Mark Keane (footballer)

Mark Keane
Keane with Collingwood's VFL side in July 2021
Personal information
Date of birth	(2000-03-17) 17 March 2000 (age 24)
Original team(s)	Cork GAA, Ballygiblin GAA, Mitchelstown GAA
Draft	2019 rookie draft category B selection
Height	194 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	92 kg (203 lb)
Position(s)	Defender
Club information
Current club	Adelaide
Number	48
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2019–2021	Collingwood	5 (0)
2023–	Adelaide	9 (0)
Total		14 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of round 5, 2024.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Mark Keane (born 17 March 2000) is an Irish professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Adelaide Football Club after previously playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Keane grew up in Ireland and played Gaelic football before making a code switch to Australian rules football.

AFL career

Keane joined Collingwood as a Category B rookie in 2018 after a two-week trial at the club. ^[1] He made his debut in the club's round 9 match in the 2020 AFL season against Fremantle, where the Magpies lost by 12 points. ^[2] In January 2022, Keane left Collingwood and the AFL, ^[3] before ultimately returning to Australia and signing with Adelaide. He made his debut with the Adelaide Crows in Round 20 in 2023 with a Showdown win against Port Adelaide.

GAA career

Keane returned to Ireland in 2020 and was brought on as a substitute for Cork against Kerry in the 2020 Munster Senior Football Championship. He scored the late goal that knocked Kerry out of the competition, in what was described as "one of the biggest upsets in recent championship history... a strike so late it had eerie echoes of Tadhg Murphy's 1983 goal at the same end of the ground that similarly put Kerry out of the championship". ^{[4] [5]}

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2021 season ^[6]

Legend

G	Goals	K	Kicks	D	Disposals	T	Tackles
B	Behinds	H	Handballs	M	Marks

Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals							Averages (per game)
				G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
2019	Collingwood	47	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2020 [lower-alpha 1]	Collingwood	47	1	0	0	5	1	7	1	2	0.0	0.0	5.0	1.0	7.0	1.0	2.0
2021	Collingwood	11	4	0	1	31	25	56	23	1	0.0	0.3	7.8	6.3	14.0	5.8	0.3
Career			5	0	1	36	27	63	24	3	0.0	0.2	7.2	5.4	12.6	4.8	0.6

Notes

1. The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

1. "Pies lock in Irish youngsters". Collingwood . Telstra. 16 October 2018.
2. Colangelo, Anthony (31 July 2020). "Collingwood hand debut to Irishman Mark Keane". The Age. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
3. "Keane returns to Ireland". Collingwood . Telstra. 14 January 2022.
4. "Kerry's Championship dreams destroyed after stunning extra-time final act sees Cork triumph". Irish Independent . 8 November 2020.
5. "Murphy happy to share fame with new Cork hero Keane". RTÉ Sport. 9 November 2020.
6. "Mark Keane statistics". AFL Tables. Retrieved 12 October 2021.

External links

• Mark Keane's profile on the official website of the Adelaide Football Club
• Mark Keane's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Mark Keane at AustralianFootball.com