List of AFL debuts in 1994

The 1994 Australian Football League (AFL) season was the 98th season of the VFL/AFL. The season saw 92 Australian rules footballers make their senior AFL debut and a further 50 players transfer to new clubs having previously played in the AFL.

Club	VFL debuts	Change of club
Adelaide	8	1
Brisbane Bears	3	6
Carlton	5	4
Collingwood	7	6
Essendon	9	3
Fitzroy	8	5
Footscray	8	2
Geelong	7	0
Hawthorn	6	1
Melbourne	2	2
North Melbourne	5	2
Richmond	4	7
St Kilda	9	5
Sydney	8	6
West Coast	3	0
Total	92	50

Name	Club	Age at debut	Round debuted	Games	Goals	Notes
Brett Chalmers	Adelaide	20 years, 359 days	4^[1]	50	8	Father of Kyle Chalmers.
Sean Wellman	Adelaide	19 years, 222 days	6^[2]	34	9
Nick Pesch	Adelaide	20 years, 22 days	17^[3]	31	15
Martin McKinnon	Adelaide	19 years, 5 days	16^[4]	25	7
Matthew Kluzek	Adelaide	19 years, 5 days	15^[5]	24	15
Tony Hall	Adelaide	29 years, 192 days	1^[6]	17	30	Previously played for Hawthorn.
Shane Tongerie	Adelaide	23 years, 79 days	6^[7]	4	3
Joshua Mail	Adelaide	19 years, 162 days	10^[8]	4	0
Peter Turner	Adelaide	20 years, 112 days	8^[9]	3	1
Nigel Lappin	Brisbane Bears	17 years, 292 days	3^[10]	279	174	Cousin of Matthew Lappin.
Chris Scott	Brisbane Bears	17 years, 328 days	1^[11]	215	79	AFL Premiership coach 2011 and 2022. Brother of Brad Scott.
Alastair Lynch	Brisbane Bears	25 years, 302 days	1^[12]	186	460	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Craig Lambert	Brisbane Bears	25 years, 173 days	1^[13]	96	27	Previously played for Richmond.
Andrew Bews	Brisbane Bears	29 years, 215 days	1^[14]	75	2	Father of Jed Bews. Previously played for Geelong.
Gilbert McAdam	Brisbane Bears	26 years, 362 days	1^[15]	58	44	Brother of Adrian and Greg McAdam. Previously played for St Kilda.
Craig Starcevich	Brisbane Bears	26 years, 322 days	1^[16]	20	16	Uncle of Brandon Starcevich. Previously played for Collingwood.
Troy Lehmann	Brisbane Bears	22 years, 37 days	10^[17]	8	1	Previously played for Collingwood.
Rudi Frigo	Brisbane Bears	20 years, 118 days	2^[18]	13	10
Matthew Allan	Carlton	19 years, 126 days	15^[19]	140	72
Dean Rice	Carlton	26 years, 57 days	8^[20]	118	42	Father of Bailey Rice and nephew of Colin Rice. Previously played for St Kilda.
Brad Pearce	Carlton	22 years, 292 days	11^[21]	77	151	Previously played for Brisbane.
Adrian Whitehead	Carlton	18 years, 228 days	3^[22]	63	22
Barry Mitchell	Carlton	28 years, 110 days	1^[23]	38	25	Father of Tom Mitchell. Previously played for Sydney and Collingwood.
Troy Bond	Carlton	20 years, 256 days	1^[24]	36	26	Brother of Shane Bond.
Tony Lynn	Carlton	25 years, 346 days	3^[25]	27	14	Previously played for Brisbane.
James Cook	Carlton	20 years, 79 days	1^[26]	25	35
Peter Green	Carlton	20 years, 25 days	10^[27]	1	0
Nathan Buckley	Collingwood	21 years, 243 days	1^[28]	260	263	2003 Brownlow Medallist. Previously played for Brisbane.
Jon Hassall	Collingwood	20 years, 224 days	1^[29]	50	12
Brett James	Collingwood	21 years, 101 days	1^[30]	42	26	Brother of Roger James.
Paul Sharkey	Collingwood	20 years, 11 days	13^[31]	26	4
Aaron James	Collingwood	17 years, 209 days	10^[32]	23	6
Trent Hotton	Collingwood	20 years, 234 days	18^[33]	17	14
Damian Houlihan	Collingwood	18 years, 282 days	7^[34]	11	6	Brother of Adam and Ryan Houlihan.
Jon Ballantyne	Collingwood	24 years, 240 days	1^[35]	9	0	Previously played for Footscray.
Bradley Plain	Collingwood	24 years, 191 days	2^[36]	9	6	Previously played for Collingwood.
Stephen Ryan	Collingwood	24 years, 191 days	1^[37]	8	4	Brother of Des Ryan. Previously played for Richmond.
Brenton Sanderson	Collingwood	20 years, 55 days	5^[38]	4	1	Previously played for Adelaide.
Todd Curley	Collingwood	21 years, 86 days	3^[39]	3	1
Justin Staritski	Collingwood	23 years, 322 days	10^[40]	1	0	Previously played for North Melbourne.
Damien Hardwick	Essendon	21 years, 248 days	5^[41]	153	13	AFL Premiership coach 2017, 2019 and 2020.
Che Cockatoo-Collins	Essendon	19 years, 21 days	1^[42]	85	109	Brother of David and Donald Cockatoo-Collins and uncle of Nakia Cockatoo.
Michael Prior	Essendon	20 years, 333 days	20^[43]	81	19
Ben Doolan	Essendon	21 years, 75 days	1^[44]	76	7	Previously played for Sydney.
Barry Young	Essendon	23 years, 315 days	7^[45]	76	45	Previously played for Richmond.
Ryan O'Connor	Essendon	19 years, 314 days	7^[46]	63	47
Scott Cummings	Essendon	20 years, 159 days	14^[47]	40	83
Robert Stevenson	Essendon	17 years, 285 days	1^[48]	11	0
Dale Kickett	Essendon	25 years, 326 days	1^[49]	8	7	Cousin of Derek Kickett and Lance Franklin. Previously played for West Coast, Fitzroy and St Kilda.
Russell Williams	Essendon	20 years, 093 days	5^[50]	3	1
Lachlan Ross	Essendon	20 years, 318 days	14^[51]	2	1
Julian Kirzner	Essendon	17 years, 314 days	24^[52]	1	1
Chris Johnson	Fitzroy	17 years, 307 days	2^[53]	59	67	The last former Fitzroy player to retire.
Jarrod Molloy	Fitzroy	17 years, 325 days	2^[54]	59	54	Son of Shane Molloy and uncle of Chloe Molloy.
John Barker	Fitzroy	19 years, 42 days	2^[55]	47	12
Matthew Dent	Fitzroy	22 years, 125 days	9^[56]	47	9
Jeff Hogg	Fitzroy	26 years, 110 days	1^[57]	40	41	Previously played for Richmond.
Trent Cummings	Fitzroy	20 years, 88 days	1^[58]	27	18	Great-grandson of Joe Johnson, son of Percy Cummings and brother of Robert Cummings.
Rowan Warfe	Fitzroy	18 years, 31 days	18^[59]	26	1
Steven Stretch	Fitzroy	30 years, 80 days	1^[60]	25	7	Father of Billy Stretch. Previously played for Melbourne.
Brett Cook	Fitzroy	21 years, 103 days	19^[61]	25	7
David Bain	Fitzroy	27 years, 328 days	1^[62]	12	4	Previously played for Brisbane.
Kieran Sporn	Fitzroy	27 years, 210 days	1^[63]	12	6	Brother of Rachael Sporn. Previously played for Essendon.
Nick Mitchell	Fitzroy	21 years, 123 days	11^[64]	9	2
Nigel Palfreyman	Fitzroy	20 years, 322 days	22^[65]	1	0	Previously played for Brisbane.
