List of Geelong Football Club women's players

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Melissa Hickey was Geelong's inaugural AFL Women's captain.[1]

Geelong Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria. The club itself was established in 1859, and has participated in the Australian Football League (AFL), the top-level men's competition, since its formation in 1897.[nb 1] Following the inaugural season of the related AFL Women's (AFLW) league in 2017,[3] Geelong was granted a licence to join the AFLW as an expansion club, and played its first match in this league during the opening round of the 2019 season.[4]

In preparation for the club's entry into the league, Geelong were provided with a range of recruitment concessions, including early access to existing clubs' players prior to the league's signing period, and additional selections in the 2018 national draft.[5][6]

The playing list size for each AFLW club in the upcoming 2020 season will be set at 30 players, with up to three of these players listed as rookies.[7] Rookie players must not have played with any Australian rules football club within the prior three years.[7] As every club is required to make a minimum number of changes to its list at the end of each season,[8] not every player necessarily makes a senior appearance for the club before being removed from the playing list.

Since its first competitive appearance, 62 players have represented the club in an AFLW premiership match.[9]

Players

Table headers and key
Order Players are listed according to the date of their AFLW debut for the club.
Seasons The yearspan of the player's AFLW appearances for Geelong.
Debut Players' first AFLW match for Geelong.
Games The number of games played.
Goals The number of goals scored.
^ Player is currently on Geelong's AFLW playing list.[10]
Statistics are updated as of end of the 2024 AFL Women's season.
Table of Geelong Football Club players, with appearance details
Name Jumper No. Order Season(s) Debut Games Goals Ref.
Cassie Blakeway 4 1 2019–2020 round 1, 2019 8 0 [11]
Maddie Boyd 26 2 2019–2021 round 1, 2019 13 4 [12]
Mia-Rae Clifford 7 3 2019 round 1, 2019 8 6 [13]
Julia Crockett-Grills^ 6 4 2019–present round 1, 2019 65 12 [14]
Kate Darby^ 8 5 2019–2020, 2022 (S6)–present round 1, 2019 52 17 [15]
Maighan Fogas 13 6 2019 round 1, 2019 1 0 [16]
Renee Garing 12 7 2019–2023 round 1, 2019 33 2 [17]
Rebecca Goring 44 8 2019–2021 round 1, 2019 17 0 [18]
Jordan Ivey 5 9 2019–2022 (S6) round 1, 2019 31 1 [19]
Madeline Keryk 45 10 2019–2022 (S7) round 1, 2019 39 0 [20]
Meg McDonald^ 11 11 2019–present round 1, 2019 66 1 [21]
Maddy McMahon 24 12 2019–2022 (S6)[a] round 1, 2019 32 0 [22]
Nina Morrison^ 9 13 2019–present round 1, 2019 50 16 [23]
Aasta O'Connor 14 14 2019–2021 round 1, 2019 20 1 [24]
Danielle Higgins 2 15 2019–2022 (S6) round 1, 2019 24 6 [25]
Olivia Purcell 16 16 2019–2021 round 1, 2019 19 6 [26]
Georgie Rankin^ 10 17 2019–present round 1, 2019 54 2 [27]
Denby Taylor 28 18 2019–2021[b] round 1, 2019 18 0 [28]
Anna Teague 40 19 2019–2020 round 1, 2019 9 0 [29]
Sophie Van De Heuvel 27 20 2019–2022 (S6) round 1, 2019 31 1 [30]
Rebecca Webster^ 21 21 2019–present round 1, 2019 61 9 [31]
Georgia Clarke 17 22 2019–2022 (S7) round 2, 2019 19 8 [32]
Erin Hoare 46 23 2019, 2023 round 2, 2019 19 0 [33]
Phoebe McWilliams 23 24 2019–2022 (S6) round 2, 2019 31 21 [34]
Richelle Cranston 30 25 2019–21 round 3, 2019 21 11 [35]
Melissa Hickey 18 26 2019–20 round 3, 2019 12 0 [36]
Rene Caris 1 27 2019–2022 (S6) round 5, 2019 12 1 [37]
Hannah Burchell 3 28 2019 round 7, 2019 1 0 [38]
Millie Brown 19 29 2020–2021[c] round 1, 2020 9 0 [39]
Madisen Maguire 7 30 2020–2022 (S6) round 1, 2020 10 2 [40]
Amy McDonald^ 3 31 2020–present round 1, 2020 56 8 [41]
Darcy Moloney 4 32 2021–2024 round 1, 2021 46 11 [42]
Olivia Barber 15 33 2021–2022 (S6) round 2, 2021 10 3 [43]
Stephanie Williams 25 34 2021–2022 (S6) round 2, 2021 4 0 [44]
Nicole Garner 22 35 2021 round 3, 2021 7 0 [45]
Laura Gardiner 18 36 2021–2022 (S7) round 4, 2021 18 2 [46]
Carly Remmos 29 37 2021–2022 (S6) round 8, 2021 2 0 [47]
Chantel Emonson^ 16 38 2022 (S6)–present round 1, 2022 (S6) 45 1 [48]
Zali Friswell^ 20 39 2022 (S6)–present round 1, 2022 (S6) 41 5 [49]
Olivia Fuller[d] 13 40 2022 (S6)–2024 round 1, 2022 (S6) 20 1 [50]
Claudia Gunjaca^ 26 41 2022 (S6)–present round 1, 2022 (S6) 39 0 [51]
Annabel Johnson 2[e] 42 2022 (S6)–2023 round 1, 2022 (S6) 16 0 [52]
Rachel Kearns^ 22 43 2022 (S6)–present round 1, 2022 (S6) 34 4 [53]
Georgie Prespakis^ 41 44 2022 (S6)–present round 1, 2022 (S6) 41 8 [54]
Chloe Scheer^[f] 14 45 2022 (S6)–present round 1, 2022 (S6) 32 41 [55]
Gabbi Featherston^ 32 46 2022 (S6)–present round 2, 2022 (S6) 19 0 [56]
Mikayla Bowen^ 1 47 2022 (S7)–present round 1, 2022 (S7) 35 7 [57]
Jacqueline Parry^ 5 48 2022 (S7)–present round 1, 2022 (S7) 35 31 [58]
Shelley Scott^ 15 49 2022 (S7)–present round 1, 2022 (S7) 28 21 [59]
Mia Skinner 25 50 2022 (S7)–2023[g] round 1, 2022 (S7) 5 1 [60]
Kalani Scoullar 29 51 2022 (S7) round 3, 2022 (S7) 2 0 [61]
Brooke Plummer 19 52 2022 (S7)–2024 round 5, 2022 (S7) 8 0 [62]
Melissa Bragg^ 44 53 2022 (S7)–present round 6, 2022 (S7) 15 0 [63]
Abbey McDonald 39 54 2023–2024 round 1, 2023 8 0 [64]
Aishling Moloney^ 45 55 2023–present round 1, 2023 24 31 [65]
Kate Surman^ 7 56 2023–present round 1, 2023 22 7 [66]
Anna-Rose Kennedy 18 57 2023–2024 preliminary final, 2023 12 0 [67]
Kate Kenny^ 12 58 2024–present week 1, 2024 7 2 [68]
Caitlin Thorne^ 25 59 2024–present week 4, 2024 5 0 [69]
Bryde O'Rourke^ 23 60 2024–present week 6, 2024 1 0 [70]
Bella Smith^ 2 61 2024–present week 6, 2024 5 0 [71]
Chantal Mason^ 24 62 2024–present week 8, 2024 1 0 [72]

Other listed players

Table of listed players with no senior appearances for Geelong
Player Date of birth Acquired via Listed Ref.
Rookie Senior
Elise Coventry 20 June 1984 No. 57, 2018 national draft — 2019 [73][74]
Hayley Trevean 10 August 1988 Off-season signing — 2019 [75]
Gemma Wright 5 June 1994 No. 34, 2019 national draft — 2020
Samantha Gooden 19 September 1996 Rookie signing 2022 (S7)–2023 — [76]
Ingrid Houtsma 20 November 2003 Traded from Richmond — 2022 (S7)–2023
Lily Pearce 31 December 2002 Replacement player signing — 2024 [77]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The Australian Football League was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) prior to 1990.[2]
  1. ^ Inactive for 2022 (S7) AFL Women's season
  2. ^ Inactive for 2022 (S6) AFL Women's season
  3. ^ Inactive for 2022 (S6) AFL Women's season
  4. ^ Inactive for 2024 AFL Women's season
  5. ^ Johnson played 4 matches wearing guernsey number #30 during 2022 AFL Women's season 6, changing to guernsey number #2 for 2022 AFL Women's season 7.
  6. ^ Did not make any appearances during the 2024 AFL Women's season
  7. ^ Did not make any appearances during the 2023 AFL Women's season

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