2026 AFL Season Round 20: North Melbourne v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 18 July 2026 between North Melbourne and Melbourne during round twenty of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Melbourne at Marvel Stadium. Nick Larkey captained the hosts with Harry Sheezel as vice-captain. Max Gawn captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Alastair Clarkson and the visitors were coached by Steven King.

North Melbourne (11.10.76) were defeated by Melbourne (13.14.92).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 20
Teams: North Melbourne v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 18 July 2026
Time: 4:15 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 25,025

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Melbourne
Score: 11.10.76 - 13.14.92

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	6	.	1	7	.	2	8	.	7	11	.	10	11	.	10	(76)
Melbourne	4	.	1	6	.	4	10	.	10	13	.	14	13	.	14	(92)
Margin	NMLB by 12			NMLB by 4			MELB by 15			MELB by 16			MELB by 16
Duration	33:32			28:29			27:43			29:40			1:59:24

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 (Melbourne) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

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

Melbourne

Captain: Max Gawn
Coach: Steven King

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Tom Sparrow	MELB	32	3
Kysaiah Pickett	MELB	36	2
Harry Sheezel	NMLB	3	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
30	Comben, Charlie	FB	86%	0	0	11	6	5	7	0	0	0	3	0	2	2	1
4	Corr, Aidan	BPL	84%	0	0	12	8	4	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	1
25	Curtis, Paul	HFFL	84%	3	1	12	11	1	6	0	2	1	1	1	1	0	2
5	Daniel, Caleb	CHB	79%	0	0	27	14	13	6	0	1	2	1	0	0	5	2
27	Darling, Jack	INT	76%	2	0	9	7	2	7	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	3
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	C	85%	0	0	28	13	15	2	0	3	5	0	1	0	1	8
31	Goater, Josh	HBFL	62%	0	2	9	7	2	5	0	1	1	2	1	0	1	2
17	Hardeman, Riley	INT	67%	0	0	14	10	4	4	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	3
37	Harvey, Cooper	WL	74%	0	0	28	16	12	5	0	1	0	2	0	0	3	3
20	Larkey, Nick (c)	FF	91%	0	2	10	6	4	7	0	2	0	2	2	0	0	1
11	McDonald, Luke	FPL	69%	0	0	7	5	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0
10	McKercher, Colby	HBFR	78%	0	0	26	13	13	4	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	2
2	O'Sullivan, Finn	RR	84%	0	1	23	11	12	4	0	5	3	8	1	2	0	2
26	Parker, Luke	BPR	84%	0	0	21	14	7	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	1
8	Scott, Bailey	INT	75%	0	0	18	8	10	6	0	5	1	1	0	0	2	3
3	Sheezel, Harry (vc)	RO	87%	1	0	33	16	17	6	0	5	2	1	0	0	3	5
12	Simpkin, Jy	INT	79%	0	2	25	13	12	8	0	2	2	4	0	1	2	7
13	Spargo, Charlie	HFFR	75%	2	0	11	8	3	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	1	3
15	Stephens, Dylan	WR	78%	0	0	18	12	6	6	0	1	2	2	0	0	4	2
47	Trembath, Cooper	CHF	73%	1	0	10	5	5	2	8	6	3	3	1	3	1	1
35	Whitlock, Matt	FPR	70%	1	1	9	4	5	4	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1
38	Xerri, Tristan	RU	78%	1	0	19	6	13	4	15	1	9	5	2	2	0	1
44	Zurhaar, Cameron	INT	81%	0	0	16	10	6	4	0	3	0	2	0	0	4	1
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				11	10	396	223	173	107	23	48	34	47	10	14	37	55

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
17	Bowey, Jake	BPL	87%	0	0	29	20	9	5	0	2	3	1	1	0	8	0
37	Chandler, Kade	CHF	82%	0	1	12	6	6	4	0	5	1	0	0	0	2	1
47	Fitzgerald, Joel	INT	55%	0	0	9	4	5	2	0	5	0	4	0	2	2	2
31	Fritsch, Bayley	INT	84%	0	0	15	12	3	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	84%	0	1	23	9	14	8	21	0	3	3	2	1	0	1
27	Heath, Max	INT	41%	1	1	6	2	4	1	9	2	2	1	3	1	0	0
22	Howes, Blake	HBFR	86%	0	0	18	7	11	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	2
21	Jefferson, Matthew	FPR	92%	4	1	10	5	5	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
14	Jiath, Changkuoth	BPR	61%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	1	1	2	1	1	2	2
15	Langdon, Ed	WL	91%	0	0	20	14	6	4	0	2	1	1	0	0	3	2
4	Langford, Harvey	HFFR	79%	1	0	21	7	14	4	0	0	5	2	0	1	2	3
8	Lever, Jake	FB	100%	0	0	16	7	9	5	0	1	0	2	1	1	2	3
18	Melksham, Jake	FPL	76%	0	0	7	4	3	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	4
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	HFFL	81%	1	2	29	17	12	7	0	1	4	2	1	0	1	7
33	Pickett, Latrelle	INT	68%	2	0	7	4	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
24	Rivers, Trent	INT	77%	0	0	26	16	10	7	0	3	0	0	0	0	5	3
30	Sharp, Harry	WR	83%	1	2	9	6	3	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	Sparrow, Tom	C	81%	1	1	33	20	13	6	0	6	10	7	1	2	3	5
9	Steele, Jack	RR	84%	0	0	23	7	16	8	0	2	1	0	0	0	3	3
12	Tholstrup, Koltyn	HBFL	93%	0	1	22	14	8	6	0	1	2	1	3	0	4	2
10	Turner, Daniel	CHB	53%	0	0	4	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	FF	89%	2	2	8	7	1	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
6	Windsor, Caleb	RO	73%	0	0	14	7	7	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1	3
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				13	14	373	205	168	103	31	39	36	31	14	10	43	50

