2009 AFL draft
2009 national draft
Table:
Round

Pick

Player

Recruited from

League

Club

Priority

1

Tom Scully

Dandenong Stingrays

TAC Cup

Melbourne

1

2

Jack Trengove

Sturt

SANFL

Melbourne

1

3

Dustin Martin

Bendigo Pioneers

TAC Cup

Richmond

1

4

Anthony Morabito

Peel

WAFL

Fremantle

1

5

Ben Cunnington

Geelong Falcons

TAC Cup

North Melbourne

1

6

Gary Rohan

Geelong Falcons

TAC Cup

Sydney

1

7

Brad Sheppard

East Fremantle

WAFL

West Coast

1

8

John Butcher

Gippsland Power

TAC Cup

Port Adelaide

1

9

Andrew Moore

Eastern Ranges

TAC Cup

Port Adelaide

1

10

Jake Melksham

Calder Cannons

TAC Cup

Essendon

1

11

Jordan Gysberts

Eastern Ranges

TAC Cup

Melbourne

1

12

Kane Lucas

East Fremantle

WAFL

Carlton

1

13

Daniel Talia

Calder Cannons

TAC Cup

Adelaide

1

14

Lewis Jetta

Swan Districts

WAFL

Sydney

1

15

Christian Howard

Glenelg

SANFL

Western Bulldogs

1

16

Jasper McMillan-Pittard

Geelong Falcons

TAC Cup

Port Adelaide

1

17

Daniel Menzel

Central District

SANFL

Geelong

2

18

Luke Tapscott

North Adelaide

SANFL

Melbourne

2

19

Benjamin Griffiths

Eastern Ranges

TAC Cup

Richmond

2

20

Nathan Fyfe

Claremont

WAFL

Fremantle

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Tom Scully ( born 15 May 1991 ) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Hawthorn Football Club . He previously played for the Melbourne Football Club and Greater Western Sydney Giants . A star midfielder at junior level , Scully was originally selected by Melbourne with the first overall draft pick of the 2009 AFL draft . However at the conclusion of his initial two-year contract with Melbourne , he accepted the opportunity to join the newly established GWS Giants in 2012 on a six year deal . In October 2018 , Scully was traded to Hawthorn for the 2019 season . He attended school first at Berwick College and then Haileybury College .
The Dandenong Stingrays are an Australian rules football team in a Victorian under 18s league called the NAB League , the Victorian statewide under-18s competition . 1992 saw the birth of the Southern Stingrays and they were developed under the leadership of Steve Kennedy ( Regional Manager ) and Ron Roach ( Promotions Manager ) with the home base located at the Ben Kavanagh Reserve , Mordialloc . The side is coached in the inaugural year by Peter Russo . In 1995 the club moved from Mordialloc to Dandenong and it also changed its name to the Dandenong Southern Stingrays . The club is currently under the leadership of Darren Flanigan ( Region Talent Manager ) and Matthew Crozier ( Female Talent Coordinator ) with the home base located at Shepley Oval , Dandenong . The side is coached by Nick Cox .
The NAB League ( formerly known as the TAC Cup ) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition held in Victoria , Australia . It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne with each team representing twelve Victorian regions , while a thirteenth team from Tasmania was reintroduced in 2019 . The competition is sponsored by National Australia Bank , having previously been sponsored by the Transport Accident Commission since its inception . The competition is one of the primary sources of recruitment for AFL clubs from Victoria . The TAC Cup provides an opportunity for talented regional players to participate in a high standard competition without having to relocate too far from their place of origin . The competition has a very successful pathway with players missing AFL selection often being recruited by semi-professional state , country and regional leagues throughout Australia .
The Melbourne Football Club , nicknamed the Demons , is a professional Australian rules football club , playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . It is named after and based in the city of Melbourne , Victoria , and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) . Melbourne is the world 's oldest professional club of any football code . The club 's origins can be traced to an 1858 letter in which Tom Wills , captain of the Victoria cricket team , calls for the formation of a foot-ball club with its own code of laws . An informal Melbourne team played that winter and was officially formed in May 1859 when Wills and three other members codified The Rules of the Melbourne Football Club - the basis of Australian rules football . The club was a dominant force in the early years of Australian rules football competition , and was also a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) in 1877 and the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1896 , which later became the national Australian Football League . Melbourne has won 12 VFL/AFL premierships , the latest in 1964 . Melbourne was a foundation team of the AFL Women 's league , entering the competition in the inaugural year 2017 . The club celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2008 by naming 150 Heroes as well as creating a birthday logo which appeared on its official guernsey . The football club has been a sporting section of the Melbourne Cricket Club ( MCC ) since 2009 , having previously been associated with the MCC between 1889 and 1980 .
