The Geelong Falcons is a youth

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representative club in the NAB League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition,

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. The club takes in talented junior players from the Geelong, Colac and Warrnambool regions in order to prepare them for AFL selection. There is an under-15 V-Line cup side and an under-16 side, but the club's main focus is its under-18 side, who play a longer season. In 2007,

Jimmy Bartel James Ross Bartel (born 4 December 1983) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A utility, tall and weighing , Bartel contributed as a midfielder, forward, an ...

became the first ex-Falcon to win the AFL

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, for the league's best and fairest player, while Jonathan Brown became the first ex-Falcon to win the

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for the most goals in the season. Gary Ablett Jnr also became the first ex-Falcon to win the Leigh Matthews Trophy, for being voted the Most Valuable Player by the AFL Players Association. Hawthorn half-back

Luke Hodge Luke Hodge (born 15 June 1984) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played for the Hawthorn Football Club from 2002 to 2017, ...

became the first Falcon to win the

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for his best on ground performance in the 2008 Grand Final against the

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. Nick Maxwell became the first Geelong Falcons player to captain a premiership team when he led Collingwood to the 2010 AFL Premiership.

Honours

*Premierships (3): 1992, 2000, 2017 *Runners-up (2): 1994, 1998 *Wooden Spoon (1): 2019

Notable Falcons players

* Jonathan Brown -

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: Coleman Medallist 2007; All-Australian 2007, 2009; Premiership Player 2001, 2002, 2003; Brisbane co-captain 2007-2008; Brisbane sole captain 2009–2014 *

Gary Ablett, Jr. Gary Ablett Jr. (born 14 May 1984) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL). The eldest son of Australian Football Hall of Fame mem ...

- /: All-Australian 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014; All-Australian captain 2011; AFLPA MVP 2007, 2008, 2009; Premiership Player 2007, 2009; Brownlow Medallist 2009, 2013; Gold Coast captain 2011–2016 *

- : Brownlow Medallist 2007; All-Australian 2007, 2008; North Smith Medalist 2011; Premiership Player 2007, 2009, 2011 *

- : Number One Draft Pick 2001; All-Australian 2005, 2008, 2010, All-Australian Captain 2010; Norm Smith Medallist 2008, 2014; Premiership Player 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015 Hawthorn captain 2011–2016 *

Chris Heffernan Chris Joel Heffernan (born 29 January 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). AFL career Known affectionately as "Heff", Chris began his career in 1997 with the Essendon Football Club. ...

- /: Premiership Player 2000 *

Matthew Primus Matthew Richard Primus (born 12 January 1975) is a former coach of the Port Adelaide Football Club and Australian rules footballer, captain and All-Australian ruckman. He was also previously an assistant coach at the Gold Coast Football Club. ...

- /: All-Australian 2001, 2002; Port Adelaide Captain 2001-05, Port Adelaide Coach 2010–2012 * Cameron Ling - : All-Australian 2007; Premiership Player 2007, 2009, 2011, Premiership Captain 2011; Geelong Captain 2010-2011 * Matthew Scarlett - : All-Australian 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011; Premiership Player 2007, 2009, 2011 * Scott Lucas - : Premiership Player 2000 * Jordan Lewis - /

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: Premiership Player 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015 * Nick Maxwell - : Collingwood Captain 2008, Premiership Player/Captain 2010 *

Amon Buchanan Amon Buchanan (born 10 October 1982) is a former Australian rules football who played for the Brisbane Lions and the Sydney Swans in the AFL. He is currently serving as the forwards coach of the Greater Western Sydney Giants. AFL career Sy ...

- /: Premiership Player 2005 *

Matthew Capuano Mathew Capuano (born 2 September 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who spent his AFL career with the North Melbourne Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club. Post playing career Capuano was a development coach at the Carlton ...

- /: Premiership Player 1996 and 1999 * Mark Blake - : Premiership Player 2009 * Allen Christensen - : Premiership Player 2011 *

Will Schofield Will Schofield (born 24 January 1989) is an Australian rules footballer who formerly played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). At tall and weighing , he is a versatile defender who has played key-position and ...

