Here follows the AFL news list for this week.

1 PROGRAM OF MATCHES (all times are local) 

Round Thirteen:

Friday June 17

North Melbourne v Hawthorn at Etihad Stadium, 7.50pm

Saturday June 18

Brisbane Lions v West Coast at the Gabba, 1.40pm

Fremantle v Port Adelaide at Domain Stadium, 2.35pm; Curtain Raiser (NAB AFL Under 18s Championships) – WA v Allies, 11.35am

Western Bulldogs v Geelong Cats at Etihad Stadium, 7.25pm

Sunday June 19

Sydney Swans v Melbourne at the SCG, 1.10pm; Curtain Raiser (NEAFL) – Sydney Swans v Aspley, 9.30am

Essendon v GWS Giants at Etihad Stadium, 4.40pm

NAB AFL Under 18s Championships

Division 1

Saturday June 18

WA v Allies at Domain Stadium, 11.35am

Sunday June 19

SA v Vic Metro at AAMI Stadium, 10.45am

2 IMPENDING MILESTONES

200 games – Bryce Gibbs, Carlton

200 games – Heath Grundy, Sydney Swans

100 games – Chad Wingard, Port Adelaide

50 games – Zac Merrett, Essendon

50 games – Luke McDonald, North Melbourne

50 games – Marcus Bontempelli, Western Bulldogs

50 club games – Stefan Martin, Brisbane Lions

50 games – Seb Ross, St Kilda

350 Father/Son Games – Wallis family. Mitch is due to play his 89th senior game after father Steve played 261 games for Footscray.

Most Club Games – Drew Petrie, North Melbourne. Drew is due to play his 306th game this week, drawing level with Wayne Schimmelbusch and Adam Simpson in third spot in the club’s history. The most games for North Melbourne are Brent Harvey (421 games, 1996–current), Glenn Archer (311 games, 1992-2007), Wayne Schimmelbusch (306 games, 1973-87), Adam Simpson (306 games, 1995-2009), Drew Petrie (305 games, 2001-current), Keith Greig (294 games, 1971-85), Anthony Stevens (292 games, 1989-2004), Mick Martyn (287 games (1988-2002), David Dench (275 games, 1969-84), Michael Firrito (264 games, 2003-current).

750 Career Goals – Lance Franklin, Sydney Swans. Lance needs one goal to reach 750 career goals as the 13th player to reach this mark in VFL/AFL history, having so far kicked 749 goals since his debut in 2005.

3 TRIBUNAL MATCH REVIEW PROCESS

The expected process for the 2016 AFL Season under the AFL Match Review system is that the AFL will issue a media release late on the Monday after each round detailing the penalties to be offered to players for incidents from that round of matches, or the reasons why no further action was to be taken.

The clubs and players then have until 11am on the Tuesday morning to decide whether to accept the penalty on offer, or whether they wish to contest the charge at a Tribunal hearing, to usually be held on the Tuesday night. The AFL will formally detail all instances on the Tuesday of whether cases will proceed to the Tribunal or not.

The Match Review Panel sat yesterday, Monday June 13, to consider the first eight matches of the round. There were no players were reported from yesterday’s match at the MCG, which the MRP will review later today.

4 TRIBUNAL HEARING LOCATION

The AFL Tribunal is held in the AFL media room on Level LB2 at Etihad Stadium. The AFL wishes to advise that all media covering the Tribunal hearings at Etihad Stadium need to park in the B2 car park (entry off the Bourke St extension) and report to the Etihad Stadium security office to gain admittance via the internal ring road. There will be no access via AFL House to any AFL Tribunal hearing through the season, as our offices will have closed by 6pm each day.

5  CURRENTLY SUSPENDED PLAYERS

The AFL wishes to advise the players that have completed and currently serving MRP suspensions across the competition are as follows:

Completed:

Tom Hawkins, Geelong Cats. One match from round 11.

Jon Ceglar, Hawthorn. One match from round 11.

Currently Suspended:

Tom Jonas, Port Adelaide. Three matches to serve. Six matches from round nine.

6 APPLICATIONS FOR DAY PASSES FOR AFL MATCHES

The AFL wishes to advise it has updated its system for the production of day passes for late accreditation applications to cover single matches during the Toyota AFL premiership season. Day passes are now printed with a headshot, meaning any application must be lodged by Wednesday 5pm in the week of the match being requested, with a suitable headshot. Please contact Patrick Keane for any further queries.

7 NOMINATED ROOKIE PROMOTIONS

The AFL wishes to advise the following players have been promoted to the senior list under the various provisions of the rookie rules:

Carlton – Ciaran Byrne (pre-season nominated rookie promotion).

Collingwood – Corey Gault (pre-season nominated rookie promotion).

Essendon – Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti (WADA-banned player rookie promotion).

Essendon – Conor McKenna (WADA-banned player rookie promotion).

Gold Coast Suns – Danny Stanley (pre-season nominated rookie promotion).

Melbourne – Josh Wagner (WADA-banned player rookie promotion).

North Melbourne – Majak Daw (pre-season nominated rookie promotion).

Port Adelaide – Nathan Krakouer (pre-season nominated rookie promotion).

Richmond – Jason Castagna (pre-season nominated rookie promotion).

St Kilda – Jason Holmes (WADA-banned player rookie promotion).

8 LONG TERM INJURY LIST

The AFL wishes to advise the following recent changes have been made to player lists, via the long-term injury list rules:

Fremantle has upgraded Tanner Smith from the rookie list as the replacement for Nat Fyfe, who was already on the long-term injury list.

Western Bulldogs have re-instated Clay Smith to the senior list from the long-term injury list.

Western Bulldogs have placed Josh Prudden on the long-term injury list and upgraded Jed Adcock from the rookie list as his replacement.

9 KEY DATES, NAB AFL TRADE PERIOD / DRAFT PROCESS

Please find below the INDICATIVE key dates for the 2016 season around club list requirements, NAB AFL Trade Period and the NAB AFL Draft Process:

Thursday 6 October – Sunday 9 October – AFL Draft Combine

Friday 7 October - AFL Restricted Free Agency Offer and Unrestricted Free Agency Period Commences

Monday 10 October 10am - NAB AFL Trade Period Commences

Sunday 16 October 5pm - Close of AFL Restricted Free Agency Offer and Unrestricted Free Agency Period.

Wednesday 19 October - AFL Restricted Free Agency Matching Offer Three-Day Period Ends 

Thursday 20 October 2pm – NAB AFL Trade Period Closes

Friday 21 October 5pm - Application to Relist a Player Close

Monday 31 October 2pm - List Lodgement (1) ; Rookie Promotion to Primary List; Retained 2nd & 3rd Year Rookies; International Scholarship Player; Alternate Talent Player Nominations; Club Notification of Rookie Players Not Accepting a Contract of Offer; Nomination of Draft Eligible Father/Son Players Lodged; TPP Pre-Season Estimates (1).

Tuesday 1 November - AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (1) Commences

Tuesday 8 November - AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (1) Closes, Out of Contract Listed AFL Primary List Players Draft Nomination Form and Player Request for Removal from List Form Lodged with AFL

Wednesday 9 November 2pm - List Lodgement (2); TPP Pre-Season Estimates (2)

Thursday 10 November - AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (2) Commences

Friday 18 November 2pm - Delisted Primary List Draft Nomination Form Lodgement; Non–Retained Rookie Players Draft Nomination Form Lodgement; Players Not Registered or Played for Three years Rookie List Form lodgement; New or Expired (after 3 years) Draft Nomination Form Lodgement, AFL Father-Son Bidding Nominations.

Friday 18 November 5pm - AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (2) Closes

Friday 25 November - NAB AFL Draft Selection Meeting (Sydney) including Father/Son & Academy Players Bidding.

Saturday 26 November - AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (3) Commences

Sunday 27 November 2pm - AFL Delisted Free Agency Period (3) Concludes

Monday 28 November - AFL Club List Lodgement (3).

Monday 28 November 4pm - NAB AFL Pre-Season Draft Selection Meeting (Telstra Webex)

Monday 28 November 4.05pm - Notification of Pre-Selected Rookies if not selected in the Pre-Season Draft.

