List of Geelong defenders

Defenders who have played in at least one match for Geelong 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 Peter Burns 1897-1902 89 Defender Key Defender
2 Jack Conway 1897-1899 51 Defender Key Defender
3 Teddy Rankin 1897-1910 180 Midfielder / Defender Rover / Key Defender
4 Archie Thompson 1897-1901 61 Forward / Defender Half-Forward Flanker / Defender
5 Arthur Pincott 1897-1903 72 Defender Back Pocket
6 Ernie Leighton 1898-1899 29 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Defender
7 Tommy Buchan 1899-1902 41 Forward / Defender Forward / Half-Back Flanker
8 George Lockwood 1899-1901 40 Defender Back Pocket
9 Harry Parkin 1899 2 Defender
10 Ernie Newling 1900-1910 150 Defender Half-Back Flanker
11 Alec McKenzie 1902-1908 87 Forward / Defender
12 Peter Stephens 1902-1908 102 Forward / Defender
13 Frank Stodart 1903-1908 30 Defender
14 Bill Burns 1904 2 Ruckman / Defender
15 Dave Beard 1906-1911 38 Defender Back Pocket
16 John Bell 1906-1908 18 Defender
17 Frank Boynton 1907 13 Forward / Defender
18 Herb Bennett 1907-1908 8 Forward / Defender
19 Charlie Cameron 1908-1910 46 Ruckman / Defender Ruckman / Key Defender
20 Alex Boyd 1908-1910 30 Defender Half-Back Flanker
21 Les Armstrong 1908-1920 175 Defender Half-Back Flanker
22 Bert Whittington 1908-1911 27 Ruckman / Defender
23 Billy McCarter 1913-1924 114 Defender Back Pocket
24 Stan Thomas 1915-1925 137 Defender
25 Val Marchesi 1922 15 Midfielder / Defender
26 George Todd 1922-1934 232 Defender Key Defender
27 Tom Fitzmaurice 1925-1928 49 Defender Key Defender
28 Leigh Colbert 1993-1998 105 Defender
29 Brenton Sanderson 1995-2005 199 Defender Back Pocket
30 Clint Bizzell 1996-2001 75 Defender
31 Darren Milburn 1997-2011 292 Defender
32 Matthew Scarlett 1998-2012 284 Defender Key Defender
33 David Wojcinski 1999-2012 203 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Half-Back Flanker
34 Tom Harley 1999-2009 197 Defender
35 Corey Enright 2001-2016 332 Defender
36 Josh Hunt 2001-2013 198 Defender
37 Brent Grgic 2002-2003 13 Forward / Defender
38 David Johnson 2002-2009 79 Defender Half-Back Flanker
39 Max Rooke 2002-2010 135 Defender
40 James Kelly 2002-2015 273 Defender
41 Tim Callan 2003-2006 15 Defender Back Pocket
42 Andrew Mackie 2004-2017 280 Defender
43 Matthew Egan 2005-2007 59 Defender
44 Tom Lonergan 2005-2017 209 Defender Key Defender
45 Harry Taylor 2008-2020 280 Defender Key Defender
46 Tom Gillies 2009-2012 13 Defender Key Defender
47 Jeremy Laidler 2009-2010 2 Defender
48 Taylor Hunt 2010-2014 63 Defender
49 Josh Cowan 2011-2017 16 Forward / Defender
50 George Horlin-Smith 2012-2018 51 Defender
51 Jackson Sheringham 2012-2014 12 Defender
52 Josh Walker 2012-2015 33 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
53 Jared Rivers 2013-2015 44 Defender Key Defender
54 Jackson Thurlow 2013-2018 46 Defender Half-Back Flanker
55 Jed Bews 2014-2022 151 Defender
56 Jake Kolodjashnij 2015-2022 155 Defender Key Defender
57 Lachie Henderson 2016-2021 89 Defender Key Defender
58 Tom Ruggles 2016-2017 22 Defender
59 Tom Stewart 2017-2022 126 Defender
60 Zach Tuohy 2017-2022 130 Defender
61 Mark O'Connor 2017-2022 87 Midfielder / Defender
62 Zach Guthrie 2017-2022 54 Defender
63 Jack Henry 2018-2022 107 Defender Key Defender
64 Jamaine Jones 2018 7 Forward / Defender Forward / Half-Back Flanker
65 Tom Atkins 2019-2022 82 Forward / Defender Forward / Half-Back Flanker
66 Jordan Clark 2019-2021 32 Defender
67 Sam De Koning 2021-2022 24 Defender Key Defender
68 Nathan Kreuger 2021 2 Forward / Defender