Brad Johnson	Footscray	18 years, 5 days	18^[66]	364	558	Club games record holder.
Luke Darcy	Footscray	19 years, 32 days	21^[67]	226	183	Son of David Darcy.
Craig Ellis	Footscray	18 years, 316 days	4^[68]	107	6
Daniel Southern	Footscray	19 years, 84 days	1^[69]	103	28
Jason Watts	Footscray	22 years, 240 days	1^[70]	57	51
Richard Osborne	Footscray	29 years, 312 days	5^[71]	51	98	Brother of Graham Osborne. Previously played for Fitzroy and Sydney.
Kym Koster	Footscray	21 years, 62 days	2^[72]	38	13
Daniel Hargraves	Footscray	18 years, 124 days	10^[73]	38	62
Scott Allen	Footscray	19 years, 55 days	1^[74]	15	8
Robbie West	Footscray	25 years, 34 days	3^[75]	7	1	Father of Connor West. Previously played for West Coast.
Shayne Breuer	Geelong	21 years, 198 days	1^[76]	71	77
Grant Tanner	Geelong	23 years, 301 days	9^[77]	69	28
Aaron Lord	Geelong	18 years, 276 days	5^[78]	57	49
Cain Liddle	Geelong	18 years, 289 days	1^[79]	4	0
Shane Crothers	Geelong	21 years, 35 days	20^[80]	4	0
Cristian O'Brien	Geelong	20 years, 140 days	11^[81]	2	1
Daniel Fletcher	Geelong	19 years, 292 days	11^[82]	1	0	Brother of Simon Fletcher.
Nick Holland	Hawthorn	20 years, 76 days	3^[83]	179	239
Rayden Tallis	Hawthorn	18 years, 303 days	3^[84]	163	27
Tim Hargreaves	Hawthorn	18 years, 329 days	5^[85]	42	57
Shayne Stevenson	Hawthorn	24 years, 101 days	19^[86]	34	30	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Matthew Young	Hawthorn	21 years, 239 days	8^[87]	21	6
Simon Crawshay	Hawthorn	19 years, 213 days	1^[88]	19	2	Brother of Matthew Young.
Paul Barnard	Hawthorn	21 years, 48 days	2^[89]	11	4
Paul Prymke	Melbourne	23 years, 109 days	1^[90]	49	2
Jeff Hilton	Melbourne	21 years, 304 days	1^[91]	43	23	Previously played for St Kilda.
Dean Irving	Melbourne	27 years, 352 days	22^[92]	23	4	Previously played for West Coast.
Brad Campbell	Melbourne	18 years, 229 days	19^[93]	1	0	Son of Des Campbell and brother of Blake Campbell.
David King	North Melbourne	22 years, 26 days	2^[94]	241	145
Mathew Capuano	North Melbourne	18 years, 289 days	13^[95]	82	24
Stuart Anderson	North Melbourne	19 years, 307 days	6^[96]	61	20
Trent Nichols	North Melbourne	24 years, 360 days	2^[97]	33	39	Previously played for Richmond and West Coast.
Warren Campbell	North Melbourne	19 years, 200 days	7^[98]	19	17
John Barnett	North Melbourne	18 years, 300 days	12^[99]	6	4
Gareth John	North Melbourne	22 years, 103 days	6^[100]	1	0	Son of Graeme John. Previously played for Sydney.
Matthew Rogers	Richmond	20 years, 121 days	1^[101]	197	163
Paul Broderick	Richmond	24 years, 82 days	1^[102]	169	90	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Michael Gale	Richmond	27 years, 95 days	1^[103]	91	20	Grandson of Jack Gale, son of Don Gale and brother of Brendon Gale. Previously played for Fitzroy.
Jamie Tape	Richmond	19 years, 355 days	1^[104]	75	4
Mark Merenda	Richmond	18 years, 227 days	12^[105]	75	62
Greg Dear	Richmond	30 years, 343 days	1^[106]	53	9	Brother of Paul Dear. Previously played for Hawthorn.
