List of VFL debuts in 1982

The 1982 Victorian Football League (VFL) season was the 86th season of the VFL. The season saw 91 Australian rules footballers make their senior VFL debut and a further 26 players transfer to new clubs having previously played in the VFL.

Club	VFL debuts	Change of club
Carlton	4	2
Collingwood	10	3
Essendon	6	2
Fitzroy	7	2
Footscray	13	1
Geelong	9	1
Hawthorn	4	2
Melbourne	11	3
North Melbourne	7	1
Richmond	4	5
St Kilda	13	1
Sydney	3	3
Total	91	26

Name	Club	Age at debut	Round debuted	Games	Goals	Notes
Paul Meldrum	Carlton	21 years, 293 days	15^[1]	158	140
Allan Montgomery	Carlton	23 years, 206 days	1^[2]	33	6
Ross Ditchburn	Carlton	25 years, 58 days	8^[3]	28	91
Mark Buckley	Carlton	19 years, 340 days	18^[4]	27	35	Son of Brian Buckley and brother of Stephen Buckley.
David Clarke	Carlton	29 years, 114 days	5^[5]	9	21	Father of David, Tim and Georgina Clarke. Previously played for Geelong.
Stephen Easton	Carlton	22 years, 290 days	10^[6]	1	0	Son of Kevin Easton. Previously played for North Melbourne.
Geoff Miles	Collingwood	20 years, 90 days	3^[7]	31	7	Father of Teia Miles and father-in-law of Mitch Duncan.
Chris Dalkin	Collingwood	20 years, 45 days	4^[8]	18	12
Wally Lovett	Collingwood	20 years, 109 days	2^[9]	15	11
Graham Teasdale	Collingwood	26 years, 274 days	1^[10]	14	21	1977 Brownlow Medallist. Previously played for Richmond and South Melbourne.
Tom Floyd	Collingwood	21 years, 255 days	13^[11]	14	8	Previously played for Geelong.
Neil Peart	Collingwood	23 years, 173 days	1^[12]	13	0
Mark Lawson	Collingwood	20 years, 54 days	17^[13]	11	0
Tony Russell	Collingwood	21 years, 192 days	17^[14]	8	17
Paul Ryan	Collingwood	20 years, 22 days	12^[15]	6	1
Tony Beers	Collingwood	19 years, 182 days	7^[16]	5	1	Son of Brian Beers and brother of Mark Beers.
Tony Keenan	Collingwood	18 years, 79 days	17^[17]	3	0
Gordon Towan	Collingwood	28 years, 59 days	9^[18]	2	0
Peter Carter	Collingwood	23 years, 23 days	9^[19]	1	1	Previously played for South Melbourne.
Billy Duckworth	Essendon	23 years, 34 days	1^[20]	126	64	Brother of John Duckworth.
Stephen Copping	Essendon	25 years, 236 days	1^[21]	42	88
Wayne Otway	Essendon	25 years, 276 days	1^[22]	36	65
Chris Waterson	Essendon	21 years, 99 days	15^[23]	31	11
Tony West	Essendon	25 years, 218 days	4^[24]	8	8
Roy Ramsay	Essendon	26 years, 146 days	10^[25]	3	0	Previously played for North Melbourne.
Brian Brown	Essendon	24 years, 300 days	17^[26]	2	0	Father of Jonathan Brown. Previously played for Fitzroy.
Anton Grbac	Essendon	21 years, 210 days	20^[27]	2	0
Paul Roos	Fitzroy	18 years, 295 days	4^[28]	269	270
Richard Osborne	Fitzroy	18 years, 17 days	15^[29]	187	411	Brother of Graham Osborne.
Gary Pert	Fitzroy	16 years, 325 days	4^[30]	163	42	Son of Brian Pert.
Bradley Gotch	Fitzroy	19 years, 277 days	1^[31]	43	60	Father of Seb Gotch.
Garry Sidebottom	Fitzroy	27 years, 238 days	16^[32]	43	53	Brother of Allan Sidebottom. Previously played for St Kilda and Geelong.
Michael Coates	Fitzroy	21 years, 80 days	1^[33]	29	5	Son of George Coates.
Jan Smith	Fitzroy	25 years, 354 days	8^[34]	7	1	Previously played for Geelong.
Mark Eaves	Fitzroy	20 years, 351 days	8^[35]	2	0
Andrew Merryweather	Fitzroy	21 years, 117 days	1^[36]	1	0	Also known as Andrew Guthrie. Father of Cameron and Zach Guthrie.
