Garth Taylor (born 10 July 1980) 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 played for the

Fremantle Dockers The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers or colloquially Freo, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represen ...

between 1999 and 2000. He was drafted from

Swan Districts The Swan Districts Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The club is based at Bassendean Oval, in Bassendean, an eastern suburb ...

in the WAFL as the 49th selection in the 1998 AFL Draft and played mainly as a forward. One of the smallest players to ever play AFL football at 166 cm, he had an impressive junior career including winning the

Larke Medal 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 ...

for the best player at the national under 18 championships in 1998. Taylor struggled to perform consistently at AFL level due to a kidney injury. His senior personal highlight was receiving three

Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as Charlie), is awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the f ...

votes in only his sixth game for Fremantle in Round 7, 1999 against Geelong as an 18 year old. He would play 14 games in 1999, but no more until the final Round 22 game in 2000, after which he was de-listed.

Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers or colloquially the Tiges, is a professional Australian rules football team competing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Founded in 1885 in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria, Ric ...

selected him in the 2001 Rookie Draft, but he never played a league game for the Tigers. He was de-listed by Richmond, where his AFL career was cut short but remained in Victoria to play for the

Northern Bullants The Northern Bullants are a semi-professional Australian rules football club that currently competes in the Victorian Football League (VFL). The club, which is based in the Melbourne suburb of Preston, plays its home games at Preston City Ov ...

in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

where he excelled, until returning back home to Western Australia in 2005 to play for Swan Districts. In 2016, the Nungarin Panthers in the

Central Wheatbelt Football League The Central Wheatbelt Football League is an Australian rules football competition in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and ...

signed Taylor as their coach and captain. In 2023, he was signed as the Beacon Bombers football coach.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Garth 1980 births Fremantle Football Club players Swan Districts Football Club players Living people Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football 21st-century Indigenous Australian people Northern Bullants players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia