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The 2025 AFL Free Kick Ladder - Final standings
Andrew Slevison • August 28th, 2025 5:30 pm
As Paul Roos famously once said - Here it is!
The Free Kick Ladder has had frenzied interest yet again in 2025 for varying reasons.
Umpiring can cause many a headache amongst the supporting fraternity and we all want a bit of proof that we're being hard done by. Or on the flip side taken care of.
Without further ado, to wrap it up for 2025, the numbers of the Free Kick Ladder are below for you to dive into.
See the categories and scroll further for the full FK Ladder.
Best differentials
1 - Essendon (+52)2 - Brisbane (+48)3 - Hawthorn (+47)4 - Carlton (+45)5 - Geelong (+38)
Worst differentials
1 - North Melbourne (-61)2 - GWS Giants (-58)3 - Port Adelaide (-51)4 - West Coast (-35)5 - Richmond (-29)
Most frees for
1 - Adelaide (503)2 - Carlton (500)3 - Gold Coast (482)4 - Hawthorn (465)5 - Essendon (463)
Least frees for
1 - Richmond (395)2 - GWS Giants (409)3 - Western Bulldogs (423)4 - West Coast (425)5 - North Melbourne (429)
Most frees against
1 - North Melbourne (490)2 - Port Adelaide (484)Eq.3 - Adelaide, Gold Coast & Fremantle (481)6 - GWS Giants (467)
Least frees against
1 - Geelong (407)2 - Brisbane (408)3 - Essendon (411)4 - Western Bulldogs (412)5 - Hawthorn (418)
The 2025 Free Kick Ladder - Round 24
We would like to congratulate Essendon for finishing on top of the Free Kick Ladder in 2025.
The Bombers ended with a differential of +52 with the fifth most frees for and third least against.
They finished +4 ahead of Brisbane with a +48 differential helped by the second fewest frees against.
In third spot is Hawthorn on +47 made possible by the fourth most frees for and fifth least against.
Making up the top five is Carlton (+45), with the second most frees for, and Geelong (+38), who gave up the fewest frees.
At the bottom is North Melbourne who finished with -61 because of the most free kicks against.
The Roos were narrowly below GWS on -58 with the second fewest frees for, and Port Adelaide on -51 due to the second most frees against.
Fourth bottom is West Coast on -35 after attracting the fourth fewest frees and Richmond next on -29 with the least frees for 2025.
See the 2025 FK Ladder below:
