Since the Victorian Football League (VFL), which is now known as the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (AFL), was formed in 1897, there have been 179 known players of Indigenous Australian heritage that have played in a senior VFL/AFL match. A senior VFL/AFL match is an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 match between two clubs that are, or have been in the past, members of the VFL/AFL. A senior VFL/AFL match is played under the laws of Australian football

Laws of Australian football

The laws of Australian football describe the rules of the game of Australian rules football as they have evolved and adapted, with the same underlying core rules, since 1859....

, and includes regular season matches, as well as finals series

AFL finals system

The current AFL finals system was devised by the Australian Football League in 2000 as its end-of-season championship playoff tournament. It is a revision of the McIntyre Final Eight System, used by the AFL from 1994 to 1999, designed to address several perceived issues with that system...

 matches. It does not include pre-season competition

Australian Football League pre-season competition

The Australian Football League pre-season competition, which is known at present as the NAB Cup, is a competition held before the beginning of the Australian Football League premiership season...

 matches, interstate matches

Interstate matches in Australian rules football

Australian rules football matches between teams representing Australian colonies/states and territories have been held since 1879. For most of the 20th century, the absence of a national club competition and international matches meant that football games between state representative teams were...

 or international rules football

International rules football

International rules football is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players....

 matches. The list is arranged in alphabetical order by surname.

The first recognised Indigenous Australian player to play in a senior VFL/AFL match is Joe Johnson

Joe Johnson (Australian footballer)

Joe Johnson was an Australian rules footballer notable as he is recognised as being the first ever Indigenous Australian to play in the VFL/AFL....

 who played 55 games for Fitzroy

Fitzroy Football Club

The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...

 from 1904 to 1906, and was a member of Fitzroy's dual premiership-winning sides of 1904 and 1905. Gavin Wanganeen

Gavin Wanganeen

Gavin Adrian Wanganeen is a retired Australian rules footballer, playing in two Australian Football League premierships with Essendon and Port Adelaide. Wanganeen is a Brownlow Medallist and is considered one of the finest indigenous players ever...

 (Essendon

Essendon Football Club

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 and Port Adelaide

Port Adelaide Football Club

The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League and the South Australian National Football League...

) was the first Indigenous Australian player to play 300 games, and Andrew McLeod

Andrew McLeod

Andrew Luke McLeod is a former Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club. He is the games record holder for Adelaide, having played 340 games....

 is the current record-holder of most games played by an Indigenous player with 328 games for Adelaide from 1995 to 2010.

There was a record number of Indigenous players on AFL lists during the 2009 AFL season

2009 AFL season

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 with 82 senior and rookie-listed

Rookie list

The Rookie List is a means for Australian Football League clubs to maintain additional players outside of the 38-man primary or senior list. Rookie listed players are not eligibile to play in AFL home and away or finals matches unless they are elevated to the senior list, either to replace a...

 players listed with AFL clubs. This figure surpassed the previous record of 73 players set in the 2008 season

2008 AFL season

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.

Players

Players are listed in alphabetical order, and statistics are for AFL regular season and finals series matches only. "Career span" years are from the season of the player's debut in the AFL to the year in which they played their final game in the AFL and have since been removed from the playing list. Currently listed players are shaded in green, marked with a # and their career span is listed as "(year of debut)–present". Statistics are correct to the end of the 2008 AFL season

2008 AFL season

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.

Legend

Name	Club(s)	Career span	Games	Goals
	,	1995–2001	110	150
	,	1991–1994	8	1
	,	1995–2001	67	68
#		2007–present	9	0
#		2008–present	5	2
	,	1983–1988	48	71
#		2000–present	117	39
		1999–2000	24	2
#		2005–present	75	85
		1995–1996	15	7
		1970–1971	13	7
	,	1995–1999	24	9
	,	1996–2000	91	31
	,	1994–1999	94	77
#		1997–present	225	189
#		2002–present	148	167
	,	1996–2004	154	262
		1918	2	1

C

• Barry Cable
  Barry Cable
  Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...
  
   North Melbourne 115 133
• Shane Cable
  Shane Cable
  Shane Cable is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles in the Victorian Football League ....
  
   West Coast 1 0
• Matt Campbell
  Matt Campbell (Australian footballer)
  Matt Campbell is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing with the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League....
  
   North Melbourne 41 50
• Warren Campbell North Melbourne 19 17
• Fred Campbell
  Fred Campbell
  Fred Campbell is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Sydney and St Kilda in the AFL in 1999 and 2000.-External links:...
  
   Sydney St Kilda 12 7
• Kevin Caton
  Kevin Caton
  Kevin Caton is a retired Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL/AFL for the West Coast Eagles, Fitzroy and Brisbane Bears.-References:...
  
   West Coast Fitzroy Brisbane 18 18
• Sean Charles
  Sean Charles
  - External links :*...
  
   Melbourne Carlton St Kilda 56 66
• Scott Chisholm
  Scott Chisholm (footballer)
  Scott Chisholm is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Fremantle and Melbourne in the Australian Football League between 1995 and 2000...
  
   Fremantle Melbourne 81 33
• Xavier Clarke
  Xavier Clarke
  Xavier Clarke is an Indigenous Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League . Formerly playing for St Kilda, at the send of the 2009 season he was traded to the Brisbane Lions.-Early life:...
  
   St Kilda 105 49
• Raphael Clarke
  Raphael Clarke
  Raphael Clarke is an Australian rules footballer for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League . He is the brother of Brisbane utility Xavier Clarke, who was also a St Kilda player from 2002 until 2009....
  
   St Kilda 45 6
• Eric Clarke St Kilda 6 6
• Che Cockatoo-Collins
  Che Cockatoo-Collins
  Che Cockatoo-Collins is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Che was born in Brisbane Queensland where he spent his childhood before moving to Cairns, Queensland where he began playing junior football with the Cairns City Cobras Australian Football Club...
  
   Essendon Port Adelaide 160 215
• Donald Cockatoo-Collins Melbourne 9 3
• David Cockatoo-Collins Melbourne 2 0
• Adam Cockie
  Adam Cockie
  Adam Cockie is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Subiaco Football Club in the West Australian Football League.- Football career :...
  
   West Coast 4 2
• Richard Cole Collingwood Essendon 63 6
• Cyril Collard
  Cyril Collard (footballer)
  Cyril Collard played 13 games for Australian Rules Football club Hawthorn between 1957 and 1958, scoring 3 goals. He was the first indigenous Australian to play for Hawthorn being of the Noongar people of Western Australia...
  
   Hawthorn 13 3
• Clayton Collard
  Clayton Collard
  Clayton Collard is an Australian rules footballer. He plays as a midfielder or small forward and was selected by the Fremantle Football Club with selection 31 in the 2006 AFL National Draft. He was rookie listed by the Richmond Football Club in the 2007 Rookie Draft at pick 1...
  
   Fremantle Richmond 1 1
• Troy Cook
  Troy Cook
  Troy Cook is an Australian rules footballer. Cook plays for the Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League.-Early career:...
  
   Sydney Fremantle 193 77
• Reuben Cooper Sydney 2 0
• Anthony Corrie
  Anthony Corrie
  Anthony Corrie is an Australian rules footballer who has previously played for the Brisbane Lions and the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League , and is currently without a team....
  
   Brisbane Collingwood 56 50
• Shannon Cox
  Shannon Cox
  Shannon Cox is a former Australian rules footballer for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
  
   Collingwood 22 5
• Trent Cummings
  Trent Cummings
  Trent Cummings is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League ....
  
   Fitzroy West Coast 29 19
• Percy Cummings Hawthorn 5 1
• Robert Cummings Fitzroy 1 0

D

• Aaron Davey
  Aaron Davey
  Aaron Davey is a professional Australian rules football player of Indigenous Australian heritage. He currently plays for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
  
  Melbourne 108 133
• Alwyn Davey
  Alwyn Davey
  Alwyn Davey is a professional Australian rules footballer who currently plays for the Essendon Football Club of the Australian Football League.-Early life:...
  
  Essendon 30 28
• Leon Davis
  Leon Davis (footballer)
  Leon Davis is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Drafted to Collingwood in 1999 as a small forward, Davis is of Aboriginal heritage. Davis made an early impression at the Pies and played Round 1 in his debut season. He showed that he was capable of turning a match but...
  
  Collingwood 171 217
• Courtenay Dempsey
  Courtenay Dempsey
  Courtenay Dempsey is a professional Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club of the Australian Football League.-Early life:...
  
  Essendon 20 8
• Gary Dhurrkay
  Gary Dhurrkay
  Gary Dhurrkay was an Australian rules footballer and Aboriginal Australian community leader.Dhurkkay was a part of East Fremantle Football Club's 1994 premiership in the WAFL, before being a part of Fremantle's inaugural AFL team in 1995.After an inconsistent season in 1998, he was demoted to the...
  
  Fremantle North Melbourne 72 66
• Brad Dick
  Brad Dick
  Brad Dick is an Australian rules footballer for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.A small, speedy wingman from Western Australia, Dick was selected by the Magpies with the 44th choice in the 2006 AFL Draft...
  
  Collingwood 11 14
• Willie Dick
  Willie Dick (Australian rules footballer)
  Willie Dick is an Australian rules footballer who was drafted by Essendon in the second round of the 1991 AFL Draft. He made his debut against St Kilda in round 1 of 1992 season. He played seven games for the senior team and was a member of Essendons reserves premiership team. He left the club at...
  
