2026 AFL Season Round 25: Sydney v North Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 23 August 2026 between Sydney and North Melbourne during round twenty-five of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted North Melbourne at the SCG. Callum Mills captained the hosts. Nick Larkey captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Dean Cox and the visitors were coached by Alastair Clarkson.

Sydney (17.21.123) defeated North Melbourne (10.10.70).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 25
Teams: Sydney v North Melbourne
Date: Sunday 23 August 2026
Time: 3:20 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 30,058

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. North Melbourne
Score: 17.21.123 - 10.10.70

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Sydney 4 . 3 9 . 7 10 . 15 17 . 21 17 . 21 (123)
North Melbourne 3 . 2 5 . 5 8 . 6 10 . 10 10 . 10 (70)
Margin SYDN by 7 SYDN by 26 SYDN by 21 SYDN by 53 SYDN by 53
Duration 32:28 32:18 28:21 35:34 2:08:41

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: Callum Mills
Coach: Dean Cox

North Melbourne

Captain: Nick Larkey
Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Errol Gulden SYDN 21 3
Brodie Grundy SYDN 4 2
Braeden Campbell SYDN 16 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1

Player Statistics

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
16 Campbell, Braeden HFFR 85% 2 1 20 13 7 1 0 5 0 5 2 0 0 8
33 Cleary, Caiden RO 79% 1 0 18 10 8 4 0 5 5 3 0 2 0 3
25 Cootee, Billy FPR 73% 3 0 16 8 8 3 0 4 0 4 1 0 0 5
7 Cunningham, Harry INT 87% 0 0 16 8 8 8 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1
35 Curnow, Charlie FF 79% 3 4 15 13 2 6 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 3
9 Dattoli, Jesse INT 74% 1 3 21 11 10 3 0 3 4 3 0 0 0 5
45 Green, Will INT 56% 0 0 9 6 3 2 14 6 5 2 2 1 1 3
4 Grundy, Brodie RU 68% 0 0 26 9 17 2 28 1 7 5 1 2 1 3
21 Gulden, Errol C 74% 0 1 41 27 14 4 0 3 6 6 1 0 7 10
29 Hamling, Joel HBFR 95% 0 0 8 3 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
40 Hanily, Tom INT 71% 1 2 13 6 7 3 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 3
32 Kyle, Harry CHB 79% 1 0 12 9 3 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2
44 Lloyd, Jake HFFL 88% 1 1 18 10 8 5 0 2 0 1 2 0 4 1
30 McCartin, Tom FB 78% 0 0 11 5 6 3 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 2
6 McDonald, Logan CHF 90% 3 1 11 7 4 4 0 2 0 2 3 1 1 0
14 Mills, Callum (c) BPL 74% 0 0 26 13 13 5 0 2 1 0 1 0 6 3
11 Papley, Tom FPL 75% 1 3 17 12 5 2 0 4 2 4 0 0 0 5
24 Rampe, Dane BPR 77% 0 0 8 4 4 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 2 0
34 Roberts, Matt WL 90% 0 0 11 5 6 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 2
8 Rowbottom, James RR 78% 0 1 19 10 9 1 0 12 4 3 0 0 0 3
13 Serong, Jai WR 89% 0 1 24 9 15 6 0 7 6 3 0 0 3 3
12 Sheldrick, Angus INT 50% 0 1 16 5 11 2 0 0 6 2 0 1 1 2
15 Wicks, Sam HBFL 90% 0 0 14 11 3 1 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 3
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 17 21 390 214 176 77 42 69 48 56 17 12 29 70

North Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
45 Banch, Zac INT 81% 1 1 13 7 6 4 0 2 0 3 1 3 1 3
30 Comben, Charlie FB 90% 0 0 13 9 4 8 0 4 1 2 1 0 2 0
4 Corr, Aidan BPL 72% 0 0 12 7 5 4 0 3 0 2 1 2 4 0
25 Curtis, Paul FPR 79% 1 1 7 6 1 4 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1
5 Daniel, Caleb CHB 75% 0 0 26 16 10 3 0 1 2 2 0 1 3 0
27 Darling, Jack HFFR 64% 1 0 3 2 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Davies-Uniacke, Luke C 82% 0 0 17 8 9 2 0 2 4 2 1 1 1 4
18 Dawson, Wil INT 55% 0 0 6 5 1 2 7 2 1 1 0 1 1 0
31 Goater, Josh INT 70% 0 0 17 8 9 6 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 1
17 Hardeman, Riley HBFL 79% 0 0 20 13 7 5 0 4 0 1 0 0 3 1
20 Larkey, Nick (c) FF 90% 1 1 7 4 3 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2
19 Logue, Griffin INT 75% 0 0 17 8 9 7 0 3 0 2 0 1 5 1
11 McDonald, Luke RR 83% 0 1 24 13 11 5 0 3 4 4 0 1 5 5
10 McKercher, Colby HBFR 84% 0 0 18 11 7 3 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 2
2 O'Sullivan, Finn WL 87% 0 0 20 10 10 5 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 3
26 Parker, Luke BPR 78% 0 0 26 21 5 6 0 2 1 2 1 0 8 1
12 Simpkin, Jy RO 90% 1 0 26 14 12 8 0 8 6 4 1 1 2 3
13 Spargo, Charlie HFFL 78% 1 1 15 10 5 5 0 5 0 5 1 1 1 2
15 Stephens, Dylan WR 85% 0 0 17 10 7 7 0 3 0 3 0 1 3 2
47 Trembath, Cooper CHF 74% 1 0 10 4 6 1 4 2 0 2 1 1 0 2
6 Wardlaw, George INT 58% 0 0 18 10 8 3 0 5 5 1 1 0 1 3
38 Xerri, Tristan RU 82% 1 0 21 3 18 5 17 4 5 6 2 1 1 1
44 Zurhaar, Cameron FPL 90% 2 1 19 14 5 9 0 2 0 2 0 1 4 2
Rushed 4
Total (23 players) 10 10 372 213 159 106 28 64 31 50 12 17 51 39

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

Sydney Coach: Dean Cox
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
4 A. Corr 30 C. Comben 26 L. Parker 4 B. Grundy 7 H. Cunningham
25 B. Cootee 35 C. Curnow 11 T. Papley 8 J. Rowbottom 9 J. Dattoli
FORWARD 33 C. Cleary 45 W. Green
HALF-BACK

40 T. Hanily
17 R. Hardeman 5 C. Daniel 10 C. McKercher

12 A. Sheldrick
16 B. Campbell 6 L. McDonald 44 J. Lloyd



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



2 F. O'Sullivan 9 L. Davies-Uniacke 15 D. Stephens



13 J. Serong 21 E. Gulden 34 M. Roberts FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 38 T. Xerri 45 Z. Banch
HALF-FORWARD 11 L. McDonald 18 W. Dawson
13 C. Spargo 47 C. Trembath 27 J. Darling 12 J. Simpkin 31 J. Goater
29 J. Hamling 32 H. Kyle 15 S. Wicks