Jack Trengove ( born 2 September 1991 ) is a professional Australian rules footballer who most recently played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . A midfielder , 1.86 metres ( 6 ft 1 in ) tall and weighing 88 kilograms ( 194 lb ) , Trengove is capable of contributing as both an inside and outside midfielder . After growing up in Naracoorte , South Australia , he moved to Adelaide to attend Prince Alfred College and played in the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) with the Sturt Football Club , in which he played in the 2009 SANFL Grand Final . He represented South Australia in the 2009 AFL Under 18 Championships , in which he captained the side , received All-Australian honours and won the state most valuable player . His achievements as a junior saw him considered as the potential number one draft pick in the 2009 AFL draft alongside Tom Scully , he was ultimately recruited by the Melbourne Football Club with the second selection in the draft . Trengove made his AFL debut during the 2010 season and earned an AFL Rising Star nomination , in which he finished fourth overall . After his first two seasons in the AFL where he represented Australia in the International Rules Series and finished in the top five of the club best and fairest , he was named the co-captain of the club alongside Jack Grimes in 2012 . His first match as captain saw him become the youngest captain in VFL/AFL history ; he retained the captaincy for two seasons before he relinquished the role at the end of the 2013 season to focus on his playing form . His next two seasons were hampered by a navicular bone injury , which saw him play just seven AFL matches from the start of the 2014 season to the end of the 2017 season . He was delisted by Melbourne at the end of the 2017 season before signing with Port Adelaide as a free agent during the 2017 trade period .
The Sturt Football Club , nicknamed The Double Blues , is a semi-professional Australian rules football club based in the suburb of Unley , South Australia , which plays in the South Australian National Football League . Founded in 1901 by the Sturt Cricket Club , the club initially struggled to make the finals , however , in 1915 they won their first Premiership . After several decades of substantial finals appearances and a few premiership wins , Sturt entered a period of success , winning seven premierships from 1966 to 1976 under coach Jack Oatey . Sturt has a total of 15 premierships , eleven Magarey Medallists and two Night Premierships . Sturt wear Oxford and Cambridge Blue reflecting the street names on which their home ground is based . Sturt play their home games at the 15,000 capacity Unley Oval and their club song is named It 's a grand old flag .
The South Australian National Football League , or SANFL ( /ˈsænfəl/ or S-A-N-F-L ) , is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia . It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia . Originally formed as the South Australian Football Association on 30 April 1877 , the SANFL is the oldest surviving football league of any code in Australia and one of the oldest football competitions in the world , forming just a few years after the United Hospitals Challenge Cup ( 1874 ) , the oldest rugby football competition , and over a decade before The Football League , although later than the FA Cup ( soccer ) . Consisting of a single division competition , since 2014 the season has been an 18-round home-and-away ( regular ) season from April to September . The top five teams play-off in a final series culminating in the grand final for the Thomas Seymour Hill Premiership Trophy . The grand final had traditionally been held at Football Park in October , generally the week after the AFL Grand Final , though this was altered ahead of the 2014 season resulting in Adelaide Oval hosting the grand final in the penultimate weekend of September . The league owned the sub-licences for South Australia 's two AFL clubs - Adelaide Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club until March 2014 , when South Australian Football Commission reached an agreement with the Adelaide and Port Adelaide football clubs - endorsed by the AFL - which will see the two AFL licences transferred to the clubs in return for payments totalling more than $ 18 million . The league is also responsible for the management of all levels of football in the state . This includes junior football , country football , amateur football and specific programs rolled out across schools , indigenous communities ( including the APY Lands in the state 's north ) and newly arrived migrant communities . The SANFL owns Football Park , formerly the largest stadium in South Australia . The stadium , which opened in 1974 , was primarily used for Australian Football League matches up until 2013 and had a capacity of over 51,000 prior to being demolished . The stadium was the headquarters for the league from 1974-2013 .
Dustin Martin ( born 26 June 1991 ) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Martin was drafted by Richmond with the third pick in the 2009 national draft , and made his AFL debut in the opening round of the 2010 season . He was nominated for the 2010 AFL Rising Star award , but was ineligible to win due to suspension . Martin won the Jack Dyer Medal as Richmond 's best and fairest player in 2016 , along with his first All-Australian selection . To date , Martin has won two premierships , two Jack Dyer Medals and three All-Australian selections among other individual accolades , and has also won several major best-on-ground awards . In both of his premiership years , he won both the Norm Smith Medal as best afield in the grand final ( Martin is one of only four players to win the award twice ) and the Gary Ayres Award as the player of the finals series . In 2017 , Martin had what was described by AFL legend Leigh Matthews as the greatest ever individual season by a VFL/AFL player . Despite constant speculation over his playing future , Martin won the league 's highest individual honour , the Brownlow Medal , with a record 36 votes , as well as a premiership and the Norm Smith Medal , becoming the first player to win all three in a single season . He also won numerous other accolades , including the Leigh Matthews Trophy , the AFLCA Champion Player of the Year Award and his second Jack Dyer Medal .
