Chad Liddell (born 21 January 1977) is a former
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er who played for
Collingwood in the
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ...
(AFL) during the 1990s.
Liddell played his early football at
Mentone Grammar
(by work and with honour)
, city = Mentone
, state = Victoria
, zipcode = 3194
, country = Australia
, coordinates =
, type = Indepen ...
and with the
Southern Stingrays
The Dandenong Southern Stingrays are an Australian rules football team in the NAB League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition.
1992 saw the birth of the Southern Stingrays, developed under the leadership of Steve Kennedy (Regional M ...
. After being recruited with pick 30 in the
1994 AFL draft, Liddell was used initially by Collingwood as a forward but developed into a half back flanker. He kicked two goals and had 21 disposals in a win over St Kilda at the MCG in his first season but in four years at the club was in and out of the seniors.
He joined
Sandringham Sandringham can refer to:
Places
* Sandringham, New South Wales, Australia
* Sandringham, Queensland, Australia
* Sandringham, Victoria, Australia
**Sandringham railway line
**Sandringham railway station
**Electoral district of Sandringham
* Sand ...
after being delisted. He played ten seasons for Sandringham from 1999 until 2008, playing 168 games and kicking 95 goals, and serving as captain from 2004 until 2007. He won four premierships with Sandringham, including three as captain, in 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2006. He won the club best and fairest in 2002, was awarded life membership of Sandringham in 2009, and was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame in 2014.
References
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*Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
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1977 births
Living people
Collingwood Football Club players
Sandringham Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Dandenong Stingrays players
People educated at Mentone Grammar School