2026 AFL Season Round 18: Port Adelaide v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 5 July 2026 between Port Adelaide and North Melbourne during round eighteen of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Port Adelaide hosted North Melbourne at Adelaide Oval. Nick Larkey captained the visitors with Harry Sheezel as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Josh Carr and the visitors were coached by Alastair Clarkson.

Port Adelaide (10.13.73) defeated North Melbourne (7.10.52).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: Port Adelaide v North Melbourne
Date: Sunday 5 July 2026
Time: 4:10 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 33,105

Match Results

Outcome: Port Adelaide def. North Melbourne
Score: 10.13.73 - 7.10.52

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Port Adelaide	1	.	3	5	.	6	7	.	9	10	.	13	10	.	13	(73)
North Melbourne	1	.	3	2	.	5	7	.	9	7	.	10	7	.	10	(52)
Margin	level			PADL by 19			level			PADL by 21			PADL by 21
Duration	28:25			29:01			33:11			28:28			1:59:05

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Port Adelaide) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (North Melbourne) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Port Adelaide

Captain: unknown
Coach: Josh Carr

North Melbourne

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jason Horne-Francis	PADL	18	3
Harry Sheezel	NMLB	3	2
Zak Butters	PADL	9	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Port Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Aliir, Aliir	CHB	100%	0	0	13	9	4	8	0	0	0	3	0	2	3	0
46	Bamert, Xavier	HFFL	70%	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
14	Bergman, Miles	INT	72%	0	0	14	9	5	5	0	5	0	1	0	0	3	3
5	Berry, Joe	INT	75%	0	1	4	2	2	2	0	3	0	6	1	3	0	0
7	Burgoyne, Jase	INT	81%	0	0	21	17	4	6	0	1	2	2	1	0	3	6
9	Butters, Zak	RR	83%	0	1	26	19	7	4	0	3	5	9	2	3	1	6
33	Byrne-Jones, Darcy	HBFL	76%	0	0	24	16	8	8	0	5	1	4	1	0	4	3
28	Drew, Willem	WR	84%	0	0	13	10	3	2	0	3	2	2	3	1	0	4
44	Durdin, Corey	FPL	83%	1	0	6	6	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	2
22	Evans, Logan	BPL	91%	0	0	17	12	5	3	0	6	1	3	2	2	2	2
19	Georgiades, Mitch	CHF	90%	3	2	10	9	1	5	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	2
18	Horne-Francis, Jason	C	85%	1	0	24	18	6	4	0	4	9	6	6	4	0	3
34	Jones, Lachie	HBFR	83%	0	0	15	11	4	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	5	2
43	Lai, Josh	BPR	77%	0	0	14	12	2	7	0	1	0	1	4	1	4	2
12	Lukosius, Jack	WL	75%	0	0	11	9	2	6	0	3	0	2	0	1	1	3
3	Mead, Jackson	INT	62%	1	0	11	8	3	1	0	2	3	3	1	2	2	3
35	Richards, Joe	HFFR	78%	0	2	14	11	3	3	0	5	4	3	1	1	1	5
24	Sweet, Jordon	RU	78%	1	1	9	6	3	1	27	3	4	2	4	2	0	4
38	Visentini, Dante	FPR	60%	0	0	4	2	2	0	8	0	2	2	2	1	0	1
17	Whitlock, Jack	FF	91%	3	0	9	8	1	3	0	1	0	4	4	1	1	0
16	Wines, Ollie	RO	75%	0	2	22	12	10	9	0	5	1	2	0	1	2	4
39	Zadow, Mitch	INT	56%	0	1	5	5	0	1	0	1	1	3	2	3	1	2
25	Zerk-Thatcher, Brandon	FB	76%	0	0	7	3	4	5	0	0	0	3	0	2	1	0
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				10	13	295	216	79	93	35	54	35	67	38	33	34	57

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
39	Blamires, Tom	HBFR	76%	0	0	22	13	9	3	0	0	2	2	3	1	1	3
30	Comben, Charlie	FB	98%	0	0	20	11	9	6	0	2	1	7	4	6	4	1
4	Corr, Aidan	BPL	90%	0	0	13	9	4	8	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1
5	Daniel, Caleb	CHB	88%	0	0	19	14	5	2	0	3	0	2	1	0	5	1
27	Darling, Jack	FPR	67%	2	1	7	7	0	3	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	2
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	C	89%	1	0	31	19	12	6	0	1	7	8	3	4	2	7
18	Dawson, Wil	INT	26%	0	0	2	1	1	1	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	0
31	Goater, Josh	HBFL	73%	0	0	16	10	6	6	0	0	0	2	0	2	5	1
37	Harvey, Cooper	INT	79%	0	0	25	11	14	8	0	2	1	5	1	3	5	1
41	Konstanty, Jacob	HFFR	84%	0	0	5	3	2	2	0	1	1	3	1	2	1	0
20	Larkey, Nick (c)	FF	82%	1	2	8	5	3	4	0	0	0	3	2	2	0	0
11	McDonald, Luke	WR	78%	0	0	15	6	9	3	0	4	0	3	0	1	1	1
10	McKercher, Colby	INT	80%	1	1	28	14	14	6	0	2	0	5	1	1	3	3
2	O'Sullivan, Finn	HFFL	82%	0	0	16	7	9	2	0	2	2	2	1	0	0	1
26	Parker, Luke	BPR	92%	0	0	27	16	11	6	0	2	0	1	3	1	8	1
3	Sheezel, Harry (vc)	RO	91%	1	0	40	18	22	7	0	9	6	5	2	3	4	5
12	Simpkin, Jy	WL	81%	1	0	13	8	5	3	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	3
13	Spargo, Charlie	FPL	74%	0	0	13	6	7	7	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	1
15	Stephens, Dylan	INT	81%	0	1	18	11	7	2	0	0	2	6	2	1	0	2
47	Trembath, Cooper	CHF	78%	0	0	9	3	6	2	5	2	0	1	1	1	1	1
6	Wardlaw, George	RR	58%	0	0	12	8	4	2	0	8	3	3	2	3	1	3
38	Xerri, Tristan	RU	76%	0	0	12	4	8	2	14	3	2	3	2	2	2	2
44	Zurhaar, Cameron	INT	77%	0	1	9	4	5	3	0	3	1	3	1	1	0	2
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				7	10	380	208	172	94	23	49	29	76	33	38	45	42

