	8	2	5	1	2	1	0	0	1	0
5	Cameron, Jeremy	HFFL	89%	3	0	21	17	4	10	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	6
45	Close, Brad	INT	70%	2	1	9	8	1	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
35	Dangerfield, Patrick (c)	INT	57%	1	1	15	7	8	4	0	4	1	2	0	1	0	2
16	De Koning, Sam	BPR	73%	0	0	16	5	11	2	9	4	2	2	2	2	2	1
28	Dempsey, Oliver	HFFR	89%	0	1	23	13	10	7	0	1	3	3	2	0	3	4
11	Edwards, Mitch	RU	54%	0	0	12	3	9	2	22	1	3	3	1	1	0	3
39	Guthrie, Zach	CHB	76%	0	0	21	14	7	6	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	3
38	Henry, Jack	HBFR	77%	1	2	8	5	3	3	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	0
36	Henry, Ollie	FPL	80%	2	2	12	8	4	3	0	3	1	5	1	2	0	4
9	Holmes, Max	RR	85%	0	1	35	20	15	6	0	0	8	1	1	0	1	6
17	Humphries, Lawson	WR	82%	1	0	33	22	11	9	0	1	0	2	2	1	4	8
8	Kolodjashnij, Jake	INT	80%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	0
7	Mannagh, Shaun	CHF	72%	1	1	15	12	3	2	0	1	4	3	1	1	0	5
19	Martin, Jack	FPR	69%	1	2	16	7	9	4	0	3	0	4	1	1	0	1
32	Miers, Gryan	INT	80%	0	0	24	16	8	11	0	0	0	3	0	1	2	5
34	Mullin, Oisin	RO	78%	0	0	19	6	13	1	0	0	2	4	0	1	1	5
33	Neale, Shannon	FF	89%	0	2	11	5	6	3	3	1	1	1	0	1	0	2
42	O'Connor, Mark	HBFL	90%	0	0	18	12	6	7	0	2	2	1	1	1	3	2
14	O'Sullivan, Connor	BPL	95%	1	0	16	12	4	8	0	2	0	0	2	0	3	2
3	Smith, Bailey	C	90%	1	0	32	12	20	2	0	2	7	1	1	0	3	2
44	Stewart, Tom (vc)	FB	80%	0	0	17	11	6	5	0	2	0	2	0	1	3	1
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				15	17	410	233	177	105	39	39	38	48	17	17	33	69

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
36	Amartey, Joel	FPL	79%	4	1	8	7	1	3	1	0	2	2	0	1	0	2
26	Bice, Riley	INT	80%	0	0	34	17	17	3	0	2	2	2	2	0	5	2
22	Blakey, Nick	CHB	80%	0	0	22	16	6	2	0	0	0	5	2	2	10	0
33	Cleary, Caiden	CHF	71%	1	2	14	3	11	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0
35	Curnow, Charlie	FF	90%	2	0	10	8	2	7	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3
28	Edwards, Will	BPL	87%	0	0	17	8	9	5	0	0	0	4	1	0	3	0
4	Grundy, Brodie	RU	83%	0	0	15	5	10	1	31	3	8	1	2	1	0	2
40	Hanily, Tom	INT	57%	1	0	8	3	5	3	0	2	0	3	0	3	1	2
5	Heeney, Isaac (vc)	RR	84%	1	0	23	10	13	1	0	8	8	4	1	0	1	2
17	Jordon, James	INT	79%	0	0	14	4	10	0	0	2	4	4	1	3	1	2
44	Lloyd, Jake	HFFR	89%	0	0	24	16	8	6	0	5	1	0	0	0	3	3
30	McCartin, Tom	FB	97%	0	0	18	9	9	5	0	6	1	5	1	1	4	2
6	McDonald, Logan	INT	70%	2	0	10	7	3	3	1	4	1	1	1	0	0	2
27	McInerney, Justin	RO	81%	1	1	18	6	12	4	0	1	1	5	1	1	0	3
43	Melican, Lewis	BPR	93%	0	0	18	11	7	9	0	1	0	0	1	0	5	1
14	Mills, Callum (c)	HBFR	82%	0	0	24	19	5	5	0	2	0	1	0	0	7	1
11	Papley, Tom	FPR	63%	0	1	5	4	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2
10	Rosas, Malcolm	HFFL	31%	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	1	1	1
8	Rowbottom, James	WR	86%	0	1	14	4	10	0	0	10	1	3	2	1	0	2
13	Serong, Jai	WL	93%	0	0	26	12	14	7	0	3	3	1	1	0	5	3
12	Sheldrick, Angus	INT	62%	0	1	14	9	5	2	0	6	1	5	1	2	4	3
1	Warner, Chad	C	82%	0	0	11	8	3	2	0	6	0	1	0	0	0	6
15	Wicks, Sam	HBFL	82%	0	1	16	8	8	4	0	4	1	5	0	0	4	1
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				12	8	365	196	169	76	33	73	34	57	17	17	54	45

