Brendan Fevola (born 20 January 1981) is a former professional
Australian rules football
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er. He played with the
Carlton
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and
Brisbane Lions
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The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of the Melbourne-based 1883 foundation VFL c ...
football clubs in the
Australian Football League
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(AFL).
Fevola is regarded as one of the most effective
full-forward
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The Coleman Medal is awarded to the player, often a full-forward, who has kicked the most goals in an Australian Football League seaso ...
s to have played AFL in the 2000s, having won the
Coleman Medal
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A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.
Goal may also refer ...
for league leading goalkicker in 2006 and 2009 (kicking 84 and 86 goals, respectively) as well as
All-Australian
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selection as a forward three times since 2006. His representative honours include playing for Victoria, where he was awarded the
Allen Aylett Medal
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for being the state team's best player, and leading goalkicker. During his career at Carlton, he was the club's leading goalkicker and key forward from 2003 until 2009. However, throughout his career he has been a controversial figure off the field, which ultimately led to him parting company with both of his AFL clubs.
Early life
Brendan was born to
Italian Australian
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Angelo Fevola, a Victorian state representative in
lacrosse
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, and Karen Ralph in 1981.
His parents split when he was eight years old.
For a short time he attended a Catholic school.
Fevola began playing football with the Beaconsfield Junior Football Club in the Dandenong & District Junior Football League, before playing senior football in the Victorian Country Football League. His ability to kick goals for the Dandenong Stingrays earned him selection in the TAC Cup Team of the Year in 1998 and attracted the eye of recruiters and was one of three talented AFL prospects featured in the television documentary "The Draft".
AFL career
Carlton
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Fevola was recruited to
Carlton Football Club
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Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Mel ...
with selection No. 38 overall in the
1998 AFL Draft. Early in his career he showed signs of being a brilliant kick of the ball and a prospective key position player at full forward, and he led the
AFL reserves
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Prior to 1990, it was ...
for the 1999 season with 42 goals, despite Carlton finishing last for the year. During a pre-season game on 31 December 1999 against
Collingwood (promoted as the "Millennium Match"), he kicked 12 goals.
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, 21 February 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
The promising talent was given the No. 25 guernsey made famous by Carlton legend
Alex Jesaulenko
Oleksandr "Alex" Jesaulenko ( ; uk, Олександр Васильович Єсауленко, Oleksandr Vasiliovych Yesaulenko, ; born 2 August 1945) is a former Australian rules footballer and who played for the Carlton Football Club and t ...
.
However Fevola struggled to maintain form over the next few years, playing in 39 games and kicking 66 goals between 2000 and 2002, with noticeably poor body language on-field as well as causing bad publicity through incidents off-field.
Carlton Football club senior coach
Wayne Brittain
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had intended to trade or delist Fevola at the end of the 2002 season; however, after Carlton's poor season (in which it won the
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) Brittain was himself sacked, and incoming senior coach
Denis Pagan
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reversed Brittain's decision.
Pagan's arrival had an immediate impact on Fevola's discipline and form. In Round 5, 2003, Fevola kicked 8 goals against
the Kangaroos, helping win the game for Carlton and launching himself into the eyes of AFL viewers. Fevola's unkempt
dreadlocks
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and extroverted personality in the media earned him the nickname "The Shag" by fans.
Fevola's early goalkicking inconsistency saw him experiment with unorthodox styles of handling the ball in approach to taking set shots. In 2004, Fevola developed a ritualistic set-shot routine of taking three quick steps to shoot on goal, and this resulted in a significant increase in goalkicking accuracy, particularly from long distance. The duration of his ritual, at times taking longer than a minute, became a point of contention, and was partially responsible for the introduction of a new rule in 2006 (commonly referred to as "the Lloyd Rule" after Essendon's
Matthew Lloyd
Matthew James Lloyd (born 16 April 1978) is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
A highly decorated full-forward, Lloyd's AFL's honours include ...
, who had a similarly lengthy set-shot ritual), limiting the duration permitted to take a set shot to 30 seconds, before play-on would be called. Fevola's ritual was duly shortened to accommodate the new rule.
In 2006, Fevola capped off a stunning year and his best to that point by kicking 84 goals and winning the
Coleman Medal
The Coleman Medal is an Australian rules football award given annually to the Australian Football League (AFL) player who kicks the most goals
A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.
Goal may also refer ...
and All-Australian selection. He scored 59 goals in 2007, then followed this up in 2008 with his career best of 99 goals for the season, seeing him finish second behind
Lance Franklin
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in the race for the Coleman Medal.
He was selected for
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in the once-off AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match in 2008, kicking six goals and winning the Allen Aylett Medal as best on ground.
