2021 AFL draft

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General information
Dates	2 June - Mid-season Draft; 24–25 November - National Draft; 26 November - Rookie Draft
Location	Marvel Stadium
Network	Fox Footy
Sponsored by	National Australia Bank
Overview
League	AFL
First selection	Jason Horne-Francis; (North Melbourne)
	← 2020 2022 →

The 2021 AFL draft consisted of the various periods where the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) could trade and recruit players during and following the completion of the 2021 AFL season.

Dates2 June - Mid-season Draft
24–25 November - National Draft
26 November - Rookie Draft

LocationMarvel Stadium

NetworkFox Footy

Sponsored byNational Australia Bank

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The National Draft returned to being a two day event in 2021, after being held on a single night in 2020.^[1]

After coming 18th in the 2021 AFL season, the North Melbourne Football Club held the number one draft pick in the National draft for the first time, selecting South Adelaide midfielder Jason Horne-Francis.^[2]

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Event	Date(s)
Mid-season rookie draft	2 June 2021
Free agency period	Restricted and Unrestricted: 1–8 October 2021 Delisted: 3–15 November 2021
Trade period	4–13 October 2021
National draft	First round: 24 November 2021 Second and subsequent rounds: 25 November 2021
Pre-Season and Rookie draft	26 November 2021
Pre-season supplemental selection period	10 January 2022 - 9 March 2022

Round	Pick	Player	Club	Recruited from		Pick due to
Round	Pick	Player	Club	Club	League	Pick due to
1	1	Jacob Edwards	North Melbourne	Sandringham Dragons	NAB League	Flynn Perez long-term injury
	2	Jai Newcombe	Hawthorn	Box Hill Hawks	VFL	Jonathon Patton retirement
	3	Ash Johnson	Collingwood	Sturt	SANFL	Passed selection at the 2020 Rookie Draft
	4	Patrick Parnell	Adelaide	Murray Bushrangers	NAB League	Tyson Stengle delisting
	5	Ned Moyle	Gold Coast	Oakleigh Chargers	NAB League	Jarrod Witts long-term injury
	6	Alex Mirkov	Carlton	Carlton	VFL	Caleb Marchbank long-term injury
	7	Max Heath	St Kilda	Sandringham Dragons	NAB League	Dylan Roberton retirement
	8	James Peatling	Greater Western Sydney	Greater Western Sydney	VFL	Lachlan Keeffe long-term injury
	9	Sam Durham	Essendon	Richmond	VFL	Irving Mosquito long-term injury
	10	Matthew Parker	Richmond	South Fremantle	WAFL	Ivan Soldo long-term injury
	11	William Collins	West Coast	Swan Districts	WAFL	Daniel Venables long-term injury
	12	Lachlan McAndrew	Sydney	Sydney	VFL	Passed selection at the 2020 Rookie Draft
	13	Jed McEntee	Port Adelaide	Sturt	SANFL	Passed selection at the 2020 Rookie Draft
	14	Kalin Lane	Brisbane Lions	Claremont	WAFL	Cam Rayner long-term injury
	15	Kye Declase	Melbourne	Werribee	VFL	Aaron Nietschke long-term injury
2	16	Charlie Ham	North Melbourne	Geelong Falcons	NAB League	Passed selection at the 2020 Rookie Draft
	17	Jackson Callow	Hawthorn	Norwood	SANFL	James Sicily long-term injury
	18	Aiden Begg	Collingwood	Eastern Ranges	NAB League	Passed selection at the 2020 Rookie Draft
	19	Passed	Gold Coast	—	—	Rory Thompson long-term injury
	20	Jordan Boyd	Carlton	Footscray	VFL	David Cuningham long-term injury
	21	Cooper Sharman	St Kilda	Woodville-West Torrens	SANFL	Jade Gresham long-term injury
	22	Passed	Essendon	—	—	Michael Hurley long-term injury
	23	Connor West	West Coast	West Perth	WAFL	Jarrod Cameron long-term injury
	24	Daniel Turner	Melbourne	Murray Bushrangers	NAB League	Marty Hore long-term injury
3	25	Passed	Carlton	—	—	Sam Philp long-term injury
3	26	Passed	St Kilda	—	—	Ben Paton long-term injury
4	27	Passed	St Kilda	—	—	Passed selection at the 2020 Rookie Draft