19 G. Logue
HALF-BACK

6 G. Wardlaw
FORWARD



44 C. Zurhaar 20 N. Larkey (c) 25 P. Curtis



24 D. Rampe 30 T. McCartin 14 C. Mills (c)



BACK



North Melbourne Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 SYDN Caiden Cleary goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 00:46
NMLB Charlie Spargo behind 1.0.6 - 0.1.1 03:10
NMLB Charlie Spargo goal 1.0.6 - 1.1.7 04:58
SYDN Jesse Dattoli behind 1.1.7 - 1.1.7 06:52
SYDN Tom Papley behind 1.2.8 - 1.1.7 13:24
SYDN Jesse Dattoli goal 2.2.14 - 1.1.7 15:37
SYDN Tom Hanily goal 3.2.20 - 1.1.7 19:32
SYDN Rushed behind 3.3.21 - 1.1.7 20:45
SYDN Billy Cootee goal 4.3.27 - 1.1.7 21:22
NMLB Paul Curtis goal 4.3.27 - 2.1.13 26:06
NMLB Paul Curtis behind 4.3.27 - 2.2.14 27:22
NMLB Jy Simpkin goal 4.3.27 - 3.2.20 29:59
Q2 SYDN Jesse Dattoli behind 4.4.28 - 3.2.20 00:42
SYDN Braeden Campbell goal 5.4.34 - 3.2.20 01:22
SYDN Tom Hanily behind 5.5.35 - 3.2.20 02:33
SYDN Jake Lloyd goal 6.5.41 - 3.2.20 03:49
SYDN Tom Papley goal 7.5.47 - 3.2.20 05:53
SYDN Charlie Curnow goal 8.5.53 - 3.2.20 07:29
SYDN Logan McDonald goal 9.5.59 - 3.2.20 10:08
NMLB Rushed behind 9.5.59 - 3.3.21 11:52
SYDN Charlie Curnow behind 9.6.60 - 3.3.21 14:54
NMLB Rushed behind 9.6.60 - 3.4.22 16:35
NMLB Luke McDonald behind 9.6.60 - 3.5.23 19:59
SYDN Tom Papley behind 9.7.61 - 3.5.23 22:20
NMLB Zac Banch goal 9.7.61 - 4.5.29 25:29
NMLB Jack Darling goal 9.7.61 - 5.5.35 26:55
Q3 NMLB Rushed behind 9.7.61 - 5.6.36 01:52
SYDN Billy Cootee goal 10.7.67 - 5.6.36 03:09
SYDN James Rowbottom behind 10.8.68 - 5.6.36 06:54
SYDN Rushed behind 10.9.69 - 5.6.36 07:37
SYDN Jake Lloyd behind 10.10.70 - 5.6.36 08:17
NMLB Nick Larkey goal 10.10.70 - 6.6.42 09:22
SYDN Charlie Curnow behind 10.11.71 - 6.6.42 11:00
SYDN Braeden Campbell behind 10.12.72 - 6.6.42 13:21
SYDN Jai Serong behind 10.13.73 - 6.6.42 14:57
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar goal 10.13.73 - 7.6.48 17:09
SYDN Angus Sheldrick behind 10.14.74 - 7.6.48 22:41
SYDN Jesse Dattoli behind 10.15.75 - 7.6.48 23:13
NMLB Cooper Trembath goal 10.15.75 - 8.6.54 24:49
Q4 SYDN Billy Cootee goal 11.15.81 - 8.6.54 01:33
SYDN Tom Papley behind 11.16.82 - 8.6.54 03:56
SYDN Errol Gulden behind 11.17.83 - 8.6.54 04:25
SYDN Braeden Campbell goal 12.17.89 - 8.6.54 06:27
SYDN Charlie Curnow behind 12.18.90 - 8.6.54 07:40
SYDN Harry Kyle goal 13.18.96 - 8.6.54 08:54
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar goal 13.18.96 - 9.6.60 10:31
SYDN Charlie Curnow behind 13.19.97 - 9.6.60 13:25
SYDN Charlie Curnow goal 14.19.103 - 9.6.60 14:16
SYDN Charlie Curnow goal 15.19.109 - 9.6.60 17:36
NMLB Rushed behind 15.19.109 - 9.7.61 21:22
SYDN Logan McDonald goal 16.19.115 - 9.7.61 23:58
SYDN Tom Hanily behind 16.20.116 - 9.7.61 25:17
NMLB Cameron Zurhaar behind 16.20.116 - 9.8.62 26:46
NMLB Zac Banch behind 16.20.116 - 9.9.63 27:42
NMLB Nick Larkey behind 16.20.116 - 9.10.64 29:25
SYDN Logan McDonald goal 17.20.122 - 9.10.64 31:42
NMLB Tristan Xerri goal 17.20.122 - 10.10.70 33:48
SYDN Logan McDonald behind 17.21.123 - 10.10.70 35:31