Sam Simpson (born 14 June 1998) is a professional

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 last 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). The son of former Geelong player,

Sean Simpson Sean Simpson (born May 4, 1960) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. He last served as head coach of Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) in Germany. As a player, Simpson played two AHL season ...

, he was drafted by Geelong with their fourth selection and fifty-third overall in the 2017 rookie draft under the

father–son rule The father–son rule is a rule that allows clubs preferential recruiting access to the sons of players who have made a major past contribution to the club in Australian rules football, most notably in the Australian Football League. The rule ...

. He made his debut in the draw against at Spotless Stadium in round fifteen of the 2017 season.

Playing career

Simpson played for in the

2020 AFL Grand Final The 2020 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between and at the Gabba in Brisbane, Queensland, on Saturday 24 October 2020. It was the 125th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Vic ...

against , but was forced from the field in the final with a concussion after colliding with teammate

Sam Menegola Sam Menegola (born 7 March 1992) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He had previously been listed by Hawthorn and Fremantle, but didn't play a senior game f ...

. He would miss large parts 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 ...

through injury, returning to the squad late in the season, only to suffer another concussion in the qualifying final against . Simpson missed the entire 2022 AFL season due to a number of injuries, returning to the Geelong team for the first time in 603 days in round 6 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 ...

. He would kick the first goal of his return match against . Simpson was delisted by Geelong at the conclusion of the 2023 season.

Statistics

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Honours and achievements

Team * 2×

McClelland Trophy The McClelland Trophy is an Australian rules football club championship trophy, awarded each year to the club with the best aggregate performance across the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW) seasons. The trophy was inaugur ...

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Individual * Geelong F.C. VFL Best & Fairest: 2019

References

External links

Sam Simpson's profile (archived)
on the official website of the Geelong Football Club * 1998 births Living people Geelong Football Club players Geelong Falcons players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1990s-stub