West Coast Eagles The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football L ...

: Premiership Player 2018 Patrick Dangerfield Brownlow medal 2016, all Australian 6x and premiership player 2022

Draftees

Many notable players in the

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have been recruited from the Geelong Falcons. These players include: * 1993: Glenn Gorman *

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...

: Scott Lucas, Tony Brown, Chris Hemley, Jeremy Dyer, Shaun Baxter, Peter Bird, Nathan Saunders, Scott Taylor *

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

: Simon Fletcher, Joe McLaren, Nigel Credlin, Ryan Grinter *

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone o ...

, Bowen Lockwood, Brent Grgic, Jacob Rhodes *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

: James Rahilly, Matthew Scarlett, Lincoln Reynolds *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

: David A. Clarke, Steven Baker, Jay Solomon, David Loats, Marc Dragicevic, Tim van der Klooster *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

: David Haynes, Jonathan Brown, Tim Clarke, Cameron Ling, Bill Nicholls *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

Sam Hunt Sam Lowry Hunt (born December 8, 1984) is an American singer and songwriter. Born in Cedartown, Georgia, Hunt played football in his high school and college years and once attempted to pursue a professional sports career before signing with MCA ...

, Sam Chapman, Andrew Siegert *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...

, Luke Milan,

Matt Maguire Matthew John Maguire (born 30 May 1984) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the St Kilda Football Club and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). AFL career St Kilda Football Club Maguire ...

Tom Davidson Tom Davidson (born 3 February 1983) is a former Australian rules footballer who was recruited from the Geelong Falcons in the 2001 AFL Draft by the Collingwood Football Club. His career was hindered by two serious knee injuries, the first duri ...

Joel Reynolds Joel Reynolds (born 5 June 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer. Reynolds is the grandson of Bomber legend Dick Reynolds Richard Sylvannus Reynolds (20 June 1915 – 2 September 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who play ...

Gary Ablett Jr. Gary Ablett Jr. (born 14 May 1984) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL). The eldest son of Australian Football Hall of Fame mem ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

: Tim Callan, Lochlan Veale, Brent Moloney *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A ...

: Mark Blake, Nathan Foley, Luke Buckland, James Allan *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight ...

: Jordan Lewis,

John Meesen John Meesen (born 20 June 1986) is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Career Drafted with the 8th selection in the 2004 draf ...

, Tim Sheringham *

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; " Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discover ...

Shaun Higgins Shaun Higgins (born 4 March 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). Higgins played for the Western Bulldogs from 2006 to 2014, the North Melbourne Football Club from 2015 ...

Danny Stanley Daniel "Danny" Stanley (born 18 February 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Stanley played his junior foo ...

, Clint Bartram *

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro votes to declare independence from Serbia; The 2006 ...

Travis Boak Travis Boak (born 1 August 1988) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Boak captained the club from 2013 to 2018, and is the club's AFL games record ...

, Daniel O'Keefe,

, Simon Hogan, Ryan Williams, Peter Hardy *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple Inc., Apple's first iPhone (1st generation), iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakis ...

Lachlan Henderson Lachlan Stuart Henderson (born 14 December 1989) is a former Australian rules footballer, who played for the Brisbane Lions, the Carlton Football Club and the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Junior career Hender ...

, Patrick Dangerfield,

Jack Steven Jack Steven (born 28 March 1990) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda and Geelong Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL). During his time at St Kilda, where he played 183 games, Steven won the c ...

, Adam Donohue, Jaxson Barham, Guy O'Keefe,

Ed Curnow Edward Curnow (born 7 November 1989Carlton Football ClubEdward Curnow Player Profile bio, Retrieved 23 March 2011.) is a professional Australian rules footballer, currently playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League ...

, Chris Kangars *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

Ayce Cordy Ayce Cordy (born 6 August 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). The Bulldogs used their first-round selection, 14th overall, to secure Cordy afte ...

Luke Rounds Luke Rounds (born 10 February 1991) is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from Mortlake, Victoria where he attended Mortlake Colle ...