  Essendon 7 6
• Nathan Djerrkura
  Nathan Djerrkura
  Nathan Djerrkura is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . He was drafted to the Geelong Football Club in 2006 and played four games for them before being traded to the Western Bulldogs during the 2010 Trade Week.-Early life:Nathan Djerrkura was born to Gatjil and...
  
  Geelong 2 0

E

• Shane Edwards
  Shane Edwards
  Shane Edwards is an Australian rules football player for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League .A wingman from the North Adelaide Football Club, he was taken at pick 26 in the 2006 AFL Draft...
  
  Richmond 36 24
• Phil Egan
  Phil Egan
  Phillip 'Phil' Egan is an indigenous former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1982 and 1989 for the Richmond Football Club. He then played one senior game for the Melbourne Football Club in 1991.-External links:...
  
  Richmond Melbourne 126 117
• Chris Egan
  Chris Egan (footballer)
  Chris Egan is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Picked up by Collingwood with their first round draft pick, tenth overall, in the 2004 AFL Draft from Rumbalara on the Murray...
  
  Collingwood 27 22

F

• Jeff Farmer
  Jeff Farmer (footballer)
  Jeff Farmer is a former Australian rules footballer of Aboriginal descent. He was the first indigenous player to kick 400 goals in the Australian Football League .-Melbourne career:...
  
  Melbourne Fremantle 249 483
• Graham Farmer
  Graham Farmer
  Graham Vivian "Polly" Farmer, MBE is a retired Australian rules football player and coach. Born in Western Australia, he joined the East Perth Football Club as a ruckman in 1953, where he won several awards and contributed to the team winning three premierships...
  
  Geelong 101 65
• Cameron Faulkner
  Cameron Faulkner
  Cameron Faulkner is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the Western Bulldogs.Faulkner was recruited to through the 2002 National AFL Draft at number 17 which had been traded by St Kilda for Luke Penny....
  
  Western Bulldogs 18 9
• Fabian Francis
  Fabian Francis
  Fabian Francis, is a former Australian rules football and rugby league footballer, most notable for his brief professional career with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Early life:...
  
  Melbourne Brisbane Port Adelaide 109 61
• Lance Franklin
  Lance Franklin
  Lance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . Nicknamed 'Buddy', Franklin primarily plays as a centre half-forward, but also spends some time in the midfield, where he plays along the wing...
  
  Hawthorn 92 275

G

• Jeff Garlett
  Jeff Garlett
  Jefferey "Jeff" Garlett is an Indigenous Australian rules footballer at the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is the first cousin of Coleman Medallist Lance Franklin from Hawthorn.-Early football:...
  
  Carlton
• Cruize Garlett
  Cruize Garlett
  Cruize Garlett is an Australian rules footballer who plays for North Melbourne in the Australian Football League.-Early career:...
  
  North Melbourne
• Adam Goodes
  Adam Goodes
  Adam Goodes is a professional Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League ....
  
  Sydney
• Colin Graham Melbourne 35 32
• Jonathon Griffin
  Jonathon Griffin
  Jonathon Griffin is a part Indigenous Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League and the Central District Bulldogs in the South Australian National Football League...
  
  Adelaide, Fremantle
• Antoni Grover
  Antoni Grover
  Antoni Grover is a defender for the Fremantle Dockers. After being elevated from the rookie list in 1999, he made his debut in round 21 against the Sydney Swans...
  
  Fremantle

H

• Jarrod Harbrow
  Jarrod Harbrow
  Jarrod Harbrow is a professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League currently contracted to the Gold Coast Suns.-Early life:...
  
  Western Bulldogs 34 20
• Roger Hayden
  Roger Hayden
  Roger Hayden is a former Australian rules footballer. He played as a back pocket for the Fremantle Football Club after beginning his senior football career with South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League ....
  
  Fremantle 100 10
• Des Headland
  Des Headland
  Desmond "Des" Headland, Jr is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for Subiaco in the West Australian Football League. 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...
  
  Brisbane Fremantle 154 160
• Josh Hill
  Josh Hill
  Josh Hill is an Australian rules footballer, currently listed with the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League . He previously played for the Western Bulldogs.-Career:...
  
  Western Bulldogs 30 32
• Stephen Hill
  Stephen Hill (Australian footballer)
  Stephen Hill is an Australian rules footballer with the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Junior career:...
  
  Fremantle 11 5
• Eddie Hocking
  Eddie Hocking
  Eddie Hocking is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Adelaide in the Australian Football League .After a strong season with Central District in 1990, when he was runner-up in the Magarey Medal, Hocking was signed by Adelaide. He came off the interchange bench in Adelaide's first...
  
