Matthew Spencer (born 17 January 1985) 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

Geelong Football Club The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Kardinia Park in South Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier comp ...

in the

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(AFL).

Career

Spencer made his AFL-level debut with Geelong during the

2006 AFL season The 2006 AFL season was the 110th 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 sixt ...

, performing reasonably well playing on

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's Scott Lucas. He managed one more game for the season before being omitted, and was subsequently delisted at the conclusion of the 2007 season, a season in which he did not play a senior match. Following the conclusion of his AFL career, Spencer returned to his former club,

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

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 ...

Statistics

:''Statistics are correct as of end of career''

References

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* * * Geelong Football Club players Swan Districts Football Club players 1985 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Western Australia 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1980s-stub