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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.

Player Age Club Competition Cause of death Year
George Allen 22 Sunshine VFA heart failure (during a practice match) 1971
Jack Allister 27 North Melbourne VFL pneumonia 1946
Dave Barry 24 North Fremantle (formerly South Melbourne) WAFL
(formerly VFL) 		run over by a train 1913
Rhett Baynes 25 Perth (formerly Carlton) WAFL
(formerly VFL) 		suicide (overdose) 1990
Troy Broadbridge 24 Melbourne AFL drowning (2004 Asian tsunami) 2004
Norm Collins 29 Hawthorn (formerly Fitzroy and Carlton) VFL suicide (hanging) 1933
Peter Crimmins 28 Hawthorn VFL cancer (testicular) 1976
Ron Doig 23 South Fremantle WAFL on-field injury 1932
Lyle Downs 24 Carlton VFL heart attack 1921
Bill Eastick 26 South Melbourne VFL illness 1914
Jock Fahey 24 Numurkah (formerly South Melbourne) MFNL
(formerly VFL) 		struck by motor vehicle 1936
Ted Fleming 23 University (formerly Melbourne) VFL sudden illness 1909
Eddie Ford 28 Katandra (formerly Richmond) PDFNL
(formerly VFL) 		on-field injury 1946
Arthur Fox 29 Rupanyup (formerly South Melbourne) WFL
(formerly VFL) 		motorcycle accident 1953
Ray Gibb 24 Richmond VFL motorcycle accident 1953
Brian Gilmore 26 Footscray VFL car accident 1959
Wayne Gordon 29 Collingwood, Melbourne VFL cancer (Hodgkin's lymphoma) 1983
Ron James 19 Footscray AFL waterskiing accident 1990
Doug Magor 21 Footscray VFL car accident 1969
Michael Mascoulis 20 Port Melbourne (former West Coast rookie) VFL
(formerly AFL) 		car accident 2013
John McCarthy 22 Port Adelaide AFL accidental fall in Las Vegas 2012
Dinny McKay 29 South Melbourne VFL peritonitis (from burst appendix) 1897
Darren Millane 26 Collingwood AFL car accident 1991
Dan Moriarty 28 Melbourne VFL railway accident 1903
Richard Nixon 26 Warrnambool (formerly Richmond) HFNL
(formerly AFL) 		car accident 1992
Terry Ogden 23 Carlton VFL pleurisy 1935
Max Orr 24 Ballarat (formerly Melbourne) BFL
(formerly VFL) 		car accident 1955
Arthur Pearce 21 St Kilda VFL typhoid fever 1902
Harry Pears 34 Port Melbourne (formerly Collingwood) VFA
(formerly VFL) 		died while playing 1912
Fred Phillips 27 Hawthorn VFL blood poisoning 1933
Stanley Poole 23 South Fremantle WAFL heart failure following on-field injury 1940
Bruce Reid 20 South Melbourne VFL car accident 1970
Maurie Sankey 25 Carlton VFL car accident 1965
Jack Sexton 35 Norwood SANFL pleurisy 1935
Jeremy Silcock 26 East Perth (formerly North Melbourne) WAFL
(formerly AFL) 		drowning in Bali 1996
Phil Skehan 26 Williamstown (formerly South Melbourne) VFA
(formerly VFL) 		pneumonia resulting from an on-field injury 1921
Jim Stewart 24 North Melbourne VFL appendicitis 1942
Denis Strauch 28 Port Melbourne (formerly Carlton) VFA
(formerly VFL) 		tetanus 1965
Jamie Tape 28 Woodville-West Torrens (formerly Richmond and Collingwood) SANFL
(formerly VFL) 		car accident 2003
Doug Tassell 24 Essendon VFL car accident 1970
Jock Turner 26 Yallourn (formerly Essendon) GFL
(formerly VFL) 		motor bike accident 1935
Peter White 26 Kyabram (formerly Carlton) GVFL
(formerly AFL) 		drowning 1996
Anthony Williams 26 Port Adelaide SANFL building accident 1988
Gerry Williams 23 St Kilda VFL railway accident 1901
Brian Willis 21 Footscray VFL Brain haemorrhage 1951
Antonio Loiacono 20 Birdwood HFL cardiac arrest on-field 2023
Les Witto 23 Carlton VFL tetanus 1926

See also

References

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