Steele Sidebottom (born 2 January 1991) is a professional Australian rules football player currently playing for the

Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club ...

in the Australian Football League. Sidebottom was selected by Collingwood with selection 11 in the 2008 AFL Draft. Sidebottom had a 10-goal best-on-ground performance in the 2008 TAC Cup Grand Final. He is strong overhead and in one-on-one contests. An AIS/AFL Academy graduate and Vic Country representative in 2008, Sidebottom also was selected in the All-Australian team following the 2008 AFL Under 18 Championships. A midfielder, Sidebottom became a star player for Collingwood. He has won the

Copeland Trophy The E.W. Copeland Trophy is an Australian rules football award given by the Collingwood Football Club to the player adjudged best and fairest for Collingwood during the year. The Copeland Shield, as it was formerly known, was donated by Ern Cop ...

twice as the club's

best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...

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) and also played in a premiership in 2010. Sidebottom has been named in the

All-Australian team The All-Australian team is an all-star team of 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-performed players during the season, led by ...

on a wing in addition to finishing second in the

2018 Brownlow Medal The 2018 Brownlow Medal was the 91st year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home-and-away season. Tom Mitchell of the Hawthorn Football Club won the medal with ...

. He has been the co-vice captain of Collingwood since the 2015 season.

Career

Sidebottom made his AFL debut vs St Kilda in Round 7 2009 where St Kilda defeated Collingwood by 88 points. In the Semi Final vs Adelaide of the 2009 AFL Season, Sidebottom had his first breakthrough where he notched up 25 disposals in a come from behind win. In 2010 Sidebottom played in all but one game for the Magpies including both the drawn Grand Final and Grand Final replay. At 19-years of age he was the youngest member of Collingwood's 2010 Premiership side. On 6 October 2017, Sidebottom won the

. In the

count, Sidebottom finished in second place (his career best).

Statistics

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Honours and achievements

Collingwood *

AFL Premiership This page is a complete chronological listing of VFL/AFL premiers. The Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990, is the elite national competition in men's Australian rules football. The inaug ...

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Collingwood Collingwood, meaning "wood of disputed ownership", may refer to: Educational institutions * Collingwood College, Victoria, an Australian state Prep to Year 12 school * Collingwood College, Durham, college of Durham University, England * Collingw ...

McClelland Trophy The McClelland Trophy is an Australian rules football trophy which has been awarded each year since 1951 by the Australian Football League (known prior to 1990 as the Victorian Football League) to the best-performing club in the home-and-away s ...

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): 2010, 2011 Individual *

* 2×

: 2017, 2018 * Collingwood co-vice captain: 2015– * Gary Ayres Award:

* Anzac Day Medal: 2016 (round 5) * 2× 22under22 team: 2012, 2013

Personal life

His older brother Ryan plays cricket for the Victorian Bushrangers.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sidebottom, Steele Collingwood Football Club players Collingwood Football Club Premiership players Copeland Trophy winners 1991 births Living people Australian people of English descent Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Murray Bushrangers players All-Australians (AFL) One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players