In 2009, Fevola won his second
Coleman Medal
The Coleman Medal is an Australian rules football award given annually to the Australian Football League (AFL) player who kicks the most goals
A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.
Goal may also refer ...
, kicking 86 goals for the season, eight goals clear of the runner-up
Jonathan Brown.
He is the only Carlton player ever to win the League goal-kicking twice, and it was his seventh consecutive season as the club's leading goalkicker; only
Stephen Kernahan
Stephen Scott Kernahan (born 1 September 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and for the Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian National Football ...
(11) had won the award more times consecutively. He later sold the medal "to fund a gambling addiction."
Carlton announced on 30 September 2009 that it would seek a trade for Fevola during the
2009 trade week due to his off-field behaviour, most specifically due to antics at the
2009 Brownlow Medal Count. On 9 October, he was officially traded to the
Brisbane Lions
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The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of the Melbourne-based 1883 foundation VFL c ...
, along with a second round draft pick (#27 overall) in exchange for Brisbane's
Lachlan Henderson and a first round draft pick (#12 overall).
Additionally, Carlton agreed to pay $100,000 of Fevola's salary for each of the two years remaining on his existing contract. Fevola left Carlton as a life member of the club, after playing 187 senior games for 575 goals – the third most goals by any player in Carlton Football Club history. Despite the circumstances of his departure, Carlton has stated that Fevola's life membership was not affected, and that he remained welcome at the club.
Brisbane Lions
At Brisbane, Fevola was given the Number 5 guernsey. He made his debut for the Lions in the first round of the 2010 season at the
Gabba against the
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football ...
. He finished the 2010 season with 48 goals in 17 games.
After further off-field controversy over the 2010/11 offseason, Fevola was sacked by the Lions on 20 February 2011.
Post-AFL
On 6 April 2011, Fevola signed to play with the
Casey Scorpions
The Casey Football Club, nicknamed the "Demons" and formerly the "Scorpions", is an Australian rules football club based in Cranbourne East, Victoria. The club, which was known until 2005 as the Springvale Football Club and the Casey Scorpions ...
in the
Victorian Football League
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in 2011. He kicked 63 goals during the home and away season, with 43 of those coming in the final six games of the season, to finish second behind
Port Melbourne
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's Patrick Rose (67 goals) in the league goalkicking, and he kicked a further six goals in finals.
His contract with the Scorpions was not renewed for 2012. He played six games for
Waratah
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in the 2011/12
NTFL season, kicking 49 goals.
In 2012, Fevola signed to play home matches with
Yarrawonga
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in the
Ovens & Murray Football League
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. Interest in Fevola's presence was a significant financial boon for both Yarrawonga and the O&M in 2012, with an increase in attendances and gate takings across the league compared with previous seasons; such was Fevola's ability to draw a crowd that some rival clubs paid Fevola to play against them in Yarrawonga's away matches. Fevola remained at Yarrawonga for four seasons from 2012 until 2015, kicking 357 goals from 65 matches and being part of back-to-back premierships in 2012 and 2013.
He was coach of the O&M's interleague representative team in 2014 and 2015, served as a playing co-coach of Yarrawonga in 2015, and holds the record for most goals in a game at Yarrawonga, kicking 16 goals in a match in late 2014. After this, he played with
Deer Park in the
Western Region Football League
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History
The league was formed in 1931 as the "Footscray District Football L ...
in 2016,
Melton South in the
Ballarat Football League
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The competition formed in 1893 as the Ballarat Football Association and was renamed Ballarat Football ...
in 2017 and 2018,
Hastings
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east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...
in the
Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League
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in 2019, and then again for Deer Park in 2021 (having also signed there for the 2020 season which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Throughout his post-AFL career, Fevola also played once-off matches for several local clubs around the country, earning appearance fees which the clubs financed by the large crowds he could draw. Among the clubs was former
TANFL club
New Norfolk
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Situated north-west of Hobart on the Lyell Hi ...
, now in Tasmania's
Southern Football League
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, where in 2012 he drew a record home crowd for the club and kicked eighteen goals to set a new club record; he returned for another game in 2013, this time kicking sixteen goals.
Media career
Fevola was a regular panellist on ''The Footy Show'' on the
Nine Network
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, and was noted for his
larrikin
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In the 19th and early 20th centurie ...
persona. His tenure as a panellist ended after his behaviour at the 2009 Brownlow Medal Count, the same event which led to the end of his time at Carlton.