Monday 28 November 4.10pm - NAB AFL Rookie Draft Selection Meeting (Telstra Webex)

Wednesday 30 November 2pm - Final AFL Club List Lodgement; Final TPP Pre-Season Estimates

10 2016 FEMALE FOOTBALL EXHIBITION SERIES

Please find attached the schedule of remaining matches for 2016 (all times are local):

Western Bulldogs defeated Melbourne on March 6

SA Blue defeated SA Red on April 2

Sydney Swans defeated GWS Giants on April 9

West Coast defeated Fremantle on April 9

NT defeated Tasmania on April 10

Brisbane Lions defeated Gold Coast Suns on April 16

Melbourne defeated Queensland on May 22

Western Bulldogs defeated Western Australia on June 5

South Australia defeated New South Wales on June 5

Round Three – Hampson-Hardeman Cup

Saturday September 3 

Western Bulldogs v Melbourne at venue tbc

11 FIXTURE FOR 2016 NAB AFL U18s CHAMPIONSHIPS

Division 2

NT def Tas on May 6

NSW/ACT def Qld on May 8

Qld def NT on May 14

NSW/ACT def Tas on May 14

Qld def Tas on May 22

NSW/ACT def NT on May 22

Division 1

SA def Allies on June 4

WA def Vic Country on June 5

SA def WA on June 12

Vic Metro def Vic Country on June 13

Sat June 18, WA v Allies at Perth, 11.35am

Sun June 19, SA v Vic Metro at AAMI Stadium, 10.45am

Fri June 24, SA v Vic Country at Etihad Stadium, 12.35pm

Fri June 24, Allies v Vic Metro at Etihad Stadium, 2.35pm

Wed June 29, Vic Metro v WA at Simonds Stadium, 3.05pm

Wed June 29, Vic Country v Allies at Simonds Stadum, 5.05pm 

12 FIXTURE FOR 2016 NAB AFL U16s CHAMPIONSHIPS

Tas def Qld on June 11

NSW/ACT def NT on June 11

Sat June 25, SA v WA at Adelaide, 11.20am

Sun June 26, Vic Metro v Vic Country at 11.30am

Mon July 4, SA v Vic Metro at Metricon Stadium, 1pm

Mon July 4, Vic Country v WA at Metricon Stadium, 3pm

Tues July 5, NSW/ACT v Qld at Metricon Stadium, 11am

Tues July 5, Tas v NT at Metricon Stadium, 1pm

Fri July 8, SA v Vic Country at Southport, 10am

Fri July 8, Vic Metro v WA at Southport, 12pm

Sat July 9, NSW/ACT v Tas at Southport, 10am

Sat July 9, Qld v NT at Southport, 12pm

13 2016 NAB AFL DRAFT – TRADED FUTURE SELECTIONS

As a reminder to all media, the following selections at this year’s 2016 NAB AFL Draft were traded during last year’s trade period.

Round One

Gold Coast Suns received Melbourne round one selection.

GWS Giants received Collingwood round one selection.

GWS Giants received Geelong round one selection, via Carlton on-trade.

Round Two

Brisbane Lions received St Kilda round two selection, via Collingwood on-trade.

Gold Coast Suns received Fremantle round two selection.

Gold Coast Suns received Port Adelaide round two selection.

Gold Coats Suns received Richmond round two selection.

GWS Giants received Adelaide Crows' round two selection.

Round Three

Brisbane Lions received North Melbourne round three selection.

Carlton received Western Bulldogs round three selection.

Geelong Cats received Brisbane Lions round three selection.

Round Four

Western Bulldogs received Carlton round four selection.

Western Bulldogs received Sydney Swans round four selection.

Round Five

Geelong Cats received GWS Giants round five selection.

14 SIMONDS STADIUM MEDIA ACCESS DURING REDEVELOPMENT

For all matches at Simonds Stadium this season, during the Brownlow Stand re-development, enclosed, flat footwear must be worn. Please note that the construction area, behind the temporary benches, is a closed area under site rules while play is underway during all matches.

15 MEDIA ENTRY TO THE MCG

The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) wishes to advise all media working at matches at the MCG they should enter the ground through Gate 3, unless they have underground parking for particular matches. Access control at the ground does not allow entry at Gate 2, for AFL accreditation passes. Further, the MCC also wishes to advise that any equipment being taken up to the host radio boxes or television broadcast boxes should be taken up via goods lift 8, and not the patron lifts 5-7.

16 MEDIA ENTRY TO ETIHAD STADIUM, PRIOR TO PUBLIC GATE TIMES / COLLECTION OF AFL RECORDS

All media who require entry to Etihad Stadium before public gates are open can do the following: Media may enter via Gate 9 from Level B3 (carpark) and Level 1 (concourse) one and a half hours prior to gate entry time. There will be a staff member at each entry point who will check AFL accreditation and will grant access to the Corporate Suites Level where they can access the Press Box, Radio Boxes and TV Broadcast area. A match day AFL record can be collected (one per person) from the customer service staff on the corporate suites level.