List of Carlton defenders

Defenders who have played in at least one match for Carlton 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 Charlie Sweatman 1897-1899 30 Forward / Defender
2 Ernie Walton 1897-1904 120 Defender Key Defender
3 Peter Williams 1897-1901 34 Defender
4 Bill Sharkey 1898-1901 47 Defender Back Pocket
5 Bill McNamara 1899-1904 69 Defender
6 Bill Stuckey 1899-1900 28 Defender
7 Arthur Thompson 1899-1901 22 Defender
8 Joe Marr 1900-1902 27 Defender Key Defender
9 Charles Raff 1901 3 Defender Back Pocket
10 Gordon Ross 1902-1903 30 Defender
11 Albert Trim 1903-1904 36 Defender
12 Billy Payne 1904-1912 127 Defender Key Defender
13 Bert Parke 1905-1913 21 Defender Half-Back Flanker
14 Norm Clark 1905-1912 126 Defender Back Pocket
15 Martin Gotz 1906-1913 106 Defender Half-Back Flanker
16 Doug Gillespie 1906-1912 90 Defender Key Defender
17 Dick Harris 1906-1911 58 Defender Back Pocket
18 Les Beck 1906-1909 60 Defender Back Pocket
19 Fred Jinks 1906-1909 60 Forward / Defender Forward / Half-Back Flanker
20 Albert Bickford 1906-1907 2 Defender
21 Frank Williams 1907-1908 10 Defender
22 Andy Pattison 1908-1909 8 Forward / Defender
23 Percy Sheehan 1910 16 Defender Half-Back Flanker
24 Billy Dick 1911-1918 100 Forward / Defender Half-Forward Flanker / Half-Back Flanker
25 Bill Johnson 1912 7 Defender
26 Paddy Mills 1912-1913 20 Defender Half-Back Flanker
27 Paddy O'Brien 1913-1925 167 Defender Key Defender
28 Jack Scobie 1919 11 Defender Back Pocket
29 Ray Brew 1923-1931 118 Forward / Defender
30 Andrew McKay 1993-2003 244 Defender Half-Back Flanker
31 Simon Beaumont 1995-2003 152 Defender
32 Ben Harrison 1995 2 Forward / Defender Forward / Key Defender
33 Lance Whitnall 1997-2007 216 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
34 Kris Massie 1998-2001 43 Defender
35 Trent Sporn 2002-2006 50 Defender
36 Luke Livingston 2002-2006 46 Defender Key Defender
37 Bret Thornton 2002-2012 188 Defender Key Defender
38 Mick Martyn 2003 13 Defender Key Defender
39 Karl Norman 2003-2005 27 Defender Back Pocket
40 Kade Simpson 2003-2020 342 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Defender
41 Heath Scotland 2004-2014 215 Defender
42 David Teague 2004-2006 50 Defender
43 Glen Bowyer 2004-2005 20 Defender Back Pocket
44 Cory McGrath 2004-2006 50 Defender Half-Back Flanker
45 Jordan Russell 2005-2012 116 Defender Half-Back Flanker
46 Jason Saddington 2006-2008 20 Defender
47 Paul Bower 2006-2012 70 Defender Key Defender
48 Bryce Gibbs 2007-2017 231 Defender
49 Joe Anderson 2007-2010 17 Defender
50 Adam Hartlett 2007-2009 11 Forward / Defender
51 Michael Jamison 2007-2016 150 Defender Key Defender
52 Mark Austin 2007-2011 15 Defender Key Defender
53 Steven Browne 2008-2010 23 Forward / Defender
54 Dennis Armfield 2008-2017 145 Defender
55 Chris Johnson 2009-2010 15 Defender Half-Back Flanker
56 Aaron Joseph 2009-2013 73 Defender Back Pocket
57 Chris Yarran 2009-2015 119 Defender
58 Lachie Henderson 2010-2015 102 Defender Key Defender
59 Simon White 2010-2017 87 Defender
60 Marcus Davies 2010-2013 17 Defender
61 Nick Duigan 2011-2013 43 Defender
62 Jeremy Laidler 2011-2013 24 Defender
63 Matthew Watson 2011-2015 23 Defender
64 Zach Tuohy 2011-2016 120 Defender
65 Rhys O'Keeffe 2011-2012 3 Defender
66 Josh Bootsma 2012-2013 14 Defender
67 Andrew McInnes 2012-2014 17 Defender
68 Pat McCarthy 2012 1 Defender
69 Sam Rowe 2013-2018 99 Defender Key Defender
70 Dylan Buckley 2013-2017 39 Defender Half-Back Flanker
71 Andrejs Everitt 2014-2016 52 Forward / Defender
72 Dale Thomas 2014-2019 101 Defender
73 Sam Docherty 2014-2022 131 Defender Half-Back Flanker
74 Ciaran Sheehan 2014-2017 6 Defender
75 Kristian Jaksch 2015-2016 7 Defender Key Defender
76 Liam Jones 2015-2021 95 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
77 Ciaran Byrne 2015-2018 22 Defender
78 Matthew Dick 2015 6 Defender
79 Tom Fields 2015 2 Defender
80 Jacob Weitering 2016-2022 133 Defender Key Defender
81 Lachie Plowman 2016-2022 124 Defender
82 Harrison Macreadie 2017-2019 9 Defender Key Defender
83 Caleb Marchbank 2017-2022 45 Defender
84 Tom Williamson 2017-2022 44 Defender
85 Alex Silvagni 2017 7 Defender Key Defender
86 Aaron Mullett 2018 13 Defender
87 Cam O'Shea 2018 11 Defender
88 Nic Newman 2019-2022 55 Defender
89 Liam Stocker 2019-2022 28 Defender
90 Hugh Goddard 2019 2 Defender Key Defender
91 Angus Schumacher 2019 1 Defender Key Defender
92 Jack Newnes 2020-2022 52 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Half-Back Flanker
93 Oscar McDonald 2021-2022 5 Defender Key Defender
94 Adam Saad 2021-2022 43 Defender Half-Back Flanker
95 Zac Williams 2021-2022 23 Defender
96 Luke Parks 2021-2022 8 Defender Key Defender
97 Brodie Kemp 2021-2022 6 Defender Key Defender
98 Jordan Boyd 2022 7 Defender
99 Lewis Young 2022 19 Defender Key Defender
100 Sam Durdin 2022 1 Defender Back Pocket