# List of VFL debuts in 1969

This is a listing of Australian rules footballers who made their senior debut for a Victorian Football League (VFL) club in 1969.

## Debuts

| Name | Club | Age at debut | Round debuted | Games | Goals | Notes |
| Bruce Doull | Carlton | 18 years, 234 days | 5 | 385 | 22 | |
| David McKay | Carlton | 19 years, 165 days | 3 | 263 | 277 | |
| Barry Armstrong | Carlton | 18 years, 307 days | 16 | 204 | 142 | |
| Phillip Pinnell | Carlton | 18 years, 137 days | 8 | 173 | 5 | |
| Syd Jackson | Carlton | 24 years, 278 days | 1 | 136 | 165 | |
| Bert Thornley | Carlton | 26 years, 228 days | 3 | 24 | 3 | |
| Doug Baird | Carlton | 18 years, 212 days | 10 | 6 | 8 | |
| Noel Mewett | Carlton | 20 years, 52 days | 8 | 5 | 3 | |
| Max Richardson | Collingwood | 20 years, 135 days | 5 | 211 | 158 | Brother of Wayne Richardson. |
| Ronald Wearmouth | Collingwood | 18 years, 360 days | 14 | 186 | 127 | |
| Robert Dean | Collingwood | 18 years, 272 days | 15 | 121 | 37 | |
| Jeff Clifton | Collingwood | 20 years, 92 days | 8 | 102 | 0 | |
| Doug Gott | Collingwood | 19 years, 12 days | 14 | 97 | 26 | Played first-class cricket for Victoria. |
| Jeff Pitts | Collingwood | 18 years, 281 days | 3 | 4 | 1 | |
| John Bell | Collingwood | 19 years, 225 days | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Gordon Lawrie | Collingwood | 18 years, 137 days | 3 | 2 | 0 | |
| Mark Slater | Collingwood | 17 years, 338 days | 10 | 2 | 0 | |
| Neville Fields | Essendon | 17 years, 240 days | 15 | 140 | 138 | |
| Wayne Headlam | Essendon | 20 years, 181 days | 11 | 60 | 25 | |
| Stuart Barclay | Essendon | 19 years, 211 days | 5 | 38 | 3 | |
| Doug Tassell | Essendon | 23 years, 140 days | 7 | 20 | 0 | |
| David Collins | Essendon | 22 years, 311 days | 1 | 14 | 6 | |
| Ian Stevenson | Essendon | 24 years, 243 days | 8 | 10 | 2 | |
| Roger Hampson | Essendon | 20 years, 197 days | 9 | 10 | 1 | |
| Gary Crouch | Essendon | 22 years, 192 days | 1 | 9 | 1 | |
| John Sinclair | Essendon | 20 years, 282 days | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| John Carpenter | Essendon | 20 years, 324 days | 15 | 2 | 1 | |
| Harvey Merrigan | Fitzroy | 19 years, 157 days | 6 | 197 | 18 | |
| Leigh Robertson | Fitzroy | 18 years, 347 days | 5 | 76 | 14 | |
| Shane Molloy | Fitzroy | 19 years, 290 days | 1 | 61 | 4 | Father of Jarrod Molloy. |
| Bill Sykes | Fitzroy | 20 years, 212 days | 5 | 48 | 5 | |
| Bob Hodgkin | Fitzroy | 19 years, 276 days | 9 | 24 | 0 | |
| Paul Shanahan | Fitzroy | 20 years, 260 days | 13 | 21 | 27 | |
| Bruce Baker | Fitzroy | 19 years, 37 days | 3 | 16 | 4 | |
| Peter Ellis | Fitzroy | 22 years, 74 days | 7 | 7 | 0 | |
| Robert Ireland | Fitzroy | 22 years, 74 days | 19 | 5 | 0 | |
| Peter Weightman | Fitzroy | 20 years, 53 days | 10 | 1 | 1 | |
| Stephen Power | Footscray | 18 years, 229 days | 1 | 177 | 25 | |
| Bernie Quinlan | Footscray | 17 years, 342 days | 12 | 177 | 241 | Won Brownlow Medal in 1981. |
| Barry Round | Footscray | 19 years, 71 days | 1 | 135 | 136 | Won Brownlow Medal in 1981. Father of David Round. |
| Gordon Casey | Footscray | 19 years, 25 days | 3 | 125 | 5 | Previously played for Carlton. |
| Robert McGhie | Footscray | 17 years, 307 days | 11 | 49 | 6 | |
| Laurie Rippon | Footscray | 18 years, 267 days | 5 | 45 | 4 | |
| Graeme Joslin | Footscray | 18 years, 281 days | 1 | 24 | 0 | |
| Harry Skreja | Footscray | 16 years, 93 days | 7 | 18 | 13 | |
| Norm Mitchell | Footscray | 17 years, 237 days | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| Richard Radziminski | Footscray | 19 years, 284 days | 6 | 14 | 0 | |
| Bruce Davidson | Footscray | 18 years, 286 days | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
| Geoff Thatcher | Footscray | 18 years, 223 days | 5 | 2 | 0 | |
| Tad Joniec | Footscray | 18 years, 246 days | 20 | 2 | 1 | |
| Bruce Greenhill | Footscray | 22 years, 255 days | 01 | 1 | 0 | |
| David Harris | Geelong | 22 years, 323 days | 1 | 44 | 20 | |
| Pat Patterson | Geelong | 22 years, 199 days | 9 | 8 | 0 | |
| Jeff Bates | Geelong | 19 years, 17 days | 16 | 6 | 1 | |
| Ray O'Rourke | Geelong | 21 years, 86 days | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Leigh Matthews | Hawthorn | 17 years, 147 days | 16 | 332 | 915 | Voted "Player of the 20th Century". Brother of Kelvin Matthews. |
| Peter Knights | Hawthorn | 17 years, 62 days | 9 | 264 | 201 | |
| Brian Douge | Hawthorn | 18 years, 125 days | 13 | 91 | 8 | |
| Bruce Stevenson | Hawthorn | 19 years, 254 days | 3 | 72 | 26 | |
| Geoff Smith | Hawthorn | 20 years, 165 days | 1 | 38 | 24 | |
| Gene Chiron | Hawthorn | 19 years, 145 days | 1 | 37 | 1 | |
| Ron Stubbs | Hawthorn | 20 years, 184 days | 1 | 17 | 5 | |
| Lindsay Tipping | Hawthorn | 19 years, 141 days | 20 | 12 | 0 | |
| Greg Wells | Melbourne | 19 years, 71 days | 18 | 224 | 251 | |
| Trevor Rollinson | Melbourne | 21 years, 264 days | 1 | 49 | 1 | |
| Robert McKenzie | Melbourne | 19 years, 42 days | 14 | 42 | 21 | |
| Paul Rowlands | Melbourne | 19 years, 319 days | 2 | 35 | 0 | |
| Peter Sinclair | Melbourne | 22 years, 5 days | 8 | 34 | 18 | |
| John Letcher | Melbourne | 18 years, 132 days | 2 | 25 | 2 | |
| David Hone | Melbourne | 22 years, 281 days | 1 | 18 | 3 | |
| Russell Colcott | Melbourne | 19 years, 279 days | 10 | 15 | 18 | |
| Blair Campbell | Melbourne | 22 years, 248 days | 4 | 12 | 23 | Previously played for Richmond. |
| Danny Jennings | Melbourne | 20 years, 13 days | 17 | 9 | 3 | |
| Mark Mitchell | Melbourne | 17 years, 285 days | 10 | 6 | 2 | |
| Daryl Powell | Melbourne | 17 years, 084 days | 19 | 2 | 0 | |
| David Hayes | Melbourne | 20 years, 107 days | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
| Steve Arnott | Melbourne | 20 years, 148 days | 11 | 1 | 0 | |
| Ray Sampson | Melbourne | 19 years, 284 days | 19 | 1 | 0 | |
| Glenn Elliott | St Kilda | 18 years, 289 days | 9 | 138 | 69 | |
| Stephen Theodore | St Kilda | 18 years, 128 days | 4 | 134 | 111 | |
| Barry Lawrence | St Kilda | 23 years, 51 days | 1 | 126 | 80 | Father of Steven Lawrence. |
| Stephen Rae | St Kilda | 17 years, 17 days | 7 | 55 | 38 | |
| Colin Antonie | St Kilda | 17 years, 87 days | 11 | 17 | 7 | |
