Steven Febey (born 19 August 1969) 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 ...

player for the

Melbourne Football Club The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, ...

from Devonport. He is the twin brother of

Matthew Febey Matthew Febey (born 19 August 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne Football Club, Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. Originally from Devonport, Febey was drafted to Melbourne ...

who he played beside for most of his career. Febey debuted in 1988 and was a regular in the team throughout the 1990s, wearing guernsey number 21. During the 2001 season he was dropped from the side but came back strongly to finish fourth in the best and fairest. When he retired in 2002 with 258 games to his name he held the record for most appearances by a player selected in the national draft. He fell just short of

Robert Flower Robert Alan Flower (5 August 1955 – 2 October 2014) was an Australian rules footballer with Melbourne Football Club. His first game was against Geelong in 1973 and he captained the team from 1981 until his final game in 1987. He held the ...

's club record of 272 games and as of 2007 only four people have played more games for the Demons After the 2002 season, Febey went to

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with his teammates and was caught up in the

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which devastated the island. Standing beside former Demons player Steven Armstrong and David Robbins, Febey was about to enter the

Sari Club The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other national ...

when the car bomb exploded. He escaped with just minor injuries. He was the only Demon to play in both of Melbourne's 1988 and 2000 losing grand finals.

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1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

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1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

, , 21 , , 20 , , 3 , , 1 , , 252 , , 86 , , 338 , , 73 , , 26 , , 0.2 , , 0.1 , , 12.6 , , 4.3 , , 16.9 , , 3.7 , , 1.3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

, , 21 , , 23 , , 6 , , 9 , , 256 , , 80 , , 336 , , 77 , , 26 , , 0.3 , , 0.4 , , 11.1 , , 3.5 , , 14.6 , , 3.3 , , 1.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

, , 21 , , 19 , , 3 , , 8 , , 220 , , 68 , , 288 , , 69 , , 35 , , 0.2 , , 0.4 , , 11.6 , , 3.6 , , 15.2 , , 3.6 , , 1.8 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

, , 21 , , 14 , , 2 , , 2 , , 121 , , 81 , , 202 , , 44 , , 21 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 8.6 , , 5.8 , , 14.4 , , 3.1 , , 1.5 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 peace ...

, , 21 , , 20 , , 2 , , 5 , , 258 , , 179 , , 437 , , 57 , , 22 , , 0.1 , , 0.3 , , 12.9 , , 9.0 , , 21.9 , , 2.9 , , 1.1 , - style="background-color: #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 Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

, , 21 , , 25 , , 3 , , 4 , , 301 , , 154 , , 455 , , 66 , , 43 , , 0.1 , , 0.2 , , 12.0 , , 6.2 , , 18.2 , , 2.6 , , 1.7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

, , 21 , , 22 , , 2 , , 4 , , 287 , , 107 , , 394 , , 95 , , 23 , , 0.1 , , 0.2 , , 13.0 , , 4.9 , , 17.9 , , 4.3 , , 1.0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

, , 21 , , 5 , , 0 , , 0 , , 38 , , 24 , , 62 , , 10 , , 5 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 7.6 , , 4.8 , , 12.4 , , 2.0 , , 1.0 , - ! 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 t ...

, , 21 , , 20 , , 2 , , 6 , , 215 , , 132 , , 347 , , 51 , , 23 , , 0.1 , , 0.3 , , 10.8 , , 6.6 , , 17.4 , , 2.6 , , 1.2 , - style="background-color: #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 ...

, , 21 , , 25 , , 7 , , 3 , , 309 , , 191 , , 500 , , 77 , , 60 , , 0.3 , , 0.1 , , 12.4 , , 7.6 , , 20.0 , , 3.1 , , 2.4 , - ! 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 shootin ...

, , 21 , , 12 , , 0 , , 2 , , 125 , , 73 , , 198 , , 33 , , 16 , , 0.0 , , 0.2 , , 10.4 , , 6.1 , , 16.5 , , 2.8 , , 1.3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, , 21 , , 21 , , 2 , , 4 , , 239 , , 124 , , 363 , , 55 , , 38 , , 0.1 , , 0.2 , , 11.4 , , 5.9 , , 17.3 , , 2.6 , , 1.8 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

, , 21 , , 20 , , 7 , , 2 , , 207 , , 153 , , 360 , , 67 , , 38 , , 0.4 , , 0.1 , , 10.4 , , 7.7 , , 18.0 , , 3.4 , , 1.9 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 258 ! 40 ! 57 ! 2919 ! 1475 ! 4394 ! 798 ! 385 ! 0.2 ! 0.2 ! 11.3 ! 5.7 ! 17.0 ! 3.1 ! 1.5

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Febey, Steven 1969 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Tasmania Melbourne Football Club players Devonport Football Club players Victorian State of Origin players Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame inductees People from Devonport, Tasmania Australian twins Twin sportspeople Allies State of Origin players Tasmanian State of Origin players