The Bendigo Pioneers is an Australian rules football team in the statewide Victorian under-18s league , the NAB League .
The Richmond Football Club , nicknamed the Tigers , is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , the sport 's premier competition . Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907 , the club competed in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) , winning two premierships . Richmond joined the Victorian Football League ( now known as the AFL ) in 1908 and has since won twelve premierships , most recently in 2019 . Richmond 's headquarters and training facilities are located at its original home ground , the Punt Road Oval , which sits adjacent to the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) , the club 's playing home since 1965 . Richmond traditionally wears a black guernsey with a yellow sash . The club song , We 're From Tigerland , is well known for its yellow and black refrain . The club is coached by Damien Hardwick and its current captain is Trent Cotchin . Five Richmond players have been inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as Legends of the sport : Kevin Bartlett , Jack Dyer , Royce Hart , Kevin Sheedy and Ian Stewart .
Anthony Morabito ( born 29 October 1991 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He was delisted in 2016 after multiple knee reconstructions and several other injuries .
The Peel Thunder Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League ( WAFL ) and WAFL Women 's ( WAFLW ) . The team is based in Mandurah , Western Australia , with their home ground being Rushton Park . The club joined the WAFL as an expansion team in 1997 . Since the 2014 season , Peel has served as the host club in the WAFL for the Fremantle Dockers of the Australian Football League , an arrangement which sees Fremantle 's reserve players playing for Peel .
The West Australian Football League ( WAFL ) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth , Western Australia . The WAFL is the third-most popular league in the nation , behind the nationwide Australian Football League ( AFL ) and South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) . The league currently consists of ten teams , which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from March to September , with the top five teams playing off in a finals series , culminating in a Grand Final . The league also runs reserves , colts ( under-19 ) and womens competitions . The WAFL was founded in 1885 as the West Australian Football Association ( WAFA ) , and has undergone a variety of name changes since then , re-adopting its current name in 2001 . For most of its existence , the league was considered one of the traditional big three Australian rules football leagues , along with the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) and South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) . However , since the introduction of two Western Australia-based clubs into the VFL ( later renamed the Australian Football League ) - the West Coast Eagles in 1987 and the Fremantle Football Club in 1995 - the popularity and standard of the league has decreased to the point where it is considered a feeder competition to the AFL . Although payments are made to players , it is generally considered to be a semi-professional competition . A salary cap of A $ 200,000 per club is in place . The league is currently affiliated with the two Western Australia-based AFL clubs . Players who are not selected to play with their respective AFL clubs instead play for allocated clubs in the WAFL . The competition is governed by the West Australian Football Commission , and based at Subiaco Oval .
The Fremantle Football Club , nicknamed the Dockers , is a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . It was founded in 1994 in honour of the rich footballing history associated with the Western Australian port city of Fremantle , and entered the AFL the following year , making it the second team from the state after the West Coast Eagles to be admitted to the competition . Originally based at Fremantle Oval , the club 's training facilities and administrative headquarters are now located nearby at Cockburn ARC in Cockburn Central . The club 's guernsey is purple and white . High-profile players since the club 's inception include six time All-Australian Matthew Pavlich , dual Brownlow Medal winner Nat Fyfe , and the league 's former all-time tallest player Aaron Sandilands . Currently captained by Fyfe , the club is coached by Justin Longmuir , who replaced Ross Lyon at the end of the 2019 home-and-away season . Fremantle is one of only three active AFL clubs ( the others being Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney ) that has not won a premiership , however it did win the minor premiership in 2015 , and reached the 2013 AFL Grand Final which it lost to Hawthorn . Fremantle has had a team in the AFL Women 's league since its inception in 2017 . They are coached by Trent Cooper and captained by Kara Antonio .
