Fremantle v Brisbane: AFL Grand Final 2026 at the MCG, first bounce 2.30pm AEST
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Fremantle Dockers and Brisbane Lions met at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the AFL grand final 2026, with the first bounce scheduled for 2.30pm AEST.
Brisbane are into a fourth straight grand final but the first in that run where they start as the favourites.
Jonathan Horn will be at the MCG to report on the Lions’ chase for a premiership three-peat, and has already looked at why they have spent seven years at the pointy end of the ladder.
Brent Crosswell was quoted saying, ‘Give me 80,000 people at the MCG and I was Hercules,’ and ‘Give me a grey day at the Western Oval and I wasn’t worth a cracker.’