- When: Friday, November 25th
- Venue: Hordern Pavillion, Sydney
- Time: 7pm AEST
- Official Website
- Official Twitter
- BigFooty Draft and Trading board
- Broadcast: Fox Footy (6.30pm)
Basic Draft Information
- AFL Draft Order
- AFL Draft Points Value Index
- Followed by: The AFL Preseason & Rookie Drafts (Monday, Nov 28th, 4pm)
- Heraldsun Draft Guide
Father-Son Nominations
- Collingwood – Callum Brown (son of Gavin), Josh Daicos (Peter).
- West Coast – Jake Waterman (Chris)
Father-sons NOT nominated go into open draft. If not taken at draft,clubs can lodge paperwork for rookie draft access. (this includes Jarman and Simpson who were initially nominated by Adelaide and Geelong respectively)
Academy Nominations
The AFL received 29 nominations overall as potential club academy player picks for the draft.
- Sydney Swans – Darcy Baron-Hay, Jake Brown, Ryan Hebron, Callum McFadden, Ned Reinhard, Matthew Wilson.
- GWS – Isaac Cumming, Sam Fisher, Ryan Garthwaite, Harrison Macreadie, Kobe Mutch, Harry Perryman, Will Setterfield, Zach Sproule, Lach Tiziani
- GC Suns – Jack Bowes, Dan Charlesworth, Jesse Esam, Nicholas Kempe, Curtis Marsden, Brad Scheer, Max Spencer, Shawn Watson, Josh Williams.
- Brisbane Lions – Jacob Allison, Nate Dennis, William Fletcher, Jack Rolls, Declan Watson.
The Bidding Process
Source: Heraldsun
The order of picks will change on the night as clubs lodge bids for father-son nominations and players from Sydney, GWS, Brisbane and Gold Coast talent academies.
Every draft pick from 1-73 is allocated a points value from 9-3000 and if a rival club bids on a nominated player, the club that nominated them has the option of matching that pick (minus a 20 per cent discount) with points from their own selections — and taking the player.
The same rules apply for father-son nominations — Essendon last year lodged a cheeky bid for Jack Silvagni with pick 53, forcing Carlton to match it to claim the son of SOS.
Clubs don’t have to match a bid — the Bulldogs placed a bid for Josh Dunkley at pick 24 last year even though he had been nominated by Sydney as a father-son selection. The Swans decided not to match and Dunkley is now a premiership player.
Draft Previews and Phantom Drafts
- The Bigfooty Phantom Draft subforum
- Callum Twomey (AFL.com.au)
- Emma Quayle (The Age)
- Terry Wallace (SEN)
- Brett Anderson (SEN)
- Christopher Doerre (ESPN)
- The Age Club by Club Guide [Part 1][Part 2][Part 3]
- Top 25 Draft Prospects (Foxsports)
- Champion Data Top 30 Prospects
- Kevin Sheehans Top 40 Prospects
Draft Picks
- ADELAIDE 13, 43, 53, 66, 82, 90
- BRISBANE LIONS 3, 16, 21, 22, 75, 76
- CARLTON 5, 25, 48, 62, 65, 69
- COLLINGWOOD 28, 44, 51, 61, 64
- ESSENDON 1, 20, 29, 41, 67
- FREMANTLE 7, 35, 40, 70, 77, 86
- GEELONG 24, 38, 42, 63, 71, 84
- GOLD COAST 2, 15, 8, 10, 72, 87, 93, 95, 96
- GWS GIANTS 2, 15, 37, 39, 45, 52, 55, 57, 58, 59, 72
- HAWTHORN 81, 83, 91
- MELBOURNE 47, 68
- NORTH MELB 11, 32, 33, 80
- PORT ADELAIDE 14, 17, 30, 31, 79, 88
- RICHMOND 27, 56, 78
- ST KILDA 23, 36, 60
- SYDNEY 9, 19, 46, 49, 85, 92
- WEST COAST 12, 34, 54, 89, 94
- W BULLDOGS 18, 26, 50, 74
Draft Order