# List of VFL debuts in 1963

The 1963 Victorian Football League (VFL) season was the sixty-seventh season of the VFL. The season saw 113 Australian rules footballers make their senior VFL debut and three players transferring to new clubs having previously played in the VFL.

## Summary

Summary of debuts in 1963 :
| Club | VFL debuts | Change of club |
| Carlton | 7 | 0 |
| Collingwood | 8 | 0 |
| Essendon | 7 | 0 |
| Fitzroy | 19 | 0 |
| Footscray | 13 | 0 |
| Geelong | 6 | 0 |
| Hawthorn | 5 | 0 |
| Melbourne | 7 | 0 |
| North Melbourne | 9 | 2 |
| Richmond | 11 | 1 |
| St Kilda | 8 | 0 |
| South Melbourne | 13 | 0 |
| Total | 113 | 3 |

## Debuts

| Name | Club | Age at debut | Round debuted | Games | Goals | Notes |
| Kevin Hall | Carlton | 19 years, 67 days | 12 | 169 | 50 | |
| John Goold | Carlton | 21 years, 339 days | 7 | 108 | 3 | |
| John Comben | Carlton | 18 years, 311 days | 1 | 38 | 11 | |
| Greg Hardie | Carlton | 17 years, 332 days | 1 | 24 | 18 | |
| Trevor Best | Carlton | 21 years, 88 days | 10 | 21 | 10 | |
| Dave Rogers | Carlton | 21 years, 136 days | 14 | 7 | 1 | |
| Doug Ringholt | Carlton | 20 years, 259 days | 6 | 6 | 0 | |
| Ted Potter | Collingwood | 18 years, 188 days | 5 | 182 | 0 | |
| Terry Waters | Collingwood | 19 years, 134 days | 2 | 163 | 181 | |
| Ricky Watt | Collingwood | 16 years, 219 days | 4 | 95 | 17 | |
| Max Urquhart | Collingwood | 20 years, 307 days | 3 | 92 | 28 | |
| Ian Graham | Collingwood | 20 years, 147 days | 7 | 63 | 132 | |
| Ernie Hug | Collingwood | 19 years, 117 days | 10 | 59 | 5 | |
| Kevin McLean | Collingwood | 20 years, 250 days | 5 | 33 | 1 | |
| John Murton | Collingwood | 19 years, 317 days | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Darryl Gerlach | Essendon | 19 years, 204 days | 15 | 168 | 6 | |
| Greg Brown | Essendon | 20 years, 88 days | 6 | 83 | 4 | |
| Kevin Egan | Essendon | 19 years, 348 days | 16 | 65 | 13 | |
| Jim Forsyth | Essendon | 18 years, 348 days | 10 | 29 | 4 | Father of Tim Forsyth. |
| Noel Raitt | Essendon | 19 years, 122 days | 2 | 18 | 7 | |
| Garry Fenton | Essendon | 20 years, 168 days | 5 | 6 | 0 | |
| John Booth | Essendon | 20 years, 314 days | 8 | 2 | 0 | |
| Gary Lazarus | Fitzroy | 17 years, 211 days | 1 | 132 | 206 | |
| Doug Hellings | Fitzroy | 18 years, 280 days | 3 | 64 | 15 | |
| Ron Fry | Fitzroy | 26 years, 29 days | 7 | 46 | 7 | |
| Barry Fitzgerald | Fitzroy | 24 years, 278 days | 10 | 35 | 4 | |
| Terry O'Mara | Fitzroy | 22 years, 160 days | 13 | 20 | 1 | |
| Tony Hirst | Fitzroy | 18 years, 8 days | 9 | 19 | 3 | |
| Brett Pollock | Fitzroy | 20 years, 144 days | 1 | 10 | 7 | |
| Brian Carroll | Fitzroy | 22 years, 77 days | 8 | 10 | 0 | Father of Damian Carroll. |
| Ted Lovett | Fitzroy | 21 years, 115 days | 8 | 9 | 2 | Son of Alf Egan. |
| Bill Storer | Fitzroy | 21 years, 205 days | 17 | 9 | 7 | |
| Joe Dixon | Fitzroy | 22 years, 352 days | 5 | 5 | 0 | Father of Ben Dixon. |
| Allan Anderson | Fitzroy | 19 years, 83 days | 3 | 4 | 0 | |
