Matthew Philip Clucas (born 18 March 1978) 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 oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er. He played as a midfielder and began his football career at

East Fremantle Football Club The East Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Sharks, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The team's home ground is East Fremantle Oval. East Fremantle are the ...

Fremantle career

Clucas was selected by with the 32nd selection in the 1996 AFL Draft. He played 11

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ...

(AFL) games between 1997 and 1999. He was delisted at the end of the 2000 season.

WAFL career

Clucas played 26 games for East Fremantle, including their 1998 premiership side. In 1999, all Fremantle listed players were allocated to play for South Fremantle in the WAFL, rather than their original WAFL team. Clucas played 19 games for South Fremantle, but returned to East Fremantle in 2000 when the single club allocation system was abolished. After bring delisted by Fremantle at the end of the 2000 season, Clucas also left East Fremantle and rejoined South. He won their best and fairest award in 2001 and was a member of South Fremantle's 2005 premiership winning team.

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* * 1978 births Living people Fremantle Football Club players East Fremantle Football Club players South Fremantle Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia {{AFL-bio-1970s-stub