  Adelaide 11 4
• Rhan Hooper
  Rhan Hooper
  Rhan Hooper is a former Australian rules footballer who has played for the Brisbane Lions and the Hawthorn Hawks of the Australian Football League...
  
  Brisbane 43 46

J

• Syd Jackson
  Syd Jackson (Australian footballer)
  Syd Jackson is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Carlton Blues during the 1970s. He usually played in the centre or half forward flank....
  
  Carlton 136 165
• Eddie Jackson
  Edward Jackson (footballer)
  Edward Jackson is a former Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League .He played in the 1948 Melbourne team in the 1948 Grand Final.-External links:*-References:*...
  
  Melbourne 84 10
• Jarrhan Jacky Adelaide 3 1
• Shadrach James
  Shadrach James
  Shadrach James was an Indigenous Australian Australian rules footballer.-Playing career:James played 18 matches for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League between 1941 and 1942....
  
  Fitzroy 18 20
• Russell Jeffrey
  Russell Jeffrey
  Russell Jeffrey is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian/Australian Football League ....
  
  St Kilda Brisbane 50 4
• Leroy Jetta
  Leroy Jetta
  Leroy Jetta is an Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League.The speedy forward was drafted by the Bombers with the priority selection in the 2006 AFL Draft from South Fremantle...
  
  Essendon 27 15
• Neville Jetta
  Neville Jetta
  Neville Jetta is an Australian rules footballer for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.Jetta was drafted to Melbourne with the 51st selection in the 2008 AFL Draft. He had previously been playing with Swan Districts in the West Australian Football League...
  
  Melbourne 5 3
• Graham Johncock
  Graham Johncock
  Graham Johncock is an Australian rules football player with the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League.Graham is an indigenous Australian from near Port Lincoln in South Australia.-Career highlights:...
  
  Adelaide 157 90
• Chris Johnson
  Chris L. Johnson
  Christopher Lloyd Johnson is a former professional Australian rules footballer.His career highlights as an Australian Football League player include three premierships with Brisbane, All-Australian selection, captain of the Australian International Rules team and inclusion in the Indigenous Team...
  
  Fitzroy Brisbane 264 172
• Michael Johnson
  Michael Johnson (Australian rules footballer)
  Michael Johnson is an Australian rules footballer for the Fremantle Dockers. Recruited from Perth Football Club in the WAFL with selection 8 in the 2004 Preseason Draft, he is a graduate of the Clontarf Football Academy...
  
  Fremantle 84 21
• Joe Johnson
  Joe Johnson (Australian footballer)
  Joe Johnson was an Australian rules footballer notable as he is recognised as being the first ever Indigenous Australian to play in the VFL/AFL....
  
  Fitzroy 55 15
• Bert Johnson North Melbourne 31 5
• Percy Johnson
  Percy Johnson
  Percy John Johnson is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who played 13 state matches for Western Australia and 228 games in the WAFL...
  
  North Melbourne 52 4
• Bob Jones St Kilda 20 2
• Liam Jones
  Liam Jones
  Liam Jones is an Australian rules footballer who was drafted by Western Bulldogs in the second round of the 2008 AFL Draft. He made his debut against North Melbourne in round 18 of 2010 season.In round 24, 2011, he was nominated for the AFL Rising Star award....
  
  Western Bulldogs 0 0
• Liam Jurrah
  Liam Jurrah
  Liam Jungarrayi Jurrah is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Melbourne Football Club....
  
  Melbourne 0 0

K

• Adam Kerinaiua
  Adam Kerinaiua
  Adam Kerinaiua is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League ....
  
  Brisbane 3 1
• Derek Kickett
  Derek Kickett
  Derek Thomas Kickett is a former Australian rules footballer. A journeyman, Kickett played with seven different VFL/AFL, WAFL and SANFL clubs through his career....
  
  North Melbourne Essendon Sydney 152 179
• Dale Kickett
  Dale Kickett
  Dale Mathew Kickett is a former Australian rules footballer. He is one of only three players, and the only living person to have played for five clubs in the Australian Football League.-Early career:...
  
  Fitzroy West Coast St Kilda Essendon Fremantle 181 64
• Steven Koops
  Steven Koops
  Steven John Koops is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club and Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League .-Early life:...
  
  Fremantle Western Bulldogs 89 49
• Jim Krakouer
  Jim Krakouer
  James Gordon "Jim" Krakouer was an Australian rules footballer in the 1980s for North Melbourne and St Kilda in the VFL and Claremont in the WAFL...
  
  North Melbourne St Kilda 147 236
• Phil Krakouer
  Phil Krakouer
  Phillip Brent "Phil" Krakouer is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club during the 1980s. Notable for his speed, freakish skills and an uncanny ability to pass the ball to his brother, Jim Krakouer, who also played for North Melbourne...
  
