{"id":963463,"date":"2026-11-13T21:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963463\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:56:30","slug":"where-more-than-45-recently-departed-afl-players-will-play-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963463\/","title":{"rendered":"Where more than 45 recently departed AFL players will play in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 45 of the AFL’s retired or delisted talent from the 2026 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

There’s a whole host of delisted players from the AFL<\/a> that are set to receive a lifeline in the upcoming national or rookie drafts, as well as get the opportunity over summer to convince their former club they should be on the list.<\/p>\n

At grassroots level, there has been a litany of football talent returning to their junior clubs or bolstering a local team.<\/p>\n

As for the state levels, over a dozen have signed with one of the three leagues.<\/p>\n

Here’s where recently delisted or retired AFL<\/a> players will be pulling on the boots in 2027.<\/p>\n

AFL<\/p>\n

Jake Stringer<\/a> (St Kilda)
Wil Parker<\/a> (Carlton)
Max Ramsden<\/a> (St Kilda)
Elijah Tsatas<\/a> (North Melbourne)
Darragh Joyce<\/a> (North Melbourne)
Samson Ryan<\/a> (North Melbourne)
Jamarra Ugle-Hagan<\/a> (Gold Coast)^
Elliott Himmelberg<\/a> (Gold Coast)^
Riley Garcia<\/a> (Western Bulldogs<\/a>)^
Harry DeMattia<\/a> (Western Bulldogs<\/a>)^
Dan Butler<\/a> (St Kilda)^
Ryan Byrnes<\/a> (St Kilda)^
Koby Evans<\/a> (Brisbane)^
Luke Lloyd<\/a> (Brisbane)^
Jaren Carr<\/a> (Fremantle)^
Ben Camporeale<\/a> (Carlton)*
Lucas Camporeale<\/a> (Carlton)*
Nik Cox (Essendon)*
Kayle Gerreyn<\/a> (Essendon)*
Tom Edwards<\/a> (Essendon)*
Flynn Perez<\/a> (Hawthorn)*
Steely Green<\/a> (Richmond)*
Isaac Keeler<\/a> (Port Adelaide)*<\/p>\n

^ Players to have been delisted with the club’s intent to re-draft them<\/a>
* Supplemental Selection Period train-ons<\/p>\n

VFL<\/p>\n

Xavier Walsh<\/a> – Tasmania Devils<\/a>
George Stevens<\/a> – Tasmania Devils<\/a>
Jack Williams<\/a> – Tasmania Devils<\/a>
Joel Cochran<\/a> – Tasmania Devils<\/a>
Chayce Jones<\/a> – Tasmania Devils<\/a>
Aidan Johnson<\/a> – Werribee Tigers<\/a><\/p>\n

SANFL<\/p>\n

Jakob Ryan<\/a> – Glenelg Tigers<\/a>
Noah Howes<\/a> – South Adelaide
Mani Liddy<\/a> – Central District
Benny Barrett<\/a> – South Adelaide
Harry Schoenberg<\/a> – Woodville-West Torrens
Tyler Welsh<\/a> – Woodville-West Torrens<\/p>\n

WAFL<\/p>\n

Kaleb Smith<\/a> (Richmond) – East Fremantle Sharks<\/a>
Jed Bews<\/a> – West Coast WAFL
Zac Walker<\/a> – West Coast WAFL<\/p>\n

QAFL<\/p>\n

N\/A<\/p>\n

Local Footy<\/p>\n

Nick Holman<\/a> (Kyabram Bombers)
Lachie Sullivan<\/a> (Morewell)
Jack Henderson<\/a> (Geelong Amateur)
Callum Coleman-Jones<\/a> (Birchip Watchem)
Adam Treloar<\/a> (Noble Park)
Liam McMahon<\/a> (Eltham)
Steele Sidebottom<\/a> (Wonthaggi)
Tom Liberatore<\/a> (Geelong Amateur)
Adam Saad<\/a> (Northern Saints)
Jaime Uhr-Henry<\/a> (Hurstbridge)
Tom McDonald<\/a> (Rochester)<\/p>\n

Other<\/p>\n

N\/A<\/p>\n

Not listed<\/p>\n

Taylor Walker<\/a>
Sam Switkowski<\/a>
Rhys Stanley<\/a>
Jake Kolodjashnij<\/a>
Tom Campbell<\/a>
Jake Melksham<\/a>
Shane McAdam<\/a>
Will Brodie<\/a>
Ivan Soldo<\/a>
Nathan Broad<\/a>
Dion Prestia<\/a>
Dougal Howard<\/a>
Dane Rampe<\/a>
Taylor Adams<\/a>
Jamie Cripps<\/a>
Lachlan Sholl<\/a>
Luke Beecken<\/a>
Jordan Boyd<\/a>
Harry Charleson<\/a>
Matt Duffy<\/a>
Lachie Fogarty<\/a>
Elijah Hollands<\/a>
Zac Williams<\/a>
Lewis Young<\/a>
Flynn Young<\/a>
Bobby Hill<\/a>
Mitch Podhajski<\/a>
Iliro Smit<\/a>
Harrison Coe<\/a>
Saad El-Hawli<\/a>
Jade Gresham<\/a>
Matt Guelfi<\/a>
Liam McMahon<\/a>
Bailey Banfield<\/a>
Ryda Luke<\/a>
Ollie Murphy<\/a>
Sam Sturt<\/a>
Mitch Knevitt<\/a>
Keighton Matofai-Forbes<\/a>
Tyson Stengle<\/a>
Cooper Bell<\/a>
Asher Eastham<\/a>
Caleb Graham<\/a>
Conor Stone<\/a>
Cody Anderson<\/a>
James Blanck<\/a>
Henry Hustwaite<\/a>
Andy Moniz-Wakefield<\/a>
Riley Onley<\/a>
Kalani White<\/a>
Brayden George<\/a>
Robert Hansen Jnr
Bailey Scott<\/a>
Luke Urquhart<\/a>
Cooper Harvey<\/a>
Zac Fisher<\/a>
Tom Anastasopoulos<\/a>
Ollie Lord<\/a>
Will Lorenz<\/a>
Jackson Mead<\/a>
Jacob Moss<\/a>
Liam Fawcett<\/a>
Oliver Hayes-Brown<\/a>
Tyler Sonsie<\/a>
James Trezise<\/a>
Paddy Dow<\/a>
Patrick Said<\/a>
Jack Carroll<\/a>
Harry Barnett<\/a>
Tyler Brockman<\/a>
Clay Hall<\/a>
Harvey Johnston<\/a>
Matthew Owies<\/a>
Oskar Baker<\/a>
Nick Coffield<\/a>
Harvey Gallagher<\/a>
Ryan Gardner<\/a>
Lachlan McNeil<\/a>
Lachlan Smith<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 45 of the AFL’s retired or delisted talent from the 2026 season have locked in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-963463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963463","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=963463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}