Heath Chapman (born 31 January 2002) 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 ...

player who plays 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 ...

in 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 ...

(AFL).

Early career

Chapman played junior football for the Joondalup Kinross Junior Football Club and attended Prendiville Catholic College. He played for West Perth in the

West Australian Football League The West Australian Football League (WAFL "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting f ...

where he captained the colts side and won their best and fairest award. Known for his intercept marking skills and speed, Chapman ran the fastest 2 km time trial at the 2020 WA draft combine testing.

AFL career

Chapman was drafted by Fremantle with their first pick, the fourteenth overall, in the

2020 AFL draft The 2020 AFL draft consisted of the various periods where the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) could trade and recruit players following the completion of the 2020 AFL season. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nati ...

. He made his AFL debut in the second round of the

2021 AFL season The 2021 AFL season was the 125th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season feature ...

in Fremantle's win over

Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is a large region of the metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia that generally embraces the north-west, south-west, central-west, far western and the Blue Mountains sub-regions with ...

. Round one of the

2022 AFL season The 2022 AFL season was the 126th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featur ...

versus saw Chapman receive much praise for his 'game-winning Intercept play' in which he spoiled an opponent's kick on the goal line conceding no score with just seven seconds left in the match. With just a point the difference had the ball been rushed through for a behind the game would have been a draw. Chapman received a

2022 AFL Rising Star The NAB AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a standout young player in the Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules footba ...

nomination for his performance in round 8 against North Melbourne at

Optus Stadium Perth Stadium, commercially known as Optus Stadium due to sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in the Burswood, Western Australia, Burswood suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It was completed during late 2017 and officially opened ...

, collecting 25 disposals, 12 intercept possession and five marks. Chapman finished the home-and-away season having played fifteen games, and featured in both of Fremantle's finals appearances. Chapman played in Fremantle's first three game of the

2023 AFL season The 2023 AFL season was the 127th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 16 March to 30 September, comprising a 23-m ...

, but an injury sustained during the

Western Derby The Western Derby () is the name given to the Australian rules football matches between the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Dockers, who both participate in the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW). As both teams are ba ...

saw him ruled out for the rest of the year. Heath returned to the Fremantle line-up in round seven of the

2024 AFL season The 2024 AFL season was the 128th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 7 March to 28 September, comprising ...

against the .

Statistics

: ''Updated to the end of round 15, 2025.'' , - ,

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

, , , , 27 , 6 , , 1 , , 0 , , 50 , , 35 , , 85 , , 27 , , 10 , , 0.2 , , 0.0 , , 8.3 , , 5.8 , , 14.2 , , 4.5 , , 1.7 , - ,

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

, , , , 27 , 17 , , 0 , , 0 , , 180 , , 136 , , 316 , , 105 , , 29 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 10.6 , , 8.0 , , 18.6 , , 6.2 , , 1.7 , - ,

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

, , , , 27 , 3 , , 0 , , 0 , , 23 , , 22 , , 45 , , 15 , , 6 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 7.7 , , 7.3 , , 15.0 , , 5.0 , , 2.0 , - ,

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

, , , , 5 , 16 , , 1 , , 0 , , 154 , , 104 , , 258 , , 93 , , 29 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 9.6 , , 6.5 , , 16.1 , , 5.8 , , 1.8 , - ,

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

, , , , 5 , 13 , , 0 , , 0 , , 123 , , 64 , , 187 , , 60 , , 25 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 9.4 , , 4.9 , , 14.3 , , 4.6 , , 1.9 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 55 !! 2 !! 0 !! 530 !! 361 !! 891 !! 300 !! 99 !! 0.0 !! 0.0 !! 9.6 !! 6.5 !! 16.2 !! 5.4 !! 1.8 Notes

References

External links

* * * *
WAFL player profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chapman, Heath 2002 births Living people Fremantle Football Club players West Perth Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Peel Thunder Football Club players 21st-century Australian sportsmen