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
	17	J. Bowey	8	J. Lever	14	C. Jiath	38	T. Xerri	27	J. Darling
	35	M. Whitlock	20	N. Larkey (c)	11	L. McDonald	2	F. O'Sullivan	17	R. Hardeman
FORWARD							3	H. Sheezel (vc)	8	B. Scott
HALF-BACK									12	J. Simpkin
	12	K. Tholstrup	10	D. Turner	22	B. Howes			44	C. Zurhaar
	13	C. Spargo	47	C. Trembath	25	P. Curtis
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	15	E. Langdon	32	T. Sparrow	30	H. Sharp
	15	D. Stephens	9	L. Davies-Uniacke	37	C. Harvey	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn (c)	47	J. Fitzgerald
HALF-FORWARD							9	J. Steele	31	B. Fritsch
	36	K. Pickett	37	K. Chandler	4	H. Langford	6	C. Windsor	27	M. Heath
	10	C. McKercher	5	C. Daniel	31	J. Goater			33	L. Pickett
HALF-BACK									24	T. Rivers
FORWARD
	18	J. Melksham	2	J. van Rooyen	21	M. Jefferson
	26	L. Parker	30	C. Comben	4	A. Corr
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Steven King

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:58
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	03:05
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	04:12
	NMLB	Charlie Spargo goal	3.0.18	-	1.0.6	06:13
	NMLB	Jy Simpkin behind	3.1.19	-	1.0.6	07:53
	MELB	Latrelle Pickett goal	3.1.19	-	2.0.12	14:56
	NMLB	Charlie Spargo goal	4.1.25	-	2.0.12	16:54
	NMLB	Jack Darling goal	5.1.31	-	2.0.12	18:31
	NMLB	Cooper Trembath goal	6.1.37	-	2.0.12	22:49
	MELB	Matthew Jefferson goal	6.1.37	-	3.0.18	25:12
	MELB	Matthew Jefferson goal	6.1.37	-	4.0.24	26:54
	MELB	Max Gawn behind	6.1.37	-	4.1.25	32:32
Q2	NMLB	Harry Sheezel goal	7.1.43	-	4.1.25	01:42
	NMLB	Rushed behind	7.2.44	-	4.1.25	11:39
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen behind	7.2.44	-	4.2.26	13:09
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	7.2.44	-	5.2.32	19:56
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen behind	7.2.44	-	5.3.33	21:39
	MELB	Tom Sparrow behind	7.2.44	-	5.4.34	24:44
	MELB	Latrelle Pickett goal	7.2.44	-	6.4.40	27:04
Q3	MELB	Rushed behind	7.2.44	-	6.5.41	00:30
	MELB	Harry Sharp goal	7.2.44	-	7.5.47	01:19
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	7.2.44	-	7.6.48	03:04
	MELB	Matthew Jefferson goal	7.2.44	-	8.6.54	03:37
	NMLB	Finn O'Sullivan behind	7.3.45	-	8.6.54	05:18
	MELB	Rushed behind	7.3.45	-	8.7.55	09:38
	NMLB	Matt Whitlock behind	7.4.46	-	8.7.55	11:42
	NMLB	Nick Larkey behind	7.5.47	-	8.7.55	13:00
	MELB	Max Heath behind	7.5.47	-	8.8.56	14:46
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	7.5.47	-	9.8.62	16:07
	NMLB	Josh Goater behind	7.6.48	-	9.8.62	18:11
	NMLB	Jack Darling goal	8.6.54	-	9.8.62	19:35
	MELB	Matthew Jefferson behind	8.6.54	-	9.9.63	22:51
	MELB	Koltyn Tholstrup behind	8.6.54	-	9.10.64	25:10
	MELB	Matthew Jefferson goal	8.6.54	-	10.10.70	26:02
	NMLB	Josh Goater behind	8.7.55	-	10.10.70	27:28
Q4	MELB	Tom Sparrow goal	8.7.55	-	11.10.76	00:25
	MELB	Harvey Langford goal	8.7.55	-	12.10.82	08:05
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	8.7.55	-	12.11.83	09:24
	MELB	Max Heath goal	8.7.55	-	13.11.89	11:51
	MELB	Kade Chandler behind	8.7.55	-	13.12.90	15:30
	MELB	Harry Sharp behind	8.7.55	-	13.13.91	16:47
	MELB	Harry Sharp behind	8.7.55	-	13.14.92	19:14
	NMLB	Paul Curtis behind	8.8.56	-	13.14.92	20:55
	NMLB	Jy Simpkin behind	8.9.57	-	13.14.92	22:08
	NMLB	Tristan Xerri goal	9.9.63	-	13.14.92	24:16
	NMLB	Paul Curtis goal	10.9.69	-	13.14.92	25:38
	NMLB	Matt Whitlock goal	11.9.75	-	13.14.92	27:24
	NMLB	Nick Larkey behind	11.10.76	-	13.14.92	28:41

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