Will Brodie

Fullname Will Brodie

Nickname Wiz

Born 23 August 1998 (age 27)

Original team Murray Bushrangers (TAC Cup)/Shepparton Football Club

Will Brodie
Brodie playing for Gold Coast in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Will Brodie
Nickname	Wiz
Born	(1998-08-23) 23 August 1998 (age 27)
Original team	Murray Bushrangers (TAC Cup)/Shepparton Football Club
Draft	No. 9, 2016 national draft
Debut	Round 10, 2017, Gold Coast vs. Melbourne, at TIO Traeger Park
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	88 kg (194 lb)
Position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Port Adelaide
Number	23
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2017–2021	Gold Coast	25 (3)
2022–2025	Fremantle	29 (7)
2026–	Port Adelaide	1 (0)
Total		55 (10)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of round 7, 2026.
Career highlights
WAFL premiership player: 2024
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Will Brodie (born 23 August 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Brodie previously played for the Gold Coast Suns and Fremantle.

He grew up in Shepparton before accepting a scholarship to attend Scotch College in Melbourne.^[1] He was drafted by Gold Coast with their third selection and ninth overall in the 2016 national draft.^[2]

AFL career

Gold Coast: (2017–2021)

He made his debut in the thirty-five point loss against Melbourne at TIO Traeger Park in round ten of the 2017 season.^[3]

Brodie started to find some consistency with his football early in the 2019 AFL season, however, a hamstring injury caused him to miss the remainder of the year. Brodie played the first round of the 2020 AFL season, but the COVID-19 related shutdown of the competition saw him out of the side and unable to break back in that season.^[4]

Brodie played five games for Gold Coast in 2021. Following the 2021 AFL season, Brodie was traded to Fremantle.^[5]

Fremantle: (2022–2025)

Brodie made his debut for Fremantle during their one-point win over Adelaide at Adelaide Oval in Round 1 of the 2022 AFL season.^[6] Brodie played every game in 2022, a career-best, and was an important part of Fremantle's midfield that season.^[7] He finished eleventh in the league for total disposals with 607,^[8] and ninth for clearances.^[9]

Brodie only played five AFL games for Fremantle in 2023, being omitted after Round 2.^[10] In his first WAFL game, he racked up 37 disposals for Peel Thunder in their 4-point win over East Fremantle.^[11] Brodie returned to Fremantle's line-up in Round 5 against Gold Coast, starting as the substitute and replacing Sam Switkowski in the second quarter.^[12] He was omitted for Round 8, and played no more AFL games in 2023.

Despite being named in Fremantle's extended squad several times throughout the 2024 and 2025 AFL seasons,^[13]^[14] Brodie failed to make a senior appearance and spent the entirety of the two years playing for Peel Thunder, including in their 2024 Premiership win.^[15]

At the end of the 2025 AFL season, Brodie requested a trade to Port Adelaide to reunite with Josh Carr, who was Fremantle's midfield coach in 2022, Brodie's best season.^[16]^[17] He was traded to the Power for pick 103, a sixth-round draft pick.^[18]

Port Adelaide: (2026–present)

After going unselected in rounds 1 & 2, Brodie played his first game for Port in Round 3 of the 2026 AFL season against West Coast at Adelaide Oval.^[15]

WAFL statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of 2025.^[19]

**Legend**
G	Goals	K	Kicks	D	Disposals	T	Tackles
B	Behinds	H	Handballs	M	Marks


Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals							Averages (per game)
Season	Team	No.	Games	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
2023	Peel Thunder	17	13	1	4	130	227	357	30	70	0.1	0.3	10.0	17.5	27.5	2.3	5.4
2024	Peel Thunder	19	19	5	6	181	342	523	54	65	0.3	0.3	9.5	18.0	27.5	2.8	3.4
2025	Peel Thunder	17	13	5	2	112	218	330	24	58	0.3	0.0	8.7	18.1	25.4	2.3	4.4
Career			45	11	12	423	787	1210	108	193	0.2	0.3	9.5	17.8	26.9	2.6	4.3

