Toby Pink
Australian rules footballer
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Toby Pink (born 11 August 1998) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
- Glenelg
- Tantanoola
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Pink with North Melbourne's VFL side in April 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Born | 11 August 1998 | ||
| Original teams |
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| Draft | No. 54, 2017 rookie draft | ||
| Debut | 16 March 2024, North Melbourne vs. Greater Western Sydney, at Sydney Showground Stadium | ||
| Height | 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Weight | 94 kg (207 lb) | ||
| Position | Key defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | North Melbourne | ||
| Number | 32 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2017–2019 | Sydney | 0 (0) | |
| 2024– | North Melbourne | 32 (7) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2025 season. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
From Tantanoola, South Australia, Pink played his under-18s football for the Glenelg Football Club while boarding at Rostrevor College in Adelaide.[1] While there, he kicked the winning behind in Glenelg's one-point win against North Adelaide in the 2016 under-18s grand final; having marked just before the final siren, Pink took an after the siren 60m set shot into the wind, which fell short but bounced through for a behind, somehow eluding the eleven North Adelaide defenders who were standing in the goal square.[2] In previous years he played for his local community club Tantanoola Tigers and attended Millicent High School.[3]
Pink was drafted by Sydney with the last pick of the 2017 rookie draft.[4] He spent three seasons on the Sydney list, missing most of the 2018 season with a broken ankle,[5] but was ultimately delisted at the end of 2019 without playing a senior game.[6] Pink signed with the North Melbourne reserves in the 2020 season, never playing a game there because the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He then returned to play senior football with Glenelg.[7]
Having played mostly as a forward and ruckman through the early part of his career, Pink switched to the backline at Glenelg, and in 2023 he was named full back in the SANFL Team of the Year – as well as being part of the club's premiership team. This performance saw him return to the AFL, signed by North Melbourne as a delisted free agent in October 2023.[8] He made his senior AFL debut at age 25 in round 2, 2024.[9] He played 15 senior games in 2024, triggering a one-year contract extension.[10]
Statistics
Updated to the end of the 2025 season.[11]
G |
Goals | K |
Kicks | D |
Disposals | T |
Tackles |
B |
Behinds | H |
Handballs | M |
Marks | H/O |
Hit-outs |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||||
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| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | H/O | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | H/O | |||||
| 2017 | Sydney | 47[citation needed] | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| 2018 | Sydney | 47[citation needed] | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| 2019 | Sydney | 47[citation needed] | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| 2024 | North Melbourne | 32 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 57 | 47 | 104 | 38 | 17 | 9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 6.9 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 2025 | North Melbourne | 32 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 56 | 180 | 88 | 22 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 3.3 | 10.6 | 5.2 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Career | 32 | 7 | 6 | 181 | 103 | 284 | 126 | 39 | 9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 5.7 | 3.2 | 8.9 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0 | ||
