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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.
Hosted by Tony Armstrong, Bianca Hunt (2020) and Megan Waters (2021-present), with rotating panellists, former AFL players Darryl White, Andrew Krakouer and Gilbert McAdam. Much like its predecessor, The Marngrook Footy Show, it focuses on indigenous players and issues.
In 2020, Dear was diagnosed with untreatable pancreatic cancer.In 2021, Dear appeared on the AFL-centred TV show The Front Bar to promote the charity. [1] He died in July 2022, just one week before Hawthorn was to play in the "Dare to Hope" match to raise money for Pancare, a charity that Dear supported until his death. [2]
Goodes, an Aboriginal Australian of Adnyamathanha and Narungga heritage, [1] was drafted by the Sydney Swans in the 1997 AFL Draft and went on to have a successful career with the Swans, being awarded a number of accolades for his performance including the AFL Rising Star award in 1999, [2] the Brownlow Medal (2003 and 2006), [3] the Bob Skilton Medal (2003, 2006 and 2011), [4] and All ...
Peter Crimmins (8 July 1948 – 28 September 1976) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). "Crimmo" was known as a lightly built but courageous and skilful rover whose early passing from cancer is one of Australian football's saddest stories.
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He was picked up by Fremantle with the 61st selection in the 2015 AFL national draft. [11] He made his AFL debut playing against Gold Coast in round 18, 2016 at Metricon Stadium. [15] A few weeks earlier he pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly behaviour and was fined $800 after being arrested outside a Leederville nightclub in June 2016. [16]
He also read the sport headlines during the news on Perth radio station Mix 94.5 from 5:30 to 9:00 am. In 2005 he was a reporter for the Seven News desk. Between 2001 and his death he was a member of the selection panel for the All-Australian team and the AFL Rising Star. [4] He was married to Rani and had two children.