  North Melbourne Western Bulldogs Sydney 148 231
• Andrew J. Krakouer
  Andrew J. Krakouer
  Andrew James Krakouer is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League . He previously played for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL and played for Swan Districts in the West Australian Football League .-Early life:Krakouer is the son...
  
  Richmond Collingwood 102 102 16 22
• Andrew L. Krakouer
  Andrew L. Krakouer
  Andrew L. Krakouer is an Indigenous Australian former Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the Australian Football League....
  
  North Melbourne 8 8
• Nathan Krakouer
  Nathan Krakouer
  Nathan Krakouer is an Australian Rules Footballer and an Indigenous Australian. He is the nephew of former North Melbourne football players Jimmy Krakouer and Phil Krakouer and cousin of current Collingwood player Andrew Krakouer....
  
  Port Adelaide 23 6

L

• Jamie Lawson
  Jamie Lawson
  Jamie Lawson is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League during the early 1990s....
  
  Sydney 61 29
• Norm Le Brun
  Norm Le Brun
  Norman "Norm" Le Brun was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne, Essendon, Collingwood and Carlton in the Victorian Football League...
  
  Sydney Essendon Collingwood Carlton 50 31
• Graeme Lee
  Graeme Lee (Australian footballer)
  Graeme 'Gypsy' Lee was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the VFL during the early 1960s. He also had a noted career in Tasmania and is a half forward flanker in Launceston's official 'Team of the Century'....
  
  St Kilda 18 7
• Shawn Lewfatt
  Shawn Lewfatt
  Shawn Lewfatt is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Australian Football League .He was drafted by the Essendon Football Club in the 1994 National Draft at pick 28. He played three games with Essendon during the 1995 season.-External links:* on the Official AFL...
  
  Essendon 3 2
• Chris Lewis
  Chris Lewis (Australian rules footballer)
  Christoper Lockley "Chris" Lewis is a former Australian rules footballer who played over 200 AFL senior games for the West Coast Eagles....
  
  West Coast 215 259
• Michael Long Essendon 190 143
• Andy Lovell
  Andy Lovell
  Anthony 'Andy' Lovell is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne and West Coast in the VFL/AFL.As a teenager Lovell had been a wood chopper which earned him the nickname 'Chopper' and his father Greg was a world champion at the sport...
  
  Melbourne West Coast 164 166
• Andrew Lovett
  Andrew Lovett
  Andrew Lovett is an Aboriginal Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League for Essendon between 2005 and 2009...
  
  Essendon 77 83
• Wally Lovett
  Wally Lovett
  Wally Lovett is an indigenous former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL in 1982 for the Collingwood and in 1983 and 1984 for the Richmond Football Club.-External links:...
  
  Collingwood Richmond 28 17
• Ted Lovett
  Ted Lovett
  Ted Lovett is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League .Lovett played two games for Fitzroy in the 1963 VFL season, on a permit. He finished the year back at North Ballarat and won the first of two Henderson Medal, the other coming in 1965. He...
  
  Fitzroy 9 2
• Nathan Lovett-Murray
  Nathan Lovett-Murray
  Nathan Lovett-Murray is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League....
  
  Collingwood Essendon 90 51
• Malcolm Lynch
  Malcolm Lynch
  Malcolm Lynch is an Australian rules footballer who last played with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League .Originally from the Tiwi Islands, he has played football in the Northern Territory where he grew up....
  
  Western Bulldogs 2 0

M

• Neil Marshall
  Neil Marshall (footballer)
  Neil Peter Clare Marshall is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League .Marshall, an Indigenous Australian, was a half back flanker who came from Broome originally...
  
  West Coast 4 0
• Phillip Matera
  Phillip Matera
  Phillip "Phil" Matera is a former Australian rules footballer of Italian-Aboriginal heritage.-Career:Beginning his career in 1996, the 171 cm forward pocket was one of the Australian Football League's best small forwards....
  
  West Coast 179 389
• Peter Matera West Coast 253 217
• Wally Matera
  Wally Matera
  Wally Matera is a former Australian rules footballer of Indigenous and Italian heritage. He played with the West Coast Eagles and Fitzroy in the AFL and for South Fremantle in the WAFL...
  
  West Coast Fitzroy 56 65
• Adrian McAdam
  Adrian McAdam
  Adrian McAdam is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Australian Football League during the early 1990s....
  
  North Melbourne 36 92
• Gilbert McAdam
  Gilbert McAdam
  Gilbert McAdam was an Indigenous Australian Australian rules football player and one of three McAdam brothers to play in the Australian Football League.-Early career:...
  
  St Kilda Brisbane 111 89
• Greg McAdam
  Greg McAdam
  Greg McAdam is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the AFL in 1985.McAdam is an Indigenous Australian from Alice Springs. His younger brothers Adrian and Gilbert followed him into the AFL.-External links:...
  