Mark Neeld	Richmond	24 years, 318 days	7^[107]	26	16	Previously played for Geelong.
Matthew Dundas	Richmond	22 years, 109 days	1^[108]	14	5	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Justin Murphy	Richmond	18 years, 41 days	11^[109]	12	9
Jamie Elliott	Richmond	21 years, 48 days	1^[110]	9	1	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Haydn Robins	Richmond	21 years, 229 days	1^[111]	4	1	Previously played for Melbourne.
Shane Wakelin	St Kilda	19 years, 240 days	3^[112]	94	19	Brother of Darryl Wakelin.
David Sierakowski	St Kilda	19 years, 178 days	14^[113]	93	27	Son of Brian Sierakowski and cousin of Will Sierakowski.
Rod Keogh	St Kilda	23 years, 15 days	3^[114]	60	21	Previously played for Melbourne.
Matthew Lappin	St Kilda	18 years, 114 days	12^[115]	55	26	Cousin of Nigel Lappin.
Kristian Bardsley	St Kilda	21 years, 201 days	2^[116]	53	18	Previously played for North Melbourne.
Wayne Thornborrow	St Kilda	21 years, 132 days	7^[117]	13	10
Doug Bailey	St Kilda	22 years, 110 days	1^[118]	11	2
Michael Frost	St Kilda	23 years, 87 days	1^[119]	11	2	Previously played for Footscray.
David Strooper	St Kilda	26 years, 29 days	1^[120]	6	3	Previously played for Fitzroy and Sydney.
Clinton Shaw	St Kilda	18 years, 51 days	14^[121]	6	0
Adrian Burns	St Kilda	22 years, 247 days	3^[122]	4	1	Previously played for Essendon.
Anthony Harvey	St Kilda	20 years, 354 days	08^[123]	4	1	Grandson of Merv Harvey, great-nephew of Neil Harvey and brother of Robert Harvey.
Alister Carr	St Kilda	21 years, 39 days	12^[124]	4	1
Sam Jones	St Kilda	20 years, 25 days	10^[125]	3	3
Brad Seymour	Sydney Swans	17 years, 328 days	1^[126]	133	12
Daniel McPherson	Sydney Swans	18 years, 349 days	13^[127]	111	36
Peter Filandia	Sydney Swans	23 years, 317 days	1^[128]	70	38	Previously played for Essendon.
Derek Kickett	Sydney Swans	31 years, 199 days	5^[129]	63	73	Previously played for North Melbourne and Essendon.
Wade Chapman	Sydney Swans	18 years, 102 days	4^[130]	51	19
Adam Heuskes	Sydney Swans	18 years, 98 days	14^[131]	49	6
Simon Garlick	Sydney Swans	19 years, 84 days	15^[132]	44	27
Darren Gaspar	Sydney Swans	17 years, 325 days	3^[133]	21	1	Brother of Damien and Travis Gaspar.
Peter Caven	Sydney Swans	23 years, 315 days	7^[134]	18	4	Previously played for Fitzroy.
Mark Hepburn	Sydney Swans	25 years, 224 days	3^[135]	7	3	Previously played for North Melbourne and West Coast.
Dermott Brereton	Sydney Swans	29 years, 275 days	9^[136]	7	7	Previously played for Hawthorn.
Damian Lang	Sydney Swans	18 years, 24 days	1^[137]	5	4
Shayne Smith	Sydney Swans	18 years, 337 days	1^[138]	4	1
Matthew Ahmat	Sydney Swans	19 years, 287 days	1^[139]	2	0	Brother of Robert Ahmat. Previously played for Brisbane.
Paul Symmons	West Coast	20 years, 296 days	14^[140]	99	36
Shane Bond	West Coast	18 years, 260 days	1^[141]	34	20	Brother of Troy Bond.
Brett Spinks	West Coast	20 years, 139 days	1^[142]	21	14

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