Ben Bucovaz Ben Bucovaz (born 2 November 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was selected with the 56th selection in the 2008 AFL National Draft ...

, Jordie McKenzie, Luke Delaney, Tom Simpkin *

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; Protests ...

: Ben Cunnington, Gary Rohan,

Jasper Pittard Jasper Pittard (born Jasper McMillan-Pittard, 1 April 1991) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was one of 3 ...

, Callum Bartlett, Allen Christensen, Luke Thompson, Joe Dare *

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

Billie Smedts Billie Smedts (born 8 June 1992) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fu ...

Jayden Pitt Jayden Pitt (born 7 October 1992) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a quick, agile, goalkicking midfielder who is a good kick with either foot. Football ...

Jeremy Taylor Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is fr ...

Troy Davis Troy Anthony Davis (October 9, 1968 – September 21, 2011) was a man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King re ...

, Cameron Delaney, Luke Dahlhaus, Josh Walker, Cameron Johnston *

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrates ...

Taylor Adams Taylor Adams (born 20 September 1993) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Greater Western Sydney Giants from 2012 to 2013. ...

Devon Smith Devon Sheldon Smith (born 21 October 1981 in Hermitage, Grenada) is a cricketer who features as a opening or top order left-handed batsman. Smith has played for the West Indies and the Windward Islands in regional tournaments. Smith also ho ...

Jackson Merrett Jackson Merrett (born 27 February 1993) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the Essendon Football Club with the 31st overal ...

, Jay Lever, Jed Bews, Jai Sheehan, Andrew Boseley *

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gat ...

Mason Wood Mason Wood (born 13 September 1993) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having previously played for the North Melbourne Football Club. Career North Melbourn ...

Josh Saunders Josh Saunders (born March 2, 1981) is an American former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He last played for Orlando City in Major League Soccer. Career College Saunders, the younger brother of Shawn Saunders, spent the fi ...

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...

Darcy Lang Darcy Lang (born 21 November 1995) is an Australian rules footballer. He played for seven years in the Australian Football League, with Geelong and Carlton. Darcy grew up in Colac, Victoria and played for Victoria Country in the 2013 AFL Und ...

, Darcy Gardiner, Lewis Taylor,

Samuel Russell Samuel Russell (August 25, 1789 – May 5, 1862), was an American entrepreneur and trader, and founder of Russell & Company, the largest and most important American trading house in China from 1842 to its closing in 1891. Early life Russel ...

, Nick Bourke *

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wa ...

Paddy McCartin Patrick McCartin (born 19 April 1996) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL), having previously played for the St Kilda Football Club from 2015 to 2019. He was drafted as t ...

Hugh Goddard Hugh Goddard (born 24 August 1996) is an Australian rules footballer who formerly played for the and football clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL). AFL career Goddard a second cousin of former St Kilda player and former Essendon cap ...

Teia Miles Teia Miles (born 2 November 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a highly rated young midfielder, with the ability to play forward or back ...

, Jackson Nelson,

Zaine Cordy Zaine Cordy (born 27 October 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having initially been recruited as a father–son pick by the Western Bulldogs ...

, Lewis Melican *

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...

Darcy Parish Darcy Parish (born 25 July 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life Parish was born in Winchelsea, Victoria. He participated in the Auskick program ...

, Charlie Curnow,

Tom Doedee Tom Doedee (born 1 March 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life Doedee excelled as a junior basketballer from the age of six playing as a ...

, Rhys Mathieson *

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ...

: Alex Witherden, Sean Darcy, Jack Henry, Sam Simpson *

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 s ...

: Matthew Ling, Tom McCartin, James Worpel, Gryan Miers, Josh Jaska *

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

: Sam Walsh, Ned McHenry, Connor Idun, Brayden Ham, Oscar Brownless, Blake Schlensog *

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 ...

: Cooper Stephens *

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 t ...

: Tanner Bruhn, Oliver Henry, Charlie Lazzaro, Cameron Fleeton *

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 ...

: Toby Conway, Mitchell Knevitt, Cooper Whyte

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