2002 AFL Draft

The 2002 AFL Draft consisted of a pre-season draft, a national draft, a trade period and the elevation of rookies. The AFL Draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.

In 2002 there were 88 picks to be drafted between 16 teams in the national draft.

The Carlton Football Club was stripped of its first and priority-round draft picks after gross breaches of the salary cap were uncovered (it would have been stripped of its second round pick also, but had already traded it for Barnaby French). The first pick therefore went to the St. Kilda Football Club, who finished second last during the 2002 AFL season.

Trades

Player	Original Club	Australian Football League clubs	Traded For
Damien Adkins	Collingwood	West Coast Eagles	Andrew Williams
Justin Blumfield	Essendon	Richmond	Draft pick #28
Barry Brooks	Port Adelaide	St. Kilda	Draft pick #6 & #31
Leigh Brown	Fremantle	Kangaroos	Draft pick #13
Ronnie Burns	Geelong	Adelaide Crows	Ben Finnin
Blake Caracella	Essendon	Brisbane Lions	Damian Cupido and draft pick #15
Wayne Carey	Kangaroos	Adelaide Crows	Draft picks #2 and #18
Daniel Chick	Hawthorn	West Coast Eagles	Draft pick #8
Stuart Cochrane	Kangaroos	Port Adelaide	Michael Stevens
Damien Cupido	Brisbane Lions	Essendon	Blake Caracella
Nick Davis	Collingwood	Sydney Swans	Draft pick #21
Peter Everitt	St. Kilda	Hawthorn	Draft picks #6 and #22
Ben Finnin	Adelaide Crows	Geelong	Ronnie Burns
Barnaby French	Port Adelaide	Carlton	Draft pick #16
Des Headland	Brisbane Lions	Fremantle	Draft picks #3 and #19
Chris Heffernan and pick #17	Essendon	Melbourne	Draft pick #12
Kingsley Hunter	Western Bulldogs	Hawthorn	Draft pick #35
Kane Johnson	Adelaide Crows	Richmond	Jason Torney, draft picks #2, #18 and #32
Adam McPhee	Fremantle	Essendon	Draft pick #55
Luke Penny	Western Bulldogs	St. Kilda	Draft pick #17
Byron Pickett	Kangaroos	Port Adelaide	Draft pick #13 and #31
Michael Stevens	Port Adelaide	Kangaroos	Stuart Cochrane
Jason Torney	Richmond	Adelaide Crows	Kane Johnson and draft picks #12, #28 and #41
Andrew Williams	West Coast Eagles	Collingwood	Damien Adkins
Shane Woewodin	Melbourne	Collingwood	Draft pick #14

National Draft

Round	Pick	Player	Recruited from	Australian Football League clubs
1	1	Brendan Goddard	Gippsland U18	St. Kilda
1	2	Daniel Wells	Peel Thunder Football Club	Kangaroos
1	3	Jared Brennan	Southern Districts Football Club	Brisbane Lions
1	4	Tim Walsh	Northern U18	Western Bulldogs
1	5	Jarrad McVeigh	NSW-ACT U18	Sydney Swans
1	6	Steven Salopek	Dandenong U18	Port Adelaide
1	7	Andrew Mackie	Glenelg Football Club	Geelong
1	8	Luke Brennan	Northern Ballarat Football Club	Hawthorn
1	9	Hamish McIntosh	Murray U18	Kangaroos
1	10	Jason Laycock	Tasmania U18	Essendon
1	11	Jason Winderlich	Gippsland U18	Essendon
1	12	Jay Schulz	Woodville-West Torrens Football Club	Richmond
1	13	Byron Schammer	West Adelaide Football Club	Fremantle
1	14	Daniel Bell	Glenelg Football Club	Melbourne
1	15	Nicholas Smith	Norwood Football Club	Melbourne
1	16	Stephen Gilham	Oakleigh U18	Port Adelaide
1	17	Cameron Faulkner	Central Districts Football Club	Western Bulldogs
1	18	Kris Shore	Eastern U18	Kangaroos
1	19	Troy Selwood	Bendigo U18	Brisbane Lions
1	20	Will Minson	Norwood Football Club	Western Bulldogs
1	21	Bo Nixon	Calder Cannons	Collingwood
2	22	Matthew Ferguson	Gippsland U18	St. Kilda
2	23	Tom Lonergan	Calder Cannons	Geelong
2	24	Paul Johnson	Dandenong U18	West Coast Eagles
2	25	Callum Urch	Western U18	Kangaroos
2	26	Jared Rivers	North Adelaide Football Club	Melbourne
2	27	Darren Walsh	Sandringham U18	Essendon
2	28	Tristan Cartledge	North Ballarat U18	Essendon
2	29	Luke Shackleton	Tasmania U18	Collingwood
2	30	Daniel Merrett	Southport Football Club	Brisbane Lions
2	31	Joel Perry	Eastern U18	Kangaroos
2	32	Luke Jericho	West Adelaide Football Club	Adelaide Crows
2	33	Brad Murphy	Clader Cannons	Western Bulldogs
2 F/S	34	Sean Dempster	Calder Cannons	Sydney Swans
2	35	Scott Bassett	Port Adelaide Magpies	Western Bulldogs
2 F/S	36	Tim Callan	Geelong U18	Geelong
2	37	Brent Staker	NSW-ACT U18	West Coast Eagles
2	38	Blake Grima	Eastern U18	Kangaroos
2	39	Gary Moorcroft	Essendon	Melbourne
2 F/S	40	Jobe Watson	Sndringham U18	Essendon
2	41	Tim Fleming	Carlton	Richmond
2 F/S	42	Brett Ebert	Port Adelaide Magpies	Port Adelaide
2	43	Cameron Cloke	Eastern U18	Collingwood
2	44	Anthony Corrie	Nightcliff Football Club	Brisbane Lions
3	45	Kade Simpson	Eastern U18	Carlton
3	46	Leigh Fisher	Sandringham U18	St. Kilda
3	47	Bill Nicholls	Hawthorn	Richmond
3	48	Greg Edgcumbe	Eastern U18	Fremantle
3	49	Cameron Wight	Calder Cannons	Western Bulldogs
3	50	Josh Thewlis	Bendigo Bombers	Sydney Swans
3	51	Tim Boyle	Geelong U18	Hawthorn
3	52	Pass		Geelong
3	53	Adam Selwood	Bendigo Bombers	West Coast Eagles
3	54	Cameron Hunter	Calder Cannons	Melbourne
3	55	Ryan Crowley	Calder Cannons	Fremantle
3	56	Robert Shirley	Adelaide Crows	Adelaide Crows
3	57	Wade Champion	West Adelaide Football Club	Port Adelaide
3	58	David King	Glenelg Football Club	Collingwood
3	59	Pass		Brisbane Lions
4	60	Cameron Croad	Oakleigh U18	Carlton
4	61	Pass		St. Kilda
4	62	Daniel Sipthorp	Calder Cannons	Richmond
4	63	Brett Doswell	NSW-ACT U18	Fremantle
4	64	Nick Malceski	Eastern U18	Sydney Swans
4	65	Lochlan Veale	Geelong U18	Hawthorn
4	66	Ryan Ferguson	Frankston Football Club	Melbourne
4	67	Steven Alessio	Essendon	Essendon
4	68	James Begley	St. Kilda	Adelaide Crows
4	69	Pass		Port Adelaide
4	70	Matthew Lokan	Port Adelaide Magpies	Collingwood
4	71	Pass		Brisbane Lions
5	72	Brad Fisher	Eastern U18	Carlton
5	73	Pass		St. Kilda
5	74	Pass		Richmond
5	75	Pass		Fremantle
5	76	Pass		Sydney Swans
5	77	Pass		Adelaide Crows
5	78	Pass		Brisbane Lions
6	79	Karl Norman	Wangaratta Rovers	Carlton
6	80	Pass		St. Kilda
6	81	Pass		Richmond
6	82	Pass		Fremantle
6	83	Pass		Sydney Swans
7	84	Mick Martyn	Kangaroos	Carlton
7	85	Pass		St. Kilda
7	86	Pass		Richmond
7	87	Pass		Fremantle
8	88	Pass		St. Kilda

Pre-season draft

Pick	Player	Recruited from	Australian Football League clubs
1	Stephen Powell	Melbourne	St. Kilda
2	Pass		Richmond
3	Craig Bolton	Brisbane Lions	Sydney Swans
4	Brent Moloney	Geelong U18	Geelong
5	Guy Rigoni	Melbourne	Melbourne
6	Pass		Adelaide Crows
7	Luke Mullins	Murray Bushrangers	Collingwood

Rookie Elevation

This list details 2002-listed rookies who were elevated to the senior list; it does not list players taken as rookies in the rookie draft which occurred during the 2002/03 off-season.

Player	Recruited from	Australian Football League clubs
John Baird	Box Hill Football Club	Kangaroos
Nathan Bock	Woodville-West Torrens Football Club	Adelaide Crows
Paul Chambers	Western U18	Geelong
Roger Hayden	South Fremantle Football Club	Fremantle
Mark Jamar	North Adelaide Football Club	Melbourne
Quinten Lynch	West Perth Football Club	West Coast Eagles
Adam Matthews	Murray Bushrangers	Carlton
Martin Mattner	Sturt Football Club	Adelaide Crows
Digby Morrell	West Perth Football Club	Kangaroos
Jarad Rooke	Casterton Football Club	Geelong
Ben Rutten	West Adelaide Football Club	Adelaide Crows
Aaron Sandilands	East Fremantle Football Club	Fremantle
Andrew Siegert	Geelong U18	Fremantle
Bret Thornton	Oakleigh U18	Carlton

See also

• AFL for more AFL information
• Official AFL Draft page