2026 AFL Season Round 16: Richmond v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 21 June 2026 between Richmond and North Melbourne during round sixteen of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Richmond hosted North Melbourne at the MCG. Toby Nankervis captained the hosts with Tim Taranto as vice-captain. Nick Larkey captained the visitors with Harry Sheezel as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Adem Yze and the visitors were coached by Alastair Clarkson.

Richmond (6.12.48) were defeated by North Melbourne (10.13.73).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 16
Teams: Richmond v North Melbourne
Date: Sunday 21 June 2026
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 41,806

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. by North Melbourne
Score: 6.12.48 - 10.13.73

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Richmond	1	.	2	3	.	4	3	.	8	6	.	12	6	.	12	(48)
North Melbourne	1	.	2	4	.	6	7	.	10	10	.	13	10	.	13	(73)
Margin	level			NMLB by 8			NMLB by 26			NMLB by 25			NMLB by 25
Duration	26:47			29:08			28:35			30:08			1:54:38

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 (North Melbourne) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Richmond

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

North Melbourne

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Harry Sheezel	NMLB	3	3
Cooper Trembath	NMLB	47	2
Luke Parker	NMLB	26	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
29	Alger, Jasper	FF	75%	1	2	9	6	3	3	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	1
41	Annand, Kye	BPL	85%	0	0	14	10	4	7	0	1	1	5	1	2	1	0
21	Balta, Noah	FPL	80%	2	1	10	8	2	3	11	2	2	2	0	1	0	4
6	Banks, Sam	CHB	82%	0	0	26	14	12	7	0	0	0	1	1	0	5	5
35	Broad, Nathan	BPR	92%	0	0	15	7	8	5	0	0	0	3	1	0	2	0
30	Brown, Tom	HBFR	82%	0	0	26	15	11	8	0	0	2	2	0	1	3	6
44	Campbell, Seth	RO	69%	0	0	22	16	6	4	0	1	1	5	0	1	3	2
22	Cumming, Sam	INT	71%	1	0	18	7	11	3	0	3	1	2	1	0	0	5
43	Fawcett, Liam	INT	58%	1	0	5	4	1	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
48	Green, Steely	HFFR	83%	0	0	9	6	3	2	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	0
24	Grlj, Sam	CHF	63%	0	0	6	3	3	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
10	Hotton, Taj	INT	67%	0	0	4	1	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
42	Lefau, Mykelti	FPR	93%	1	1	5	4	1	3	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	0
12	Miller, Ben	FB	100%	0	0	18	10	8	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0
25	Nankervis, Toby (c)	RU	69%	0	0	11	4	7	1	15	5	3	3	0	1	1	1
3	Prestia, Dion	RR	80%	0	0	20	8	12	6	0	2	1	3	1	1	1	4
33	Retschko, Patrick	WL	81%	0	0	14	10	4	2	0	3	0	6	0	2	1	4
17	Rioli, Maurice	HFFL	64%	0	1	6	2	4	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
15	Short, Jayden	INT	80%	0	0	29	22	7	5	0	0	0	2	0	1	7	2
40	Sonsie, Tyler	INT	79%	0	0	11	8	3	2	0	0	1	3	0	1	2	2
14	Taranto, Tim (vc)	C	82%	0	1	23	8	15	1	0	4	7	4	2	1	1	4
36	Trezise, James	WR	86%	0	0	20	7	13	6	0	7	3	3	1	0	0	0
1	Vlastuin, Nick	HBFL	78%	0	0	11	7	4	5	0	2	1	2	1	2	3	3
Rushed					6
Total (23 players)				6	12	332	187	145	90	26	38	23	54	15	19	35	48

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
39	Blamires, Tom	HBFL	75%	0	0	17	10	7	5	0	3	1	2	1	0	2	2
30	Comben, Charlie	FB	89%	0	0	13	10	3	8	0	2	0	1	0	1	3	0
4	Corr, Aidan	RR	79%	0	0	11	8	3	0	0	1	0	2	1	1	2	1
5	Daniel, Caleb	CHB	93%	0	0	40	24	16	16	0	0	2	2	1	0	7	2
27	Darling, Jack	FPR	75%	0	1	10	7	3	6	0	4	1	4	1	1	1	1
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	C	78%	0	1	18	9	9	4	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	4
7	Duursma, Zane	INT	69%	0	3	7	7	0	4	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0
22	Goad, Taylor	INT	29%	0	0	3	0	3	0	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	1
37	Harvey, Cooper	INT	79%	0	0	19	10	9	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	3
41	Konstanty, Jacob	WR	84%	1	1	17	10	7	5	0	2	2	1	1	0	1	2
20	Larkey, Nick (c)	FF	88%	1	1	11	5	6	7	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	0
11	McDonald, Luke	BPL	91%	0	0	16	10	6	6	0	1	0	4	3	1	6	0
10	McKercher, Colby	HBFR	85%	0	1	22	15	7	7	0	2	1	4	1	3	2	4
2	O'Sullivan, Finn	HFFL	85%	0	0	13	8	5	5	0	4	2	1	0	0	1	4
26	Parker, Luke	BPR	87%	0	0	30	18	12	11	0	2	1	1	1	1	2	2
3	Sheezel, Harry (vc)	RO	83%	0	0	31	13	18	9	0	4	5	1	1	1	1	4
12	Simpkin, Jy	WL	81%	0	0	23	15	8	8	0	1	2	2	1	1	3	1
13	Spargo, Charlie	HFFR	76%	0	2	20	12	8	9	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	4
15	Stephens, Dylan	INT	79%	1	0	16	9	7	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2
47	Trembath, Cooper	CHF	73%	4	0	12	7	5	5	9	5	1	0	2	0	0	1
6	Wardlaw, George	INT	73%	2	0	15	10	5	2	0	5	2	1	0	0	2	3
38	Xerri, Tristan	RU	66%	1	0	14	8	6	3	15	7	3	2	1	1	2	2
44	Zurhaar, Cameron	FPL	82%	0	0	12	10	2	5	0	1	0	3	0	1	3	3
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				10	13	390	235	155	134	30	56	25	40	19	15	41	46