Rd	Orig. Club	New Club	Acquired via	Ref
1	Collingwood	Greater Western Sydney	Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft
	Melbourne	Brisbane Lions	Pick swap	^[5]
	Geelong	Richmond	Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft
2	Collingwood	Hawthorn	Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft
	St Kilda	Richmond	Jack Higgins trade	^[6]
	Essendon	Geelong	via Greater Western Sydney (Jye Caldwell trade) on-traded to Geelong (Jeremy Cameron trade)	^[7] ^[8]
	Greater Western Sydney	Geelong	Jeremy Cameron trade	^[8]
	Western Bulldogs	Collingwood	Adam Treloar trade	^[9]
	Brisbane Lions	Melbourne	Pick swap	^[5]
	Port Adelaide	West Coast	via Sydney (Aliir Aliir trade) on-traded to West Coast (Tom Hickey trade)	^[10] ^[11]
	Melbourne	Adelaide	Pick swap	^[12]
3	Gold Coast	Richmond	Oleg Markov trade	^[13]
	Adelaide	Collingwood	Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft
	Hawthorn	Melbourne	Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft
	Carlton	Gold Coast	via Sydney (pick swap) on-traded to Gold Coast (pick swap)	^[14] ^[15]
	Fremantle	Collingwood	Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft
	West Coast	Brisbane Lions	Alex Witherden trade	^[16]
	Sydney	West Coast	Tom Hickey trade	^[11]
	Western Bulldogs	Melbourne	Mitch Hannan trade	^[17]
	Port Adelaide	Essendon	Orazio Fantasia trade	^[18]
	Melbourne	Gold Coast	via Brisbane Lions (pick swap) on-traded to Geelong (Nakia Cockatoo trade) on-traded to Gold Coast (pick swap)	^[19] ^[20] ^[21]
4	North Melbourne	Hawthorn	via Melbourne (Ben Brown trade) on-traded to Hawthorn (Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft)	^[22]
	Collingwood	Brisbane Lions	Pick swap	^[23]
	Hawthorn	Port Adelaide	via Adelaide (Kyle Hartigan trade) on-traded to Port Adelaide (Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft)	^[24]
	Richmond	Hawthorn	via St Kilda (Jack Higgins trade) on-traded to Hawthorn (Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft)	^[6]
	Fremantle	Adelaide	Pick swap	^[25]
	Essendon	Gold Coast	Peter Wright trade	^[26]
	Brisbane Lions	North Melbourne	via Melbourne (pick swap) on-traded to North Melbourne (Ben Brown trade)	^[19] ^[22]
	Melbourne	Brisbane Lions	via Adelaide (pick swap) on-traded to Brisbane Lions (pick swap)	^[12] ^[27]
	Geelong	Port Adelaide	via Greater Western Sydney (Jeremy Cameron trade) on-traded to Collingwood (Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft) on-traded to Port Adelaide (Pick swap at the 2020 National Draft)	^[8]

Player	Free agent type	Recruited from	New club	Compensation	Ref
Jake Kelly	Unrestricted	Adelaide	Essendon	3rd round	^[28]
Mabior Chol	Unrestricted	Richmond	Gold Coast	End of 2nd round	^[29]
George Hewett	Restricted	Sydney	Carlton	End of 2nd round	^[30]
Luke Dunstan	Unrestricted	St Kilda	Melbourne	None	^[31]
Tim O'Brien	Unrestricted	Hawthorn	Western Bulldogs	None	^[32]
Jarrod Brander	Delisted	West Coast	Greater Western Sydney	N/a	^[33]
Sam Skinner ^[a]	Delisted	South Adelaide (SANFL)	Port Adelaide	N/a	^[34]
Tom Campbell	Delisted	North Melbourne	St Kilda	N/a	^[35]
Tyson Stengle ^[b]	Delisted	Woodville-West Torrens (SANFL)	Geelong	N/a	^[36]
Hugh Greenwood	Delisted	Gold Coast	North Melbourne	N/a	^[37]

