The 2026 AFL home-and-away season runs from March through to late August, with 18 clubs each playing 23 rounds before the finals series begins. Matches are spread across Thursday evenings, Friday nights, Saturday afternoons and evenings, and Sunday afternoons — making it easy to lose track of which game is on when, especially across different Australian time zones.
The finals series runs from early September through to Grand Final day in late September. Sport to Calendar includes all finals fixtures as they are announced, so your calendar stays current right through to the season decider at the MCG.
The AFL Women's competition has grown to 18 clubs and operates on a separate schedule that runs from late summer into autumn. Because the AFLW season overlaps with pre-season AFL activity and the opening men's rounds, fans following both competitions can find themselves managing a dense calendar of fixtures across two different competitions simultaneously. Sport to Calendar lets you combine AFL and AFLW fixtures into a single .ics file, so both competitions appear in your personal calendar without any duplication of effort.
The AFL releases a full fixture before the season begins, but match times and venues are routinely revised throughout the year — often for broadcast scheduling, weather, or stadium availability. This is one of the most common frustrations for fans who add matches to their calendar manually: a game gets shifted from a Saturday afternoon to a Friday evening and the calendar still shows the original time. If you use Sport to Calendar's Google Calendar integration, you can re-sync at any time to pull the latest fixture data and update your existing events automatically.
The .ics file format (short for iCalendar) is an open internet standard — defined in RFC 5545 — for sharing calendar and scheduling information. It is now supported by every major calendar application on every platform. When you import an .ics file, each match becomes a proper calendar event with a title, start and end time, and location — identical to an event you would have created manually, but generated automatically from the official fixture. The format is plain text and not tied to any one app or service, so it works across Google, Apple, Microsoft, and hundreds of other calendar tools.
📅 Google Calendar (Web)
💡 Or use the Google sign-in on this site to skip the download entirely.
🍎 Apple Calendar (iPhone / iPad)
💡 Events sync via iCloud to your Mac and other Apple devices automatically.
🖥️ Apple Calendar (Mac)
💡 You can also drag the .ics file directly onto the Calendar app icon in your Dock.
📧 Microsoft Outlook (Windows / Mac)
💡 On newer Outlook versions, double-clicking the .ics file opens the import wizard directly.