2024 AFL season starts with four weekends, featuring an atypical "Round 0" and "Gather Round", with unique venue and bye arrangements.

The AFL 2024 season starts with an unusual schedule: Four weekends of games, with only one full roster of nine games; "Round 0" had four games, and two teams had byes in rounds two and three. The upcoming "Gather Round" will have a full card of nine games, but all played at Adelaide Oval, Norwood, or Mount Barker, not a typical weekend. Rounds five and six will have two teams with byes each time.