Stephen MacPherson	Footscray	17 years, 115 days	1^[37]	188	152	Brother of Rod MacPherson and father of Darcy MacPherson.
Simon Beasley	Footscray	25 years, 234 days	1^[38]	154	575
Rod MacPherson	Footscray	18 years, 285 days	15^[39]	43	24	Brother of Stephen MacPherson and uncle of Darcy MacPherson.
Terry Love	Footscray	18 years, 143 days	1^[40]	13	11
Gary Walpole	Footscray	18 years, 170 days	4^[41]	12	5
Ian Rickman	Footscray	19 years, 108 days	16^[42]	11	10
Ross Christensen	Footscray	20 years, 128 days	12^[43]	10	16
Allan Jennings	Footscray	23 years, 4 days	1^[44]	9	15
Steven Hargrave	Footscray	27 years, 295 days	4^[45]	2	0	Father of Ryan Hargrave.
Lindsay Sneddon	Footscray	20 years, 141 days	13^[46]	2	1
Jamie Barham	Footscray	21 years, 214 days	15^[47]	1	0	Brother of Ricky Barham and uncle of Jaxson Barham. Previously played for Melbourne.
Darren Brown	Footscray	17 years, 56 days	15^[48]	1	0
Darren Grant	Footscray	19 years, 97 days	18^[49]	1	0
Bruce West	Footscray	19 years, 265 days	19^[50]	1	0
Andrew Bews	Geelong	17 years, 222 days	4^[51]	207	132	Father of Jed Bews.
Tim Darcy	Geelong	18 years, 204 days	9^[52]	176	83
Damian Drum	Geelong	21 years, 284 days	7^[53]	63	34	Uncle of Marcus Drum.
David O'Keeffe	Geelong	20 years, 70 days	6^[54]	58	22
Craig Cleave	Geelong	19 years, 73 days	17^[55]	48	12
Rod Waddell	Geelong	25 years, 13 days	11^[56]	20	10	Uncle of Daniel, Shannon and Steven Motlop. Previously played for Carlton.
Peter Zychla	Geelong	18 years, 279 days	5^[57]	12	1
Stephen Nichols	Geelong	18 years, 331 days	8^[58]	7	6
Phillip Maddock	Geelong	20 years, 185 days	3^[59]	3	1
Karl Fedke	Geelong	20 years, 24 days	21^[60]	2	0
Dermott Brereton	Hawthorn	18 years, 23 days	SF^[61]	189	427
Gary Buckenara	Hawthorn	23 years, 267 days	1^[62]	154	293
Richard Loveridge	Hawthorn	19 years, 71 days	1^[63]	136	119
Michael Byrne	Hawthorn	23 years, 131 days	3^[64]	90	97	Previously played for Melbourne.
Gary Ablett	Hawthorn	20 years, 184 days	2^[65]	6	10	Brother of Geoff and Kevin Ablett, brother-in-law of Michael Tuck, father of Gary Jr. and Nathan Ablett, and uncle of Luke Ablett and Shane and Travis Tuck.
Robert Dutton	Hawthorn	19 years, 71 days	14^[66]	1	1	Previously played for Carlton.
Brian Wilson	Melbourne	20 years, 179 days	1^[67]	154	208	1982 Brownlow Medallist. Previously played for Footscray and North Melbourne.
Alan Johnson	Melbourne	25 years, 128 days	1^[68]	135	95	First player to be drafted in VFL/AFL Draft history. Father of Chris Johnson.
Adrian Battiston	Melbourne	18 years, 193 days	1^[69]	96	75
Alan Jarrott	Melbourne	25 years, 223 days	1^[70]	91	26	Previously played for North Melbourne.
Chris Connolly	Melbourne	19 years, 86 days	13^[71]	84	38
Steven Icke	Melbourne	26 years, 21 days	1^[72]	78	17	Previously played for North Melbourne.
Dale Dickson	Melbourne	19 years, 288 days	4^[73]	56	20
David Cordner	Melbourne	19 years, 307 days	1^[74]	53	61	Grandson of Edward Cordner, son of Ted Cordner and nephew of Denis, Don and John Cordner.
Michael O'Sullivan	Melbourne	19 years, 357 days	1^[75]	53	11
Ted Fidge	Melbourne	19 years, 12 days	1^[76]	42	61	Brother of John Fidge.