Clubs involved	Trade		Ref
Gold Coast Collingwood	to Gold Coast (from Collingwood) 2022 second round pick (Collingwood) 2022 third round pick (Collingwood) 2022 fourth round pick (Collingwood)	to Collingwood (from Gold Coast) pick No. 22 pick No. 46 pick No. 58 pick No. 79 2022 fourth round pick (Gold Coast)	^[38]
Collingwood Geelong	to Collingwood (from Geelong) Nathan Kreuger pick No. 55	to Geelong (from Collingwood) pick No. 41	^[39]
Port Adelaide Greater Western Sydney	to Port Adelaide (from Greater Western Sydney) Jeremy Finlayson	to Greater Western Sydney (from Port Adelaide) 2022 third round pick (Port Adelaide)	^[40]
Melbourne Western Bulldogs Adelaide St Kilda	to Melbourne pick No. 17 (from Western Bulldogs) pick No. 37 (from Adelaide) pick No. 49 (from St Kilda) to Western Bulldogs pick No. 23 (from Adelaide) pick No. 44 (from Adelaide) pick No. 45 (from Melbourne)	to Adelaide pick No. 33 (from Melbourne) pick No. 75 (from Western Bulldogs) 2022 first round pick (Melbourne) to St Kilda pick No. 62 (from Adelaide) pick No. 66 (from Adelaide) 2022 fourth round pick (Adelaide)	^[41]
Collingwood Fremantle	to Collingwood (from Fremantle) pick No. 22	to Fremantle (from Collingwood) pick No. 27 2022 third round pick (Fremantle)	^[42]
Fremantle Gold Coast	to Fremantle (from Gold Coast) Will Brodie pick No. 19 pick No. 61 pick No. 69	to Gold Coast (from Fremantle) 2022 second round pick (Fremantle) 2022 fourth round pick (Fremantle)	^[43]
Carlton Fremantle	to Carlton (from Fremantle) Adam Cerra	to Fremantle (from Carlton) pick No. 6 2022 third round pick (Carlton)	^[44]
West Coast Carlton Western Bulldogs	to West Coast (from Carlton) Sam Petrevski-Seton to Carlton (from Western Bulldogs) Lewis Young	to Western Bulldogs (from West Coast) pick No. 52	^[45]
North Melbourne Richmond	to North Melbourne (from Richmond) Callum Coleman-Jones pick No. 42 pick No. 47 2022 fourth round pick (Richmond)	to Richmond (from North Melbourne) Robbie Tarrant pick No. 40 2022 second round pick (North Melbourne)	^[46]
Collingwood Western Bulldogs	to Collingwood (from Western Bulldogs) Patrick Lipinski	to Western Bulldogs (from Collingwood) pick No. 43	^[47]
Adelaide Sydney	to Adelaide (from Sydney) Jordan Dawson	to Sydney (from Adelaide) 2022 first round pick (Melbourne)	^[48]
Brisbane Lions Geelong	to Brisbane Lions (from Geelong) Darcy Fort pick No. 41	to Geelong (from Brisbane Lions) pick No. 50 2022 third round pick (Brisbane Lions)	^[49]
Geelong Hawthorn	to Geelong (from Hawthorn) Jonathon Ceglar 2022 fourth round pick (Hawthorn)	to Hawthorn (from Geelong) 2022 third round pick (Brisbane Lions)	^[50]
Fremantle Geelong	to Fremantle (from Geelong) Jordan Clark 2022 fourth round pick (Geelong)	to Geelong (from Fremantle) pick No. 22 2022 third round pick (Carlton)	^[51]
Sydney Port Adelaide	to Sydney (from Port Adelaide) Peter Ladhams pick No. 16	to Port Adelaide (from Sydney) pick No. 12 2022 third round pick (Sydney)	^[52]
Hawthorn Collingwood	to Hawthorn (from Collingwood) Max Lynch 2022 third round pick (Fremantle) 2022 fourth round pick (Gold Coast)	to Collingwood (from Hawthorn) 2022 third round pick (Hawthorn) 2022 third round pick (Brisbane Lions)	^[53]
Richmond Collingwood	to Richmond (from Collingwood) pick No. 27	to Collingwood (from Richmond) pick No. 38 pick No. 40 2022 third round pick (Richmond)	^[54]
Greater Western Sydney Brisbane Lions	to Greater Western Sydney (from Brisbane Lions) pick No. 54	to Brisbane Lions (from Greater Western Sydney) 2022 third round pick (Port Adelaide)	^[55]
St Kilda Collingwood	to St Kilda (from Collingwood) pick No. 55	to Collingwood (from St Kilda) 2022 fourth round pick (Adelaide)	^[56]
Picks swapped at the 2021 National Draft
Geelong Western Bulldogs	to Geelong (from Western Bulldogs) pick No. 23	to Western Bulldogs (from Geelong) pick No. 32 pick No. 34
North Melbourne Western Bulldogs	to North Melbourne (from Western Bulldogs) pick No. 32 pick No. 52 2022 third round pick (Western Bulldogs)	to Western Bulldogs (from North Melbourne) pick No. 42 pick No. 47 2022 third round pick (North Melbourne)
North Melbourne Collingwood	to North Melbourne (from Collingwood) pick No. 36	to Collingwood (from North Melbourne) pick No. 48 2022 third round pick (Western Bulldogs)
Port Adelaide West Coast	to Port Adelaide (from West Coast) pick No. 12	to West Coast (from Port Adelaide) pick No. 14 2022 second round pick (Port Adelaide)
Collingwood Greater Western Sydney	to Collingwood (from Greater Western Sydney) pick No. 48	to Greater Western Sydney (from Collingwood) 2022 fourth round pick (Adelaide)
Adelaide Melbourne	to Adelaide (from Melbourne) pick No. 43	to Melbourne (from Adelaide) 2022 third round pick (Adelaide)
Port Adelaide Carlton	to Port Adelaide (from Carlton) pick No. 55	to Carlton (from Port Adelaide) 2022 fourth round pick (Port Adelaide)
Collingwood Geelong	to Collingwood (from Geelong) pick No. 45	to Geelong (from Collingwood) pick No. 47 2022 third round pick (Brisbane Lions)
St Kilda Melbourne	to St Kilda (from Melbourne) pick No. 51	to Melbourne (from St Kilda) 2022 fourth round pick (St Kilda)
West Coast Port Adelaide	to West Coast (from Port Adelaide) pick No. 62	to Port Adelaide (from West Coast) 2022 fourth round pick (West Coast)