Notes

Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals							Averages (per game)							Votes
Season	Team	No.	Games	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	Votes
2017	Gold Coast	41	3	0	1	20	21	41	7	18	0.0	0.3	6.7	7.0	13.7	2.3	6.0	0
2018	Gold Coast	41	8	1	1	62	89	151	18	34	0.1	0.1	7.8	11.1	18.9	2.3	4.3	0
2019	Gold Coast	7	8	2	1	77	97	174	34	44	0.3	0.1	9.6	12.1	21.8	4.3	5.5	0
2020^[a]	Gold Coast	7	1	0	0	4	10	14	3	1	0.0	0.0	4.0	10.0	14.0	3.0	1.0	0
2021	Gold Coast	7	5	0	1	25	39	64	7	8	0.0	0.2	5.0	7.8	12.8	1.4	1.6	0
2022	Fremantle	17	24	6	7	273	370	643	63	127	0.3	0.3	11.4	15.4	26.8	2.6	5.3	11
2023	Fremantle	17	5	1	1	37	66	103	5	19	0.2	0.2	7.4	13.2	20.6	1.0	3.8	0
2024	Fremantle	17^{[citation needed]}	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
2025	Fremantle	17^[21]	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
2026	Port Adelaide	23	1	0	0	4	14	18	2	3	0.0	0.0	4.0	14.0	18.0	2.0	3.0
Career			55	10	12	502	706	1208	139	254	0.2	0.2	9.1	12.8	22.0	2.5	4.6	11

v t e Port Adelaide Football Club · AFL squad
Coach: Carr
1. Rozee (c) 2. Powell-Pepper 3. Mead 4. Marshall 5. Berry 6. Farrell 7. Burgoyne 8. Sinn 9. Butters (vc) 11. Moraes 12. Lukosius 13. Soldo 14. Bergman 15. Wehr 16. Wines 17. Whitlock 18. Horne-Francis 19. Georgiades 21. Aliir 22. Evans 23. Brodie 24. Sweet 25. Zerk-Thatcher 26. Cochrane 27. Ratugolea 28. Drew 29. Anastasopoulos 30. Lord 31. Mackinlay* 32. Ramm 33. Byrne-Jones 34. Jones 35. Richards 36. Lorenz 37. Watkins 38. Visentini 40. Barrett* 42. Moss* 43. Lai 44. Durdin 45. Walsh* 50. Liddy*
* denotes rookie-listed players; italics denote inactive players

v t e 2016 AFL national draft
First round	1. Andrew McGrath 2. Tim Taranto 3. Hugh McCluggage 4. Ben Ainsworth 5. Will Setterfield (academy selection) 6. Sam Petrevski-Seton 7. Jack Scrimshaw 8. Griffin Logue 9. Will Brodie 10. Jack Bowes (academy selection) 11. Oliver Florent 12. Jy Simpkin 13. Daniel Venables 14. Harry Perryman (academy selection) 15. Jordan Gallucci 16. Todd Marshall 17. Jarrod Berry 18. Sam Powell-Pepper 19. Tim English 20. Isaac Cumming (academy selection) 21. Will Hayward (PP)
Second round	22. Jordan Ridley 23. Alex Witherden 24. Cedric Cox 25. Ben Long 26. Brandan Parfitt 27. Zac Fisher 28. Patrick Lipinski 29. Shai Bolton 30. Sam McLarty 31. Josh Begley 32. Joe Atley 33. Willem Drew 34. Declan Watson 35. Callum Brown (F/S) 36. Josh Williams 37. Josh Rotham 38. Sean Darcy 39. Josh Battle 40. Tom Stewart 41. Brennan Cox
Third round	42. Kobe Mutch 43. Esava Ratugolea 44. Myles Poholke 45. Jack Maibaum 46. Mitch Hannan 47. Harrison Macreadie 48. Darcy Cameron 49. Lewis Young 50. Kayle Kirby 51. Elliott Himmelberg 52. Willie Rioli 53. Jack Graham
Fourth round	54. Lachlan Tiziani (academy selection) 55. Jacob Allison (academy selection) 56. Ed Phillips 57. Josh Daicos (F/S) 58. Matt de Boer 59. Cameron Polson 60. Quinton Narkle 61. Tom Williamson 62. Matthew Signorello 63. Dylan Clarke 64. Dion Johnstone 65. Pat Kerr 66. Luke Ryan 67. Brad Scheer (academy selection) 68. Timm House 69. Ryan Abbott 70. Fergus Greene
Fifth round	71. Corey Lyons 72. Ryan Garthwaite 73. Nick Larkey 74. Harry Morrison 75. Ben Davis 76. Mitchell Lewis
Sixth round	77. Jake Waterman (F/S)

v t e Peel Thunder Football Club 2024 WAFL premiers
Peel Thunder 14.8 (92) defeated East Perth 8.11 (59) at Perth Stadium
3. Hewitt 4. Grey 5. Sellwood 6. Davies 7. Wilson 8. Reidy 9. Bell 11. O'Driscoll 12. Hancock (c) 14. Allan 15. Simpson 17. Brodie 19. Erasmus 23. Tregenza 24. Worner 25. Taberner 27. Sears 29. Wyburd 32. Emmett 33. Tuia 34. Voss 40. Hughes
Coach: Read

AFL career

Gold Coast: (2017–2021)

Fremantle: (2022–2025)

Port Adelaide: (2026–present)

WAFL statistics

Statistics

References

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