  St Kilda 10 13
• Norm McDonald Essendon 128 3
• Ashley McGrath
  Ashley McGrath
  Ashley Vernon McGrath is an indigenous Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Selected in the 2000 AFL Draft with the thirteenth pick overall, the Brisbane Lions recruited the talented forward, where he made his AFL debut late in 2001...
  
  Brisbane 124 102
• Cory McGrath
  Cory McGrath
  Cory McGrath is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the Carlton and Essendon Football Clubs in the Australian Football League , South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League , South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League and the Northern...
  
  Essendon Carlton 78 18
• Marty McGrath Richmond 4 6
• Michael McLean
  Michael McLean (footballer)
  Michael "Magic" McLean is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with both Footscray and Brisbane in the VFL/AFL.- Early life :...
  
  Western Bulldogs Brisbane 183 40
• Andrew McLeod
  Andrew McLeod
  Andrew Luke McLeod is a former Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club. He is the games record holder for Adelaide, having played 340 games....
  
  Adelaide 315 261
• Clem Michael
  Clem Michael
  Clem Anthony Michael is a former Australian Rules football player in the Australian Football League for the Fremantle Football Club from 1998 to 2000...
  
  Fremantle 43 11
• Harry Miller
  Harry Miller (footballer)
  Harry Miller is an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League.Selected at pick 25 in the 2003 AFL Draft, Miller is a small forward who had limited game time with Hawthorn, but continued to push for a spot...
  
  Hawthorn 18 13
• Michael Mitchell Richmond 81 103
• Gavin Mitchell
  Gavin Mitchell (footballer)
  Gavin Mitchell is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Known for his pace and goalsneak ability, Mitchell debuted with the Fremantle Dockers in 1996, a season where he played 21 matches...
  
  Fremantle St Kilda 88 82
• Daniel Motlop
  Daniel Motlop
  Daniel Motlop is an Indigenous Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League.- Kangaroos career :...
  
  North Melbourne Port Adelaide 106 179
• Shannon Motlop
  Shannon Motlop
  Shannon Motlop is an indigenous Australian rules footballer. Primarily playing as a midfielder or small forward, he represented both the Kangaroos and Melbourne in the Australian Football League...
  
  North Melbourne Melbourne 64 36
• Marlon Motlop
  Marlon Motlop
  Marlon Motlop is an Australian rules footballer who played with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the AFL. He also plays for West Adelaide in the SANFL....
  
  Port Adelaide 4 2
• Steven Motlop
  Steven Motlop
  Steven Motlop is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League .-AFL career:...
  
  Geelong 0 0
• Robert Muir
  Robbie Muir (footballer)
  Robbie "Mad Dog" Muir is a former part-Indigenous Australian rules football player for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League ....
  
  St Kilda 68 23
• Justin Murphy Richmond Carlton Geelong Essendon 185 151
• Allan Murray
  Allan Murray
  Allan Murray is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with both Port Adelaide and St. Kilda in the Australian Football League....
  
  Port Adelaide St Kilda 16 13
• Derek Murray
  Derek Murray (Australian footballer)
  Derek Murray is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League .Murray was a highly successful junior, playing with the Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup in 1997 and 1998...
  
  Port Adelaide 23 7

O

• Jarrad Oakley-Nichols Richmond 12 1
• Michael O'Loughlin
  Michael O'Loughlin
  Michael Kevin O'Loughlin is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who played his entire Australian Football League career with the Sydney Swans....
  
  Sydney 292 505
• Ricky O'Loughlin
  Ricky O'Loughlin
  Ricky O'Loughlin is a former indigenous Australian rules footballer who played with Adelaide in the Australian Football League .O'Loughlin was picked up from Port Adelaide at pick 51 in the 1999 AFL Draft...
  
  Adelaide Sydney 9 2

P

• Danyle Pearce
  Danyle Pearce
  Danyle Pearce is a professional Australian rules footballer playing with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League.- Early life :...
  
  Port Adelaide 82 50
• Derek Peardon
  Derek Peardon
  Derek Peardon is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1968 and 1971 for the Richmond Football Club.A champion schoolboy footballer and gifted professional runner, Peardon was the first indigenous footballer to play for the Tigers.Selected in the 1965...
  
  Richmond 20 1
• Carl Peterson
  Carl Peterson (Australian footballer)
  Carl Peterson is an Australian rules footballer, who formerly played in the Australian Football League with the Hawthorn Football Club....
  
  Richmond Hawthorn 0 0
• Jared Petrenko
  Jared Petrenko
  Jared Petrenko is a professional Australian Rules football player currently playing for the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League. He is of both Indigenous Australian and Ukrainian descent, and his Indigenous tribal ancestry can be traced to the Adnyamathanha.Petrenko grew up in Henley...
  
