AFL Tables Scraper

Scrape AFL/VFL match results, player statistics, and season ladders from afltables.com — the definitive historical archive of Australian Rules Football, covering every season from 1897 to today. Plain HTTP, no login, no cookies, no proxy required.

What this actor does

• Four modes: matches, playerStats, ladder, brownlowMedal
• Match results — every game of a season: scores by quarter, final score, date, venue, attendance, margin, and a link to the detailed match-stats page
• Player statistics — full season per-player box scores: games, kicks, marks, handballs, disposals, goals, behinds, hitouts, tackles, clearances, clangers, Brownlow votes, contested/uncontested possessions, and more (advanced stats are only tracked from the era the AFL started recording them; older seasons return whichever fields the source actually published)
• Ladder / standings — final season table: position, played/won/drawn/lost, home & away records, points for/against with goal-behind breakdowns, percentage, and premiership points (plus finals ranking for finals-era seasons) — this single table doubles as each team's season summary
• Brownlow Medal winners — the full year-by-year winners list (1924-present): player, team, total votes, games played, 3/2/1-vote game counts, games polled, and vote average — including joint/tied winner years
• 129 seasons of data — 1897 (the first VFL season) through the current AFL season
• Team filter — restrict any mode to one of 21 current + historical AFL/VFL clubs
• Empty fields are omitted — a record only ever contains fields the source actually published

Output per mode

matches

• season, round, roundNumber (omitted for finals), isFinals
• homeTeam, homeTeamUrl, homeTeamSlug, homeScore, homeScoreProgression (quarter-by-quarter)
• awayTeam, awayTeamUrl, awayTeamSlug, awayScore, awayScoreProgression
• matchDate, matchDateIso, venue, venueUrl, attendance
• isDraw, winningTeam, margin
• matchStatsUrl, sourceUrl
• Bye rounds are emitted as separate records: season, round, roundNumber, isBye: true, team, teamUrl, teamSlug

playerStats

• season, team, teamUrl, teamSlug, jumperNumber, playerName, playerNameRaw (source Last, First form), playerUrl
• games, kicks, marks, handballs, disposals, disposalAverage, goals, behinds, hitouts, tackles, rebound50s, inside50s, clearances, clangers, freesFor, freesAgainst, brownlowVotes, contestedPossessions, uncontestedPossessions, contestedMarks, marksInside50, onePercenters, bounces, goalAssists, percentGamePlayed, substitute

ladder

• season, position, team, teamUrl, teamSlug, played, wins, draws, losses, homeRecord, awayRecord
• pointsFor, pointsForGoals, pointsForBehinds, pointsForAccuracyPercent
• pointsAgainst, pointsAgainstGoals, pointsAgainstBehinds, pointsAgainstAccuracyPercent
• percentage, premiershipPoints, finalPosition, finalRating (finals-era seasons only)

brownlowMedal

• season (the year the medal was awarded), playerName, playerUrl, team, teamUrl, teamSlug
• votes (total), gamesPlayed, threeVoteGames, twoVoteGames, oneVoteGames, gamesPolled, voteAverage
• Not season-scoped — always returns the full 1924-present list (respecting maxItems and the team filter); the season input field is ignored for this mode
• Joint/tied winner years emit one record per winner (e.g. 2012's Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin)

Every record also carries recordType, scrapedAt, and sourceUrl.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	matches	matches / playerStats / ladder / brownlowMedal
season	integer	2025	AFL/VFL season year, 1897–2026 (ignored by brownlowMedal)
roundNumber	integer	–	Filter matches/byes to one home-and-away round (1–30)
includeFinals	bool	true	Include finals-series matches (mode=matches)
includeByes	bool	true	Include bye-round records (mode=matches)
team	string	–	Restrict to one club (all modes)
maxItems	int	100	Hard cap on emitted records (1–2000)
proxyConfiguration	object	AUTO	Not required by the source; kept as a resilience fallback

Example: 2025 Grand Final round results

{
  "mode": "matches",
  "season": 2025,
  "includeFinals": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: Geelong's 2025 player stats

{
  "mode": "playerStats",
  "season": 2025,
  "team": "geelong",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: final 1897 ladder (the first VFL season)

{
  "mode": "ladder",
  "season": 1897
}

Example: every Brownlow Medal winner (1924-present)

{
  "mode": "brownlowMedal",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Use cases

• Sports analytics — build historical models of team form, scoring trends, and margins
• Fantasy football tools — feed per-player season stats into fantasy scoring engines
• Betting research — study historical venue/attendance/margin patterns
• Journalism & content — pull accurate historical scorelines and ladders for articles
• Academic research — long-run (1897–present) sports-history datasets

FAQ

What's AFL Tables? A free, long-running statistical archive of the Australian Football League (and its VFL predecessor), maintained since the 1990s. It's the most complete public record of AFL/VFL results and player statistics.

How far back does the data go? Every season from 1897 (the first VFL season) to the current season.

Why are some player-stat fields missing for older seasons? The AFL/VFL didn't track advanced stats (contested possessions, clangers, etc.) until relatively recently. The actor only emits fields the source page actually published for that season — it never fabricates data.

What are homeTeam / awayTeam? afltables.com always lists the two teams of a fixture in a fixed order; the first-listed team is the host per the official AFL draw.

What does roundNumber being absent mean? The match was part of the finals series (Qualifying/Elimination/Semi/Preliminary/Grand Final), which isn't numbered like home-and-away rounds — see round and isFinals instead.

Does the ladder include finals ranking? Yes, when available — finalPosition and finalRating are populated only for seasons that used a finals-era ranking system on the source page.

Does the Brownlow Medal mode need a season? No — mode=brownlowMedal always returns the complete year-by-year winners list; the season input is ignored for this mode. Use maxItems or the team filter to narrow it down.

Is a proxy required? No. afltables.com is a plain, unprotected HTML site. The proxyConfiguration input defaults to Apify's free AUTO datacenter group purely as a resilience fallback and adds no cost.

How fresh is the data? afltables.com updates within a day or two of each round being completed.

Limitations

Each team's index page (afltables.com/afl/teams/<team>_idx.html) links out to over a dozen additional, differently-structured pages per club — individual career player records, coaching lists, win/loss records, attendance history, venue records, streaks, and season-by-season game lists. These are genuinely useful axes but each requires its own dedicated parser for a page format not shared with matches/playerStats/ladder/brownlowMedal, so they're out of scope for this actor. The existing team filter already covers the common case of narrowing any of the four modes to one club's season-scoped data.