In April 2016, Fevola joined
Fox FM to host ''
Fifi, Dave, Fev & Byron
''Fifi, Fev & Nick'' is an Australian breakfast radio show on 101.9 The Fox in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is hosted by Fifi Box, Brendan Fevola and Nick Cody with anchor Josiah Shala. The show began on 20 January 2014 replacing ''The Mat ...
'' with
Fifi Box
Fiona Box is an Australian radio broadcaster, television presenter and actress.
Career
Box's early career was spent in regional Australia working at stations 2MC/ROXFM Port Macquarie, 3TR Traralgon and 3GG Warragul.
In 2000, Box co-hosted a la ...
,
Dave Thornton
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and Byron Cooke. Dave Thornton resigned from the show in September 2017 and the show was renamed to ''
Fifi, Fev & Byron
''Fifi, Fev & Nick'' is an Australian breakfast radio show on 101.9 The Fox in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is hosted by Fifi Box, Brendan Fevola and Nick Cody with anchor Josiah Shala. The show began on 20 January 2014 replacing ''The Mat ...
''. In December 2020, Byron Cooke resigned from the show and was replaced by Nick Cody in January 2021. The show was renamed ''
Fifi, Fev & Nick.''
After gaining some weight following the years after his AFL retirement, he joined Jenny Craig and has become a TV ambassador for the brand as a result of his weight-loss efforts.
Fevola starred in the
second season of ''
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'', which he won and was crowned King of the Jungle. The prize for taking out the title was $100,000 to be donated to his chosen charity. Felova decided to split the winnings evenly between his chosen charity,
Shane Warne Foundation
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History
Warne founded ...
, and series runner-up
Paul Harragon's chosen charity, Mark Hughes Foundation
Personal life
Fevola married
Alex Cheatham on 7 October 2005 at St John's Church in
Toorak. Fevola has two daughters, Leni and Lulu, and is also step-father to Mia (Cheatham's child from a previous relationship).
In May 2018, Fevola announced on
Fox FM's ''
Fifi, Fev & Byron
''Fifi, Fev & Nick'' is an Australian breakfast radio show on 101.9 The Fox in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is hosted by Fifi Box, Brendan Fevola and Nick Cody with anchor Josiah Shala. The show began on 20 January 2014 replacing ''The Mat ...
'' that wife Alex was pregnant with their third child.
On 12 December 2006 it was announced that they were separated after 14 months of marriage, amid allegations of Fevola's infidelity with an Australian model
Lara Bingle
Lara Worthington (née Bingle) (born 22 June 1987) is an Australian model and media personality. She is known for appearing in the 2006 Tourism Australia advertising campaign '' So where the bloody hell are you?'' Her own reality television seri ...
. Cheatham stated in a ''
Woman's Day
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'' interview that Fevola had become "disconnected" from her following the birth of Leni. Bingle later confessed to the five-week affair, claiming that being from Sydney, she did not know that Fevola was married until she heard his baby in the background during a phone conversation.
Fevola and Cheatham divorced in 2014; however, in 2016 it was announced that they were again engaged.
[
Fevola opened a restaurant, Fellini, in 2007 on Toorak Road, South Yarra. He sold the restaurant in 2010.
Fevola has been noted as studying criminology via correspondence at ]Griffith University
Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian s ...
and says that becoming a police officer is a possible career after football.
Fevola has been diagnosed with depression, and he underwent 51 days of extensive rehabilitation in 2011; both his agent and manager have associated many of Fevola's antics with his depression.
Controversies and legal issues
In 2001, he was involved in an attempted theft of jackets from a dry cleaners in North Melbourne; he was fined $8000 by Carlton for the incident. On 8 March 2004, he was involved in an incident at Crown Casino; no charges were laid, but he was suspended by Carlton for a week. In 2006 Fevola assaulted a barman during a tour of Ireland in 2006 with the Australian International Rules team, and was sent back to Australia. In March 2008, Fevola was fined $10,000 by the club and stood down from the leadership group after urinating on a window outside a Melbourne nightclub. After this incident, Carlton did not suspend or delist Fevola, saying that taking such action would not assist Fevola in addressing his problems, but he was put on his final warning.
In September 2009, Fevola was fined $10,000 and banned from appearing on the ''Grand Final Footy Show'' after behaving inappropriately at the 2009 Brownlow Medal count. Fevola withdrew from the traditional lap of honour by the Coleman Medal
The Coleman Medal is an Australian rules football award given annually to the Australian Football League (AFL) player who kicks the most goals
A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.
Goal may also refer ...
list at the 2009 AFL Grand Final and did not attend Carlton's award night. As a result of the incident, he was traded to the Brisbane Lions, and did not return as a panellist on ''The Footy Show'' in 2010.
