The 2020
All-Australian team
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, led b ...
represents the best performed
Australian Football League (AFL) players during the
2020 season. It was announced on 24 September as a complete
Australian rules football team of 22 players. The team is honorary and does not play any games.
Selection panel
The selection panel for the 2020 All-Australian team consisted of chairman
Gillon McLachlan
Gillon McLachlan (born 1973) is the chief executive officer of the Australian Football League (AFL). He was appointed to the role in 2014, succeeding Andrew Demetriou, having previously served as his deputy. In 2022 he announced his resignatio ...
,
Kevin Bartlett,
Luke Darcy
Luke Darcy (born 12 July 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL) and now works for the Seven Network and Triple M covering the AFL and the Olympics.
Early life
L ...
,
Steve Hocking,
Glen Jakovich
Glen Darren Jakovich (born 24 March 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Jakovich was recruited from South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League ...
,
Chris Johnson,
Cameron Ling
Cameron Ling (born 27 February 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A tagger at and , Ling is a premiership-winning captain at the club.
He is now a c ...
,
Matthew Richardson and
Warren Tredrea
Warren Gary Tredrea (born 24 December 1978) is a former Australian Rules Footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and former Weekday Sports Presenter on ''Nine News Adelaide''. Since his retire ...
.
Team
Initial squad
The initial 40-man All-Australian squad was announced on 22 September. and each had the most players selected in the initial squad, with five, while and each had four. , and were the only clubs not to have a single player nominated in the squad. Ten players from the
2019 team were among those selected.
Final team
Geelong, Port Adelaide, West Coast and the each had the most selections with three, with eleven clubs represented overall. Geelong midfielder
Patrick Dangerfield
Patrick Dangerfield (born 5 April 1990) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Adelaide Football Club.
Drafted by Adelaide in 2007, Dangerfi ...
, who achieved his record-equalling eighth All-Australian selection, was announced as the All-Australian captain, with former Port Adelaide captain
Travis Boak
Travis Boak (born 1 August 1988) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Boak captained the club from 2013 to 2018, and is the club's AFL games reco ...
announced as vice-captain. The team saw twelve players selected in an All-Australian team for the first time in their careers, while seven players from the 2019 team were among those selected.
Note: the position of coach in the All-Australian team is traditionally awarded to the coach of the premiership team.
References
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All-Australian team
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, led b ...