List of Collingwood defenders

Defenders who have played in at least one match for Collingwood 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 Dow 1897-1902 72 Defender Back Pocket
2 Wal Gillard 1897-1899 37 Forward / Defender
3 Jack Monohan 1897-1907 171 Defender Key Defender
4 Bill O'Brien 1897-1901 67 Defender Half-Back Flanker
5 Bill Proudfoot 1897-1906 108 Defender Key Defender
6 George Williams 1897-1901 55 Defender Half-Back Flanker
7 Matthew Fell 1898-1905 116 Ruckman / Defender
8 Bob Rush 1899-1908 142 Defender
9 Wilfred Fell 1899 7 Forward / Defender
10 Alf Dummett 1901-1910 118 Defender Back Pocket
11 Ted Rowell 1901-1915 189 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
12 Con McCormack 1902-1903 31 Defender
13 George Lockwood 1902-1904 29 Defender Back Pocket
14 Ivor Lawson 1904 7 Defender
15 Harry Neil 1904 4 Defender Key Defender
16 Bob Nash 1904-1909 88 Defender Key Defender
17 Frank Wilcher 1906-1909 53 Defender Half-Back Flanker
18 Dave O'Donoghue 1907-1911 54 Defender Back Pocket
19 Bill Carden 1908 5 Defender Back Pocket
20 Marshall Herbert 1908-1910 51 Defender Key Defender
21 Jim Sadler 1908-1917 135 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Defender
22 Duncan McIvor 1909-1914 29 Defender Half-Back Flanker
23 Jack Shorten 1909-1913 60 Defender Key Defender
24 Joe Scaddan 1910 21 Defender Half-Back Flanker
25 Charlie Norris 1910-1911 18 Defender Back Pocket
26 Jim Sharp 1911-1917 18 Defender Key Defender
27 Max Hislop 1914 9 Defender Key Defender
28 Harry Saunders 1916-1926 135 Defender Key Defender
29 Ernie Wilson 1919-1928 126 Defender Back Pocket
30 Charlie Tyson 1920-1926 106 Defender
31 Bob Makeham 1923-1932 157 Forward / Defender
32 Brenton Sanderson 1994 4 Defender Back Pocket
33 Andrew Schauble 1995-1999 79 Defender Key Defender
34 Simon Prestigiacomo 1996-2010 233 Defender Key Defender
35 Mal Michael 1997-2000 61 Defender Key Defender
36 Heath Scotland 1999-2003 53 Defender
37 Ben Johnson 2000-2013 235 Defender Back Pocket
38 Rhyce Shaw 2000-2008 94 Defender
39 Ryan Lonie 2001-2008 123 Defender Half-Back Flanker
40 Shane Wakelin 2001-2008 158 Defender Key Defender
41 James Clement 2001-2007 146 Defender
42 Richard Cole 2002-2005 56 Defender Half-Back Flanker
43 Jason Cloke 2002-2006 76 Defender Key Defender
44 Matthew Lokan 2003-2005 46 Forward / Defender
45 Nick Maxwell 2004-2014 208 Defender
46 Heath Shaw 2005-2013 173 Defender
47 Heritier Lumumba 2005-2014 199 Defender
48 Dale Thomas 2006-2013 157 Defender
49 Sam Iles 2006-2007 7 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Defender
50 Shannon Cox 2007-2009 25 Defender Back Pocket
51 Alan Toovey 2007-2016 159 Defender
52 Tyson Goldsack 2007-2018 165 Defender Key Defender
53 Martin Clarke 2007-2014 73 Defender Half-Back Flanker
54 Ben Reid 2007-2020 152 Defender Key Defender
55 Nathan Brown 2008-2016 130 Defender Key Defender
56 Sharrod Wellingham 2008-2012 92 Defender
57 Leigh Brown 2009-2011 65 Forward / Defender Forward / Key Defender
58 Simon Buckley 2011-2012 26 Defender
59 Lachie Keeffe 2011-2014 40 Defender Key Defender
60 Ben Sinclair 2011-2016 63 Forward / Defender
61 Tom Young 2011-2012 9 Defender
62 Peter Yagmoor 2012 2 Defender
63 Marley Williams 2012-2016 68 Defender Back Pocket
64 Jack Frost 2013-2016 54 Defender Key Defender
65 Jordan Russell 2013 9 Defender Half-Back Flanker
66 Adam Oxley 2013-2018 34 Defender Half-Back Flanker
67 Tom Langdon 2014-2019 89 Defender
68 Tony Armstrong 2014-2015 6 Defender
69 Jackson Ramsay 2014-2017 17 Defender Back Pocket
70 Jack Crisp 2015-2022 182 Midfielder / Defender
71 Brayden Maynard 2015-2022 161 Defender
72 Darcy Moore 2015-2022 126 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
73 Matt Scharenberg 2015-2020 41 Defender
74 Jonathon Marsh 2015-2016 15 Defender
75 James Aish 2016-2019 50 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Defender
76 Jeremy Howe 2016-2022 119 Defender Key Defender
77 Josh Smith 2016-2018 32 Defender Half-Back Flanker
78 Henry Schade 2017 8 Defender Key Defender
79 Lynden Dunn 2017-2020 33 Defender Key Defender
80 Sam Murray 2018 13 Defender Back Pocket
81 Flynn Appleby 2018-2020 11 Defender
82 Jack Madgen 2018-2022 49 Defender Key Defender
83 Nathan Murphy 2018-2022 33 Defender Key Defender
84 Jordan Roughead 2019-2022 63 Defender Key Defender
85 Isaac Quaynor 2019-2022 59 Defender
86 John Noble 2019-2022 69 Defender Half-Back Flanker
87 Atu Bosenavulagi 2020 3 Defender
88 Mark Keane 2020-2021 5 Defender Key Defender
89 Trey Ruscoe 2020-2022 17 Defender
90 Anton Tohill 2021 1 Defender Key Defender
91 Nick Daicos 2022 25 Defender Half-Back Flanker
92 Nathan Kreuger 2022 5 Forward / Defender