List of Melbourne midfielders

Midfielders who have played in at least one match for Melbourne 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 Austin Lewis 1897-1903 87 Midfielder
2 Fred McGinis 1897-1901 84 Midfielder Rover
3 Henry Mitchell 1897-1899 36 Midfielder Wingman
4 Norm Rippon 1898 1 Midfielder
5 Fred Elliott 1899 12 Midfielder / Forward Rover / Forward
6 Arthur Sowden 1899-1906 117 Midfielder Wingman
7 Frank Langley 1900-1906 89 Midfielder / Forward
8 Eric Gardner 1900-1903 39 Midfielder
9 Billy Shaw 1901 1 Midfielder
10 Horrie Drane 1902-1906 38 Midfielder Wingman
11 Harry Cordner 1903-1905 11 Midfielder / Forward Midfielder / Key Forward
12 Ted Wade 1904 1 Midfielder
13 Mark Gardner 1904-1907 14 Midfielder Wingman
14 Les Minto 1905 1 Midfielder Wingman
15 Lance Sleeman 1906 1 Midfielder Wingman
16 Wally Sykes 1907-1912 41 Midfielder / Forward Midfielder / Forward Pocket
17 Harry Cope 1907-1913 52 Midfielder
18 Harry Rigby 1907-1908 27 Midfielder Wingman
19 Herbert Hill 1907 8 Midfielder
20 Henry Wright 1908-1909 18 Midfielder Wingman
21 Len Norman 1908-1909 30 Midfielder Rover
22 Jack Robertson 1909-1913 60 Midfielder
23 George Heinz 1919-1925 106 Midfielder / Forward
24 Mick Anthony 1920-1924 52 Midfielder Wingman
25 Bob Corbett 1920-1929 161 Midfielder
26 Dick Taylor 1922-1935 164 Midfielder / Forward
27 Jimmy Sullivan 1925 6 Midfielder Wingman
28 Arthur Dickens 1932 13 Midfielder Wingman
29 Alby Rodda 1939-1950 131 Midfielder / Forward
30 Ian McLean 1951-1960 146 Midfielder Wingman
31 Ron Barassi 1953-1964 204 Midfielder
32 Laurie Mithen 1954-1962 153 Midfielder / Forward
33 Martin Pike 1993-1994 24 Midfielder / Forward Wingman / Forward
34 Adem Yze 1995-2008 271 Midfielder / Forward
35 Andrew Leoncelli 1996-2003 146 Midfielder
36 Shane Woewodin 1997-2002 138 Midfielder
37 James McDonald 1997-2010 251 Midfielder
38 Travis Johnstone 1998-2007 160 Midfielder
39 Guy Rigoni 1998-2005 107 Midfielder
40 Stephen Powell 2000-2002 44 Midfielder / Forward Rover / Half-Forward Flanker
41 Brad Green 2000-2012 254 Midfielder / Forward Wingman / Forward
42 Simon Godfrey 2000-2007 105 Midfielder
43 Scott Thompson 2001-2004 39 Midfielder
44 Chris Heffernan 2003-2005 47 Midfielder
45 Brock McLean 2004-2009 94 Midfielder
46 Brent Moloney 2005-2012 122 Midfielder
47 Nathan Jones 2006-2021 302 Midfielder
48 Cale Morton 2008-2012 73 Midfielder / Forward Wingman / Half-Forward Flanker
49 Jack Grimes 2008-2016 100 Midfielder / Defender Midfielder / Half-Back Flanker
50 Jordie McKenzie 2009-2015 79 Midfielder
51 Tom Scully 2010-2011 31 Midfielder Wingman
52 Jack Trengove 2010-2017 86 Midfielder
53 Michael Evans 2011-2014 16 Midfielder
54 James Magner 2012-2013 19 Midfielder
55 Josh Tynan 2012 2 Midfielder
56 Tom Couch 2012 3 Midfielder
57 Matt Jones 2013-2016 61 Midfielder
58 Jimmy Toumpas 2013-2015 27 Midfielder Wingman
59 Jack Viney 2013-2022 172 Midfielder
60 Daniel Cross 2014-2015 39 Midfielder
61 Dom Tyson 2014-2018 94 Midfielder
62 Bernie Vince 2014-2018 100 Midfielder
63 Aidan Riley 2014-2015 13 Midfielder / Forward
64 Ben Newton 2015-2016 13 Midfielder
65 Billy Stretch 2015-2019 47 Midfielder
66 James Harmes 2015-2022 143 Midfielder / Forward
67 Mitch White 2015-2017 4 Midfielder
68 Clayton Oliver 2016-2022 147 Midfielder
69 Christian Petracca 2016-2022 151 Midfielder / Forward
70 Jordan Lewis 2017-2019 55 Midfielder
71 Jake Melksham 2017-2022 94 Midfielder / Forward
72 Corey Maynard 2017-2018 2 Midfielder
73 Tom Sparrow 2019-2022 51 Midfielder / Forward
74 Oskar Baker 2019-2021 15 Midfielder
75 Kyle Dunkley 2019 5 Midfielder
76 Ed Langdon 2020-2022 64 Midfielder Wingman
77 James Jordon 2021-2022 47 Midfielder Wingman
78 Luke Dunstan 2022 5 Midfielder