Jon Dorotich

Jon Dorotich
Jon Dorotich
Personal information
Full name	Jonathan Michael Dorotich
Date of birth	27 April 1962 (age 61)
Original team(s)	South Fremantle
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	98 kg (216 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1981–1985, 1994–1997	South Fremantle
1986–1993	Carlton
Total
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1993.
Career highlights
	VFL Premiership player: (1987); WAFL Premiership player: (1997); WJ Hughes Medal: (1985); 2× Bernie Naylor Medal: (1996, 1997); Simpson Medal: (1997); South Fremantle Hall of Fame, inducted 2015;
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Last updated June 02, 2023

Jonathan Michael Dorotich (born 27 April 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

Known as "Doro", he moved to Carlton in 1986 where he played in the Grand Final in his first season against Hawthorn. In the following year's Grand Final, he played at full-forward in the rematch with Hawthorn, where Carlton won the flag.

He played in 132 games for Carlton before returning to Western Australia, where he co-captained South Fremantle in their 1997 WAFL premiership win. He played 148 games with the Bulldogs, and won the best and fairest award in 1985. He won the Bernie Naylor Medal as the WAFL's leading goalscorer twice, in 1996 (with 88 goals) and 107 the following year. His height was 193 cm and his weight was 103 kg.

Dorotich also played six State Of Origin football games for Western Australia, winning the 1997 Simpson Medal against Tasmania where he kicked ten goals, as well as 17 pre-season games (three for South Fremantle and 14 for Carlton) where he kicked 21 goals (five for South Fremantle and 16 for Carlton), giving Dorotich a total of 303 career senior matches and 588 career senior goals.

Since retiring from playing, he has been a commentator for the ABC television's coverage of the WAFL.

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[1] These tallies refer to premiership matches (home-and-away and finals matches) only.

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v t e Carlton Football Club 1987 VFL premiers
Carlton 15.14 (104) defeated Hawthorn 9.17 (71), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1. Silvagni 3. Dennis 4. Kernahan (c) 6. Dorotich 7. Johnston 9. Hunter 12. Gleeson 17. Naley 21. Bradley 22. Aitken 23. Meldrum 26. Rhys-Jones 30. Murphy 31. Alvin 32. Glascott 35. Dean 38. Robertson 43. Kennedy 44. Madden 45. McKenzie
Coach: Walls

