{"id":346766,"date":"2025-12-14T04:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346766\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T04:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:30:18","slug":"where-more-than-60-recently-departed-afl-players-will-play-in-2026-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346766\/","title":{"rendered":"Where more than 60 recently departed AFL players will play in 2026 – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

More than 60 of the AFL’s retired or delisted talent from the 2025 season have locked in their colours for next year, whether that be at the local level, in the state leagues, or back in the AFL<\/a> after securing another chance.<\/p>\n

Grassroots competitions lead the way, with local clubs having swooped on 17 names straight out of the top flight.<\/p>\n

SANFL sides have also been busy, with almost a dozen delisted AFL<\/a> players landing in the South Australian competition.<\/p>\n

The VFL has managed 14 recruits, with the newly arrived Tasmania Devils<\/a> responsible for four of those, while the WAFL has made moves, adding 10 players from the AFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Six delisted players have secured lifelines with another AFL<\/a> club, while the Supplemental Selection Period could see more added to that tally.<\/p>\n

Here’s where recently delisted or retired AFL<\/a> players will be pulling on the boots in 2026.<\/p>\n

AFL<\/p>\n

Jayden Laverde<\/a> (GWS)
Finlay Macrae<\/a> (West Coast)
Deven Robertson<\/a> (West Coast)
Callum Ah Chee<\/a> (Adelaide)
Harry Schoenberg<\/a> (West Coast)
Mason Cox<\/a> (Fremantle)
Elijah Hollands<\/a> (Carlton*)
Will White<\/a> (Carlton*)<\/p>\n

*Supplemental Selection Period train-ons<\/p>\n

VFL<\/p>\n

Jye Menzie<\/a> (Tasmania)
Lachlan Charleson<\/a> (Werribee)
Robbie Fox<\/a> (Tasmania)
Caleb Mitchell<\/a> (Tasmania)
Jaxon Binns<\/a> (Essendon)
Geordie Payne<\/a> (Tasmania)
Oliver Sestan<\/a> (Port Melbourne)
Kallan Dawson<\/a> (Williamstown)
Sam Day<\/a> (Southport)
Tom Fullarton<\/a> (Williamstown)
Kynan Brown<\/a> (Sandringham)
Thomson Dow<\/a> (North Melbourne)
Jack Billings<\/a> (Footscray)
Xavier Ivisic<\/a> (Werribee)<\/p>\n

SANFL<\/p>\n

Jack Delean<\/a> (South Adelaide)
Harry Boyd<\/a> (Norwood)
Loch Rawlinson<\/a> (Sturt)
Harry Lemmey<\/a> (West Adelaide)
Josh Fahey<\/a> (Central District)
Will Verrall<\/a> (South Adelaide)
Jed McEntee<\/a> (Sturt)
Aaron Francis<\/a> (Norwood)
Ted Clohesy<\/a> (Woodville-West Torrens)
Kieran Strachan<\/a> (Adelaide)
Arie Schoenmaker<\/a> (South Adelaide)<\/p>\n

WAFL<\/p>\n

Darcy Craven<\/a> (East Perth)
Oskar Smartt<\/a> (East Fremantle)
Odin Jones<\/a> (West Perth)
Indhi Kirk<\/a> (Perth)
Jack Petruccelle<\/a> (Subiaco)
Jacob Blight<\/a> (Subiaco)
Ashley Johnson<\/a> (West Coast)
Callum Jamieson<\/a> (West Coast)
Charlie Dean<\/a> (Perth)
Coen Livingstone<\/a> (West Perth)<\/p>\n

Local<\/p>\n

Quinton Narkle<\/a> (Broadford)
Travis Boak<\/a> (Torquay)
Ben Paton<\/a> (Albury)
Blake Leidler<\/a> (Surrey Park)
Will Hoskin-Elliott<\/a> (Yarravile Seddon)
Dylan Williams<\/a> (Surrey Park)
Jeremy Finlayson<\/a> (Myponga-Sellicks)
Lachlan Murphy<\/a> (Port Noarlunga)
Brodie Smith<\/a> (Seaton)
Todd Goldstein<\/a> (Pascoe Vale)
Miller Bergman<\/a> (Berwick)
Rory Atkins<\/a> (Maribyrnong Park)
Chris Burgess<\/a> (Paskeville)
Jimmy Webster<\/a> (Lavington)
Brandon Ryan<\/a> (Maribyrnong Park)
David Swallow<\/a> (Surfers Paradise)
Lachlan Keeffe<\/a> (Sydney University)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 60 of the AFL’s retired or delisted talent from the 2025 season have locked in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-346766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}