The team that finishes top of the 2026 AFL Ladder will take out the Minor Premiership title. Can the Adelaide Crows do so again after their 2025 Minor Premiership success?
2026 AFL MINOR PREMIERSHIP BETTING
The 2026 AFL Ladder shows the eighteen professional Australian Rules Football teams in the annual AFL Premiership in ranking order from 1 – 18 based on competition points achieved across the 25-week home-and-away season, expanded from 24 rounds ahead of the 2024 season with the addition of a four-week ‘Opening Round’ ahead of round 1. AFL Teams receive four premiership points for a win and two for a draw.
Also helping determine positions on the AFL season ladder along with competition points is ‘percentage’, which is the ratio of points scored – points conceded over the season.
The club sitting number one on the ladder after the Premiership season’s 25 AFL rounds are the Minor Premiers and are awarded the McClelland Trophy.
The AFL Premiership ladder determines the Top 4 and Top 8 teams that will play off in the September finals with the ultimate aim of taking out the Grand Final held in late September or early October.
AFL betting is available on where each club will finish on the ladder with markets open on teams to ‘Make the Top 8’ or ‘Make the Top 4’. AFL McClelland Trophy betting odds are also on offer even before the season starts on the Minor Premiership.
Where teams are positioned on the AFL ladder has an impact on the round-by-round Australian Rules betting odds throughout the season as well as the futures markets open on the AFL Grand Final.
Teams highest on the ladder during the home-and-away AFL season dominate the overall AFL Premiership betting markets.
2026 AFL Ladder
The Adelaide Crows finished top of the 2025 AFL table with 18 wins from 23 games played for the season.
The 2025 AFL Wooden Spoon went to the West Coast Eagles who finished their horror season with just one victory from 23 matches played to end up bottom of the ladder.
What teams will finish on top in the latest AFL Season? Stay up to date below!