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The Carlton interchange bench in a match against St Kilda, 2011. Interchange (or, colloquially, the bench or interchange bench) is a team position in Australian rules football, consisting of players who are part of the selected team but are not currently on the field of play.
Up to four players can be named on the bench; this number has steadily increased from a single player in the 1930s. Representative teams (such as State of Origin teams or honorific teams such as the AFL Team of the Century), practise and exhibition matches often feature an extended interchange bench of up to six or eight players.
Interchange bench: the designated area of the ground where players wait to be allowed onto the field after another player has left, i.e. one player is interchanged for another. [3] Interchange gate: a 20-metre zone marked on the boundary line through which players being interchanged must run. In the back: see push in the back.
Gardiner also earned her first All-Australian selection on the interchange bench, and was voted into the AFL Players' Association 22under22 team. [6] [7] In 2024, Gardiner was named Sydney's best player in its win over Collingwood in round 1, [8] and was among its best players in losses to St Kilda in round 2 [9] and Richmond in round 3. [10]
In addition, some leagues notably including the AFL, have each team designate one additional player as a substitute who can be used to make a single permanent exchange of players during a game for either medical or tactical reasons. [67] Players on the playing surface can be swapped with those on the interchange bench at any time.
In 1994, the AFL turned its focus to speeding up the game. To do this, the league increased the number of interchange players for their matches from 2 to 3 and increased the number of field umpires in the AFL from 2 to 3. [17] In 1998, the number of interchange players for AFL matches was increased from 3 to 4 to further speed up the game.
Official 2023 All-Australian logo. The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season.It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-performed players during the season, traditionally led by that season's premiership coach.
Parfitt was part of the Geelong team that played in the 2020 AFL Grand Final against Richmond, starting on the interchange bench. It was later revealed that he played out the game with a broken thumb after suffering the injury during the first quarter. [6]