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

Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	28	W. Edwards	30	T. McCartin	43	L. Melican	11	M. Edwards	30	T. Atkins
	19	J. Martin	33	S. Neale	36	O. Henry	9	M. Holmes	45	B. Close
FORWARD							34	O. Mullin	35	P. Dangerfield (c)
HALF-BACK									8	J. Kolodjashnij
	15	S. Wicks	22	N. Blakey	14	C. Mills (c)			32	G. Miers
	28	O. Dempsey	7	S. Mannagh	5	J. Cameron
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	13	J. Serong	1	C. Warner	8	J. Rowbottom
	17	L. Humphries	3	B. Smith	46	M. Blicavs	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							4	B. Grundy	26	R. Bice
HALF-FORWARD							5	I. Heeney (vc)	40	T. Hanily
	10	M. Rosas	33	C. Cleary	44	J. Lloyd	27	J. McInerney	17	J. Jordon
	38	J. Henry	39	Z. Guthrie	42	M. O'Connor			6	L. McDonald
HALF-BACK									12	A. Sheldrick
FORWARD
	36	J. Amartey	35	C. Curnow	11	T. Papley
	16	S. De Koning	44	T. Stewart (vc)	14	C. O'Sullivan
BACK
Sydney							Coach: Dean Cox

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Caiden Cleary goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	02:02
	SYDN	James Rowbottom behind	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	03:34
	SYDN	Justin McInerney behind	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	04:57
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	1.0.6	-	1.2.8	09:15
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	1.0.6	-	2.2.14	11:57
	GEEL	Shannon Neale behind	1.1.7	-	2.2.14	15:44
	GEEL	Ollie Henry goal	2.1.13	-	2.2.14	17:18
	GEEL	Rushed behind	2.2.14	-	2.2.14	18:57
	GEEL	Ollie Henry behind	2.3.15	-	2.2.14	20:56
	GEEL	Ollie Henry goal	3.3.21	-	2.2.14	24:29
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	3.3.21	-	3.2.20	26:19
	GEEL	Ollie Henry behind	3.4.22	-	3.2.20	28:47
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	3.4.22	-	4.2.26	30:18
Q2	SYDN	Justin McInerney goal	3.4.22	-	5.2.32	02:26
	GEEL	Jack Henry behind	3.5.23	-	5.2.32	03:55
	GEEL	Shannon Neale behind	3.6.24	-	5.2.32	04:42
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh behind	3.7.25	-	5.2.32	06:59
	GEEL	Jack Martin behind	3.8.26	-	5.2.32	07:54
	GEEL	Lawson Humphries goal	4.8.32	-	5.2.32	09:34
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	5.8.38	-	5.2.32	10:56
	GEEL	Brad Close goal	6.8.44	-	5.2.32	12:57
	GEEL	Tom Atkins goal	7.8.50	-	5.2.32	16:39
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield behind	7.9.51	-	5.2.32	23:39
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey behind	7.10.52	-	5.2.32	24:15
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh goal	8.10.58	-	5.2.32	25:53
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	8.10.58	-	6.2.38	31:09
Q3	SYDN	Sam Wicks behind	8.10.58	-	6.3.39	01:30
	GEEL	Jack Martin goal	9.10.64	-	6.3.39	04:23
	GEEL	Connor O'Sullivan goal	10.10.70	-	6.3.39	08:44
	GEEL	Rushed behind	10.11.71	-	6.3.39	10:34
	GEEL	Jack Henry goal	11.11.77	-	6.3.39	11:55
	SYDN	Tom Hanily goal	11.11.77	-	7.3.45	15:20
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	11.11.77	-	8.3.51	17:00
	GEEL	Bailey Smith goal	12.11.83	-	8.3.51	20:41
	GEEL	Brad Close behind	12.12.84	-	8.3.51	22:33
	GEEL	Max Holmes behind	12.13.85	-	8.3.51	23:25
	SYDN	Charlie Curnow goal	12.13.85	-	9.3.57	24:00
	SYDN	Angus Sheldrick behind	12.13.85	-	9.4.58	26:09
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	12.13.85	-	9.5.59	27:26
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	12.13.85	-	10.5.65	30:01
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	12.13.85	-	11.5.71	32:59
Q4	SYDN	Caiden Cleary behind	12.13.85	-	11.6.72	00:55
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	13.13.91	-	11.6.72	03:22
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	14.13.97	-	11.6.72	05:29
	GEEL	Jack Martin behind	14.14.98	-	11.6.72	07:31
	SYDN	Joel Amartey behind	14.14.98	-	11.7.73	09:32
	GEEL	Brad Close goal	15.14.104	-	11.7.73	11:09
	SYDN	Charlie Curnow goal	15.14.104	-	12.7.79	14:13
	GEEL	Rushed behind	15.15.105	-	12.7.79	15:31
	GEEL	Jack Henry behind	15.16.106	-	12.7.79	18:27
	GEEL	Rushed behind	15.17.107	-	12.7.79	21:16
	SYDN	Caiden Cleary behind	15.17.107	-	12.8.80	23:08

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