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
	11	L. McDonald	30	C. Comben	26	L. Parker	25	T. Nankervis (c)	22	S. Cumming
	42	M. Lefau	29	J. Alger	21	N. Balta	3	D. Prestia	43	L. Fawcett
FORWARD							44	S. Campbell	10	T. Hotton
HALF-BACK									15	J. Short
	39	T. Blamires	5	C. Daniel	10	C. McKercher			40	T. Sonsie
	48	S. Green	24	S. Grlj	17	M. Rioli
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	12	J. Simpkin	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	41	J. Konstanty
	36	J. Trezise	14	T. Taranto (vc)	33	P. Retschko	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							38	T. Xerri	7	Z. Duursma
HALF-FORWARD							4	A. Corr	22	T. Goad
	2	F. O'Sullivan	47	C. Trembath	13	C. Spargo	3	H. Sheezel (vc)	37	C. Harvey
	30	T. Brown	6	S. Banks	1	N. Vlastuin			15	D. Stephens
HALF-BACK									6	G. Wardlaw
FORWARD
	44	C. Zurhaar	20	N. Larkey (c)	27	J. Darling
	35	N. Broad	12	B. Miller	41	K. Annand
BACK
North Melbourne							Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	RICH	Sam Cumming goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	09:42
	RICH	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	16:35
	NMLB	Zane Duursma behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	18:13
	NMLB	George Wardlaw goal	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	21:30
	RICH	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	1.1.7	23:53
	NMLB	Charlie Spargo behind	1.2.8	-	1.2.8	26:00
Q2	RICH	Noah Balta behind	1.3.9	-	1.2.8	01:58
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	1.3.9	-	2.2.14	04:43
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	1.3.9	-	3.2.20	06:23
	NMLB	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	3.3.21	14:48
	RICH	Jasper Alger goal	2.3.15	-	3.3.21	15:48
	NMLB	Zane Duursma behind	2.3.15	-	3.4.22	17:39
	RICH	Rushed behind	2.4.16	-	3.4.22	18:36
	NMLB	Rushed behind	2.4.16	-	3.5.23	20:16
	RICH	Mykelti Lefau goal	3.4.22	-	3.5.23	21:29
	NMLB	Charlie Spargo behind	3.4.22	-	3.6.24	23:08
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	3.4.22	-	4.6.30	26:51
Q3	NMLB	Jacob Konstanty behind	3.4.22	-	4.7.31	01:08
	RICH	Rushed behind	3.5.23	-	4.7.31	05:50
	NMLB	Jacob Konstanty goal	3.5.23	-	5.7.37	06:24
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	3.5.23	-	6.7.43	09:12
	NMLB	Jack Darling behind	3.5.23	-	6.8.44	10:44
	RICH	Rushed behind	3.6.24	-	6.8.44	16:09
	NMLB	Rushed behind	3.6.24	-	6.9.45	17:21
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	3.6.24	-	7.9.51	19:03
	RICH	Jasper Alger behind	3.7.25	-	7.9.51	21:11
	RICH	Maurice Rioli behind	3.8.26	-	7.9.51	23:06
	NMLB	Colby McKercher behind	3.8.26	-	7.10.52	25:15
Q4	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke behind	3.8.26	-	7.11.53	01:43
	NMLB	Nick Larkey behind	3.8.26	-	7.12.54	03:04
	NMLB	George Wardlaw goal	3.8.26	-	8.12.60	03:57
	RICH	Noah Balta goal	4.8.32	-	8.12.60	05:08
	RICH	Noah Balta goal	5.8.38	-	8.12.60	07:05
	RICH	Mykelti Lefau behind	5.9.39	-	8.12.60	09:16
	NMLB	Tristan Xerri goal	5.9.39	-	9.12.66	10:57
	RICH	Liam Fawcett goal	6.9.45	-	9.12.66	12:14
	NMLB	Zane Duursma behind	6.9.45	-	9.13.67	15:59
	RICH	Rushed behind	6.10.46	-	9.13.67	20:49
	RICH	Jasper Alger behind	6.11.47	-	9.13.67	22:33
	NMLB	Dylan Stephens goal	6.11.47	-	10.13.73	25:11
	RICH	Tim Taranto behind	6.12.48	-	10.13.73	28:07

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