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

Port Adelaide							Coach: Josh Carr
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	4	A. Corr	30	C. Comben	26	L. Parker	24	J. Sweet	14	M. Bergman
	38	D. Visentini	17	J. Whitlock	44	C. Durdin	9	Z. Butters	5	J. Berry
FORWARD							16	O. Wines	7	J. Burgoyne
HALF-BACK									3	J. Mead
	31	J. Goater	5	C. Daniel	39	T. Blamires			39	M. Zadow
	35	J. Richards	19	M. Georgiades	46	X. Bamert
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	12	J. Simpkin	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	11	L. McDonald
	28	W. Drew	18	J. Horne-Francis	12	J. Lukosius	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							38	T. Xerri	18	W. Dawson
HALF-FORWARD							6	G. Wardlaw	37	C. Harvey
	2	F. O'Sullivan	47	C. Trembath	41	J. Konstanty	3	H. Sheezel (vc)	10	C. McKercher
	34	L. Jones	21	A. Aliir	33	D. Byrne-Jones			15	D. Stephens
HALF-BACK									44	C. Zurhaar
FORWARD
	13	C. Spargo	20	N. Larkey (c)	27	J. Darling
	43	J. Lai	25	B. Zerk-Thatcher	22	L. Evans
BACK
North Melbourne							Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	PADL	Ollie Wines behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:35
	PADL	Rushed behind	0.2.2	-	0.0.0	02:15
	NMLB	Nick Larkey goal	0.2.2	-	1.0.6	04:03
	NMLB	Rushed behind	0.2.2	-	1.1.7	07:42
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades goal	1.2.8	-	1.1.7	11:46
	NMLB	Jack Darling behind	1.2.8	-	1.2.8	13:51
	NMLB	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	1.3.9	14:59
	PADL	Joe Richards behind	1.3.9	-	1.3.9	26:52
Q2	NMLB	Nick Larkey behind	1.3.9	-	1.4.10	02:38
	PADL	Jack Whitlock goal	2.3.15	-	1.4.10	08:18
	PADL	Joe Berry behind	2.4.16	-	1.4.10	10:55
	PADL	Jack Whitlock goal	3.4.22	-	1.4.10	13:41
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades goal	4.4.28	-	1.4.10	16:05
	PADL	Ollie Wines behind	4.5.29	-	1.4.10	18:57
	NMLB	Rushed behind	4.5.29	-	1.5.11	20:52
	NMLB	Jy Simpkin goal	4.5.29	-	2.5.17	24:29
	PADL	Jordon Sweet goal	5.5.35	-	2.5.17	26:33
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades behind	5.6.36	-	2.5.17	28:56
Q3	PADL	Mitch Georgiades goal	6.6.42	-	2.5.17	02:18
	NMLB	Jack Darling goal	6.6.42	-	3.5.23	03:32
	NMLB	Harry Sheezel goal	6.6.42	-	4.5.29	06:20
	NMLB	Colby McKercher behind	6.6.42	-	4.6.30	07:30
	PADL	Jordon Sweet behind	6.7.43	-	4.6.30	10:20
	NMLB	Nick Larkey behind	6.7.43	-	4.7.31	13:15
	PADL	Mitch Zadow behind	6.8.44	-	4.7.31	15:40
	NMLB	Dylan Stephens behind	6.8.44	-	4.8.32	17:36
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke goal	6.8.44	-	5.8.38	19:31
	NMLB	Rushed behind	6.8.44	-	5.9.39	21:49
	NMLB	Colby McKercher goal	6.8.44	-	6.9.45	22:24
	PADL	Rushed behind	6.9.45	-	6.9.45	24:14
	NMLB	Jack Darling goal	6.9.45	-	7.9.51	27:41
	PADL	Jason Horne-Francis goal	7.9.51	-	7.9.51	28:46
Q4	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar behind	7.9.51	-	7.10.52	01:56
	PADL	Zak Butters behind	7.10.52	-	7.10.52	02:30
	PADL	Joe Richards behind	7.11.53	-	7.10.52	06:35
	PADL	Corey Durdin goal	8.11.59	-	7.10.52	13:32
	PADL	Mitch Georgiades behind	8.12.60	-	7.10.52	16:45
	PADL	Jack Whitlock goal	9.12.66	-	7.10.52	18:53
	PADL	Rushed behind	9.13.67	-	7.10.52	20:56
	PADL	Jackson Mead goal	10.13.73	-	7.10.52	26:36

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