On 2 March 2010, Lara Bingle
Lara Worthington (née Bingle) (born 22 June 1987) is an Australian model and media personality. She is known for appearing in the 2006 Tourism Australia advertising campaign '' So where the bloody hell are you?'' Her own reality television seri ...
started proceedings to sue Fevola for breach of privacy, defamation and misuse of her image for the release of a nude photo in ''Woman's Day
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'' released on 1 March 2010; but on 9 April, Fevola was cleared of the charges against him. In September 2010 it was announced that Queensland police had launched a formal investigation into claims that Fevola had flashed a woman at a Brisbane park during a football clinic, but again there were no charges laid; the Brisbane Lions also suspended him independently while it conducted its own investigation into the event.
Early on 1 January 2011, New Year's Day, Fevola was arrested in Brisbane on charges of public nuisance and obstructing police. He was released on bail and is scheduled to appear in court on 18 January. The Brisbane Lions granted him indefinite leave, before terminating his contract after receiving medical advice.
Gambling issues
In 2010, it became public that Fevola was addicted to gambling, mostly playing poker and punting on horses. He accumulated significant debts from gambling. In a paid interview with the Footy Show in early 2011, Fevola further discussed his addiction, revealing that he spent 65 days in rehabilitation, had lost almost a million dollars gambling, including $365,000 in one day of horse punting, and that his addiction almost drove him to suicide during Christmas 2010. In 2022 Fevola began appearing in commercials for online gambling agency Bet Nation.
Best career games
Fevola's best goalkicking haul in an AFL match was nine goals, scored for Carlton against Richmond in 2009. Prior to this, he had scored eight goals on eight separate occasions. In his one season with the Brisbane Lions, Fevola's highest tally was 5.2 (32).
In AFL matches outside the premiership season, Fevola's best effort was a haul of twelve goals, scored for Carlton against Collingwood in the 2000 pre-season
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match known as the Millennium Match; and, he had two other eight-goal hauls in pre-season matches: the 2005 Wizard Cup grand final against West Coast West Coast or west coast may refer to:
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, earning him the Michael Tuck Medal
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, and in the semi-final of the 2007 NAB Cup
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against North Melbourne
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. He scored hauls of eleven and ten goals in matches for Casey during the 2011 VFL season, against Frankston and the Northern Bullants
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respectively.
Statistics
:Brendan Fevola's player profile at AFL Tables
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! colspan=3, Career
! 204
! 623
! 402
! 1789
! 405
! 2194
! 1030
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! 3.1
! 2.0
! 8.8
! 2.0
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! 1.4
Playing honours
* Michael Tuck Medal
The Michael Tuck Medal was awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the AFL Pre-season Cup Final. The award was presented annually between 1992 and 2013; since 2014, the award has not been presented due to the preseason being structured without a ...
2005
* Coleman Medal
The Coleman Medal is an Australian rules football award given annually to the Australian Football League (AFL) player who kicks the most goals
A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.
Goal may also refer ...
2006, 2009
* All Australian
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 by ...
2006, 2008, 2009
* Carlton leading goalkicker 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
* 3rd – Most Career Goals For Carlton – 575*
* NAB Cup
In the Australian Football League (AFL), previously the Victorian Football League (VFL), the pre-season competition, known during its history by a variety of sponsored names and most recently as the NAB Cup, was an annual Australian rules foot ...
Premiership Player 2005, 2007
* Australian International Rules squad 2006 (did not play for disciplinary reasons)
* VFL/AFL Italian Team of the Century
The Victorian Football League-Australian Football League (VFL/AFL) Italian Team of the Century was announced in June 2007. It recognises the role of Italian Australian players in the sport.
Players and/or at least one of the player's parents or ...
2007
* Victorian State Representative in Hall of Fame Tribute Match
* Allen Aylett Medal
The AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match was a one-off all-star game between two representative sides organised by the Australian Football League to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Australian rules football. The match was intended to celebrate the ...
list
See also
* List of VFL/AFL players by ethnicity
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).
In 2020, about 15 per cent of AFL players were born overseas or had one parent b ...
References
External links
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Brendan Fevola profile in Blueseum
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1981 births
Living people
Brisbane Lions players
Carlton Football Club players
Casey Demons players
Frankston Bombers players
Geelong West Football Club players
Kangaroo Flat Football Club players
New Norfolk Football Club players
Traralgon Football Club players
Waratah Football Club players
Yarrawonga Football Club players
Coleman Medal winners
All-Australians (AFL)
Australian television presenters
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Australian people of Italian descent
Dandenong Stingrays players
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Australian TV series) winners
Australia international rules football team players
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Australian TV series) participants