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Joe Daniher (born 4 March 1994) is a former professional
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er who played for the
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and the
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. Daniher won a
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and
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 ...
selection in 2017, as well as the 2017 AFL Mark of the Year and Anzac Medal for that season. He is a four-time
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and a two-time Brisbane Lions leading goalkicker. Daniher was a premiership player with Brisbane in 2024.


Early life and football career

Daniher is the son of a former AFL full-back, Anthony Daniher, who played 115 games for the
Sydney Swans The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Swans also field a Austral ...
and 118 games for . His uncles, Anthony's brothers
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, Neale and
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, also played for Essendon. He played junior football for
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in the
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and attended St Bernard’s College. Daniher played for the
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in the
TAC Cup The Talent League (also known as the Coates Talent League under naming rights and previously as the NAB League and TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition based in Melbourne and run by the Australian Foot ...
. He was named an All-Australian in the
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, playing for Vic Metro. Daniher was part of the
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at the
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, participating in its European tour to Italy, England and France in 2012 competing against the combined European Legion team.


AFL career


Essendon (2013–2020)

Daniher was drafted by under the
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, with the tenth overall selection in the 2012 national draft. He was also eligible to be drafted by , but chose to join the Bombers, where his brother Darcy Daniher was a team member at the time. He made his debut against in Round 11,
2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
. In his second game (Round 12 against ), he was named among the best players, kicking his first AFL goal and scoring a total of three goals in the match. He showed positive progression in his second season, leading the club in goal-kicking with 28 for the season, including four goals against
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in an elimination final at the
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. Despite his skinny frame and inaccurate kicking for goal, he showed immense promise and started to stake his claim as one of the best young key forwards in the league. Daniher entered the
2015 AFL season The 2015 AFL season was the 119th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eig ...
as the club's spearhead up forward, a challenging task considering it was only his third season of senior football. Despite kicking only 34 goals for the season, Daniher showed improvement in many key areas of his game, especially accuracy in shooting for goal. That was partly due to the fact that former player and Essendon champion
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helped him throughout the year. He led the club's goalkicking for a second consecutive season and showed more presence on the field. In
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
, he continued to grow as a footballer and leader, being named in the club's leadership group and finishing the season with a career-high in marks (141) and goals (43). He won the club goalkicking award for a third consecutive year and was joint runner-up with James Kelly in the W.S. Crichton Medal. He started the
2017 AFL season The 2017 AFL season was the 121st 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 ...
strongly, reaching his potential as one of the best forwards in the league, and winning both the
Anzac Day Medal The Anzac Day match is an annual Australian rules football match between Collingwood Football Club, Collingwood and Essendon Football Club, Essendon, two clubs in the Australian Football League, held on Anzac Day (25 April) at the Melbourne Cr ...
and the inaugural
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Medal in the Country Game against . He finished as the club's leading goalkicker for a fourth straight season, received his debut
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selection, and won his first
W. S. Crichton Medal The Crichton Medal is the name given to the best and fairest award for the Australian rules football team the Essendon Football Club. Since 1959 or 1960, it has been known officially as the W. S. Crichton Medal. The naming of the award is in hon ...
. Daniher started the
2018 AFL season The 2018 AFL season was the 122nd 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 substantially worse form than in the previous year, averaging less than a goal a game and having an reduced impact on the competition. After Round 7, scans revealed the early onset of
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, causing him to miss the rest of the season. After a strong pre-season, Daniher looked set for a big 2019 season, but a mysterious calf injury, sustained in training, meant he missed the first four rounds of the
2019 AFL season The 2019 AFL season was the 123rd 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 ...
. Despite not being named for Round 5, Daniher was given a late call-up for the Bombers in the Round 5 game against the Kangaroos on
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. Because Daniher was not named on Essendon's initial list for the round, the Bombers incurred a fine, but Daniher proved his worth by kicking two goals, including one from over 55 metres out. After four matches, he was ruled out for the remainder of 2019 due to a groin injury. Toward the conclusion of the season, he requested a trade to Sydney but, because Sydney could not satisfy Essendon's trade request, Daniher remained at Essendon for the 2020 season. After the 2020 season, exercising his rights as a free agent, he moved to the .


Brisbane Lions (2021–2024)

Daniher made his debut for the
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against at
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in Round 1, 2021. He kicked two goals, but he attracted criticism from former player
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for his jumper-grabbing celebration after kicking the first of those goals, which gave Lions an 18-point lead in a match they would ultimately lose by 31 points. Daniher became the only player to kick at least one goal every game for the 2021 season, but he fell away during the Lions' finals campaign and kicked only one goal from two games. In Brisbane's 2022 elimination final against , Daniher kicked the winning goal in the dying stages of the match to give the Lions a two-point win, 106–104. Brisbane were eventually knocked out of the finals by in the preliminary final, losing by 71 points. In 2023, Daniher led Brisbane with 61 goals. At the end of the season, he played in his first
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. Daniher kicked 3 goals and was one of Brisbane's best players on the day, but the Lions fell to by four points. Daniher again led the Lions in goals in 2024, kicking 58 over 27 games. In Brisbane's semi-final against the
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, Daniher kicked four goals, including the final two goals which completed a 44-point comeback. Daniher added a pair of goals in the
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as the Lions defeated the
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. Just five days after winning the premiership, on 3 October 2024, Daniher announced his retirement.


Statistics

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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 ...
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Honours and achievements

Team * AFL Premiership player:
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 ...
Individual * W.S. Crichton Medal: 2017 *
All-Australian team 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 ...
:
2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
* 4× Essendon F.C. leading goalkicker: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 * 2× Brisbane Lions leading goalkicker: 2023, 2024 *
Anzac Day Medal The Anzac Day match is an annual Australian rules football match between Collingwood Football Club, Collingwood and Essendon Football Club, Essendon, two clubs in the Australian Football League, held on Anzac Day (25 April) at the Melbourne Cr ...
: 2017 * AFL Mark of the Year: 2017 * 22under22 team: 2016 * AFL Rising Star nominee: 2014 (round 12)


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Daniher, Joe Living people 1994 births Essendon Football Club players Brisbane Lions players VFL/AFL premiership players Brisbane Lions premiership players Calder Cannons players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) All-Australians (AFL) Crichton Medal winners People educated at St. Bernard's College, Melbourne 21st-century Australian sportsmen