page_title: Jack Riewoldt
section_title: 2020 season
hierarchical_section_title: Jack Riewoldt / AFL career / 2020 season
caption_attribution_description: English: Jack Riewoldt at the AFL State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match at Marvel Stadium in February 2020.
context_page_description: Jack Riewoldt is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is a two-time premiership player, a three-time Coleman Medallist, a three-time All-Australian, a nine-time Richmond club leading goalkicker and a two-time Jack Dyer Medallist. He also serves as the club's vice captain and has done so since 2017.
context_section_description: Riewoldt played his first match for 2020 in the AFL's fundraising State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match in February, kicking two goals while representing his home state of Tasmania as part of the allied All-Stars side. He sat out Richmond's first pre-season match that same weekend but returned for the club's final pre-season match against Greater Western Sydney a week later. Despite an uninterrupted pre-season, the rapid progression of the coronavirus pandemic into Australia by mid-March saw the future of the season in doubt, including Riewoldt and Richmond's premiership defense. The AFL commission eventually announced the start of the season would proceed as scheduled, but without fans in attendance due to public health prohibitions on group gatherings. With the expectation that a significant break would be necessary mid-season, the league also announced the season would be completed with a modified 17-round fixture and with quarter lengths reduced by one fifth in order to reduce the load on players who would be expected to play multiple matches with short breaks in the back half of the year. Under those conditions, Riewoldt kicked an equal team-high three goals in a round 1 win over Carlton which saw him named in AFL Media's Team of the Week. Just three days later however, the AFL commission suspended the season for an indefinite period after multiple states enforced quarantine conditions on their borders. Riewoldt attracted media scrutiny for poor performances when the season resumed in early-June after an 11-week hiatus, following goalless matches in rounds 2 and 3. He began a seven week unbroken goalkicking run the following round, during which time he and the club were relocated to the Gold Coast in response to a virus outbreak in Melbourne. Riewoldt served as club captain for a three week stretch between rounds 6 and 8, in place of the injured Trent Cotchin.
caption: Riewoldt with the All-Stars in the 2020 State of Origin for Bushfire Relief match
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