Ben Cunnington ( born , on and around a dairy farm 30 June 1991 ) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Cunnington was drafted to North Melbourne with the 5th selection in the 2009 AFL Draft . Cunnington plays predominantly as an inside midfielder , and he can play in the forward line to accommodate the midfield rotations .
The Geelong Falcons is a youth Australian rules football representative club in the NAB League , the Victorian statewide under-18s competition , Victoria , Australia . The club takes in talented junior players from the Geelong , Colac and Warrnambool regions in order to prepare them for AFL selection . There is an under-15 vline cup side and an under-16 side , but the club 's main focus is its under-18 side , who play a longer season . In 2007 , Jimmy Bartel became the first ex-Falcon to win the AFL Brownlow Medal , for the league 's best and fairest player , while Jonathan Brown became the first ex-Falcon to win the Coleman Medal for the most goals in the season . Gary Ablett Jnr also became the first ex-Falcon to win the Leigh Matthews Trophy , for being voted the Most Valuable Player by the AFL Players Association . Hawthorn half-back Luke Hodge became the first Falcon to win the Norm Smith Medal for his best on ground performance in the 2008 Grand Final against the Geelong Cats . Nick Maxwell became the first Geelong Falcons player to captain a premiership team when he led Collingwood to the 2010 AFL Premiership .
The North Melbourne Football Club , nicknamed the Kangaroos or less formally the Roos , the Kangas or North , is an Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , the sport 's premier competition . Founded in North Melbourne , Victoria in 1869 , it is based at its traditional home ground , Arden Street Oval , and currently plays its home matches at both the nearby Docklands Stadium and Blundstone Arena in Hobart , Tasmania . The club 's mascot is a grey kangaroo donning the club uniform , and its use dates from the mid-20th century . The club is also unofficially known as The Shinboners , a term which dates back to its 19th-century abattoir-worker origins . The club 's motto is Victoria amat curam , Latin for Victory Demands Dedication . Aside from their representation in the AFL , the Kangaroos also field teams in the following competitions ; AFL Women 's , VFL Women 's and Victorian Football League .
Gary Rohan ( born 7 June 1991 ) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Rohan is known for his pace and the ability to break lines with his dash out of defense . He started his career playing at half-back but then soon moved forward because of his pace . Unfortunately , he has had an injury-riddled career to this point .
The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Established in Melbourne as the South Melbourne Football Club in 1874 , the Swans relocated to Sydney in 1982 , thus making it the first club in the competition to be based outside Victoria . Initially playing in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) , the Swans joined seven other clubs in founding the breakaway Victorian Football League ( now known as the AFL ) in 1896 . It won premierships in 1909 , 1918 and 1933 before experiencing a 72-year premiership drought - the longest in the competition 's history . The club broke the drought in 2005 and won another premiership in 2012 . The club has proven to be one of the most consistent teams in the AFL era , failing to make the finals in only four seasons since 1995 , playing the most number of finals matches and winning the second-most matches overall ( only behind Geelong ) since 2000 and boasting a finals winning record of over 50% in the same time period . The Swans ' headquarters and training facilities are located at the Sydney Cricket Ground , the club 's playing home ground since 1982 .
Bradley Sheppard ( born 23 May 1991 ) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He was selected as a first round pick ( number 7 overall ) in the 2009 National Draft .
The East Fremantle Football Club , nicknamed the Sharks , is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League ( WAFL ) and WAFL Women 's ( WAFLW ) . The team 's home ground is East Fremantle Oval . East Fremantle are the most successful club in WAFL history , winning 29 premierships since their entry into the competition in 1898 .
The West Coast Eagles Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth , Western Australia , and plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . The West Coast Eagles was founded in 1986 as an expansion team . It entered the AFL , then known as the Victorian Football League , in 1987 along with Queensland 's Brisbane Bears . It reached the finals series for the first time in 1988 , and won its first premiership in 1992 , having been defeated in the grand final the previous year . It was the first non-Victorian team to compete in and win a grand final . The Eagles have since won three more premierships , in 1994 , 2006 and 2018 . The club is currently coached by Adam Simpson . The Eagles have won the second most premierships ( four , second to Hawthorn ) in the AFL era ( 1990 onwards ) and are one of the most strongly supported and profitable clubs in the league . As well as competing in the AFL , West Coast also field teams in the AFL Women 's ( AFLW ) and West Australian Football League ( WAFL ) .
John Butcher ( born 3 July 1991 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He was the earliest of the three Port Adelaide players drafted in the first round in the 2009 AFL Draft ( he went at pick # 8 ) . Butcher 's younger brother Danny was drafted to Port Adelaide as part of the Rookie Draft in 2011 at pick 21 . Originally from Maffra , Victoria , Butcher is a versatile key position prospect with great agility and pace for his size . Butcher is an excellent contested mark and has been noted for his clean hands . He was extremely impressive at the AFL Draft Camp with his speed ( 2.99 sec over 20 m ) and repeat sprints ( 24.88 sec ) being in the top 28 per cent of all players . He kicked 40 goals for the year for Gippsland Power and Vic Country in 16 games . He was a Vic Country Under 18 representative in both 2008 and 2009 , including kicking three goals against Vic Metro in 2009 . Butcher is also an AIS-AFL Academy graduate . He was widely tipped to be the first key-position player to be selected in the 2009 draft . Due to injuries and the time needed to develop key position players , Butcher did n't debut until Round 21 of 2011 , when Port Adelaide were defeated by Hawthorn by a club-record 165 points . To date it remains the worst defeat suffered by any player in his debut match in VFL/AFL history .
The Gippsland Power is an Australian rules football team in the NAB League , the top statewide under-18 competition in Victoria , Australia .
Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton , Port Adelaide , South Australia . The club 's senior team plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , where they are nicknamed the Power , whilst its reserves team competes in the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) , where they are nicknamed the Magpies . Port Adelaide is the oldest professional sporting club in South Australia and the fifth-oldest club in the AFL . Since the club 's founding on 12 May 1870 , the club has won 36 South Australian league premierships , including six in a row . The club also won the Champions of Australia competition on a record four occasions . After successfully winning an AFL licence in 1994 the club began competing in the Australian Football League in 1997 as the only pre-existing non-Victorian club - and has subsequently added the 2004 AFL premiership to its achievements .
Andrew Moore ( born 30 May 1991 ) is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for the Box Hill Hawks in the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) . He previously played for Port Adelaide Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Moore was one of three Port Adelaide players drafted in the first round in the 2009 AFL Draft , at selection nine . He is a versatile midfielder/forward who is very capable overhead . He wins a lot of his own footy consistently and makes good decisions . A Vic Metro representative in 2009 , he topped the running vertical jump with 85 cm at Draft Camp and also impressively scored 2.97 seconds for the 20m sprint and 14.1 in the beep test . He averaged 20 disposals at 74 percent efficiency for the Eastern Ranges in the TAC Cup in 2009 . He attended Yarra Valley Grammar School , completing year 12 in 2009 . He is the younger brother of Richmond 's Kelvin Moore . Moore debuted in the opening round of the 2010 AFL season with four marks and 14 disposals against North Melbourne at AAMI Stadium . In October 2015 , Moore was delisted by Port Adelaide . He was recruited by Richmond as a delisted free agent in November .
The Eastern Ranges is an Australian rules football team in the NAB League , the Victorian statewide under-18s competition . The club is a founding member of the competition ( 1992 ) and has produced several players for the Australian Football League including Kade Simpson , Rory Sloane , Nick Malceski , David Wirrpanda , Jess Sinclair , Damian Cupido , Lindsay Gilbee , Travis Cloke , Chris Scott , Brad Scott , Matthew Bate , Jonathon Patton , Chris Knights , Jaidyn Stephenson and Hayden Crozier .
Jake Melksham ( born 29 August 1991 ) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . A midfielder , 1.86 metres ( 6 ft 1 in ) tall and weighing 83 kilograms ( 183 lb ) , Melksham also has the ability to play as a defender , primarily as a half-back flanker . Growing up in Glenroy , Victoria , he played top-level football early when he joined the Calder Cannons ' under 18 side in the TAC Cup at the age of sixteen . He spent three years playing for the Calder Cannons , winning a premiership in his final junior year . His achievements as a junior include state representation and the TAC Medal as the best player on the ground in the TAC Cup Grand Final . Melksham 's late surge in his draft year saw him recruited by the Essendon Football Club with the tenth selection in the 2009 AFL draft . He made his AFL debut in the 2010 season and was rewarded with an AFL Rising Star nomination . He spent six seasons with Essendon , which peaked with a fifth-place finish in the best and fairest , and after 114 games with the club , he was traded to the Melbourne Football Club during the 2015 trade period . Before he could play his first match with Melbourne , he was suspended for the 2016 season for his involvement in the Essendon Football Club supplements saga .
The Calder Cannons is an Australian rules football club from Melbourne , Australia . The club competes in the NAB League , the Victorian Statewide Under-18s competition , and fields squads in the Under-15s , Under-16s and Under-18s . The club was formed in 1995 after the need for two more metropolitan clubs . The geographic catchment area for the club is the north western suburbs of Melbourne extending to cover the Macedon Ranges area .
The Essendon Football Club , nicknamed the Bombers , is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , the sport 's premier competition . Thought to have formed in 1872 , the club played its first recorded game on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second 20 , winning 1 goal to nil . The club played a senior club in the Victorian Football Association in 1878 , one year after the VFA formed . It is historically associated with Essendon , a suburb in the north-west of Melbourne , Victoria . Since 2013 , the club has been headquartered at The Hangar , Melbourne Airport , and plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground ; throughout most of its history the club 's home ground and headquarters was Windy Hill , Essendon , where it played from 1922 until 1991 . While it stopped playing games at the ground thereafter , Windy Hill remained its training and administration base until the end of 2013 . Dyson Heppell is the current team captain . A founding member club of both the Victorian Football Association , in 1877 , and the Victorian Football League ( renamed the AFL in 1990 ) , in 1896 , Essendon is one of Australia 's best-known football clubs . Essendon has won 16 VFL/AFL premierships , which , along with Carlton , is the most of any club in the competition . The club won four consecutive VFA premierships between 1891 and 1894 , a feat matched only by Collingwood between 1927 and 1930 .
Jordan Gysberts ( born 11 June 1991 ) is an Australian rules footballer who previously played for the Melbourne Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club in Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
Kane Lucas is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He was listed with the West Coast Eagles for the 2015 and 2016 seasons , but failed to play a senior match . Lucas , the son of Jack Lucas who played for the Sydney Swans in the 1980s , played during his junior years at Trinity College in Western Australia and played most of his club football for Melville Hawks Junior Football Club , with a few years at Winnacott Junior Football Club , before playing Colts and senior football with the East Fremantle Football Club , playing twelve senior games during 2009 as a 17/18 year old . He represented Western Australia in its victorious 2009 AFL National Under 18 Championship campaign , earning a position as half-forward flank in the 2009 AFL Under 18s All Australian team . He nominated for the 2009 AFL National Draft , and was recruited by the Carlton Football Club with its first round selection at number 12 overall . Lucas made his AFL debut in Round 3 , 2010 against Essendon . He was hampered by a hamstring injury throughout his first season , which kept him to only eight games , but he was the winner of the Carlton Best First Year Player award . He struggled with injuries and form in 2011 , playing only 2 games ; but , in a small part of football history , Lucas was the first player ever to be substituted onto the ground under the AFL 's revised interchange rules in Round 1 , 2011 , replacing the concussed Jarrad Waite in the season 's opening match against Richmond . Lucas was delisted by Carlton at the conclusion of the 2014 AFL season . He was redrafted onto the rookie list by the West Coast Eagles in 2015 , but in two years with the club was unable to break into the Eagles ' senior side , and he was delisted at the conclusion of the 2016 season without playing a senior game for West Coast .
The Carlton Football Club , nicknamed the Blues , is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne , Victoria . Founded in 1864 in Carlton , an inner suburb of Melbourne , the club competes in the Australian Football League ( formerly the Victorian Football League ) , and was one of the competition 's eight founding member clubs in 1896 . The club 's headquarters and training facilities are located in Carlton at Princes Park , its traditional home ground , and it currently plays its home matches at either Docklands Stadium ( currently known as Marvel Stadium ) or the Melbourne Cricket Ground . Carlton has historically been one of the AFL 's most successful clubs , having won sixteen senior VFL/AFL premierships , equal with Essendon as the most of any club ; prior to this , it won six senior premierships , including two in the Victorian Football Association . The club has also fielded a team in the AFL Women 's league since its establishment in 2017 .
Daniel Talia ( born 2 October 1991 ) is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He was drafted with selection 13 in the 2009 National Draft from the Calder Cannons . In 2012 he won the AFL Rising Star award as the best young player in the league . Talia is the great-grandson of former Footscray player Arthur Stevens , and the grandson of Harvey Stevens who played in Footscray 's 1954 VFL Grand Final victory . His younger brother , Michael Talia , played for the Western Bulldogs before being traded to the Sydney Swans after the 2015 season .
The Adelaide Football Club , nicknamed the Crows , are a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . The club has both a men 's team , which played its first match in 1991 , and a women 's team , which began in 2017 in the inaugural season of the AFLW . The club is based in Adelaide , South Australia , playing its home matches at Adelaide Oval . The club has its training and administration base at Football Park in West Lakes , where it previously played home matches between 1991 and 2013 . The club song is The Pride of South Australia , to the tune of the US Marines ' Hymn . The Crows were formed in 1990 to be the 'state team ' to represent the South Australia in the AFL . They were originally owned by the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) , before gaining independence . They played their first season in 1991 . The men 's team won both the 1997 and 1998 Grand Finals , and have appeared in 15 finals series in their 28-year history . The club has had a reserves team compete in the South Australian National Football League since 2014 and has fielded a women 's team in the AFL Women 's competition since 2017 . The men 's team is currently coached by Matthew Nicks and captained by Rory Sloane , who was appointed co-captain alongside Taylor Walker prior to the 2019 season . Don Pyke permanently succeeded the late Phil Walsh as head coach in October 2015 before departing the club at the end of 2019 .
Lewis Jetta ( born 4 May 1989 ) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He is an Indigenous Australian .
The Swan Districts Football Club , nicknamed the Swans , is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League ( WAFL ) and WAFL Women 's ( WAFLW ) . The club is based at Bassendean Oval , in Bassendean , an eastern suburb of Perth , Western Australia . The club was formed in 1932 , and joined the then-Western Australian National Football League ( WANFL ) in 1934 , acting as a successor to the Midland Junction Football Club , which had disbanded during World War I , in the Perth Hills region .
Christian Howard ( born 19 March 1991 ) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League . Originally from Adelaide , South Australia , Howard was drafted to the Bulldogs from the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL with their first selection , the 15th overall in the 2009 AFL Draft . Howard was a surprise selection for the Bulldogs in the draft , with many predicting he would not be drafted until at least the third round . Seen as a potential long-term replacement for Lindsay Gilbee , Howard missed a large part of his first season with a hip injury and could not force his way into the senior lineup . Howard made his senior debut for the Western Bulldogs in round 10 on Sunday , 29 May 2011 , he played well picking up 11 possessions in the side 's 29-point loss to Hawthorn . Howard was delisted at the conclusion of the 2014 AFL season .
Glenelg Football Club is an Australian rules football team , which plays in the South Australian National Football League . The club is known as the Tigers ( or the Bays ) , and their home ground is ACH Group Stadium ( formerly Glenelg Oval ) , located in the southern coastal suburb of Glenelg East , South Australia .
The Western Bulldogs ( formerly the Footscray Football Club [ a ] ) is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , the sport 's premier competition . Founded in 1877 in Footscray , an inner-western suburb of Melbourne , the club won nine premierships in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) before gaining entry to the Victorian Football League ( since renamed the AFL ) in 1925 . The club has won two VFL/AFL premierships , in 1954 and 2016 , and was runner up in 1961 . It has also claimed one premiership in the AFL Women 's competition , in 2018 , having been a foundation member of the league the previous year . The Western Bulldogs ' home guernsey features two thick horizontal hoops - one red and one white - on a royal blue background . The club 's headquarters and training facilities are located in Footscray at Whitten Oval , nicknamed The Kennel , its original home ground . The club draws much of its supporter base from Melbourne 's traditionally working class western region , and plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium ( currently known as Marvel Stadium ) in the Docklands area , also in the city 's inner-west . In 1996 , the club changed its name from the Footscray Football Club to the Western Bulldogs. [ why ? ] As well as their participation in AFL and AFLW , the club also fields reserves sides in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women 's .
Jasper Pittard ( born 1 April 1991 ) is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He was one of 3 Port Adelaide players drafted in the first round in the 2009 AFL Draft . Jasper is a former Fitzroy and Flemington Juniors footballer . He is an athletic and versatile player whose kicking skills and ability to read the play can hurt the opposition . The left-footer can also provide plenty of run from defence . A Vic Country U18 representative in 2009 , he scored 10.40 mins for the 3 km at Draft Camp , but was unable to do speed work as he was recovering from injury . He was rated by the AFL clubs as the best interviewee at the camp . He averaged 18 disposals in 13 matches for the Falcons with an efficiency rate of 71 per cent . He also played senior football for Torquay Football Club in the Bellarine Football League in 2008 . In early 2010 , Pittard decided to shorten his surname by dropping McMillan for simplicity . Pittard debuted for the Power in the opening round of the 2010 NAB cup alongside seven other rookie players . Although he did n't stand out as much as some of the other debutantes , he contributed with 3 kicks and 3 handballs .
