Connor Blakely (born 2 March 1996) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the

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in the Australian Football League (AFL), having initially been drafted to the Fremantle Football Club.

Early career

Originally from

Bunbury, Western Australia Bunbury is a coastal city in the Australian state of Western Australia, approximately south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's third most populous city after Perth and Mandurah, with a population of approximately 75,000. Located ...

, he was drafted with the 34th selection in the 2014 National Draft from

Swan Districts The Swan Districts Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The club is based at Bassendean Oval, in Bassendean, an eastern suburb ...

in the

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(WAFL). He made his league debut in 2013, and then in 2014 played all season in Swan Districts league team. He also represented Western Australia at the

2014 AFL Under 18 Championships The 2014 NAB AFL Under 18 Championships was the 19th edition of the AFL Under 18 Championships. Eight teams competed in the championships: Vic Metro, Vic Country, South Australia and Western Australia in Division 1, and New South Wales/Australian ...

, where he was selected to the tournament's

All-Australian team The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-performed players during the season, led by ...

. In 2015 he played for Peel Thunder in the

(WAFL), Fremantle's

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AFL career

Blakely was selected to make his AFL debut for Fremantle in the final round of the

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, when Fremantle sent a weakened team to play

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at the

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. Twelve changes were made to the team, and Blakely was one of four players to make their AFL debuts. In July 2019, Blakely signed a three year contract extension with Fremantle, to remain at the club until the end of 2022. Following the conclusion of the 2022 AFL season Blakely was delisted by Fremantle, but was picked up as a rookie by in the subsequent

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Statistics

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2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

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2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

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2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in ...

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2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...

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2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeyp ...

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References

External links

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WAFL Player Profile and Statistics
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blakely, Connor 1996 births Living people Fremantle Football Club players Peel Thunder Football Club players Swan Districts Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia