2002 AFL draft
Trades
Table:
Player
Original club
New club
Traded for

Damien Adkins

Collingwood

West Coast Eagles

Andrew Williams

Justin Blumfield

Essendon

Richmond

draft pick #28

Barry Brooks

Port Adelaide

St Kilda

draft pick #6 & #31

Leigh Brown

Fremantle

Kangaroos

draft pick #13

Ronnie Burns

Geelong

Adelaide Crows

Ben Finnin

Blake Caracella

Essendon

Brisbane Lions

Damian Cupido and draft pick #15

Wayne Carey

Kangaroos

Adelaide Crows

draft picks #2 and #18

Daniel Chick

Hawthorn

West Coast Eagles

draft pick #8

Stuart Cochrane

Kangaroos

Port Adelaide

Michael Stevens

Damien Cupido

Brisbane Lions

Essendon

Blake Caracella

Nick Davis

Collingwood

Sydney Swans

draft pick #21

Peter Everitt

St Kilda

Hawthorn

draft picks #6 and #22

Ben Finnin

Adelaide Crows

Geelong

Ronnie Burns

Barnaby French

Port Adelaide

Carlton

draft pick #16

Des Headland

Brisbane Lions

Fremantle

draft picks #3 and #19

Chris Heffernan and pick #17

Essendon

Melbourne

draft pick #12

Kingsley Hunter

Western Bulldogs

Hawthorn

draft pick #35

Kane Johnson

Adelaide Crows

Richmond

Jason Torney, draft picks #2, #18 and #32

Adam McPhee

Fremantle

Essendon

draft pick #55

Luke Penny

Western Bulldogs

St Kilda

draft pick #17

With reference to the given table together with the relevant paragraphs below.

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Damien Chipper Adkins ( born 9 March 1981 ) is an Australian rules footballer formerly with the Collingwood and West Coast Eagles Football Clubs in the AFL . He currently plays for the Frankston Football Club in the Victorian Football League .
The Collingwood Football Club , nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies , is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Formed in 1892 in the then-working class Melbourne suburb of Collingwood , the club played in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) before joining seven other teams in 1896 to found the breakaway Victorian Football League ( now the national AFL ) . Originally based at Victoria Park , Collingwood now plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with its training and administrative headquarters located at Olympic Park Oval and the Holden Centre . Collingwood has played in a record 44 VFL/AFL Grand Finals ( including rematches ) , winning 15 , drawing two and losing 27 ( also a record ) . Regarded as one of Australia 's most popular sports clubs , Collingwood attracts the highest attendance figures and television ratings of any professional team in the nation . The club 's song , Good Old Collingwood Forever , dates back to 1906 , making it the oldest song currently used in the AFL . Its iconic home guernsey consists of black and white stripes , matching the colours of the Australian magpie . Historically the club 's main rivals have been cross-town clubs Carlton , Richmond and Essendon . Since the turn of the millennium , the club developed rivalries with the West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Lions . Collingwood fields a reserves team in the Victorian Football League ( formerly the VFA ) and women 's teams in the AFL Women 's and VFL Women 's competitions . It also owns and operates a netball team in the National Netball League .
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 ) .
Andrew Williams ( born 1 March 1979 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles and Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
Justin Blumfield ( born 24 November 1977 ) is a former Australian rules football player of the Essendon and the Richmond Football Clubs in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . His AFL career began in 1996 when he debuted for the Essendon Bombers . He was one of Essendon 's consistent players in the years 1999 , 2000 , 2001 and 2002 . Blumfield was a member of the Essendon 2000 premiership team , which defeated Melbourne in the 2000 AFL Grand Final and won a record 24 out of 25 games for the season . At the end of 2002 he was traded to the Richmond Tigers to help Essendon meet the total player payments limit . He played 19 games over two seasons before he was de-listed by them at the end of season 2004 . Blumfield returned to be a playing assistant coach for Essendon 's affiliated club in the Victorian Football League , the Bendigo Bombers . He was made a life member of Essendon on 15 December 2010 . After retiring from football he moved to Newcastle , New South Wales to study for a Master of Business and Administration degree and work . In 2010 he joined the Cardiff Hawks in the Black Diamond Australian Football League . He is the nephew of former South Melbourne player Max Blumfield .
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 .
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 .
Barry Brooks ( born 24 December 1983 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
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 .
The St Kilda Football Club , nicknamed the Saints , is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia . The club plays in the Australian Football League , the sport 's premier league . The club 's name originates from its original home base in the bayside Melbourne suburb of St Kilda in which the club was established in 1873 . The club also has strong links to the south-eastern suburb of Moorabbin , where it was based between 1965 and 2010 . St Kilda were a foundation team of the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) in 1877 and later , in 1897 , became a foundation team in the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) , which later became known as the Australian Football League ( AFL ) in 1990 . The Saints field teams in the AFL Women 's and VFL Women 's competitions , and are in an alignment with the Sandringham Football Club in the Victorian Football League . St Kilda have won a single premiership to date , a famous one-point win in the 1966 VFL Grand Final . St Kilda most recently won the minor premiership in the 2009 AFL season and were grand finalists in 2009 and 2010 . St Kilda developed a reputation as perennial underachievers , much of this attributed to their record of finishing last more often than any other club in the league ( 27 times ) , as well as having the second lowest all-time win percentage of any team still playing in the league .
Leigh Brown ( born 23 February 1982 ) is a former Australian rules football player who played for Fremantle , North Melbourne and finally Collingwood in the Australian Football League . He is a Collingwood premiership player . After the 2011 Grand Final Brown retired and was announced as Melbourne 's forward coach . He is renowned for his tackling ability as well as his Utility roles . His family Paul brown , Simon brown , Kaine brown , Anette brown , Kevin brown , Adam brown were alone side through his afl career
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 .
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 .
Ronald Paul Burns ( born 13 March 1973 ) is a former Indigenous Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club and Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
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 .
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 .
Blake Caracella ( born 15 March 1977 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He is currently serving as an assistant coach with the Essendon Football Club .
The Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club who play in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . The club is based in Brisbane , Queensland , Australia . The club was formed in late 1996 from the merger of the Fitzroy Lions and the Brisbane Bears . The Lions are one of the most successful AFL clubs of the 21st century , having appeared in four consecutive AFL Grand Finals from 2001 to 2004 and winning three premierships ( 2001 , 2002 , 2003 ) . The club plays home matches in the AFL at the Gabba and is captained by Dayne Zorko and coached by Chris Fagan . The Lions were a foundation team in the AFL Women 's competition in 2017 and have featured in two grand finals in that time , finishing runners-up on both occasions . The Brisbane Bears were the first south-east Queensland based team formed in the region . They played at their home ground at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast from 1987 to 1992 before relocating to the Gabba in 1993 . The club continues to play its home games at the Gabba .
Damian Cupido ( born 11 March 1982 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
Wayne Francis Carey ( born 27 May 1971 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne Football Club and the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . A dual-premiership captain at North Melbourne , four-time North Melbourne best-and-fairest ( Syd Barker Medallist ) and seven-time All-Australian , Carey , is nicknamed The King , or Duck . In 2001 , he was named as centre half-forward and captain of North Melbourne 's Team of the Century , and in 2008 was named as Australian football 's greatest ever player , as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time , published in the book The Australian Game of Football , which was released by the League to celebrate 150 years of Australian rules football . He is also known for his legal problems , which include domestic violence charges and assault convictions . From 2014 Carey has worked as a Friday night football commentator and Talking Footy panellist with Channel Seven .
Daniel Chick ( born 10 February 1976 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League . Chick is also well known for having a finger amputated in 2002 so he could continue playing football .
