2026 AFL Season Round 18: Richmond v Carlton

This is the match report for the match played on 4 July 2026 between Richmond and Carlton during round eighteen of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Richmond hosted Carlton at the MCG. Toby Nankervis captained the hosts with Tim Taranto as vice-captain. Patrick Cripps captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Adem Yze and the visitors were coached by Josh Fraser.

Richmond (10.12.72) were defeated by Carlton (10.14.74).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: Richmond v Carlton
Date: Saturday 4 July 2026
Time: 7:35 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 54,923

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. by Carlton
Score: 10.12.72 - 10.14.74

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Richmond 5 . 3 6 . 5 7 . 8 10 . 12 10 . 12 (72)
Carlton 2 . 3 7 . 7 9 . 10 10 . 14 10 . 14 (74)
Margin RICH by 18 CARL by 8 CARL by 14 CARL by 2 CARL by 2
Duration 30:00 30:21 28:39 32:30 2:01:30

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 (Carlton) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Richmond

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

Carlton

Captain: Patrick Cripps
Coach: Josh Fraser (caretaker)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
George Hewett CARL 29 3
Patrick Cripps CARL 9 2
Jagga Smith CARL 7 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 INT 78% 1 0 9 2 7 0 0 3 0 4 2 1 0 1
41 Annand, Kye BPR 82% 0 0 10 7 3 4 0 2 0 2 0 1 4 0
21 Balta, Noah FPL 71% 2 2 15 11 4 7 6 3 3 1 2 0 0 3
6 Banks, Sam CHB 74% 0 0 16 11 5 4 0 1 0 2 0 1 3 3
35 Broad, Nathan BPL 79% 0 0 11 7 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
30 Brown, Tom HBFR 85% 0 0 12 11 1 6 0 1 1 2 0 2 3 1
44 Campbell, Seth HFFR 88% 2 1 17 11 6 1 0 6 4 3 2 2 0 3
22 Cumming, Sam CHF 81% 0 0 15 3 12 1 0 3 2 3 1 1 1 1
48 Green, Steely HFFL 81% 0 0 14 7 7 4 0 3 1 4 1 1 0 4
10 Hotton, Taj RO 75% 1 0 18 6 12 1 0 4 4 2 1 1 0 3
42 Lefau, Mykelti INT 83% 2 0 10 8 2 6 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 4
19 Lynch, Tom FF 92% 0 1 8 6 2 4 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 2
7 Mansell, Rhyan FPR 78% 2 1 10 8 2 2 0 2 1 4 0 1 0 2
28 McAuliffe, Kane INT 68% 0 0 19 9 10 1 0 5 6 4 1 1 1 3
12 Miller, Ben FB 91% 0 0 7 4 3 0 0 0 1 3 2 2 2 0
25 Nankervis, Toby (c) RU 81% 0 1 19 6 13 1 32 5 9 1 2 0 0 3
13 Ralphsmith, Hugo WR 74% 0 0 20 9 11 2 0 1 0 3 0 2 2 5
33 Retschko, Patrick WL 84% 0 0 15 8 7 3 0 3 2 4 0 0 3 1
5 Ross, Jack RR 36% 0 0 10 2 8 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1
15 Short, Jayden INT 79% 0 0 16 12 4 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 3
14 Taranto, Tim (vc) C 87% 0 2 25 14 11 3 0 5 8 1 1 0 1 3
36 Trezise, James INT 78% 0 0 10 5 5 4 0 4 0 4 2 2 3 2
1 Vlastuin, Nick HBFL 74% 0 0 12 8 4 2 0 5 0 3 0 1 5 0
Rushed 4
Total (23 players) 10 12 318 175 143 68 38 61 43 57 19 19 38 48

Carlton

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
12 Ainsworth, Ben HFFR 76% 1 0 16 13 3 3 0 0 3 7 0 0 0 4
39 Byrne, Talor FPR 57% 0 1 12 6 6 4 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1
5 Cerra, Adam WL 81% 1 1 21 16 5 7 0 2 2 2 0 1 7 1
46 Cottrell, Matt HFFL 71% 0 0 12 9 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
2 Cowan, Lachie INT 86% 0 0 14 8 6 4 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 2
9 Cripps, Patrick (c) RR 82% 1 2 25 8 17 4 0 3 6 6 2 1 0 2
47 Derksen, Wade FB 90% 0 0 11 9 2 4 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0
44 Evans, Francis INT 77% 1 0 19 13 6 4 0 6 0 1 3 0 0 5
14 Florent, Oliver BPL 84% 0 1 21 17 4 3 0 2 2 2 1 1 4 3
26 Haynes, Nick BPR 86% 0 0 17 15 2 10 0 2 0 3 0 1 2 3
19 Hayward, Will INT 81% 0 0 15 7 8 5 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 2
29 Hewett, George INT 79% 2 0 26 10 16 4 0 9 4 5 1 3 3 3
4 Hollands, Oliver WR 93% 0 0 13 9 4 6 0 4 0 1 2 1 0 1
30 Ison, Jack INT 63% 0 1 12 7 5 2 0 3 1 3 2 1 0 2
17 Kemp, Brodie FPL 94% 2 0 10 8 2 6 0 1 0 5 0 1 0 3
11 McGovern, Mitch CHF 82% 1 0 13 9 4 6 0 3 0 1 0 0 3 2
10 McKay, Harry FF 86% 1 0 9 4 5 4 3 2 0 2 1 0 0 0
24 Newman, Nic HBFL 94% 0 0 22 19 3 7 0 1 0 3 0 0 5 4
27 Pittonet, Marc RU 82% 0 2 12 6 6 3 36 3 5 5 0 2 2 1
7 Smith, Jagga RO 75% 0 1 29 9 20 3 0 5 4 2 3 0 2 3
18 Walsh, Sam C 75% 0 0 22 9 13 5 0 3 4 8 1 4 2 2
15 Wilson, Billy HBFR 63% 0 0 17 10 7 2 0 2 0 2 1 0 5 2
33 Young, Lewis CHB 42% 0 0 4 1 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Rushed 5
Total (23 players) 10 14 372 222 150 101 39 57 31 65 19 19 39 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