2021 AFL draft

Key dates

2021 mid-season rookie draft

Previous trades

Player movements

Free agency

Trades

List changes

Retirements

Delistings

2021 national draft

Rookie elevations

2022 pre-season draft

2022 rookie draft

Category B rookie selections

Pre-season supplemental selection period

See also

References

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General information
Dates	2 June - Mid-season Draft 24–25 November - National Draft 26 November - Rookie Draft
Location	Marvel Stadium
Network	Fox Footy
Sponsored by	National Australia Bank
Overview
League	AFL
First selection	Jason Horne-Francis (North Melbourne)
← 2020 2022 →

^	Denotes player who has been inducted to the Australian Football Hall of Fame
*	Denotes player who has been a premiership player and been selected for at least one All-Australian team
⁺	Denotes player who has been a premiership player at least once
^x	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Australian team
^#	Denotes player who has never played in a VFL/AFL home and away season or finals game
^~	Denotes player who has been selected as Rising Star

Player	Club
Ben Keays	Adelaide
Josh Honey	Carlton
Matthew Kennedy	Carlton
Will Snelling	Essendon
Ethan Hughes	Fremantle
Emerson Jeka	Hawthorn
Dylan Moore
Ned Reeves
James Jordon	Melbourne
Martin Frederick	Port Adelaide
Rhyan Mansell	Richmond
Callum Wilkie	St Kilda
Ryan Gardner	Western Bulldogs

Name	Club	Origin	Note	Ref
Domanic Akuei	Carlton	Northern Knights (NAB League)	Next Generation Academy selection (Sudanese descent)	^[144]
Fionn O'Hara	Hawthorn	Westmeath GAA	International selection (Ireland)	^[145]
Andy Moniz-Wakefield	Melbourne	NT Thunder (NAB League)	Next Generation Academy selection (indigenous)	^[146]
Jack Peris	St Kilda	Sandringham Dragons (NAB League)	Next Generation Academy selection (indigenous)	^[147]
Josiah Kyle	St Kilda	Dandenong Stingrays (NAB League)	Next Generation Academy selection (indigenous)	^[147]
Cody Raak	Western Bulldogs	Western Jets (NAB League)	Next Generation Academy selection (indigenous)	^[148]