List of Essendon defenders

Defenders who have played in at least one match for Essendon 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 Jim Anderson 1897-1905 136 Defender Key Defender
2 Tod Collins 1897-1903 91 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Half-Back Flanker
3 Maurie Collins 1897-1904 98 Defender Back Pocket
4 Ted Kinnear 1897-1903 107 Forward / Defender Forward / Back Pocket
5 Gus Officer 1897-1900 48 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
6 George Stuckey 1897-1902 71 Defender Half-Back Flanker
7 Hugh Gavin 1897-1904 112 Defender Key Defender
8 Harold Brown 1897-1898 8 Forward / Defender
9 Jim Park 1897 6 Defender Back Pocket
10 Billy Griffith 1899-1913 187 Midfielder / Defender Rover / Half-Back Flanker
11 Mick O'Loughlin 1899 5 Defender
12 Charlie McCartney 1899 4 Defender
13 Mick Peppard 1900-1903 42 Forward / Defender Forward / Half-Back Flanker
14 Bill Robinson 1901-1906 71 Defender Half-Back Flanker
15 Fred Mann 1901-1903 27 Defender Back Pocket
16 Ben Baxter 1902-1906 67 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Defender
17 Jack Geggie 1902-1904 43 Forward / Defender
18 Syd Hall 1902 8 Defender
19 Jack Deas 1902 3 Defender Back Pocket
20 Bill McCarthy 1903 3 Defender
21 Joe Marr 1903 14 Defender Key Defender
22 Jack Trehey 1903 6 Defender
23 Bill Busbridge 1904-1912 103 Defender Key Defender
24 Dick Harris 1905 3 Defender Back Pocket
25 Mark Shea 1905-1909 71 Defender Back Pocket
26 Athol Tymms 1905 3 Forward / Defender Half-Forward Flanker / Defender
27 George Gibson 1906 4 Defender Back Pocket
28 Bill Johnson 1907-1908 30 Defender
29 Len Bowe 1907-1920 185 Defender
30 Tommy Crow 1908 4 Defender
31 Bert Ryan 1908 15 Defender Key Defender
32 Alan Irwin 1908-1909 8 Defender
33 Bert Daykin 1908-1910 32 Ruckman / Defender
34 Billy Harrison 1909-1911 24 Defender Key Defender
35 Ramsay Anderson 1910-1911 28 Defender Back Pocket
36 Horrie Bant 1910 12 Defender Key Defender
37 George McLeod 1910-1913 56 Forward / Defender
38 Clyde Donaldson 1913-1926 144 Defender Back Pocket
39 Roy Laing 1913-1925 131 Defender Half-Back Flanker
40 Tom Fitzmaurice 1918-1924 85 Defender Key Defender
41 Charlie Farrell 1919-1925 69 Defender Half-Back Flanker
42 Harry Hunter 1921-1929 109 Defender Key Defender
43 Les Woodfield 1921-1922 15 Defender Key Defender
44 Ken Adam 1922-1925 31 Defender Half-Back Flanker
45 Val Marchesi 1923-1924 8 Midfielder / Defender
46 Joe Harrison 1923-1927 64 Defender
47 Harry Gregory 1924-1930 89 Defender
48 Gavin Wanganeen 1991-1996 127 Forward / Defender Forward Pocket / Defender
49 Dustin Fletcher 1993-2015 400 Defender Key Defender
50 Damien Hardwick 1994-2001 153 Defender
51 Sean Wellman 1996-2004 178 Defender
52 Mark Bolton 1998-2007 124 Forward / Defender
53 Mark McVeigh 1999-2012 232 Defender
54 Danny Jacobs 1999-2003 81 Defender
55 Aaron Henneman 2000-2005 58 Forward / Defender
56 Cory McGrath 2001-2003 28 Defender Half-Back Flanker
57 Ted Richards 2002-2005 33 Defender Key Defender
58 Andrew Welsh 2002-2011 162 Defender
59 Adam McPhee 2003-2009 142 Defender
60 Kepler Bradley 2004-2007 49 Forward / Defender
61 Nathan Lovett-Murray 2004-2013 145 Defender
62 Ricky Dyson 2004-2012 114 Defender
63 Ty Zantuck 2005 9 Defender Back Pocket
64 Paul Thomas 2005 8 Defender Back Pocket
65 Henry Slattery 2005-2012 96 Defender Back Pocket
66 Jay Nash 2005-2009 43 Defender
67 Courtenay Dempsey 2006-2016 133 Defender
68 Richard Cole 2006-2007 7 Defender Half-Back Flanker
69 Mal Michael 2007-2008 37 Defender Key Defender
70 Bachar Houli 2007-2010 26 Defender Half-Back Flanker
71 Tayte Pears 2008-2015 70 Defender Key Defender
72 Jarrod Atkinson 2008-2010 17 Defender
73 Darcy Daniher 2008-2009 6 Forward / Defender
74 David Myers 2008-2019 123 Midfielder / Defender
75 Cale Hooker 2008-2021 219 Defender Key Defender
76 Michael Hurley 2009-2022 194 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
77 Kyle Hardingham 2010-2014 65 Defender
78 Jake Carlisle 2010-2015 85 Defender Key Defender
79 Dyson Heppell 2011-2022 213 Defender
80 Michael Hibberd 2011-2015 84 Defender
81 Alex Browne 2011-2015 11 Defender
82 Mark Baguley 2012-2019 134 Defender Back Pocket
83 Brendon Goddard 2013-2018 129 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Half-Back Flanker
84 Lauchlan Dalgleish 2013 3 Defender
85 Patrick Ambrose 2014-2021 88 Forward / Defender
86 Martin Gleeson 2014-2021 97 Defender
87 Jason Ashby 2014-2016 12 Defender
88 Dylan Van Unen 2014 1 Defender
89 Ariel Steinberg 2014-2015 10 Defender Key Defender
90 James Gwilt 2015-2016 26 Defender Key Defender
91 Shaun Edwards 2015-2016 12 Forward / Defender Forward / Back Pocket
92 Jayden Laverde 2015-2022 91 Forward / Defender
93 Conor McKenna 2015-2020 79 Defender
94 Matt Dea 2016-2018 39 Defender
95 James Kelly 2016-2017 40 Defender
96 Michael Hartley 2016-2019 44 Defender Key Defender
97 Nathan Grima 2016 2 Defender Key Defender
98 Mason Redman 2016-2022 80 Defender
99 Aaron Francis 2016-2022 54 Defender
100 Ben McNiece 2017-2019 15 Defender
101 Adam Saad 2018-2020 61 Defender Half-Back Flanker
102 Kobe Mutch 2018-2020 5 Defender
103 Jordan Ridley 2018-2022 68 Defender Key Defender
104 Brandon Zerk-Thatcher 2019-2022 29 Defender Key Defender
105 Tom Cutler 2020-2022 30 Defender
106 Ned Cahill 2020-2021 6 Defender
107 Nick Hind 2021-2022 43 Defender Half-Back Flanker
108 Zach Reid 2021-2022 8 Defender Key Defender
109 Jake Kelly 2022 21 Defender
110 Alastair Lord 2022 1 Defender
111 Massimo D'Ambrosio 2022 8 Defender