Richmond Coach: Adem Yze
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
14 O. Florent 47 W. Derksen 26 N. Haynes 25 T. Nankervis (c) 29 J. Alger
7 R. Mansell 19 T. Lynch 21 N. Balta 5 J. Ross 42 M. Lefau
FORWARD 10 T. Hotton 28 K. McAuliffe
HALF-BACK

15 J. Short
24 N. Newman 33 L. Young 15 B. Wilson

36 J. Trezise
44 S. Campbell 22 S. Cumming 48 S. Green



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



5 A. Cerra 18 S. Walsh 4 O. Hollands



13 H. Ralphsmith 14 T. Taranto (vc) 33 P. Retschko FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 27 M. Pittonet 2 L. Cowan
HALF-FORWARD 9 P. Cripps (c) 44 F. Evans
46 M. Cottrell 11 M. McGovern 12 B. Ainsworth 7 J. Smith 19 W. Hayward
30 T. Brown 6 S. Banks 1 N. Vlastuin

29 G. Hewett
HALF-BACK

30 J. Ison
FORWARD



17 B. Kemp 10 H. McKay 39 T. Byrne



41 K. Annand 12 B. Miller 35 N. Broad



BACK



Carlton Coach: Josh Fraser

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 RICH Rushed behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 00:38
RICH Tom Lynch behind 0.2.2 - 0.0.0 02:45
CARL Marc Pittonet behind 0.2.2 - 0.1.1 05:51
CARL Brodie Kemp goal 0.2.2 - 1.1.7 07:44
RICH Seth Campbell goal 1.2.8 - 1.1.7 12:49
CARL Francis Evans goal 1.2.8 - 2.1.13 15:19
RICH Mykelti Lefau goal 2.2.14 - 2.1.13 16:55
RICH Rhyan Mansell goal 3.2.20 - 2.1.13 19:49
RICH Rushed behind 3.3.21 - 2.1.13 21:24
RICH Noah Balta goal 4.3.27 - 2.1.13 25:21
CARL Rushed behind 4.3.27 - 2.2.14 27:02
CARL Rushed behind 4.3.27 - 2.3.15 27:58
RICH Jasper Alger goal 5.3.33 - 2.3.15 29:58
Q2 RICH Noah Balta behind 5.4.34 - 2.3.15 00:35
CARL Rushed behind 5.4.34 - 2.4.16 02:58
CARL Patrick Cripps goal 5.4.34 - 3.4.22 03:14
CARL Mitch McGovern goal 5.4.34 - 4.4.28 05:02
CARL Patrick Cripps behind 5.4.34 - 4.5.29 10:55
CARL Brodie Kemp goal 5.4.34 - 5.5.35 12:53
CARL Adam Cerra behind 5.4.34 - 5.6.36 15:33
CARL Rushed behind 5.4.34 - 5.7.37 17:58
CARL Adam Cerra goal 5.4.34 - 6.7.43 21:11
RICH Rhyan Mansell behind 5.5.35 - 6.7.43 22:21
CARL Ben Ainsworth goal 5.5.35 - 7.7.49 24:42
RICH Noah Balta goal 6.5.41 - 7.7.49 26:23
Q3 CARL Harry McKay goal 6.5.41 - 8.7.55 07:29
RICH Seth Campbell behind 6.6.42 - 8.7.55 08:38
CARL Oliver Florent behind 6.6.42 - 8.8.56 10:43
RICH Noah Balta behind 6.7.43 - 8.8.56 12:54
CARL George Hewett goal 6.7.43 - 9.8.62 14:14
RICH Rhyan Mansell goal 7.7.49 - 9.8.62 17:02
CARL Jagga Smith behind 7.7.49 - 9.9.63 19:51
RICH Toby Nankervis behind 7.8.50 - 9.9.63 22:54
CARL Patrick Cripps behind 7.8.50 - 9.10.64 27:33
Q4 RICH Rushed behind 7.9.51 - 9.10.64 01:36
RICH Tim Taranto behind 7.10.52 - 9.10.64 02:33
CARL Rushed behind 7.10.52 - 9.11.65 04:36
CARL Marc Pittonet behind 7.10.52 - 9.12.66 08:21
CARL Talor Byrne behind 7.10.52 - 9.13.67 10:18
RICH Taj Hotton goal 8.10.58 - 9.13.67 12:19
CARL Jack Ison behind 8.10.58 - 9.14.68 14:13
RICH Tim Taranto behind 8.11.59 - 9.14.68 15:12
CARL George Hewett goal 8.11.59 - 10.14.74 18:35
RICH Rushed behind 8.12.60 - 10.14.74 25:33
RICH Mykelti Lefau goal 9.12.66 - 10.14.74 28:00
RICH Seth Campbell goal 10.12.72 - 10.14.74 29:36