| John Evans | St Kilda | 18 years, 235 days | 5 | 14 | 10 | |
| David Dench | North Melbourne | 17 years, 330 days | 15 | 275 | 29 | |
| David Pretty | North Melbourne | 18 years, 3 days | 1 | 58 | 12 | |
| Geoff Bryant | North Melbourne | 22 years, 257 days | 1 | 45 | 16 | |
| Rod Elliott | North Melbourne | 17 years, 307 days | 3 | 15 | 9 | |
| Noel Fincher | North Melbourne | 24 years, 320 days | 4 | 15 | 0 | Previously played for Footscray |
| Frank Dimattina | North Melbourne | 22 years, 200 days | 11 | 14 | 16 | Previously played for Richmond. Father of Paul Dimattina |
| John Duthie | North Melbourne | 18 years, 76 days | 4 | 11 | 5 | |
| Brian Neal | North Melbourne | 21 years, 108 days | 20 | 5 | 10 | |
| Lindsay Jacob | North Melbourne | 22 years, 132 days | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Dick Ivey | North Melbourne | 22 years, 34 days | 15 | 1 | 0 | |
| David McLeish | South Melbourne | 19 years, 112 days | 12 | 213 | 22 | |
| Steven Hoffman | South Melbourne | 17 years, 238 days | 7 | 149 | 187 | |
| John Pitura | South Melbourne | 18 years, 217 days | 4 | 99 | 71 | Father of Mark Pitura. |
| Robert Doyle | South Melbourne | 18 years, 102 days | 4 | 77 | 36 | Father of Stephen Doyle. |
| Wayne Walsh | South Melbourne | 22 years, 333 days | 1 | 63 | 5 | Previously played for Richmond. |
| Ron Wetzel | South Melbourne | 22 years, 32 days | 9 | 18 | 1 | |
| Sid Catlin | South Melbourne | 19 years, 123 days | 4 | 15 | 14 | Previously played for Melbourne. |
| Graham Brandt | South Melbourne | 22 years, 35 days | 1 | 13 | 2 | |
| Bob Svorinich | South Melbourne | 19 years, 26 days | 6 | 8 | 7 | |
| Arthur Budd | South Melbourne | 23 years, 99 days | 1 | 7 | 2 | |
| Ken Luscombe | South Melbourne | 18 years, 100 days | 7 | 7 | 0 | |
| Alan Richardson | South Melbourne | 28 years, 228 days | 13 | 7 | 9 | Previously played for Richmond. Father of Matthew Richardson. |
| Gary Williams | South Melbourne | 19 years, 55 days | 19 | 6 | 6 | |
| Rob Dowsing | South Melbourne | 21 years, 214 days | 1 | 4 | 6 | |
| John Coghlan | South Melbourne | 22 years, 143 days | 3 | 2 | 0 | |
| Reuben Cooper | South Melbourne | 17 years, 339 days | 15 | 2 | 0 | |
| Graham Page | South Melbourne | 18 years, 134 days | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| John Hartree | South Melbourne | 21 years, 139 days | 20 | 1 | 0 | |
| Ian Owen | Richmond | 20 years, 279 days | 4 | 33 | 0 | |
| Colin Beard | Richmond | 27 years, 205 days | 13 | 33 | 0 | |
| Graham Robbins | Richmond | 20 years, 53 days | 12 | 13 | 9 | |
| Ray Ball | Richmond | 20 years, 58 days | 3 | 12 | 0 | Father of Luke and Matthew Ball. |
| Ron Thomas | Richmond | 20 years, 211 days | 5 | 11 | 0 | |
| John Ferguson | Richmond | 20 years, 73 days | 9 | 7 | 0 | |
| Wayne Judd | Richmond | 20 years, 217 days | 9 | 7 | 9 | |
| Brenton Miels | Richmond | 21 years, 146 days | 10 | 7 | 1 | |
| Anthony Smith | Richmond | 18 years, 119 days | 17 | 4 | 1 | |
| Brian Shinners | Richmond | 19 years, 277 days | 6 | 2 | 0 | |
| Barrie Trotter | Richmond | 19 years, 134 days | 13 | 2 | 0 | |