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Rhys Stanley
Rhys Stanley
	Stanley playing for Geelong in April 2019
Personal information
Full name	Rhys Stanley
Date of birth	1 December 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth	Berri, South Australia
Original team(s)	West Adelaide (SANFL)
Draft	No. 47, 2008 national draft
Height	200 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Weight	102 kg (225 lb)
Position(s)	Ruckman / Forward
Club information
Current club	Geelong
Number	1
Playing career1
Years	Club
2009–2014	St Kilda
2015–	Geelong
Total
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2024 season.
Career highlights
	AFL premiership player: 2022;
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Rhys Stanley (born 1 December 1990) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the St Kilda Football Club from 2010 to 2014.

Stanley was recruited from West Adelaide with pick 47 in the 2008 AFL Draft. He played little football growing up but impressed with South Australia in the AFL Under 18 championships and in two senior games for West Adelaide.

Career with St Kilda (2009–2014)

Stanley spent his first AFL season developing with St Kilda's VFL affiliate team Sandringham. He won the 2009 AFL Grand Final Sprint.^[1]

In 2010, Stanley played in St Kilda's opening 2010 NAB Cup match against Collingwood, kicking one goal. On 23 May 2010, he made his official debut in Round 9 of the home and away season in which St Kilda defeated the West Coast Eagles at Subiaco. He had nine disposals, three marks, four kicks and five handballs.^[2] Stanley played seven games for St Kilda in 2010, with a total of 53 disposals and four goals.^[3] From rounds 9 to 14, he played in a tall forward role, helping St Kilda to win all six of these games while the captain, Nick Riewoldt, recovered from a hamstring tear.

Stanley played two games for St Kilda in 2011.^[3]

Career with Geelong (2015–present)

Stanley was traded to Geelong, along with pick 60 for pick 21 in the 2014 AFL national draft.

On 12 April 2015, Stanley made his Geelong Cats debut in the second round of the season against the Fremantle Dockers where they were defeated by 44 points but won his first game as a Geelong player in the following round against the Gold Coast Suns. He played six more games in the 2015 season before cementing his spot as the club's first choice ruck for the 2016 season. ^[4]

Since joining Geelong in 2015, Stanley has been selected to play in two AFL grand finals, a loss in 2020 against the Richmond Tigers and a premiership victory in 2022 against the Sydney Swans in which he had 16 disposals and 27 hit outs.^[4]

In late 2021, Stanley signed a two-year extension to remain at the Geelong Football Club until the end of 2023, taking him to his eighth season at the club and thirteenth as an AFL player.^[5]

Statistics

Updated to the end of the 2022 season.^[6]

**Legend**
G	Goals	K	Kicks	D	Disposals	T	Tackles
B	Behinds	H	Handballs	M	Marks	H/O	Hit-outs
#	Played in that season's premiership team


Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals								Averages (per game)								Votes
Season	Team	No.	Games	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	H/O	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	H/O	Votes
2010	St Kilda	28	7	4	1	24	29	53	23	13	5	0.6	0.1	3.4	4.1	7.6	3.3	1.9	0.7	0
2011	St Kilda	28	2	1	1	8	6	14	9	2	5	0.5	0.5	4.0	3.0	7.0	4.5	1.0	2.5	0
2012	St Kilda	28	12	11	14	82	39	121	56	23	74	0.9	1.2	6.8	3.3	10.1	4.7	1.9	6.2	0
2013	St Kilda	28	18	6	5	123	65	188	67	26	55	0.3	0.3	6.8	3.6	10.4	3.7	1.4	3.1	0
2014	St Kilda	28	19	18	10	129	84	213	121	38	148	0.9	0.5	6.8	4.4	11.2	6.4	2.0	7.8	2
2015	Geelong	1	8	6	2	53	46	99	26	22	124	0.8	0.3	6.6	5.8	12.4	3.3	2.8	15.5	0
2016	Geelong	1	21	17	13	137	111	248	77	41	284	0.8	0.6	6.5	5.3	11.8	3.7	2.0	13.5	2
2017	Geelong	1	13	8	9	78	78	156	54	32	209	0.6	0.7	6.0	6.0	12.0	4.2	2.5	16.1	0
2018	Geelong	1	15	6	3	99	103	202	44	42	422	0.4	0.2	6.6	6.9	13.5	2.9	2.8	28.1	0
2019	Geelong	1	18	7	7	138	111	249	53	46	501	0.4	0.4	7.7	6.2	13.8	2.9	2.6	27.8	0
2020^[a]	Geelong	1	11	10	5	72	68	140	32	14	212	0.9	0.5	6.5	6.2	12.7	2.9	1.3	19.3	0
2021	Geelong	1	19	8	5	152	129	281	74	33	391	0.4	0.3	8.0	6.8	14.8	3.9	1.7	20.6	0
2022^#	Geelong	1	20	3	2	146	111	257	64	36	418	0.2	0.1	7.3	5.6	12.9	3.2	1.8	20.9	0
Career			183	105	77	1241	980	2221	700	368	2848	0.6	0.4	6.8	5.4	12.1	3.8	2.0	15.6	4

Notes

^ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honours and achievements

Team

AFL premiership player (Geelong): 2022
2× McClelland Trophy (Geelong): 2019, 2022

References

^ TheKraftyOne (25 September 2009). "2009 AFL Grand Final Sprint - 26/09/2009". Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2016 – via YouTube.
^ "Saints stop the rot in West - AFL.com.au". 26 May 2010. Archived from the original on 26 May 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
^ ^a ^b "AFL Tables - Rhys Stanley - Stats - Statistics". afltables.com. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Rhys Stanley | AFL". geelongcats.com.au. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
^ "New deals for Cats five". K rock Football. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
^ "Rhys Stanley". AFL Tables. Retrieved 13 November 2020.