Mark Mercuri (born 21 February 1974) is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League. He played in the 1993 premiership winning team which defeated Carlton and in the 2000 premiership team which defeated

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. In the

1999 AFL season The 1999 AFL season was the 103rd season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured s ...

, Mercuri was one of the premier players of the competition, finishing runner-up in the Brownlow Medal, and earning a lucrative and rarely heard-of 5-year contract. Mercuri played his 200th AFL game in round three, 2004 against in the match best known for

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's match-winning goal which broke a 131–all deadlock with less than a minute remaining. He retired following Essendon's 10-point semi-final defeat to Geelong at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In 2005, there was talk of a comeback, with Mercuri contemplating nominating for the pre-season draft. This never eventuated. In 2006 he played for

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in the

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Playing statistics

:Mark Mercuri's player profile at AFL Tables
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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 ...

† , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 20 , , 25 , , 10 , , 251 , , 197 , , 448 , , 106 , , 44 , , 1.3 , , 0.5 , , 12.6 , , 9.9 , , 22.4 , , 5.3 , , 2.2 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 13 , , 16 , , 7 , , 143 , , 107 , , 250 , , 61 , , 21 , , 1.2 , , 0.5 , , 11.0 , , 8.2 , , 19.2 , , 4.7 , , 1.6 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 22 , , 36 , , 25 , , 268 , , 217 , , 485 , , 125 , , 32 , , 1.6 , , 1.1 , , 12.2 , , 9.9 , , 22.0 , , 5.7 , , 1.5 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1996 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 21 , , 37 , , 25 , , 244 , , 200 , , 444 , , 115 , , 32 , , 1.8 , , 1.2 , , 11.6 , , 9.5 , , 21.1 , , 5.5 , , 1.5 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 11 , , 12 , , 10 , , 136 , , 66 , , 202 , , 47 , , 15 , , 1.1 , , 0.9 , , 12.4 , , 6.0 , , 18.4 , , 4.3 , , 1.4 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 20 , , 24 , , 14 , , 224 , , 141 , , 365 , , 112 , , 27 , , 1.2 , , 0.7 , , 11.2 , , 7.1 , , 18.3 , , 5.6 , , 1.4 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 21 , , 32 , , 19 , , 256 , , 200 , , 456 , , 103 , , 31 , , 1.5 , , 0.9 , , 12.2 , , 9.5 , , 21.7 , , 4.9 , , 1.5 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" , style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;",

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;", , 2 , , 20 , , 32 , , 19 , , 208 , , 152 , , 360 , , 92 , , 33 , , 1.6 , , 1.0 , , 10.4 , , 7.6 , , 18.0 , , 4.6 , , 1.7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2001 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 20 , , 10 , , 10 , , 164 , , 153 , , 317 , , 70 , , 34 , , 0.5 , , 0.5 , , 8.2 , , 7.7 , , 15.9 , , 3.5 , , 1.7 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2002 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 11 , , 7 , , 9 , , 101 , , 93 , , 194 , , 50 , , 21 , , 0.6 , , 0.8 , , 9.2 , , 8.5 , , 17.6 , , 4.5 , , 1.9 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2003 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 16 , , 7 , , 6 , , 126 , , 99 , , 225 , , 74 , , 32 , , 0.4 , , 0.4 , , 7.9 , , 6.2 , , 14.1 , , 4.6 , , 2.0 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2004 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 9 , , 3 , , 0 , , 49 , , 39 , , 88 , , 26 , , 21 , , 0.3 , , 0.0 , , 6.5 , , 4.3 , , 9.8 , , 2.9 , , 2.3 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 207 ! 242 ! 158 ! 2192 ! 1678 ! 3870 ! 990 ! 345 ! 1.2 ! 0.8 ! 10.6 ! 8.1 ! 18.7 ! 4.8 ! 1.7

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mercuri, Mark Essendon Football Club players Essendon Football Club Premiership players 1974 births Living people All-Australians (AFL) Crichton Medal winners Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Victorian State of Origin players Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players