We’ve dissected Richmond’s 2013 fixture to provide you with the most comprehensive examination imaginable of what’s in store for the Tigers next season.

MCG
• 13 games all-up at the ‘G’  (13 in ’12)
• 9 home games  (9 in ’12)
• 4 away games  (4 in ’12)
• 7 day games  (5 in ’12)
• 1 twilight game  (2 in ’12)
• 4 night games  (5 in ’12)
• 1 Thursday night game  (1 in ’12)
• 1 Friday night game  (1 in ’12)
• 5 Saturday afternoon games  (3 in ’12)
• 0 Saturday twilight games (2 in ’12)
• 2 Saturday night games  (3 in ’12)
• 2 Sunday afternoon games  (2 in ’12)
• 1 Sunday twilight game  (0 in ’12)
*Note that the final home-and-away fixture for 2013, against Essendon at the MCG is a floating one, with date and time to be confirmed late in the season. 


Etihad Stadium
• 3 games all-up at Etihad Stadium  (2 in ’12)
• 1 home game  (1 in ’12)
• 2 away games  (1 in ’12)
• 2 day games (1 in ’12)
• 0 twilight games (0 in ’12)
• 1 night game (1 in ’12)
• 0 Friday night games  (1 in ’12)
• 1 Saturday afternoon game (0 in ’12)
• 1 Saturday night game (0 in ’12)
• 1 Sunday afternoon game  (1 in ’12)


Interstate
• 6 games all-up interstate  (6 in ’12)
• 1 Friday night game at Patersons Stadium (v Fremantle)
• 1 Saturday afternoon game at AAMI Stadium (v Port Adelaide)
• 1 Saturday twilight game at Cazalys Stadium (v Gold Coast)
• 1 Sunday afternoon game at Skoda Stadium (v Greater Western Sydney)
• 1 Sunday twilight game at the SCG (v Sydney)
• 1 Monday night game at Patersons Stadium (v West Coast)


Day by day
• 1 Thursday night game  (1 in ’12)
• 2 Friday night games  (2 in ’12)
• 7 Saturday afternoon games  (6 in ’12)
• 1 Saturday twilight game (3 in ’12)
• 3 Saturday night games  (4 in ’12)
• 4 Sunday afternoon games  (5 in ’12)
• 2 Sunday twilight games  (0 in ’12)
• 1 Monday night game (0 in ’12)
• 1 Thursday game all-up  (1 in ’12)
• 2 Friday games all-up  (2 in ’12)
• 11 Saturday games all-up  (13 in ’12)
• 6 Sunday games all-up  (5 in ’12)
• 1 Monday game all-up (0 in ’12)
• 11 day games all-up (11 in ’12)
• 3 twilight games all-up (3 in ’12)
• 7 night games all-up (7 in ’12)


Them’s the breaks
• 1 12-day break  (0 in ’12)
• 1 nine-day break (1 in ’12)
• 7 eight-day breaks  (4 in ’12)
• 6 seven-day breaks  (9 in ’12)
• 5 six-day breaks  (5 in ’12)


Network coverage
• 10 Foxtel games (9 in ‘12)
• 12 Channel Seven games (12 in ‘12)


Other fixture facts
• Play twice:  Carlton, Essendon, Fremantle, St Kilda, Western Bulldogs.
• Play once:  Collingwood, Geelong, West Coast, Sydney, Hawthorn, Greater Western Sydney, Adelaide, Gold Coast, North Melbourne, Brisbane, Melbourne, Port Adelaide.
• Play only one of the 2012 finalists twice in 2013 - Fremantle.
• Interstate trips to:  Adelaide, Cairns, Sydney, Perth (twice).
• Play Adelaide at the MCG for only the third time since 2001.
• Play Geelong at the MCG for the first time since 2008 and just the second time since 2005.
• No trip to Geelong for only the third time in the past nine seasons.
• Six of the first nine games of the season at the MCG.
• Have a bye between the Round 10 Monday night match against West Coast in Perth and the Round 12 match against Adelaide at the MCG.