| Stan Haag | Fitzroy | 20 years, 94 days | 4 | 4 | 1 | |
| Kevin Ellis | Fitzroy | 18 years, 223 days | 6 | 4 | 1 | |
| Graham Goninon | Fitzroy | 18 years, 129 days | 18 | 4 | 0 | |
| Barry Rippon | Fitzroy | 23 years, 42 days | 4 | 3 | 5 | |
| Brian Williams | Fitzroy | 26 years, 218 days | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Barry Sadler | Fitzroy | 23 years, 24 days | 12 | 2 | 0 | |
| Geoff Doubleday | Fitzroy | 23 years, 145 days | 19 | 1 | 0 | |
| George Bisset | Footscray | 20 years, 41 days | 1 | 166 | 288 | |
| David Darcy | Footscray | 19 years, 252 days | 1 | 133 | 47 | Father of Luke Darcy. |
| Ivan Marsh | Footscray | 20 years, 99 days | 17 | 77 | 33 | |
| John Bradley | Footscray | 20 years, 8 days | 5 | 43 | 12 | |
| Jack Greenwood | Footscray | 19 years, 150 days | 6 | 23 | 0 | |
| Bob Gray | Footscray | 20 years, 145 days | 12 | 23 | 20 | |
| Rod Coutts | Footscray | 20 years, 326 days | 7 | 16 | 22 | |
| Bob Spurling | Footscray | 19 years, 335 days | 4 | 6 | 2 | |
| Eddie O'Halloran | Footscray | 20 years, 110 days | 10 | 6 | 2 | |
| Bob Parsons | Footscray | 21 years, 143 days | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| Col Bendelle | Footscray | 19 years, 35 days | 15 | 3 | 0 | |
| Robert Schultz | Footscray | 19 years, 199 days | 17 | 2 | 0 | |
| Ron Birch | Footscray | 19 years, 284 days | 12 | 1 | 0 | |
| Bill Ryan | Geelong | 18 years, 208 days | 9 | 167 | 220 | |
| John Sharrock | Geelong | 19 years, 63 days | 1 | 94 | 109 | |
| Gordon Hynes | Geelong | 18 years, 172 days | 2 | 61 | 52 | |
| Colin Eales | Geelong | 18 years, 333 days | 7 | 56 | 24 | |
| John Watts | Geelong | 26 years, 89 days | 1 | 52 | 4 | |
| Ian Scott | Geelong | 23 years, 177 days | 17 | 36 | 0 | |
| Ross Growcott | Hawthorn | 18 years, 29 days | 9 | 53 | 2 | |
| Kevin Coverdale | Hawthorn | 22 years, 329 days | 2 | 50 | 33 | |
| Peter Lyon | Hawthorn | 21 years, 113 days | 1 | 16 | 0 | Father of Garry Lyon. |
| Graeme McArthur | Hawthorn | 18 years, 269 days | 15 | 2 | 0 | |
| Danny Hegarty | Hawthorn | 18 years, 254 days | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Barry Bourke | Melbourne | 19 years, 223 days | 2 | 175 | 154 | |
| Ray Groom | Melbourne | 18 years, 229 days | 1 | 92 | 36 | Premier of Tasmania from 1992 to 1996. |
| Tony Anderson | Melbourne | 21 years, 100 days | 4 | 75 | 2 | |
| Graham Wise | Melbourne | 20 years, 189 days | 1 | 40 | 1 | |
| David Robbie | Melbourne | 19 years, 49 days | 10 | 21 | 5 | |
| Tony Thiessen | Melbourne | 20 years, 351 days | 4 | 7 | 2 | Father of James Thiessen. |
| Owen Zinko | Melbourne | 18 years, 38 days | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
| Tom Allison | North Melbourne | 19 years, 51 days | 1 | 106 | 61 | Father of Brett Allison. |
| Maurie Wood | North Melbourne | 19 years, 55 days | 2 | 97 | 77 | |
| Terry Benton | North Melbourne | 20 years, 316 days | 6 | 77 | 3 | Grandfather of Jaryd Cachia. |
