List of Australian rules footballers who died during their careers

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This is a list of Australian rules football players who have died either during their respective playing careers or due to career-ending injury or disease incurred during their playing career. It includes both on-field and off-field deaths. People who had announced their retirement from playing despite still being at an age when they could still have been active, or who only continued to play in low-level amateur or exhibition matches are not listed.

PlayerAgeClubPositionCause of deathYear
George Allen 22 Sunshine full-forwardheart failure (during a practice match)1971
Jack Allister 27 North Melbourne pneumonia 1946 [1]
Dave Barry 24 North Fremantle (formerly South Melbourne)half-forwardrun over by a train1913 [2]
Rhett Baynes 25 Perth (formerly Carlton)ruckmansuicide (overdose)1990 [3]
Troy Broadbridge 24 Melbourne defenderdrowning (2004 Asian tsunami)2004 [4]
Norm Collins 29 Hawthorn (formerly Fitzroy and Carlton)utilitysuicide (hanging)1933 [3]
Peter Crimmins 28 Hawthorn rovercancer (testicular)1976 [5]
Ron Doig 23 South Fremantle captain-coachon-field injury1932 [6]
Lyle Downs 24 Carlton roverheart attack1921 [3]
Bill Eastick 26 South Melbourne illness1914 [7]
Jock Fahey 24 Numurkah (formerly South Melbourne)utilitystruck by motor vehicle1936 [8]
Ted Fleming 23 University (formerly Melbourne)sudden illness1909 [9]
Eddie Ford 28 Katandra (formerly Richmond)on-field injury1946 [10]
Arthur Fox 29 Rupanyup (formerly South Melbourne)wingmanmotorcycle accident1953 [11]
Ray Gibb 24 Richmond utilitymotorcycle accident1953 [12]
Brian Gilmore 26 Footscray followercar accident1959 [13]
Wayne Gordon 29 Collingwood, Melbourne wingmancancer (Hodgkin's lymphoma)1983
Ron James 19 Footscray roverwaterskiing accident1990
Doug Magor 21 Footscray car accident1969
Michael Mascoulis 20 Port Melbourne (former West Coast rookie)car accident2013 [14]
John McCarthy 22 Port Adelaide midfielderaccidental fall in Las Vegas2012
Dinny McKay 29 South Melbourne forwardperitonitis (from burst appendix)1897
Darren Millane 26 Collingwood wingmancar accident1991
Dan Moriarty 28 Melbourne railway accident1903
Richard Nixon 26 Warrnambool (formerly Richmond)utilitycar accident1992 [15]
Terry Ogden 23 Carlton wingmanpleurisy1935 [3]
Max Orr 24 Ballarat (formerly Melbourne)half-forwardcar accident1955
Arthur Pearce 21 St Kilda typhoid fever 1902
Harry Pears 34 Port Melbourne (formerly Collingwood)forwarddied while playing1912 [16]
Fred Phillips 27 Hawthorn captain-coachblood poisoning1933
Stanley Poole23 South Fremantle goal-sneakheart failure following on-field injury1940 [17]
Bruce Reid 20 South Melbourne half-backcar accident1970
Maurie Sankey 25 Carlton ruckmancar accident1965 [3]
Jack Sexton 35 Norwood centremanpleurisy1935
Jeremy Silcock26 East Perth (formerly North Melbourne)defenderdrowning in Bali1996 [18]
Phil Skehan 26 Williamstown (formerly South Melbourne)followerpneumonia resulting from an on-field injury1921
Jim Stewart 24 North Melbourne appendicitis 1942
Denis Strauch 28 Port Melbourne (formerly Carlton)forwardtetanus1965 [3]
Jamie Tape 28 Woodville-West Torrens (formerly Richmond and Collingwood)defendercar accident2003 [19]
Doug Tassell 24 Essendon defendercar accident1970 [20]
Jock Turner 26 Yallourn (formerly Essendon)motor bike accident1935 [21]
Peter White 26 Kyabram (formerly at Carlton)drowning1996 [3]
Anthony Williams 26 Port Adelaide building accident1988 [22]
Gerry Williams 23 St Kilda railway accident1901 [23]
Brian Willis 21 Footscray Ruckman Brain haemorrhage 1951 [24]
Antonio Loiacono20Birdwood Football Clubcardiac arrest on-field2023 [25]
Les Witto 23 Carlton defendertetanus1926 [3]

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