The Hawthorn Football Club , nicknamed the Hawks , is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . The club , founded in 1902 , is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL and has won thirteen VFL/AFL premierships . It is the only club to have won premierships in each decade of the 1960s , 1970s , 1980s , 1990s , 2000s and 2010s . The team play in brown and gold vertically striped guernsey . The club 's Latin motto is spectemur agendo , the English translation being Let us be judged by our acts . The Hawks ' origins are in the inner-eastern Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn and also at Glenferrie Oval , the club 's former administrative and training base and social club . Matches , however , have not been played there since 1973 . In 2006 , Hawthorn 's training and administration facilities were relocated to Waverly Park which is located 27.8 km from the CBD and in the middle of the club 's major supporter base in Melbourne 's outer-eastern region . The mascot of the club is a hawk . Since 2007 Hawthorn have played four games a year at their second ground of York Park in Launceston , Tasmania , with the remaining games played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground , the club 's current playing home ground . Hawthorn 's current Victorian Football League ( VFL ) affiliate team is the Box Hill Hawks Football Club .
Stuart Cochrane ( born 20 July 1978 ) is a former AFL footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club . After being delisted at the end of 2005 , Cochrane played for Central District in the SANFL before retiring from football after playing in a losing 2006 Grand Final side . He is currently part of Port Adelaide 's coaching staff , serving as the club 's development coach at AFL level , and as the club 's defence coach at SANFL level .
Michael Stevens ( born 7 November 1980 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide and the Kangaroos in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Stevens was a member the Murray Bushrangers inaugural TAC Cup premiership in 1998 and was voted 'Best on Ground ' in the Grand Final victory over the Geelong Falcons . On the back of his performances at Under-18 level , Stevens was the fifth player picked in the 1998 AFL Draft . A wingman , he was unable to hold on to a spot in the Port Adelaide team although he did participate in their 2002 Wizard Cup triumph . He joined his elder brother Anthony Stevens at the Kangaroos in 2003 , after being traded for Stuart Cochrane . Stevens was a regular in the side throughout 2004 and missed just two games , polling his first and only Brownlow Medal votes when he was awarded three for a performance against Carlton . The following season he appeared in 19 of a possible 22 home and away matches and also took part in their Elimination Final loss to his old club , Port Adelaide . Stevens signed for Murray Football League team Mulwala in 2006 . In 2008 , Stevens played for the Benella Football Club in the Golburn Valley Football League . Stevens then played for Yarrawonga , in the Ovens and Murray Football League , from 2009 to 2012 , before retiring in early 2013 .
Damian Cupido ( born 11 March 1982 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
Nick Davis ( born 30 March 1980 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer and rugby league footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , and for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL Nines .
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 .
Peter Spida Everitt ( born 3 May 1974 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club , Hawthorn Football Club and Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He made his debut for St Kilda in 1993 and in 2003 began playing for Hawthorn . Everitt was traded to the Sydney Swans at the end of 2006 . Following the club 's 2008 semi-final loss to the Western Bulldogs , he announced his retirement . He finished his career on 291 games . Everitt was born on the Mornington Peninsula . For part of his childhood , he resided in Wantirna .
Barnaby French ( born 25 November 1975 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer . French attended Pembroke School in Adelaide . A champion junior rower , French was a member of the Australian under 23s rowing team . He gave up rowing when his studies interfered . After rowing , French played local football for Ironbank in the Adelaide regional Hills Football League from 1996 to 1997 . Despite having relatively little junior experience as a footballer , French won the club best and fairest both years , and was impressive enough to be drafted by Port Adelaide Football Club as a rookie at the 1997 AFL Draft . French spent the 1998 AFL season playing for South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) club Sturt . He was also selected in the SANFL representative team that season . Port Adelaide elevated French to its senior list for 1999 and he made his AFL debut as a 23-year-old , playing 62 games and kick 20 goals for the club . However , French was generally the club 's number three or four ruckman behind Matthew Primus , Dean Brogan and Brendon Lade , at the time , and this limited his opportunities with Port . French continued to play SANFL football with Sturt when not selected for Port Adelaide , winning a SANFL premiership in 2002 . At the end of the 2002 AFL season , French was traded to the Carlton Football Club in exchange for a second-round draft selection ( # 16 overall ) .
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 .
Desmond Edmond Headland , Jr ( born 21 January 1981 ) is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for Subiaco in the West Australian Football League and a conservative political candidate . He plays as a half-forward flanker or midfielder . Headland was selected with the first overall draft pick in the 1998 AFL Draft by the Brisbane Lions . He had a 166-game Australian Football League career , playing for Brisbane and Fremantle .
Chris Joel Heffernan ( born 29 January 1979 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
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 .
Kingsley Hunter ( born 27 May 1975 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League between 1995 and 2003 . He started his AFL career with the Fremantle Football Club in their inaugural year after being the leading goalkicker for WAFL team Claremont in 1994 . He started slowly with Fremantle , playing only three goalless games in 1995 , but impressed in 1996 by kicking the most goals for Fremantle and being awarded an AFL rising star nomination in round 14 . The following year saw a continuation of his good goalkicking form , with a second consecutive goalkicking award for Fremantle , including a career-best 7 goals in a 100-point loss against Collingwood . Despite kicking a goal in each of his 11 games in 1998 , he was traded to the Western Bulldogs for the 1999 season . At the Bulldogs he often played in the backline and had three successful seasons between 2000 and 2002 . In 2003 he went to Hawthorn but only managed 2 games before announcing his retirement from AFL football . He returned to the WAFL in 2004 , but switched to East Fremantle , rather than returning to Claremont before retiring from professional football at the end of 2005 . Kingsley was awarded the official AFL Goal of the Year for 2000 with a running goal which began in the defensive 50 .
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 .
Kane Sugar Johnson ( born 15 March 1978 ) is a former Australian rules footballer and former captain of the Richmond Football Club and dual premiership winner with the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
Jason Torney ( born 16 June 1977 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club and the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
Adam McPhee ( born 6 October 1982 ) is an Australian rules football player who played for the Fremantle Football Club and the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He is a versatile player who has played both as a forward , defender and tagging role , with high-profile clashes with Gary Ablett , Jr. and Chris Judd in 2010 .
Luke Penny ( born 8 February 1981 ) is a former Australian rules footballer . Recruited to the Western Bulldogs in the 1998 AFL Draft as pick 14 , Penny was seen as a project player who could lead the defence in years to come . He stood at 193 cm , and made his debut in 2000 . With Matthew Croft at the club , he could not cement his spot at the Bulldogs , so was traded to St Kilda Football Club for pick 17 ( which turned out to be Cameron Faulkner ) in the 2002 AFL Draft . Making his debut with the Saints in 2003 , Penny continued to improve in a key-defensive position , and became first-choice full-back at the club . However , in 2004 and particularly 2005 , Penny started having trouble with his knees . In 2005 he played just 9 games and was a figure in the Saints ' massive injury list throughout the year . At the end of the 2005 season , Penny 's knee injuries had become a massive problem and it was widely known that he was considering retirement . At just 24 years of age , on 29 November , Penny made his retirement official , with 3 years remaining on his contract .