List of Adelaide defenders

Defenders who have played in at least one match for Adelaide in a VFL/AFL premiership. This list may be incomplete due to incomplete match player position records (from which these general player positions are generated).

Player List

No. Player Season(s) Match(es) Position(s) Detail(s)
1 Nigel Smart 1991-2004 278 Defender
2 Ben Hart 1992-2006 311 Defender Back Pocket
3 Brenton Sanderson 1992-1993 6 Defender Back Pocket
4 Sean Wellman 1994-1995 34 Defender
5 Andrew McLeod 1995-2010 340 Midfielder / Defender Midfielder / Half-Back Flanker
6 Nathan Bassett 1998-2008 210 Defender
7 Ken McGregor 1999-2008 152 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
8 Michael Doughty 2000-2012 231 Defender Half-Back Flanker
9 James Gallagher 2001-2004 38 Midfielder / Defender
10 Graham Johncock 2002-2013 227 Defender Back Pocket
11 Kris Massie 2002-2008 88 Defender
12 Martin Mattner 2002-2007 98 Defender
13 Brent Reilly 2002-2014 203 Defender
14 Jason Torney 2003-2007 77 Defender Half-Back Flanker
15 James Begley 2003-2005 25 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Defender
16 Ben Rutten 2003-2014 229 Defender Key Defender
17 Scott Stevens 2004-2011 119 Forward / Defender
18 Nathan Bock 2004-2010 113 Defender Key Defender
19 Nathan van Berlo 2005-2016 205 Defender
20 Brad Symes 2008-2012 60 Defender Half-Back Flanker
21 James Sellar 2008-2011 21 Forward / Defender Forward / Key Defender
22 Andy Otten 2008-2019 109 Defender Back Pocket
23 Tony Armstrong 2010-2011 14 Defender
24 Chris Schmidt 2010-2011 18 Forward / Defender
25 Phil Davis 2010-2011 18 Defender Key Defender
26 Matthew Jaensch 2010-2015 74 Defender
27 Brodie Smith 2011-2022 225 Defender Half-Back Flanker
28 Luke Thompson 2011-2014 20 Defender Back Pocket
29 Daniel Talia 2011-2020 200 Defender Key Defender
30 Sam Shaw 2012-2015 24 Defender Back Pocket
31 Luke Brown 2012-2022 189 Defender Back Pocket
32 Rory Laird 2013-2022 202 Defender
33 Kyle Hartigan 2013-2020 113 Defender Key Defender
34 Kyle Cheney 2015-2018 44 Defender Key Defender
35 Jake Kelly 2015-2021 110 Defender
36 Jake Lever 2015-2017 56 Defender Key Defender
37 Curtly Hampton 2017-2018 12 Defender
38 Alex Keath 2017-2019 30 Defender Key Defender
39 Tom Doedee 2018-2022 71 Defender Key Defender
40 Bryce Gibbs 2018-2020 37 Defender
41 Chayce Jones 2019-2022 58 Midfielder / Defender Midfielder / Half-Back Flanker
42 Ben Davis 2019-2022 11 Defender
43 Fischer McAsey 2020 10 Defender Key Defender
44 Will Hamill 2020-2022 38 Defender
45 Andrew McPherson 2020-2022 28 Defender Half-Back Flanker
46 Jordon Butts 2020-2022 43 Defender Key Defender
47 Nick Murray 2021-2022 29 Defender Key Defender
48 Josh Worrell 2021-2022 5 Defender Key Defender
49 Jordan Dawson 2022 22 Defender
50 Patrick Parnell 2022 11 Defender