| Mike Delanty | North Melbourne | 26 years, 187 days | 1 | 54 | 12 | Previously played for Collingwood. |
| Bob Goode | North Melbourne | 19 years, 216 days | 7 | 20 | 0 | |
| Graeme O'Donnell | North Melbourne | 24 years, 310 days | 6 | 16 | 18 | Father of Gary O'Donnell. Previously played for Geelong. |
| Peter Agrums | North Melbourne | 22 years, 238 days | 5 | 11 | 4 | |
| Roland Crosby | North Melbourne | 19 years, 115 days | 8 | 10 | 3 | |
| Viv Peterson | North Melbourne | 21 years, 065 days | 1 | 8 | 8 | |
| Bob Stewart | North Melbourne | 22 years, 34 days | 1 | 7 | 0 | |
| Bob Wright | North Melbourne | 20 years, 144 days | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
| Billy Brown | Richmond | 20 years, 207 days | 3 | 130 | 124 | |
| John Northey | Richmond | 19 years, 295 days | 1 | 118 | 192 | |
| Ross Warner | Richmond | 18 years, 303 days | 7 | 49 | 45 | |
| Peter Hogan | Richmond | 17 years, 143 days | 1 | 40 | 57 | |
| Owen Madigan | Richmond | 19 years, 60 days | 7 | 40 | 1 | Previously played for Footscray. |
| Gary Arnold | Richmond | 19 years, 171 days | 6 | 13 | 7 | |
| Rodney Evans | Richmond | 17 years, 113 days | 2 | 11 | 0 | |
| Tom Garland | Richmond | 20 years, 0 days | 10 | 11 | 4 | |
| Jeff Lawson | Richmond | 18 years, 300 days | 14 | 10 | 7 | |
| John Caulfield | Richmond | 19 years, 148 days | 9 | 9 | 0 | |
| Bob Brownhill | Richmond | 19 years, 199 days | 9 | 4 | 0 | |
| Brian Lienert | Richmond | 20 years, 126 days | 4 | 2 | 0 | |
| Carl Ditterich | St Kilda | 17 years, 192 days | 1 | 203 | 156 | |
| Bob Murray | St Kilda | 21 years, 15 days | 1 | 153 | 14 | |
| Ian Stewart | St Kilda | 19 years, 280 days | 1 | 127 | 25 | |
| Daryl Griffiths | St Kilda | 17 years, 214 days | 8 | 123 | 40 | |
| Jim Wallis | St Kilda | 21 years, 159 days | 1 | 39 | 41 | |
| John Dowling | St Kilda | 19 years, 149 days | 18 | 37 | 6 | |
| Bill Gerrand | St Kilda | 21 years, 239 days | 11 | 3 | 1 | |
| Max Reed | St Kilda | 20 years, 348 days | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| John Rantall | South Melbourne | 19 years, 132 days | 1 | 260 | 8 | |
| Paul Harrison | South Melbourne | 18 years, 268 days | 1 | 119 | 27 | |
| Ken Phillips | South Melbourne | 19 years, 230 days | 4 | 60 | 28 | |
| Des Bethke | South Melbourne | 19 years, 244 days | 1 | 56 | 43 | |
| Trevor Somerville | South Melbourne | 19 years, 16 days | 3 | 49 | 4 | Brother of John and uncle of Peter Somerville. |
| Gary Johnston | South Melbourne | 22 years, 5 days | 3 | 27 | 1 | |
| Eric White | South Melbourne | 20 years, 250 days | 5 | 21 | 7 | |
| Bill Ross | South Melbourne | 19 years, 35 days | 3 | 20 | 4 | |
| Kevin Batch | South Melbourne | 22 years, 54 days | 15 | 16 | 0 | |
| Bob Strachan | South Melbourne | 18 years, 321 days | 7 | 7 | 0 | |
| Ron Cotton | South Melbourne | 20 years, 236 days | 15 | 4 | 0 | |
| Fred Rees | South Melbourne | 19 years, 334 days | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Jim Fuller | South Melbourne | 19 years, 223 days | 10 | 1 | 0 | |