The 2026 Telstra AFL Draft will take place across two nights on Thursday, November 19, and Friday, November 20.

This page will be updated as the draft order changes via free agency compensations and trades. After day seven of the trade period, the draft order is:

AFL DRAFT ORDER (as of October 13, 2026)

ROUND ONE

1 Essendon
2 Richmond
3 West Coast
4 Melbourne (received from Port Adelaide in five-club mega deal)
5 Port Adelaide (Zak Butters compensation)
6 Sydney (received from North Melbourne in Nick Blakey trade)
7 Port Adelaide (received from Melbourne in five-club mega deal, tied to Gold Coast)
8 Gold Coast (Ben King compensation)
9 Greater Western Sydney
10 St Kilda
11 Collingwood
12 Port Adelaide (received from Melbourne in five-club mega deal)
13 Carlton
14 Melbourne (received from Western Bulldogs in five-club mega deal)
15 Adelaide
16 St Kilda (received from Geelong in Rowan Marshall trade)
17 Essendon (received from Hawthorn in Zach Merrett trade)
18 Carlton (tied to Sydney)
19 Fremantle
20 Brisbane

ROUND TWO

21 Essendon
22 Richmond
23 West Coast
24 Port Adelaide
25 Greater Western Sydney (received from Carlton in Lachie Whitfield trade, tied to North Melbourne)
26 Greater Western Sydney (received from Carlton in Lachie Whitfield trade, tied to Gold Coast)
27 Essendon (received from Hawthorn in Zach Merrett trade, tied to Greater Western Sydney)
28 Greater Western Sydney (Toby Greene compensation)
29 Hawthorn (tied to St Kilda)
30 Collingwood
31 Carlton (received from Greater Western Sydney in Lachie Whitfield trade, tied to Melbourne)
32 Port Adelaide (tied to Carlton)
33 North Melbourne (received from Melbourne in Zane Duursma trade, Melb received from Western Bulldogs in five-club mega deal)
34 Adelaide
35 Adelaide (Jordon Butts compensation)
36 Geelong
37 Hawthorn
38 Sydney
39 Sydney (Joel Amartey compensation)
40 Fremantle
41 St Kilda (received from Brisbane in Sam Marshall trade)
42 Brisbane (Lachie Neale compensation)

ROUND THREE

43 Adelaide (tied to Essendon)
44 Richmond
45 West Coast
46 Port Adelaide
47 Sydney (received from North Melbourne in Nick Blakey trade)
48 Melbourne (received from Port Adelaide in five-club mega deal, tied to Gold Coast)
49 North Melbourne (received from Melbourne in Zane Duursma trade, tied to Greater Western Sydney)
50 Carlton (received from Greater Western Sydney in Lachie Whitfield trade, GWS received as Kieren Briggs compensation)
51 St Kilda
52 Melbourne (received from North Melbourne in Zane Duursma trade, NM received from Sydney in Nick Blakey trade, tied to Collingwood)
53 Brisbane (tied to Melbourne)
54 Sydney (tied to Carlton)
55 Western Bulldogs
56 Adelaide
57 Geelong
58 West Coast (tied to Hawthorn)
59 Brisbane (tied to Sydney)
60 Fremantle
61 Carlton (tied to Brisbane)

ROUND FOUR

62 Geelong (received from Essendon in Jordan Ridley/Jack Bowes trade)
63 Fremantle (received from Richmond in Nathan O'Driscoll trade)
64 West Coast
65 Port Adelaide
66 North Melbourne
67 Collingwood (received from Gold Coast in Scott Pendlebury trade)
68 Collingwood (tied to Greater Western Sydney)
69 St Kilda
70 Collingwood
71 Hawthorn (tied to Melbourne)
72 Carlton
73 West Coast (tied to Western Bulldogs)
74 North Melbourne (tied to Adelaide)
75 Geelong
76 Sydney (tied to Hawthorn)
77 Greater Western Sydney (received from Collingwood in Jesse Hogan trade, tied to Sydney)
78 Fremantle
79 Brisbane

ROUND FIVE

80 Essendon
81 Gold Coast (tied to Richmond)
82 West Coast
83 Western Bulldogs (received from Port Adelaide in five-club mega deal)
84 North Melbourne
85 Gold Coast
86 Greater Western Sydney
87 St Kilda
88 Collingwood
89 Western Bulldogs (received from Melbourne in five-club mega deal)
90 Carlton
91 Western Bulldogs
92 Adelaide
93 Geelong
94 Hawthorn
95 Sydney
96 Fremantle
97 Brisbane

 

Richmond's future draft picks, as of October 13, 2026, are: 

2026 2027 2028
2 R1 pick R1 pick
22 R2 pick R2 pick
44 R3 pick R3 pick
  R4 pick R4 pick