Drew Banfield (born 27 February 1974) is a former

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who played for the

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in the Australian Football League (AFL). Selected as the number 1 pick in the 1992 AFL Draft, Banfield was recruited to West Coast, where he became one of their best clubmen and hardest-working defenders and utility players. He won the Eagles' Club Champion Award in 1996, as well as playing in the Eagles' 1994 premiership side. In 2006, Banfield was struggling for selection and fought his way into the side in round 9, but remained on the fringes of selection throughout the season. He missed out on the semi-final against the but was recalled for the preliminary final against , and retained for the

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against due to his experience. It was his second AFL premiership, twelve years after his first, and made him the only player to appear in both West Coast's 1994 and 2006 premiership teams. On Friday 6 October 2006, Banfield announced his retirement from AFL football at the West Coast Eagles Club Champion awards, having played 265 games. Banfield is married to Amber Lee-Steere and has four children, three sons, Bailey (not to be confused with Bailey Banfield of the

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), Charlie and Harper, and Willow.

Statistics

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1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 17 , , 6 , , 3 , , 162 , , 138 , , 300 , , 44 , , 40 , , 0.4 , , 0.2 , , 9.5 , , 8.1 , , 17.6 , , 2.6 , , 2.4 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2001 , style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 9 , , 4 , , 1 , , 76 , , 69 , , 145 , , 24 , , 23 , , 0.4 , , 0.1 , , 8.4 , , 7.7 , , 16.1 , , 2.7 , , 2.6 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2002 , style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 22 , , 1 , , 2 , , 168 , , 123 , , 291 , , 55 , , 56 , , 0.0 , , 0.1 , , 7.6 , , 5.6 , , 13.2 , , 2.5 , , 2.5 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2003 , style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 22 , , 3 , , 4 , , 145 , , 142 , , 287 , , 54 , , 38 , , 0.1 , , 0.2 , , 6.6 , , 6.5 , , 13.0 , , 2.5 , , 1.7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2004 , style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 11 , , 2 , , 0 , , 110 , , 56 , , 166 , , 42 , , 21 , , 0.2 , , 0.0 , , 10.0 , , 5.1 , , 15.1 , , 3.8 , , 1.9 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2005 , style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 25 , , 3 , , 2 , , 197 , , 145 , , 342 , , 90 , , 46 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 7.9 , , 5.8 , , 13.7 , , 3.6 , , 1.8 , - , style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;", 2006† , style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 14 , , 2 , , 0 , , 106 , , 88 , , 194 , , 53 , , 27 , , 0.1 , , 0.0 , , 7.6 , , 6.3 , , 13.9 , , 3.8 , , 1.9 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 265 ! 76 ! 48 ! 2338 ! 1792 ! 4130 ! 729 ! 524 ! 0.3 ! 0.2 ! 8.8 ! 6.8 ! 15.6 ! 2.8 ! 2.0

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Banfield, Drew West Coast Eagles players West Coast Eagles premiership players 1974 births Living people Subiaco Football Club players People educated at Scotch College, Perth Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Western Australian State of Origin players John Worsfold Medal winners VFL/AFL premiership players