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This is a list of Australian rules football players who have died either during their respective playing careers or due to career-ending injury or disease incurred during their playing career. It includes both on-field and off-field deaths.
This category covers Australian rules football players who have either died while playing, died directly from injuries sustained while playing, or died after taking ill on the pitch. Pages in category "Australian rules footballers who died while playing"
On 13 November 2022, Anderson died by suicide [10] at an army barracks in Perth, Western Australia. She was 28. [11] [12] Her brain was donated to the Australian Sports Brain Bank after her death by her family. Researchers from the Australian Sports Brain Bank posthumously diagnosed her with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). She is the ...
The incident occurred at the start of a post-season holiday for McCarthy and other Port Adelaide players. They had arrived in the U.S. resort city only a few hours before the incident. [2] [10] [11] After reviewing evidence, police said that McCarthy had attempted to jump off the roof onto a palm tree, but slipped and fell to the ground. [12]
5 players are listed as possibly living. AustralianFootball.com is the only stats site that includes dates of death. Club websites often have articles when former players die. The annual AFL Record Season Guide has recently included an obituary list for the previous year. The Ryerson Index catalogs death and funeral notices.
Dylan James Tombides (8 March 1994 – 18 April 2014) was an Australian professional footballer who played as a striker for West Ham United and the Australian under-17 and under-23 teams. He partially grew up in Macau and played in Hong Kong before joining West Ham at the age of 15.
Darren Millane (9 August 1965 – 7 October 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).. One of the toughest and finest wingmen of his era, Millane's tragic death in a car accident at the age of 26, only a year after starring in the Magpies' drought-breaking premiership, is considered one of Australian football ...
Phillip Walsh (15 March 1960 – 3 July 2015) was an Australian rules footballer and coach. Walsh played for Collingwood, Richmond and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1983 and 1990.