AFL Travel Ladder

Ranking	Club	KM's travelled	Road Trips (1+ Hour)	Flights
1	Western Bulldogs	15340	3	6
2	Carlton	16928	0	6
3	St Kilda	17490	1	7
4	Essendon	18600	0	5
5	Collingwood	18832	0	6
6	Hawthorn	21138	1	10
7	Port Adelaide	23770	0	10
8	Geelong	25150	7	7
9	Richmond	25196	1	7
10	Adelaide	26312	0	9
11	North Melbourne	27016	1	10
12	Melbourne	28394	0	7
13	Sydney	28488	0	11
14	GWS	30736	0	14
15	Brisbane	49616	1	11
16	Gold Coast	59608	1	13
17	Fremantle	73436	0	11
18	West Coast	74136	0	11

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Thanks Demonland Interesting that we travel interstate km’s on par with Sydney and GWS. WCE, Freo, Brissie & GC do the heavy lifting due to distant locations and Bullies, Blues, Bummers and Pies do the least. Sounds Fair.!!

Edited May 17, 2024May 17 by DeeZone
Added thanks and distance

One thing I wonder with the WA teams, have the AFL ever considered fixturing them for two away games and then two home games each to limit the travel?

They could come stay in Melbourne for a week, play two games and then have two home games. Or you could do Melbourne and Sydney so there is only a small flight inbetween.

Doesn't tell the full story. The chart above suggets St Kilda have a cruisy run, but it's wrong. St Kilda played at 7 different venues in the first 9 rounds. This includes trips Geelong, Launceston, Canberra and two different venues in Adelaide. Those a short trips so they don't show up as KMs travel, but they've had no continuity. After Round 14 they will have played at 9 venues.

They end the season with something like 8 of 9 games being at Marvel, but by that time their season will be done.

On the other hand we just played 4 straight at the MCG. Our trip to Adelaide sucked for a range of reasons, but at least it was at Adelaide Oval both times.

Edited May 17, 2024May 17 by seventyfour

5 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

One thing I wonder with the WA teams, have the AFL ever considered fixturing them for two away games and then two home games each to limit the travel?

They could come stay in Melbourne for a week, play two games and then have two home games. Or you could do Melbourne and Sydney so there is only a small flight inbetween.

That will likely put too much strain on the fixturing algorithm as its already heavily loaded up attending to revenue,profit and appeasing Collingwood.

Our round trip to Alice makes this look far worse for us than it actually is.

I assume the number of flights is actually double...that is "there and back". Is that correct? Which raises a separate question: Do any clubs play a triangular (three flights) trip, such as Perth to Melbourne to Sydney then back to Perth, for example? 

Ah yes blues and pies have it pretty good. No surprise.