Since becoming a foundation club of the Victorian Football League (VFL)—which is now known as 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)—in 1897, there have been 1104 players who have represented the
Geelong Football Club
The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition, and are the 2022 ...
in a senior VFL/AFL match. A senior VFL/AFL match is an
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 ...
match between two
clubs
Club may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a ''Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
Brands and enterprises
...
that are, or were at the time,
members of the VFL/AFL. A senior VFL/AFL match is played under the
laws of Australian football
The laws of Australian rules football were first created by the Melbourne Football Club in 1859 and have been refined over the years as the sport evolved into its modern form. The laws significantly predate the advent of a governing body for t ...
, and includes regular season matches, as well as
finals series
Final, Finals or The Final may refer to:
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** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
matches. It doesn't include
pre-season competition matches,
Night Series matches,
interstate matches or
international rules football
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matches. The list is arranged in the order in which each player made his debut for Geelong in a senior VFL/AFL match. Where more than one player made his debut in the same match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname.
Geelong's first game was played against the
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their A ...
at
Corio Oval
Corio Oval was an Australian rules football ground, located in Geelong, Victoria, and used by the Geelong Football Club in the VFA and the VFL from 1878 to 1915, and 1917 to 1940. Sited in Eastern Park, the oval was served by trams from 1930 wh ...
in
Geelong, Victoria
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, a ...
. In this game they scored three goals and six points for a
total of 24 points, and were defeated by Essendon who scored seven goals and five points for a total of 47 points. Geelong has contested 19
VFL/AFL Grand Finals, and have succeeded in winning 10 of these Grand Finals to claim the
VFL/AFL premiership for those years. Their first premiership was won in the
1925 VFL Grand Final
The 1925 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 10 October 1925. It was the 27th annual grand final o ...
, with the most recent premiership being won in the
2022 AFL Grand Final
The 2022 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between Geelong and the Sydney Swans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 24 September 2022. It was the 127th grand final of the Australian Football League (AFL), staged to ...
. There were 123 players who have played in a premiership-winning side for Geelong before 2022,
with the addition of 20 more players stemming from the 2022 premiership victory.
Players
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Other players
Currently listed players
Delisted players
*
* Nominated rookie (Elevated to senior list during season, eligible for senior selection)
See also
*
List of Geelong Football Club captains
This is a list of all captains of the Geelong Football Club, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League.
VFA (1879–1896)
VFL/AFL (1897–present)
AFL Women's
References
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Notes
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