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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"
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4 June – John Todd (86), 721-game WAFL coach and former South Fremantle player (death announced on this date) [21] 5 June – Ross Booth (72), former VAFA player and VFA/VFL commentator (death announced on this date) [22] 12 June – Nick Mustafa (26), Templestowe EFNL player [23] [24] 18 June – Billy Sullivan (20s), Melton BFNL player [25 ...
Victorian Football League unknown December 21, 1927 [21] [22] Teddy Shorten: 51 goal umpire Victorian Football League unknown July 9, 1949 [22] Greg Sidebottom: 61 field umpire: Kyabram District Football League [d] in-game heart attack: April 2, 2016 [23] [24] Jesse Baird: 26 goal umpire Australian Football League: murdered: February 19, 2024 [25]
Keith Truscott. Since the inception of the Victorian Football League in 1897, many of its players have served in the armed services, including the Anglo–Boer War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War (in which Melbourne's Geoff Collins served as a fighter pilot), and the Vietnam War (in which Essendon's Keith Gent, Lindsay McGie, and Ian Payne, and Geelong's Wayne Closter all served).
Australian rules footballers by league (36 C) Australian rules footballers that played in the NFL (12 P) Australian rules footballers who died while playing (6 P)
Another younger brother, David, also played both Gaelic football and Australian rules, albeit at an amateur level, having played in the Ireland national Australian rules football team. He was the first player to win the cup twice, being a member of the winning team in the 2002 International Cup and 2011 International Cup.