AFL fans are in for a treat said Seven at its Upfronts which started this week in Sydney. The Upfront roadshows then move to Melbourne and Adelaide.
Seven’s AFL game days
In 2025 Seven is presenting AFL content every day of the week during the season, including games on 22 Friday nights, 15 Thursday nights, 23 Sundays, eight Saturday nights, six marquee games, three roving marquee games, every game in the Finals Series and – exclusive to Seven and 7plus – the Brownlow Medal and the AFL Grand Final.
Seven shared a graphic that detailed the new lineup across the week in addition to game broadcasts.
Monday: The Agenda Setters with Kane Cornes and Nick Riewoldt
Tuesday: The Agenda Setters with Kane Cornes and Nick Riewoldt (maybe with Caro and Hutchy too?)
Wednesday: The Front Bar, Unfiltered with Hamish McLachlan, 7News AFL Podcast with Kane Cornes
Thursday: Extra Time (New post-match program)
Friday: Extra Time
Saturday: Local leagues coverage VFL, SANFL, WAFL
Sunday: Sunday Footy Feast, The Wash Up, Kane’s Call
7Sport’s Chris Jones and the changing 7AFL schedule
The Front Bar’s regular AFL shows and cricket and year-in-review specials return in 2025, along with a series of brand new AFL offerings for Seven and 7plus Sport as detailed above.
Seven is also commissioning a pre-season documentary inside an AFL club, in the lead-up to the season, to run after The Front Bar titled Full Sweat.
The 7plus Sport and Seven AFL team are also working on an alternative kids’ commentary for selected Sunday afternoon matches.
Seven Network director of sport, Chris Jones, said: “The 2024 AFL season was extraordinary. A year for the ages, but we’re even more excited about what’s to come in 2025.”
Jones was onstage at the Upfront, alongside his 7Sport colleague, head of sport digital, Kirsty Bradmore.
Jones continued: “We felt it was time to change it up, to prepare for our new and younger audiences, and we’ve welcomed some fresh faces to help us reset the AFL media landscape for good.
“New recruits including Kane Cornes, Nick Riewoldt and others will be joining our established commentary team. They make us more dynamic and drive our strategy to have a seven-days-a-week football offering,” he said.
“One of the first things we identified was that if we wanted to be the home of footy, we needed to fill out the offering and create the best footy programs in the land.
“From Monday to Friday every night, there will be AFL content to watch or stream on Seven and 7plus Sport. So, with more nights of footy programming throughout the 2025 AFL Premiership Season, as well as live match broadcasts streamed on 7plus Sport for the first time, there has never been a more exciting time for AFL fans,” Jones said.
“The seven-day-a-week AFL offering will be amplified on 7plus Sport, with replays, minis, highlights, video on demand, and unique exclusive content from the nightly magazine programs, which will be streamed live as well. 7plus Sport will again feature Club Hubs, encouraging AFL clubs to present their bespoke content specific to their fans. We will work to amplify that content, giving it national reach.”
Kane Cornes and Abbey Holmes on 2025
Seven’s Abbey Holmes shared the stage with Seven’s star recruit Kane Cornes and asked what he was looking forward to. “To think that I could possibly call a game with Bruce would be amazing. I’m not sure if that’s even possible.”
Cornes then turned to current Seven commentators: “I think they’re all superstars, I don’t want to reel off the names, but James Brayshaw is a star. Hamish McLachlan I’ve loved for a long time and really looked up to him. He’s been a great mentor of mine. But just to bring that energy and how we work as a team, I think Luke Hodge is an absolute star on the rise and just gets better and better every year.”
Both Bornes and Holmes have turned to the US for some time out from footy ahead of the next season. Holmes was recently in the US where she successfully completed the New York Marathon. Cornes revealed to Mediaweek he is getting away to the US soon for a family vacation.
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