how many afl rounds

The AFL men’s premiership season currently has 24 rounds scheduled, with each club playing 23 matches and having one bye across those 24 rounds.

Quick Scoop

• The standard modern AFL “home-and-away” season is built around 23 games per club.

• To fit a bye for every team, the league stretches this into 24 fixture rounds, so one of those rounds each club sits out.

• After the home-and-away rounds, the competition continues into a multi‑week finals series, which is separate from the regular‑season round count.

So if you’re asking “how many AFL rounds in a season?” people usually mean:

• 24 fixture rounds in the regular season (with one bye per team), plus
• several weeks of finals on top of that.

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