  Adelaide 8 4
• Byron Pickett
  Byron Pickett
  Byron Pickett is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with three clubs in the AFL. He was known as a big game player as well as for his strength, hard bumps and tough approach to the game. Pickett is one of 12 players with two premiership medallions, a Norm Smith Medal...
  
  North Melbourne Port Adelaide Melbourne 204 177
• Lionel Proctor
  Lionel Proctor
  Lionel Proctor is an indigenous former Australian rules football player who played in the AFL between 1998 and 2001 for the Richmond Football Club.-References:...
  
  Richmond 20 4
• Albert Proud
  Albert Proud
  Albert Proud is an Australian rules football player who plays for Mt Gravatt Vultures in NEAFL. He previously played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League...
  
  Brisbane 16 2

R

• Elkin Reilly Sydney 51 2
• Dean Rioli
  Dean Rioli
  Dean Rioli is an indigenous former Australian rules football player who spent his whole professional career with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League....
  
  Essendon 100 91
• Maurice Rioli
  Maurice Rioli
  Maurice Rioli was an Australian rules football player best known for his time spent with the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League...
  
  Richmond 118 80
• Cyril Rioli
  Cyril Rioli
  Cyril Rioli is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
  
  Hawthorn 36 39
• Jason Roe Collingwood Brisbane 45 6
• Lachlan Ross
  Lachlan Ross
  Lachlan Ross is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Australian Football League and West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League .-External links:...
  
  Essendon 2 1
• Shannon Rusca
  Shannon Rusca
  -Early life:Rusca began playing senior Australian Football with Southern Districts in the Northern Territory Football League.-AFL career:He was listed on the rookie list by the Brisbane Lions in 2000 before being elevated during the season. During the 2000 AFL season he played two matches.Rusca was...
  
  Brisbane Western Bulldogs 2 0
• Patrick Ryder
  Patrick Ryder
  Patrick "Paddy" Ryder is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Essendon in the Australian Football League .-Early career:...
  
  Essendon 63 15

S

• Ashley Sampi
  Ashley Sampi
  Ashley Sampi is an indigenous Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League...
  
  West Coast 78 97
• Eddie Sansbury
  Eddie Sansbury
  Edward Sansbury is an Australian rules football player who formerly played as a midfielder for the Kangaroos Football Club in the Australian Football League....
  
  North Melbourne 40 21
• Sam Sheldon
  Sam Sheldon
  Sam Sheldon is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League.-Early life:Sam has Indigenous Australian heritage and his tribal ancestry can be traced to the Wemba-Wemba.-Draft:...
  
  Brisbane 6 0
• George Simmonds Melbourne 4 4
• Dwayne Simpson
  Dwayne Simpson
  Dwayne Simpson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Dockers in 2001. He was originally drafted by the Sydney Swans from East Fremantle in the WAFL with selection 59 in the 1998 AFL Draft but did not play a league game for them. At the end of the 2000 season he was...
  
  Fremantle Sydney 2 1
• Brennan Stack
  Brennan Stack
  Brennan Stack is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Western Bulldogs Football Club in the Australian Football League from 2007.Stack nominated for the 2006 AFL National Draft...
  
  Western Bulldogs 1 0
• Brian Stanislaus Sydney Brisbane 1 0
• Charlie Stewart
  Charlie Stewart (Australian rules footballer born 1939)
  Charlie Stewart was an Australian rules football player and coach. He is most notable for playing for Footscray in the Victorian Football League. Stewart was of Indigenous Australian descent.-Playing career:...
  
  Western Bulldogs 20 4
• Mathew Stokes
  Mathew Stokes
  Mathew Stokes is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League .-Early life:...
  
  Geelong 61 97
• Cameron Stokes
  Cameron Stokes
  Cameron Stokes was a Australian rules football player listed for the Hawthorn Football Club. Stokes was recruited to the Hawks via the 2007 AFL rookie draft, selected at pick 54. He made his AFL debut in the opening round of the 2008 AFL season, alongside fellow Northern Territorian Cyril Rioli...
  
  Hawthorn 16 8

T

• Richard Tambling
  Richard Tambling
  Richard Tambling is an Australian rules footballer who plays in the Australian Football League. He was drafted to the Richmond Football Club with the fourth selection in the 2004 AFL Draft and played 108 games for them before being traded to Adelaide during the 2010 AFL Trade Week.-Early...
  
  Richmond 84 55
• Kevin Taylor Sydney Fitzroy 15 25
• Garth Taylor
  Garth Taylor
  Garth Taylor is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Dockers between 1999 and 2000. He was drafted from Swan Districts in the WAFL as the 49th selection in the 1998 AFL Draft and played mainly as a forward....
  
