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Aboriginal Cricket Team with Tom Wills (coach and captain), Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 1866. This is a list of indigenous Australian (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) athletes and sportspeople. Sports is one of the areas of mainstream Australian society in which Indigenous Australians have been able to break through in some degree.
Players are listed in alphabetical order, and statistics are for VFL/AFL or AFL Women's regular season and finals series matches only. "Career span" years are from the season of the player's debut in the VFL/AFL or AFL Women's to the year in which they played their final game in the VFL/AFL or AFL Women's and have since been removed from the playing list.
Indigenous people in Australia are both Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. People of South Sea Islander descent may be included by popular culture, although they are the descendants of Pacific Islanders brought to Australia during the 19th century as indentured labour on the Queensland sugar canefields .
Pages in category "Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 383 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
Pages in category "Indigenous Australian soccer players" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Australian sportspeople of Indian descent" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is a list of Australian Football League players who have multicultural ancestry (which includes players born overseas or who had one parent born overseas). [1] In 2020, about 15 per cent of AFL players were born overseas or had one parent born overseas. This was up from 13 per cent in 2019, according to AFL data. [2]
Cap No. Name Debut Year Affiliation Appearances Tries Goals Field Goals Points 1. Preston Campbell: 2010: Dunghutti, Nucoorilma people of Kamilaroi, [1] and Gumbyr: 1: 0: 0: 0: 0 2. Nathan Merritt