COLLINGWOOD 2020 DRAW

COLLINGWOOD 2020 DRAW All Times AEDT
ROUND 1 Friday March 20 7.50pm Footscray v Collingwood Docklands TV: Free to Air	ROUND 2 Thursday March 26 7.20pm Collingwood v Richmond MCG TV: Free to Air
ROUND 3 Saturday April 4 1.45pm Hawthorn v Collingwood MCG TV: Fox	ROUND 4 Thursday April 9 7.35pm Brisbane v Collingwood The Gabba TV: Free to Air
ROUND 5 Saturday April 18 1.10pm Collingwood v Port Adelaide MCG TV: Fox	ROUND 6 Saturday April 25 4.20pm Collingwood v Essendon MCG TV: Free to Air
ROUND 7 Friday May 1 7.50pm Collingwood v St Kilda Docklands TV: Free to Air	ROUND 8 Saturday May 9 7.25pm GWS v Collingwood Sydney Showground TV: Free to Air
ROUND 9 Sunday May 17 1.10pm Carlton v Collingwood MCG TV: Fox	ROUND 10 Sunday May 24 3.20pm Collingwood v North Melbourne Docklands TV: Free to Air
ROUND 11 Friday May 31 3.20pm Collingwood v West Coast MCG TV: Free to Air	ROUND 12 Monday June 8 3.20pm Melbourne v Collingwood MCG TV: Free to Air
ROUND 13 Bye	ROUND 14 Thursday June 18 7.20pm Swans v Collingwood SCG TV: Free to Air
ROUND 15 Sunday June 28 1.10pm Collingwood v Adelaide MCG TV: Fox	ROUND 16 Saturday July 4 1.45pm Collingwood v Brisbane MCG TV: Fox
ROUND 17 Friday July 10 7.50pm Richmond v Collingwood MCG TV: Free to Air	ROUND 18 Friday July 17 7.50pm Collingwood v Geelong MCG TV: Free to Air
ROUND 19 Sunday July 26 5.20pm Fremantle v Collingwood Perth Stadium TV: Fox	ROUND 20 Saturday August 1 1.45pm Essendon v Collingwood MCG TV: Fox
ROUND 21 Saturday August 8 1.45pm Collingwood v Melbourne MCG TV: Fox	ROUND 22 Friday August 14 8.10pm West Coast v Collingwood Perth Stadium TV: Free to Air
ROUND 23 Dates, times, TV TBC Friday August 21 – Sunday August 23 Collingwood v Gold Coast MCG

Collingwood News Collingwood's 2020 AFL fixture has been revealed, with home and away blockbusters against Richmond and West Coast among the highlights. The Magpies will host the Tigers at the MCG on a Thursday night in round two, then face the Tigers again in a Friday night clash at the 'G in round 17. The games against the Eagles are in round 11 (Sunday afternoon at the MCG) and round 22 (Friday night game at Optus Stadium). Collingwood CEO Mark Anderson has described the club’s 2020 AFL fixture as fan friendly. With nine of Collingwood’s last 12 matches of the season scheduled at the MCG and the team slated to play 17 of its 22 matches in Melbourne, Anderson said Collingwood members and fans will have a near weekly opportunity to watch the team play live. “The experience of watching the Pies play live and sharing in the big occasion atmosphere of our matches is one of the best the game has to offer. In 2020, our members and fans have that opportunity regularly,” said Anderson, who added that the club’s numerous marquee broadcast slots would also please fans. Collingwood will play three Thursday night matches in 2020, five Friday night games, feature on Queens Birthday Monday and play, for the first time, the ANZAC Day match against Essendon at twilight. “I think the schedule will allow even more people to watch Collingwood next year, be that from a seat at the ground, on the couch or in front of a tablet,” he said. “I also think that our schedule next year helps us to trial and, hopefully, create new big occasion rituals. We’re really pleased to be helping to establish a new tradition with a match against Brisbane at the Gabba on Easter Thursday. “It was a success this year, from a live crowd and broadcast perspective, and with the match locked in for the next couple of seasons we think it can become a contest everyone looks forward to as they start their break for Easter. “Playing the ANZAC Day match at twilight is also exciting. The RSL were supportive of the idea, given that the match is on a Saturday next year, and it will be the only match played in Victoria on the day. If we can enhance what already is a superb occasion, an iconic contest, then it will be good for not only Collingwood and Essendon fans but everyone who shares in our national day of remembrance.” “From a football perspective, with no back-to-back travel and our six day breaks between matches generally spaced out, the 2020 fixture meets a lot of our requirements. Two trips to Perth late in the season is not ideal and a six day break after the second of them will present a challenge but on the whole there is a lot to like about our 2020 fixture.”