v t e Simpson Medal winners
WAFL Grand Finals	1945: Ebbs 1946: Loughridge 1947: Eriksson 1948: Ingraham 1949: Larcombe 1950: Lewington 1951: Porter 1952: Kelly 1953: Marsh 1954: Tyson 1955: M. McIntosh 1956: Parentich 1957: Conway 1958: Bull 1959: Farmer 1960: Foley 1961: Slater 1962: Sorrell 1963: Bagley 1964: Rogers 1965: Imrie 1966: Cable 1967: Cable 1968: Cable 1969: Dempsey 1970: Ciccotosto 1971: Sheridan 1972: McAullay 1973: Blair 1974: Gibellini/Pretty 1975: Whinnen 1976: Day 1977: Rosbender 1978: Miller 1979: K. Taylor 1980: Rioli 1981: Shaw/Rioli 1982: Melrose 1983: Shine 1984: Kimberley 1985: B. Taylor 1986: Zanotti 1987: Thorne 1988: Lee 1989: Allan 1990: Walker 1991: Kickett 1992: Browning 1993: Kickett 1994: Amaranti 1995: Harris 1996: Ridley 1997: Hynes 1998: Bromage 1999: Kelly 2000: Cox 2001: Turnbull 2002: Turnbull 2003: LeCras 2004: Vines 2005: McGrath 2006: Webb 2007: B. Smith 2008: Hall 2009: Hams 2010: Krakouer 2011: Wilkes 2012: Medhurst 2013: Hutchings 2014: Bristow 2015: Boland 2016: Blakely 2017: Ryan 2018: Horsley 2019: Sokol 2020: Bolton 2021: Clark 2022: Meadows
Interstate Rep. Matches	1948: Curran (VIC) 1949: Heal (WA) 1951: Buttsworth (WA) 1952: M. McIntosh (WA) 1954: Harper (WA) 1955: Williams (SA) 1956: Farmer (WA)/Goldsmith (VIC) 1957: Whitten (VIC) 1958: Farmer (WA) 1959: Watts (WA) 1960: Aylett (VIC) 1962: Sorrell (WA)/Harper (WA) 1963: Sarre (WA) 1964: Shearman (SA) 1965: Murray (WA)/Spargo (WA) 1967: Walker (WA) 1968: Nicholls (VIC) 1970: Stiles (WA) 1971: Knights (VIC) 1973: Featherby (WA) 1974: Alexander (WA) 1975: Magro (WA) 1976: Elliott (WA) 1977: Moss (WA)/James (SA)/Cable (WA) 1978: Knights (VIC) 1979: Cornes (SA) 1981: Beasley (WA)/Buckenara (WA)/Krakouer (WA) 1982: Browning (WA)/K. Taylor (WA) 1983: Michael (WA)/Rioli (WA) 1984: Hardie (WA) 1985: Bradley (SA)/Weightman (VIC) 1986: Hardie (WA) 1987: McDermott (SA)/Bews (VIC) 1988: Allan (WA)/Thorne (WA)/Healy (VIC) 1989: Dunstall (VIC) 1990: Madden (VIC)/Allan (WA) 1991: Harding (WA)/Retzlaff (WA) 1993: Atkins (WA) 1994: Symmons (WA) 1995: Treleven (WA) 1996: Snow (WA) 1997: Dorotich (WA) 1998: Irving (WA) 1999: Tregenza (WA) 2000: Campbell (WA) 2002: Johnson (WA) 2003: Webster (WA) 2004: Bossong (WA) 2005: Priddis (WA) 2006: Hayes (WA) 2007: Hay (WA) 2008: Richardson (WA) 2009: LeCras (WA) 2010: Blackwell (WA) 2011: J. Smith (WA) 2012: Johnson (WA) 2013: Twomey (WA) 2014: Hams (WA) 2015: Davis (WA) 2016: Bolton (WA) 2017: Saunders (WA) 2018: Bolton (WA) 2019: Deluca (WA) 2021: Bolton (WA) 2022: Kitchin (WA)
Interstate Carnivals/Tours	1950: Maffina 1953: M. McIntosh 1961: Gabelich 1964: Chadwick 1966: J. McIntosh 1969: Cable/Farmer 1972: McAullay 1988: Lamb
Interstate Club Matches	1946: Richards (Coll) (East Frem v Collingwood) 1947: Jenkins (SF) (South Frem v Essendon)

v t e Western Australian team – 1984 Interstate Championships
Western Australia 14.14 (98) defeated South Australia 14.13 (97), at Football Park, 9 June 1984 Western Australia 21.16 (142) defeated Victoria 21.12 (138), at Subiaco Oval, 17 July 1984
Both games	Aitken Bosustow Carter Daniels Hardie Harding Langsford Malaxos (c) Rance Wiley
State game vs. South Australia	Baynes Brenton Campbell Fogarty Hart Holmes Keene Mosconi Panizza Ware Wilkinson
State of Origin vs. Victoria	Baker Blackwell Cronan Dorotich Glendinning Holden Peake Purser Richardson Rioli Sidebottom Taylor
Coach: Todd

v t e Western Australian team – 1987 Interstate Championships
South Australia 18.16 (124) defeated Western Australia 9.9 (63), at WACA, 16 June 1987 Victoria 16.20 (116) defeated Western Australia 13.14 (92), at Subiaco Oval, 22 July 1987
Both games	Breman
State game vs. South Australia	Bewick Browning Campbell Cocker Goulding Hetherington Hutton Kickett Lee McKenna Menaglio Morton Peake (c) Rowland Thorne Turley Wake Waterson Watson Wilkinson
State of Origin vs. Victoria	Bairstow Brennan Dennis Dorotich Duckworth Hardie Harding Hart Henwood Holden Ishchenko Keene Krakouer Lester-Smith Mainwaring Malaxos Mitchell Narkle Rance Rioli (c) Wilson
Coach: Todd

v t e Western Australian team – 1992 State of Origin
Victoria 23.19 (157) defeated Western Australia 13.12 (90), at the MCG, 26 May 1992
Allan Bain Bewick Dorotich Hepburn Jakovich Kemp Kickett Lamb Langdon Lewis Mainwaring Matera McIntosh Seecamp Spalding Starcevich Waterman Watters Wilson Winmar Worsfold (c)
Coach: Malthouse