List of Essendon midfielders

Midfielders 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 Arthur Cleghorn 1897-1903 61 Midfielder Rover
2 Joe Groves 1897-1900 57 Midfielder Wingman
3 George Hastings 1897-1904 109 Midfielder
4 Harry Wright 1897-1903 86 Midfielder
5 Billy Griffith 1899-1913 187 Midfielder / Defender Rover / Half-Back Flanker
6 Ted Kennedy 1901-1903 43 Midfielder Wingman
7 Herc Vollugi 1901-1906 70 Midfielder Wingman
8 Ben Baxter 1902-1906 67 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Defender
9 William Carkeek 1903-1905 26 Ruckman / Midfielder
10 Arthur Legge 1904-1909 69 Midfielder / Forward Rover / Forward Pocket
11 Bill Kerr 1905 1 Midfielder Rover
12 Jack Megson 1905 1 Midfielder Wingman
13 Bill Sewart 1905-1915 171 Midfielder
14 Bill Davies 1906-1909 65 Midfielder Wingman
15 Les Minto 1908-1909 25 Midfielder Wingman
16 Archie Snell 1908 1 Midfielder Rover
17 Percy Ogden 1910-1921 161 Midfielder
18 Jack Garden 1915-1926 116 Midfielder Wingman
19 Jimmy Sullivan 1918-1925 90 Midfielder Wingman
20 Frank Maher 1921-1928 137 Midfielder Rover
21 Charlie May 1922-1926 84 Midfielder
22 Garnet Campbell 1923-1933 157 Midfielder Wingman
23 Val Marchesi 1923-1924 8 Midfielder / Defender
24 Joe Misiti 1992-2004 236 Midfielder
25 Jason Johnson 1997-2008 184 Midfielder
26 Chris Heffernan 1997-2007 123 Midfielder
27 Damien Peverill 2001-2008 144 Midfielder
28 Jason Winderlich 2003-2015 129 Midfielder / Forward
29 Jobe Watson 2003-2017 220 Midfielder
30 Justin Murphy 2004-2005 40 Midfielder / Forward Midfielder / Half-Forward Flanker
31 Brent Stanton 2004-2017 255 Midfielder
32 Mark Alvey 2004-2005 14 Midfielder Wingman
33 Scott Camporeale 2006-2007 19 Midfielder / Forward Midfielder / Half-Forward Flanker
34 Heath Hocking 2007-2017 126 Midfielder
35 David Myers 2008-2019 123 Midfielder / Defender
36 David Zaharakis 2009-2021 226 Midfielder / Forward
37 Brent Prismall 2009-2011 36 Midfielder Wingman
38 Ben Howlett 2010-2017 124 Midfielder
39 Jake Melksham 2010-2015 114 Midfielder / Forward
40 Elliott Kavanagh 2012-2015 12 Midfielder
41 Brendan Lee 2012 2 Midfielder
42 Nick O'Brien 2012-2015 14 Midfielder
43 Brendon Goddard 2013-2018 129 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Half-Back Flanker
44 Zach Merrett 2014-2022 184 Midfielder
45 Kurt Aylett 2014 2 Midfielder
46 Adam Cooney 2015-2016 31 Midfielder
47 Kyle Langford 2015-2022 107 Midfielder / Forward
48 Craig Bird 2016-2017 20 Midfielder
49 Ryan Crowley 2016 8 Midfielder
50 Darcy Parish 2016-2022 132 Midfielder
51 Jonathan Simpkin 2016 4 Midfielder Wingman
52 Andrew McGrath 2017-2022 111 Midfielder
53 Dylan Clarke 2018-2021 24 Midfielder / Forward
54 Dylan Shiel 2019-2022 64 Midfielder
55 Brayden Ham 2019-2022 45 Midfielder / Forward Wingman / Forward
56 Tom Jok 2019 1 Midfielder
57 Mitchell Hibberd 2020 5 Midfielder
58 Jye Caldwell 2021-2022 23 Midfielder
59 Nik Cox 2021-2022 27 Midfielder Wingman
60 Sam Durham 2021-2022 27 Midfielder Wingman
61 Nic Martin 2022 21 Midfielder / Forward Wingman / Forward