Daniel Menzel ( born 13 September 1991 ) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Brother to fellow footballer Troy Menzel .
Central District Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in the city of Elizabeth about 25 km to the north of Adelaide , South Australia .
The Geelong Football Club , nicknamed the Cats , are a professional Australian rules football club based in the city of Geelong , Australia . The club competes in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , the highest level of Australian rules football in Australia . The Cats have been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times , with three in the AFL era ( since 1990 ) . The Cats have also won ten McClelland Trophies . The club was formed in 1859 , making it the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world . Geelong participated in the first football competition in Australia and was a foundation club of both the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) in 1877 and the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1897 . The club first established itself in the VFA by winning seven premierships , making it the most successful VFA club leading up to the formation of the VFL in 1897 . The club won a further six premierships by 1963 , before enduring a 44-year waiting period until it won its next premiership - an AFL-record 119-point victory in the 2007 AFL Grand Final . Geelong have since won a further two premierships in 2009 and 2011 . The Cats play most of their home games at Kardinia Park ( known for sponsorship reasons as GMHBA Stadium ) and play the remainder at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . Geelong 's traditional guernsey colours are navy blue and white hoops . The club 's nickname , The Cats , was first used in 1923 after a run of losses prompted a local cartoonist to suggest that the club needed a black cat to bring it good luck .
Luke Tapscott ( born 28 June 1991 ) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Tapscott started his football for Northern Areas Football Association club Orroroo before moving to Adelaide to attend Prince Alfred College and play football for North Adelaide Football Club . One of Tapscott 's Prince Alfred friends was Jack Trengove , who later became his team mate at Melbourne . He excelled through the ranks as a tough , built , young forward/midfielder with an exceptional penetrating kick , on both the left and right foot . After twice representing South Australia at the AFL Under 18 Championships and being named in the All Australian team , he was picked as the 18th overall pick in the 2009 AFL Draft , by the Melbourne Football Club . At the time he was compared to 2009 AFL Rising Star winner Daniel Rich . After injuring his hip in the 2010 pre-season , Tapscott missed most of the season and was unable to break into Melbourne 's senior side when he did return , instead playing for Melbourne 's VFL-affiliate Casey , before injuring his shoulder at the end of 2010 . After an impressive 2011 pre-season , Tapscott made his AFL debut in Round One that year . Playing in a draw against Sydney , Tapscott played a tremendous match , gathering 19 disposals and narrowly missing out on being the AFL Rising Star nominee for round one to Essendon 's Dyson Heppell , who would eventually claim the award at the end of the season . Tapscott was delisted at the conclusion of the 2014 AFL season .
North Adelaide Football Club , nicknamed The Roosters , is an Australian rules football club affiliated with the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) . The club plays its home games at Prospect Oval , located in Prospect , a northern suburb of Adelaide . The club was formed in 1888 as the Medindie Football Club , changing its name to North Adelaide in 1893 . North Adelaide 's first premiership was won in 1900 , and the club has won a total of fourteen senior premierships in the SANFL , most recently in 2018 .
Ben Griffiths ( born 17 September 1991 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
Nathan Fyfe ( born 18 September 1991 ) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He received a nomination for the 2010 AFL Rising Star award in round 9 of the 2010 season . Fyfe is a dual Brownlow Medallist , dual Leigh Matthews Trophy recipient , three-time All-Australian ( including as captain in the 2019 team ) and three-time Doig Medallist . He has served as Fremantle captain since the 2017 season .
The Claremont Football Club , nicknamed Tigers , is an Australian rules football club based in Claremont , Western Australia , that currently plays in the West Australian Football League ( WAFL ) and WAFL Women 's ( WAFLW ) . Its official colours are navy blue and gold . Formed as the Cottesloe Beach Football Club in 1906 , the club entering the WAFL in 1925 as the Claremont-Cottesloe Football Club ' , changing its name to the present in 1935 . Claremont have won 12 senior men 's premierships since entering the competition , including most recently the 2011 and 2012 premierships .