2025 AFL season

2025 AFL premiership season
Overview
Date7 March – 27 September 2025
Teams18
PremiersBrisbane Lions
5th premiership
Runners-upGeelong
11th runners-up result
Minor premiersAdelaide
3rd minor premiership
Brownlow MedallistMatt Rowell (Gold Coast)
39 votes
Coleman MedallistJeremy Cameron (Geelong)
83 goals
Attendance
Matches played216
Total attendance8,257,027 (38,227 per match)
Highest (H&A)92,044 (round 7, Collingwood v Essendon)
Highest (finals)100,022 (grand final, Geelong v Brisbane Lions)

The 2025 AFL season was the 129th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 7 March to 27 September, comprising a 23-match home-and-away season over 25 rounds, followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clubs.

The Brisbane Lions won the premiership, defeating Geelong by 47 points in the 2025 AFL Grand Final; it was their second consecutive premiership and fifth AFL premiership overall. Adelaide won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with an 18–5 win–loss record, but lost both of its finals. Gold Coast's Matt Rowell won the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and Geelong's Jeremy Cameron won his second Coleman Medal as the league's leading goalkicker.