2026 AFL draft

2026 AFL draft
2026 AFL draft
General information
Dates	TBA – Mid-season Draft; TBA – National Draft; TBA – Rookie Draft
Location	Marvel Stadium
Network	Fox Footy
Sponsored by	National Australia Bank
Overview
League	AFL
	← 2025 2027 →

DatesTBA – Mid-season Draft
TBA – National Draft
TBA – Rookie Draft

Rd	Orig. Club	New Club	Acquired via	Ref
1	Gold Coast	Melbourne	Christian Petracca trade	^[1]
1	Sydney	Carlton	Charlie Curnow and Will Hayward trade	^[2]
2	St Kilda	Hawthorn	via West Coast (Liam Ryan trade) on-traded to Hawthorn (pick swap)	^[3]
	Carlton	Port Adelaide	Corey Durdin and Ben Ainsworth trade	^[4]
	Melbourne	Greater Western Sydney	via Gold Coast (Christian Petracca trade) on-traded to Greater Western Sydney (pick swap)	^[1]
	Hawthorn	Brisbane Lions	pick swap
	Gold Coast	Carlton	pick swap
	North Melbourne	Carlton	pick swap
3	Melbourne	Brisbane Lions	via Collingwood Brodie Mihocek trade on-traded to Brisbane Lions (pick swap)	^[5]
	Essendon	Adelaide	via Gold Coast Brayden Fiorini trade on-traded to Adelaide (pick swap)	^[6]
	Carlton	Sydney	Oliver Florent trade	^[7]
	Sydney	Hawthorn	Jai Serong trade	^[8]
	Collingwood	Sydney	Jack Buller trade	^[9]
	Greater Western Sydney	Melbourne	Clayton Oliver trade	^[10]
	Gold Coast	Port Adelaide	pick swap
	Hawthorn	West Coast	pick swap
	Brisbane Lions	Carlton	pick swap
4	Melbourne	Hawthorn	Changkuoth Jiath trade	^[11]
	Hawthorn	Sydney	Jai Serong trade	^[8]
	Adelaide	North Melbourne	Finnbar Maley trade	^[12]
	Collingwood	Sydney	Jack Buller trade	^[9]
	Western Bulldogs	West Coast	pick swap
	Greater Western Sydney	Collingwood	pick swap

v t e 2026 AFL season
Events	AFL Origin Pre-season matches Home-and-away season Finals series Grand final
Awards	All-Australian team Brownlow Medal Rising Star Other awards
Club overviews	Adelaide Brisbane Lions Carlton Collingwood Essendon Fremantle Geelong Gold Coast Greater Western Sydney Hawthorn Melbourne North Melbourne Port Adelaide Richmond St Kilda Sydney West Coast Western Bulldogs
Players	Debuts Retirements and delistings Mid-season draft Player movement period National draft Rookie draft
See also	2026 AFL Women's season
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2026 AFL draft
General information
Dates	TBA – Mid-season Draft TBA – National Draft TBA – Rookie Draft
Location	Marvel Stadium
Network	Fox Footy
Sponsored by	National Australia Bank
Overview
League	AFL
← 2025 2027 →

Table key
R	Rookie listed player
B	Category B Rookie listed player