Peter Tossol	Melbourne	19 years, 161 days	6^[77]	17	20	Brother of John Tossol.
Stephen McCarthy	Melbourne	19 years, 355 days	6^[78]	12	9
Stuart McKenzie	Melbourne	21 years, 84 days	6^[79]	9	0
Scott Sutcliffe	Melbourne	19 years, 178 days	19^[80]	7	2
Donald McDonald	North Melbourne	19 years, 363 days	19^[81]	155	165	Father of Luke McDonald
Phil Krakouer	North Melbourne	22 years, 71 days	1^[82]	141	224	Brother of Andrew and Jim Krakouer and uncle of Andrew and Nathan Krakouer.
Jim Krakouer	North Melbourne	23 years, 165 days	1^[83]	134	229	Brother of Andrew and Phil Krakouer, father of Andrew Krakouer and uncle of Nathan Krakouer.
Graeme Atkins	North Melbourne	18 years, 162 days	3^[84]	61	39
Bruce Abernethy	North Melbourne	19 years, 321 days	1^[85]	43	21
Craig Holden	North Melbourne	24 years, 225 days	1^[86]	29	2
Phil Carman	North Melbourne	31 years, 232 days	5^[87]	13	27	Previously played for Collingwood, Essendon and Melbourne.
Brad Nimmo	North Melbourne	23 years, 171 days	17^[88]	13	0
Phil Egan	Richmond	19 years, 39 days	2^[89]	125	117
Maurice Rioli	Richmond	24 years, 200 days	2^[90]	118	80
Andy Preston	Richmond	24 years, 300 days	12^[91]	18	6	Previously played for Geelong.
Ian Sartori	Richmond	23 years, 212 days	16^[92]	18	7	Previously played for St Kilda.
Wayne Shand	Richmond	21 years, 104 days	6^[93]	12	1
Stephen Pirrie	Richmond	21 years, 88 days	13^[94]	11	0	Grandson of Richard Pirrie, son of Kevin Pirrie and nephew of Dick Pirrie.
Darryl Sutton	Richmond	29 years, 259 days	3^[95]	6	0	Previously played for North Melbourne.
Ross Brewer	Richmond	28 years, 274 days	8^[96]	6	8	Brother of Ian Brewer. Previously played for Melbourne and Collingwood.
Noel Mugavin	Richmond	25 years, 265 days	2^[97]	2	3	Uncle of Jonathan Brown. Previously played for Fitzroy.
Peter Kiel	St Kilda	23 years, 176 days	1^[98]	80	29
Robert Mace	St Kilda	23 years, 269 days	7^[99]	72	32	Previously played for Hawthorn.
Darryl Cowie	St Kilda	21 years, 26 days	3^[100]	56	8
Glen Brown	St Kilda	20 years, 160 days	12^[101]	31	25
John Favier	St Kilda	21 years, 254 days	2^[102]	26	1
Simon O'Donnell	St Kilda	19 years, 60 days	1^[103]	24	18	Represented Australia in cricket.
Greg Packham	St Kilda	23 years, 26 days	1^[104]	17	31
Paul Armstrong	St Kilda	25 years, 83 days	2^[105]	12	1
Wayne Slattery	St Kilda	21 years, 156 days	2^[106]	11	12	Father of Tyson Slattery.
Steven Allan	St Kilda	25 years, 221 days	6^[107]	9	2
Allan Hassell	St Kilda	24 years, 32 days	6^[108]	6	0
Neil Park	St Kilda	20 years, 22 days	20^[109]	3	5
Geoff Linke	St Kilda	26 years, 133 days	2^[110]	2	3
Malcolm Smith	St Kilda	23 years, 95 days	22^[111]	1	0	Father of Nick Smith.
Craig Braddy	Sydney Swans	28 years, 24 days	7^[112]	56	83	Brother of Shane Braddy. Previously played for Fitzroy.
Steven Taubert	Sydney Swans	28 years, 242 days	11^[113]	44	26	Previously played for Richmond and Essendon.
Jack Lucas	Sydney Swans	21 years, 73 days	13^[114]	19	6
John Reid	Sydney Swans	29 years, 142 days	16^[115]	10	2	Previously played for Melbourne and Footscray.
Gerard Neesham	Sydney Swans	27 years, 148 days	7^[116]	9	1
Trevor Mustey	Sydney Swans	18 years, 249 days	11^[117]	2	0

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