  Fremantle 15 13
• Lindsay Thomas
  Lindsay Thomas (footballer)
  Lindsay Thomas is an Australian rules footballer for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League...
  
  North Melbourne 46 54
• Wade Thompson
  Wade Thompson
  Wade Thompson is an Australian rules footballer for Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League .He is well known for his electrifying pace, with a good goal sense. He was drafted at No...
  
  Port Adelaide 2 0
• Alan Thorpe
  Alan Thorpe
  Alan C. Thorpe was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Thorpe, was born in Sydney, New South Wales and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia.-References:...
  
  Sydney Western Bulldogs 15 28
• Shane Tongerie
  Shane Tongerie
  Shane Tongerie is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Adelaide in the Australian Football League ....
  
  Adelaide 4 3

W

• Rod Waddell
  Rod Waddell
  Rod Waddell is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Geelong. Renowned for his quick pace, he struggled to hold a regular position at either team and was eventually delisted.-Source:...
  
  Carlton Geelong 25 12
• Andrew Walker
  Andrew Walker (footballer)
  Andrew "Tex" Walker is a professional Australian rules footballer playing with Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League .-Early life:...
  
  Carlton 81 30
• Michael Walters
  Michael Walters (Australian footballer)
  Michael Walters is an Australian rules footballer for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
  
  Fremantle 1 1
• Jim Wandin St Kilda 17 3
• Gavin Wanganeen
  Gavin Wanganeen
  Gavin Adrian Wanganeen is a retired Australian rules footballer, playing in two Australian Football League premierships with Essendon and Port Adelaide. Wanganeen is a Brownlow Medallist and is considered one of the finest indigenous players ever...
  
  Essendon Port Adelaide 300 202
• Elijah Ware
  Elijah Ware
  Elijah Ware is a retired Australian Rules Football player, who played for Port Adelaide in the AFL, and played for the Central District Bulldogs in the SANFL....
  
  Port Adelaide 2 1
• Isaac Weetra
  Isaac Weetra
  Isaac Weetra is a semi-professional Australian rules footballer.He is notable for his brief Australian Football League stint, playing with the Melbourne Demons and wearing the No...
  
  Melbourne 2 0
• Sharrod Wellingham
  Sharrod Wellingham
  Sharrod Wellingham is a professional Australian rules football player currently playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League....
  
  Collingwood 18 7
• Daniel Wells North Melbourne 130 70
• Mark West
  Mark West (footballer)
  Mark West is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League during the 1990s....
  
  Western Bulldogs 16 3
• Matthew Whelan
  Matthew Whelan
  Matthew Whelan is a former professional Australian rules football player.Wearing the number 45 jersey, Whelan was reliable defender/back pocket known by Demons fans simply as the "Wheels". He also earned the nickname "Wrecker" for his big hits and tough and uncompromisingly defensive style of...
  
  Melbourne 144 14
• Darryl White
  Darryl White
  Darryl White is a former Australian rules footballer whose career with the Brisbane Bears and Lions in the Australian Football League lasted from 1992 to 2005....
  
  Brisbane 268 165
• Djaran Whyman
  Djaran Whyman
  Djaran Whyman is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Whyman was first rookie listed by AFL club Hawthorn in 2002, but he returned to country football later that year....
  
  Hawthorn North Melbourne 3 4
• Mark Williams
  Mark L. Williams
  Mark Williams is a former indigenous Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Essendon in the Australian Football League...
  
  Hawthorn 109 239
• Russell Williams
  Russell Williams (footballer)
  Russell Williams is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Australian Football League .Williams, an Indigenous Australian from South Fremantle, played his football as a rover...
  
  Essendon 3 1
• Nicky Winmar
  Nicky Winmar
  Neil Elvis "Nicky" Winmar is a former Australian Footballer of an indigenous background who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League.- AFL career :...
  
  St Kilda Western Bulldogs 251 317
• David Wirrpanda
  David Wirrpanda
  David Selwyn Wirrpanda is a former Australian rules footballer, who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League between 1996 and 2009...
  
  West Coast 217 123
• Clinton Wolf
  Clinton Wolf
  Clinton Wolf is an Australian Aboriginal leader and former Australian rules footballer.-Football career:Wolf was recruited from the Claremont Football Club in the West Australian Football League to the inaugural squad of the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League...
  
  Fremantle 4 0
• Austin Wonaeamirri
  Austin Wonaeamirri
  Austin Wonaeamirri is a professional Australian rules football player of indigenous origin. He previously played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League .-Early life:...
  
  Melbourne 18 24
• Dion Woods
  Dion Woods
  Dion Woods is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle in the Australian Football League between 2001 and 2005....
  
  Fremantle 59 7

External links

• http://www.aboriginalfootball.com.au/
• http://www.afl.com.au/