Daniel Hargraves (born 6 December 1975) 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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for the

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and

Fremantle Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australi ...

in the

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. He was originally drafted by the Bulldogs from the Eastern Under 18 side in the Under 18 Victorian Metropolitan Football League with selection 27 in the 1994 AFL pre-season draft. After playing 38 games over four seasons, he was traded to Fremantle in return for selection 18, which was used by the Bulldogs to draft Mark Alvey. Hargraves would play only three games for Fremantle in two seasons before being delisted at the end of the 1999 season. He then moved to South Australia to play for

North Adelaide North Adelaide is a predominantly residential precinct (Australia), precinct and suburb of the City of Adelaide in South Australia, situated north of the River Torrens and within the Adelaide Park Lands. Laid out in a grid plan in three section ...

in the

South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's sports governing body, governing body for the sport. ...

(SANFL) where he won the

Ken Farmer Medal The Ken Farmer Medal is named in honour of the Australian rules football full-forward Ken Farmer, who played for North Adelaide Football Club for his entire 13-season career, being North Adelaide's leading goalkicker all 13 seasons he played ...

in 2002 as the SANFL's leading goal kicker with 68 goals. Hargraves moved to

Port Adelaide Magpies Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where it is nicknamed the ...

in 2007 and was their leading goalscorer in 2008. He retired from SANFL football at the end of the 2008 season, and signed to play for Nhill in the

Wimmera Football League The Wimmera Football League is a major Australian rules country league based in Western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, with clubs located in towns in the Wimmera region: the regional centres along the Western Highway from Ararat, Victoria, A ...

. In 2019 he signed with the Mannum Roos in the River Murray Football League.

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* * * 1975 births Fremantle Football Club players Western Bulldogs players North Adelaide Football Club players Port Adelaide Magpies players Nhill Football Club players Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Peel Thunder Football Club players South Fremantle Football Club players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1970s-stub