2026 AFL Season Round 21: Carlton v Gold Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 25 July 2026 between Carlton and Gold Coast during round twenty-one of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Carlton hosted Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium. Patrick Cripps captained the hosts. Noah Anderson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Josh Fraser and the visitors were coached by Damien Hardwick.

Carlton (16.14.110) defeated Gold Coast (15.7.97).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 21
Teams: Carlton v Gold Coast
Date: Saturday 25 July 2026
Time: 1:05 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 26,945

Match Results

Outcome: Carlton def. Gold Coast
Score: 16.14.110 - 15.7.97

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Carlton 3 . 4 7 . 7 11 . 10 16 . 14 16 . 14 (110)
Gold Coast 3 . 2 7 . 4 10 . 4 15 . 7 15 . 7 (97)
Margin CARL by 2 CARL by 3 CARL by 12 CARL by 13 CARL by 13
Duration 29:04 30:14 30:16 32:56 2:02:30

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Carlton

Captain: Patrick Cripps
Coach: Josh Fraser (caretaker)

Gold Coast

Captain: Noah Anderson
Coach: Damien Hardwick

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Patrick Cripps CARL 9 3
George Hewett CARL 29 2
Matt Rowell GCST 18 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1

Player Statistics

Carlton

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
13 Acres, Blake WR 94% 0 0 21 13 8 9 0 3 0 2 1 0 2 2
12 Ainsworth, Ben HFFL 81% 1 2 19 14 5 9 0 1 1 3 1 1 1 3
39 Byrne, Talor INT 72% 3 2 17 11 6 6 0 4 2 2 2 2 0 5
5 Cerra, Adam FPL 85% 0 0 20 9 11 6 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 2
46 Cottrell, Matt WL 80% 0 0 17 13 4 6 0 2 1 3 0 0 2 5
2 Cowan, Lachie BPL 82% 0 0 17 14 3 10 0 5 1 2 1 1 6 1
9 Cripps, Patrick (c) C 85% 1 1 30 12 18 2 0 5 15 4 1 1 1 8
35 Dean, Harry FB 87% 0 0 13 10 3 6 0 1 0 3 1 1 2 1
47 Derksen, Wade BPR 81% 0 0 18 12 6 8 0 0 0 3 2 0 3 1
44 Evans, Francis HFFR 81% 2 2 17 10 7 3 0 6 1 1 3 1 1 2
14 Florent, Oliver INT 77% 0 0 25 20 5 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 3
26 Haynes, Nick FPR 88% 0 0 24 19 5 13 0 1 0 6 1 2 5 2
19 Hayward, Will CHF 87% 3 1 16 8 8 5 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0
29 Hewett, George INT 74% 3 1 24 11 13 1 0 2 4 3 3 0 0 4
17 Kemp, Brodie FF 93% 0 1 14 6 8 1 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 1
36 Lord, Cooper INT 78% 0 0 23 12 11 8 0 1 2 3 0 0 3 0
11 McGovern, Mitch CHB 82% 2 0 9 8 1 4 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1
24 Newman, Nic HBFL 6% 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 Pittonet, Marc RU 73% 0 0 8 3 5 1 17 2 1 1 2 0 1 2
7 Smith, Jagga RR 79% 0 0 31 12 19 7 0 5 6 2 2 1 0 4
18 Walsh, Sam RO 76% 0 0 31 15 16 7 0 5 2 4 1 1 1 5
15 Wilson, Billy HBFR 84% 0 0 24 16 8 10 0 2 0 3 0 1 3 4
33 Young, Lewis INT 72% 1 2 18 7 11 6 5 1 2 2 1 1 1 1
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 16 14 438 256 182 133 22 52 39 58 25 14 37 57

Gold Coast

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
38 Addinsall, Beau CHF 74% 1 0 15 7 8 4 0 2 2 2 0 1 3 2
15 Anderson, Noah (c) C 84% 1 0 30 16 14 9 0 0 4 2 1 0 5 6
1 Andrew, Mac BPL 92% 0 0 16 10 6 6 4 3 0 3 3 1 5 0
10 Ballard, Charlie WL 78% 0 0 7 3 4 3 0 1 0 3 0 2 3 0
25 Collins, Sam BPR 97% 0 0 12 4 8 4 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0
19 Humphrey, Bailey HFFR 77% 3 0 16 8 8 3 0 2 1 2 1 0 1 5
16 Jeffrey, Joel INT 75% 3 1 11 11 0 4 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 3
34 King, Ben FPR 87% 3 2 9 7 2 5 0 1 0 3 1 3 0 1
45 Lewis, Caleb INT 35% 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
8 Lombard, Leo HFFL 90% 0 0 13 5 8 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 3
22 Long, Ben FPL 83% 1 1 8 4 4 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
11 Miller, Touk INT 81% 0 0 19 12 7 3 0 5 5 4 1 2 1 5
23 Moyle, Ned RU 83% 0 0 7 1 6 1 33 0 0 4 0 3 0 1
35 Murray, Jai INT 69% 0 0 11 7 4 5 0 2 0 2 1 1 3 0
2 Noble, John INT 72% 0 0 18 13 5 5 0 0 1 6 0 1 3 2
30 Patterson, Dylan HBFL 61% 1 0 8 6 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 3
3 Petracca, Christian RO 79% 0 2 26 7 19 3 0 1 6 3 1 0 1 1
27 Powell, Wil HBFR 85% 0 0 13 6 7 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0
17 Rioli, Daniel WR 77% 0 0 18 8 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
18 Rowell, Matt RR 83% 0 0 28 16 12 2 0 7 9 6 1 4 2 10
6 Uwland, Bodhi FB 89% 0 0 16 12 4 4 0 3 0 3 1 1 4 4
32 Uwland, Zeke CHB 70% 0 0 9 4 5 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1
4 Walter, Jed FF 79% 2 0 10 4 6 3 0 0 0 5 1 2 0 2
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 15 7 321 172 149 77 37 34 28 59 14 25 41 52

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

Carlton Coach: Josh Fraser
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
1 M. Andrew 6 B. Uwland 25 S. Collins 27 M. Pittonet 39 T. Byrne
26 N. Haynes 17 B. Kemp 5 A. Cerra 7 J. Smith 14 O. Florent
FORWARD 18 S. Walsh 29 G. Hewett
HALF-BACK

36 C. Lord
30 D. Patterson 32 Z. Uwland 27 W. Powell

33 L. Young
44 F. Evans 19 W. Hayward 12 B. Ainsworth



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



10 C. Ballard 15 N. Anderson (c) 17 D. Rioli



13 B. Acres 9 P. Cripps (c) 46 M. Cottrell FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 23 N. Moyle 16 J. Jeffrey
HALF-FORWARD 18 M. Rowell 45 C. Lewis
8 L. Lombard 38 B. Addinsall 19 B. Humphrey 3 C. Petracca 11 T. Miller
15 B. Wilson 11 M. McGovern 24 N. Newman

35 J. Murray
HALF-BACK

2 J. Noble
FORWARD



22 B. Long 4 J. Walter 34 B. King



47 W. Derksen 35 H. Dean 2 L. Cowan



BACK



Gold Coast Coach: Damien Hardwick

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 CARL Rushed behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 01:17
GCST Jed Walter goal 0.1.1 - 1.0.6 02:05
GCST Bailey Humphrey goal 0.1.1 - 2.0.12 04:20
GCST Dylan Patterson goal 0.1.1 - 3.0.18 08:14
GCST Ben King behind 0.1.1 - 3.1.19 10:05
CARL George Hewett behind 0.2.2 - 3.1.19 11:33
CARL Ben Ainsworth behind 0.3.3 - 3.1.19 12:50
CARL Will Hayward goal 1.3.9 - 3.1.19 13:26
CARL Talor Byrne goal 2.3.15 - 3.1.19 15:43
CARL Francis Evans goal 3.3.21 - 3.1.19 17:50
GCST Rushed behind 3.3.21 - 3.2.20 25:01
CARL Ben Ainsworth behind 3.4.22 - 3.2.20 26:02
Q2 GCST Ben King goal 3.4.22 - 4.2.26 00:42
GCST Joel Jeffrey behind 3.4.22 - 4.3.27 01:50
GCST Noah Anderson goal 3.4.22 - 5.3.33 06:23
CARL Francis Evans behind 3.5.23 - 5.3.33 07:42
CARL Talor Byrne goal 4.5.29 - 5.3.33 09:24
GCST Christian Petracca behind 4.5.29 - 5.4.34 15:24
CARL Lewis Young goal 5.5.35 - 5.4.34 17:50
CARL George Hewett goal 6.5.41 - 5.4.34 19:10
CARL Will Hayward goal 7.5.47 - 5.4.34 21:42
GCST Joel Jeffrey goal 7.5.47 - 6.4.40 24:26
CARL Lewis Young behind 7.6.48 - 6.4.40 26:28
CARL Brodie Kemp behind 7.7.49 - 6.4.40 28:09
GCST Ben King goal 7.7.49 - 7.4.46 29:01
Q3 GCST Bailey Humphrey goal 7.7.49 - 8.4.52 01:27
CARL Patrick Cripps behind 7.8.50 - 8.4.52 04:21
GCST Joel Jeffrey goal 7.8.50 - 9.4.58 05:29
CARL Patrick Cripps goal 8.8.56 - 9.4.58 13:42
CARL Talor Byrne goal 9.8.62 - 9.4.58 17:24
CARL Mitch McGovern goal 10.8.68 - 9.4.58 19:21
GCST Joel Jeffrey goal 10.8.68 - 10.4.64 22:24
CARL Talor Byrne behind 10.9.69 - 10.4.64 23:57
CARL George Hewett goal 11.9.75 - 10.4.64 25:10
CARL Talor Byrne behind 11.10.76 - 10.4.64 29:51
Q4 GCST Bailey Humphrey goal 11.10.76 - 11.4.70 00:44
GCST Christian Petracca behind 11.10.76 - 11.5.71 01:53
GCST Jed Walter goal 11.10.76 - 12.5.77 04:30
CARL Lewis Young behind 11.11.77 - 12.5.77 06:19
GCST Beau Addinsall goal 11.11.77 - 13.5.83 07:06
CARL Ben Ainsworth goal 12.11.83 - 13.5.83 09:33
CARL George Hewett goal 13.11.89 - 13.5.83 12:23
GCST Ben Long behind 13.11.89 - 13.6.84 13:47
CARL Francis Evans behind 13.12.90 - 13.6.84 14:37
CARL Mitch McGovern goal 14.12.96 - 13.6.84 17:34
CARL Will Hayward goal 15.12.102 - 13.6.84 23:43
CARL Will Hayward behind 15.13.103 - 13.6.84 24:53
GCST Ben Long goal 15.13.103 - 14.6.90 25:32
CARL Rushed behind 15.14.104 - 14.6.90 27:35
CARL Francis Evans goal 16.14.110 - 14.6.90 28:26
GCST Ben King goal 16.14.110 - 15.6.96 29:48
GCST Ben King behind 16.14.110 - 15.7.97 32:13