The 2009 AFL Under-18 Championships was the 2009 series of the
AFL Under 18 Championships
The AFL National Championships is an annual Australian national underage representative Australian rules football tournament. Since taking over as national governing body in 1995, the AFL has gradually restructured the competition into a primar ...
, a state and territory-based
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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
competition which showcases the best junior footballers in Australia, primarily with the aim for them to be drafted into the
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...
.
This year's competition was played with just one division compared to two from previous years. The competing teams will be Victoria (split into separate Country and Metropolitan teams), South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory, a combined New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory team, Tasmania and Queensland. Each team played five games, with teams playing each team from their division from last year plus two from the other division.
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Fixture
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Division 1 Table
Division 1 Champions: Western Australia
Larke Medallists(Best in Division One): David Swallow(WA) and Andrew Hooper(Vic Country)
Division 2 Champions: NSW/ACT
Harrison Medallists(Best in Division 2): Dylan McNeil(NSW/ACT)
2009 AFL Under-18 All-Australian team
The 2009 Under-18
All-Australian
The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules football in Australia, 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-perfo ...
team was announced following the conclusion of the 2009 AFL Under 18 Championships on 4 July 2009.
The sponsored name of the squad is the 2009 NAB AFL Under-18 All-Australian team,
due to sponsorship arrangements with the
National Australia Bank
National Australia Bank Limited (abbreviated NAB, branded and stylised as nab) is one of the four largest Banking in Australia, financial institutions in Australia (colloquially referred to as "Big Four (banking), The Big Four") in terms of mar ...
(NAB). The team was selected by a panel which was chaired by the AFL national talent manager
Kevin Sheehan
Kevin Vincent Sheehan OAM (born 1 August 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer for Geelong and the current Australian Football League (AFL) National Talent and International Manager, a member of the AFL football operations sub-committe ...
, and consisted of
Alan McConnell and
Jason McCartney from the AFL, as well as recruiters
Matt Rendell,
Bryce Lewis,
Graham Hadley and
Francis Jackson.
The championship-winning Western Australia earned the most selections, with nine of the 22 selections,
as well as the coach position in the team.
Both the Larke Medallists, David Swallow (WA) and Andrew Hooper (Victoria Country), and the Hunter-Harrison Medallist, Dylan McNeil (NSW/ACT), were selected for the squad.
Seventeen of the 22 players in the side were eligible for the
2009 AFL Draft
The 2009 AFL draft consisted of four opportunities for player acquisitions during the 2009/10 Australian Football League off-season. These were the trade week (held between 5 October and 9 October), the national draft (held on 26 November), the ...
,
with nine ultimately selected in the first or priority rounds.
References
External links
Official AFL Under 18 Championships website
Afl Under 18 Championships, 2009
Australian rules football competition seasons
AFL National Championships
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