Kyron Hayden (born 7 June 1999) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played for

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in the

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(AFL). He played junior football in the

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(WAFL) for Subiaco before he was selected in the

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. Hayden made his AFL debut late in the 2019 season, but ruptured his

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during the game and missed the remainder of the season. Hayden was knocked to the ground in a collision with Tom Lynch in North Melbourne's Round 7, 2020 game against the

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, with him being stretchered from the playing field. In spite of an initial scare, the collision resulted in only a minor concussion for Hayden. Hayden was delisted by North Melbourne at the end of the 2022 season, having played a total of 17 AFL games.

Personal life

Hayden is of

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descent with his father's parents coming from Merredin and Katanning. Hayden’s father spent five years in prison from 2015 to 2020, but despite his sentence Hayden credits his father as a good parent.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayden, Kyron Living people 2000 births Australian rules footballers from Western Australia North Melbourne Football Club players Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football People educated at Hale School