Cooper Hamilton (born 24 September 2003) is an

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 ...

er who currently plays for the

Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park (stadium), Princes Park in Carlton North, Victoria, Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The c ...

in the

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(VFL). He previously played for the

Greater Western Sydney Giants The Greater Western Sydney Giants (officially the Greater Western Sydney Football Club and colloquially known as the GWS Giants or simply GWS or Giants) are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney Olympic Park which repres ...

in the

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(AFL).

Career

Hamilton played with the

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in the

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and the

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in the

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(HDFL) before being drafted to the Giants with pick 13 in the 2022 rookie draft. During the 2022 pre-season, Hamilton broke the club's two-kilometre time trial record. He played his first game for the Giants' reserves team in round 1 of the 2022 Victorian Football League (VFL) season. Hamilton made his AFL debut in

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against , recording 12 disposals in a 59-point victory. He played in another three games in 2022 and four games in

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, and was given a one-year contract extension at the end of the season. Beginning in 2023, Hamilton appeared in a number of viral videos released by the club on social media. This included a video released prior to the 2023 preliminary final against , which the Giants lost. Hamilton did not play any AFL games for the Giants in

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. He was delisted at the end of the season. On 20 December 2024, it was announced that Hamilton had joined Carlton's reserves team for the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Cooper 2003 births Living people Greater Western Sydney Giants players Carlton Football Club players Bendigo Pioneers players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) People educated at Caulfield Grammar School