With the Suns defeating Port for the first time since their maiden AFL win in Round 5 of 2011, the new leader for the longest active AFL club vs club winning streak, in terms of time, is Melbourne against the Gold Coast, with Melbourne having won 11 consecutive games dating back to Round 1 of 2015 (April 4, 2015 - 3,390 days ago), with the Suns' last win against the Demons coming back in Round 5 of 2014 (April 20, 2014).
Although, the longest current run in terms of games won is Geelong's run against North Melbourne, with 12 consecutive wins since Round 12 of 2016.
Still, the Suns-Demons streak is a good chance of ending this year, with the teams due to play on the Gold Coast in Round 23, where the Suns are a 10-goal better team than they are south of Tweed Heads.
As an odd fact to all this, Gold Coast's gap between wins against Port was the longest gap between head-to-head wins in the AFL era (13 years, 2 months and 20 days), and while there are multiple streaks in league history to last more than 10 years, only 3 have spanned across every year of a particular decade (I.E 1980 to 1989):
- Collingwood defeated Hawthorn in all 14 meetings during the 1930s, part of Collingwood's record 29-game winning streak against Hawthorn that spanned from Hawthorn's entry into the VFL in 1925 until the Mayblooms finally won in 1942.
- Hawthorn defeated St Kilda in all 19 meetings during the 1980s, part of a 20-game streak which started in their last meeting of 1979 and ended in their first meeting of 1990, when St Kilda won by 3 points at Moorabbin in Round 6.
- And Richmond defeated the Brisbane Lions in all 14 of their meetings during the 2010s, a streak that would end at 15 consecutive wins after the Lions won the 2020 Qualifying Final - This is also the longest Head-to-Head winning streak of the AFL era.
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