Charlotte "Charlie" Thomas (born 5 September 2003) is an

Australian rules footballer 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 ...

. She was selected by 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 L ...

with pick 3 in the

2021 AFL Women's draft The 2021 AFL Women's draft consists of the various periods when the 14 clubs in the AFL Women's competition can recruit players prior to the competition's 2022 season. Special assistance In May 2021, just before the draft period began, the AF ...

, and made her debut in round 1 of the

2022 AFL Women's season The 2022 AFL Women's season was the sixth season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season was the last to feature 14 clubs, ran from 7 January until 9 April ...

Career

Thomas played 6 games for Subiaco Football Club in the

WAFL Women's WAFL Women's (WAFLW) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFLW is the premier women's football competition in Western Australia, and from 2023 is contested by eight teams owned and operated by clubs in ...

in 2020, and 1 game in 2021, being injured for most of that season with a fractured arm. In the

, Thomas was picked by the

with pick number 3. The guernsey number assigned to her was number 3, which was presented to her at West Coast's 2022 AFLW season launch by Andrew Gaff, who has the number 3 guernsey on the men's team. Thomas played her first AFLW game on 8 January 2022, against in round 1 of the 2022 season. The role she plays is as a tall utility.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, Charlotte 2003 births Living people West Coast Eagles (AFLW) players Subiaco Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia