2019 Carlton Football Club season

Carlton Football Club
2019 season
PresidentMark LoGiudice
CoachBrendon Bolton (Rds 1–11)
David Teague (Rds 12-23)
Captain(s)Patrick Cripps
Sam Docherty
Home groundMelbourne Cricket Ground
(Training and administrative: Ikon Park)
AFL season16th
AFL Women's2nd
Leading goalkickerHarry McKay (26)
Club membership64,269
← 2018 2020 →

The 2019 Carlton Football Club season was the Carlton Football Club's 156th season of competition.

It was the club's men's team's 123rd season as a member of the Australian Football League. After a 1–10 start to the 2019 AFL season, fourth-year senior coach Brendon Bolton was sacked and replaced by David Teague – first as caretaker coach, but later as permanent senior coach. Improved performances in the second half of the season saw the team finish sixteenth out of eighteen teams with a 7–15 record.

It was the club's women's team's third season as a member of the AFL Women's competition. The team finished second out of ten teams in the 2019 AFL Women's season, qualifying for the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final which it lost against Adelaide by 45 points.

The club also fielded a team in the VFL Women's competition.

Club summary

The 2019 AFL season is the 123rd season of the VFL/AFL competition since its inception in 1897; and, having competed in every season, it is also the 123rd season contested by the Carlton Football Club. Carlton continued its alignment with the Northern Blues in the Victorian Football League, allowing Carlton-listed players to play with the Northern Blues when not selected in AFL matches. Carlton's primary home ground continued to be the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with many games also played at Marvel Stadium (renamed from Etihad Stadium in 2018); traditional home ground Ikon Park continued to serve as the training and administrative base. The club fielded its women's team in the third season of the AFL Women's competition, running in February and March, and Ikon Park served as the home ground for AFL Women's matches.

Car manufacturer Hyundai, which had been a major sponsor of the club continuously since 2008,[1] and airline Virgin Australia, which had upgraded from a secondary sponsor to a major sponsor during the 2017 season,[2] continued as the club's two major sponsors, under deals in place until 2022.[3]

The club again achieved a record membership in 2019, signing a total of 64,269 members through the season. This was the club's second consecutive huge increase in membership numbers, having increased from 50,130 to a then-record 56,005 members in 2018. This translated also to a significant increase in home attendances for the club's matches on previous years.[4]

Senior Personnel

Mark LoGiudice continued as club president, a role he has held since June 2014.[5]

Brendon Bolton commenced the year as the club's senior coach for his fourth season in the role. However, after the team's 1–10 start to the season, punctuated by a heavy round 11 loss to Essendon, Bolton was dismissed, bringing an end to his Carlton coaching career after 77 games and a win–loss record of 16–61. The club paid out the balance of the protected period in Bolton's open-ended contract to the end of the 2020 season. David Teague, who has been the forwards assistant coach since 2018 and who had previously coached the club's VFL-affiliate Northern Bullants from 2008 to 2010, was appointed caretaker coach for the rest of the season;[6] then, with two games remaining in the season, Teague was appointed senior coach on a permanent basis on a three-year contract.[7]

Other than the change of senior coach at midseason, the club's coaching staff was relatively unchanged, with former North Melbourne and Geelong ruckman Hamish McIntosh joining the club as specialist coach for rucks.[8]

Marc Murphy stepped down as club captain after six seasons in the role. In his place, joint vice-captains Patrick Cripps and Sam Docherty were named joint captains, the first time in club history that joint captains had been named – although Docherty ultimately missed the entire season for the second year in a row after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury in the preseason.[9] With no formal vice captains appointed, Murphy, Kade Simpson and Ed Curnow formed the rest of a leadership group which was reduced in size from 2018.[10]

Squad for 2019

The following is Carlton's squad for the 2019 season.

Statistics are correct as of end of 2018 season. Flags represent the state of origin, i.e. the state in which the player played his Under-18s football.

Senior List
No. State Player Age AFL Debut Recruited from Career (to end 2018) 2019 Player Statistics
Gms Gls Gms Gls B D K HB M T HO
1 Victoria (state) Jack Silvagni 21 2016 Oakleigh (U18) 43 32 17 13 11 235 146 89 73 62 0
2 Victoria (state) Paddy Dow 19 2018 Bendigo (U18) 20 7 19 7 10 271 138 133 40 50 0
3 Victoria (state) Marc Murphy (lg) 31 2006 Oakleigh (U18) 249 173 19 12 3 483 279 204 88 65 0
4 Victoria (state) Lochie O'Brien 19 2018 Bendigo (U18) 18 2 17 7 4 211 159 52 80 19 0
5 Western Australia Sam Petrevski-Seton 20 2017 Claremont 42 15 22 4 4 420 245 175 87 96 0
6 Victoria (state) Kade Simpson (lg) 34 2003 Eastern (U18) 317 135 18 3 0 366 265 101 85 46 0
7 New South Wales Matthew Kennedy 21 2016 Collingullie-Glenfield Park, GWS 31 10 10 11 5 107 62 45 27 16 0
8 Victoria (state) Matthew Kreuzer 29 2008 Northern (U18) 173 89 15 5 5 196 127 69 30 34 467
9 Western Australia Patrick Cripps (c) 23 2014 East Fremantle 81 34 20 13 6 560 212 348 62 123 0
10 Victoria (state) Harry McKay 21 2017 Gippsland (U18) 15 24 20 26 30 207 161 46 125 32 20
11 Western Australia Mitch McGovern 24 2016 Claremont, Adelaide 48 67 16 22 11 136 96 40 60 24 0
12 Victoria (state) Tom de Koning 19 2018 Dandenong (U18) 2 1 – – – – – – – – –
13 Victoria (state) Liam Stocker 18 2019 Sandringham (U18) – – 5 0 0 68 42 26 12 9 0
14 Tasmania Liam Jones 27 2010 North Hobart, Western Bulldogs 112 84 13 0 0 116 87 29 62 29 0
15 Victoria (state) Sam Docherty (c) 25 2013 Gippsland (U18), Brisbane Lions 92 14 – – – – – – – – –
16 Victoria (state) Darcy Lang 23 2014 Geelong (U18), Geelong 55 37 8 5 5 63 44 19 24 24 0
18 Victoria (state) Sam Walsh 18 2019 Geelong (U18) – – 22 6 13 554 297 257 113 69 0
19 Victoria (state) Angus Schumacher 19 2019 Bendigo (U18) – – 1 0 0 13 10 3 4 0 0
20 Victoria (state) Lachie Plowman 24 2013 Calder (U18), GWS 73 1 21 0 0 305 220 85 96 48 0
21 Western Australia Jarrod Garlett 22 2015 South Fremantle, Gold Coast 28 15 2 0 0 22 15 7 5 7 0
22 Victoria (state) Caleb Marchbank 22 2015 Murray (U18), GWS 35 0 13 0 0 172 119 53 65 27 0
23 Victoria (state) Jacob Weitering 21 2016 Dandenong (U18) 56 10 20 0 0 264 199 65 115 29 0
24 Victoria (state) Nic Newman 25 2017 Frankston, Sydney 34 12 20 6 2 428 328 100 135 66 0
25 Western Australia Zac Fisher 20 2017 Perth 34 12 21 9 7 368 190 178 49 58 0
26 New South Wales Harrison Macreadie 20 2017 Henty 8 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 0
27 Victoria (state) Matthew Lobbe 29 2010 Eastern (U18), Port Adelaide 98 22 2 0 0 14 8 6 2 9 55
28 Victoria (state) David Cuningham 21 2016 Oakleigh (U18) 16 7 9 7 5 144 65 79 28 32 0
29 Victoria (state) Cameron Polson 20 2017 Sandringham (U18) 13 3 3 1 1 21 11 10 0 5 0
30 Victoria (state) Charlie Curnow 21 2016 Geelong (U18) 47 59 11 18 8 135 115 20 49 17 0
31 Victoria (state) Tom Williamson 21 2017 North Ballarat (U18) 15 1 2 0 0 23 12 11 6 3 0
32 Western Australia Alex Fasolo 26 2011 East Fremantle, Collingwood 101 133 3 2 0 20 11 9 6 8 0
33 Western Australia Jarrod Pickett 22 2017 South Fremantle, GWS 17 8 – – – – – – – – –
34 Tasmania Andrew Phillips 27 2012 Lauderdale, GWS 36 14 5 1 4 57 33 24 18 17 147
35 Victoria (state) Ed Curnow (lg) 29 2011 Geelong (U18), Adelaide, Box Hill 143 27 22 9 8 496 267 229 84 112 0
36 Victoria (state) Pat Kerr 20 2018 Oakleigh (U18) 4 2 – – – – – – – – –
37 Victoria (state) Ben Silvagni 18 – Oakleigh (U18) – – – – – – – – – – –
38 Victoria (state) Finbar O'Dwyer 18 – Murray (18) – – – – – – – – – – –
39 Victoria (state) Dale Thomas 31 2006 Gippsland (U18), Collingwood 238 152 20 3 3 386 270 116 105 61 0
41 Victoria (state) Levi Casboult 28 2012 Dandenong (U18) 104 117 20 15 11 223 159 64 114 44 164
43 New South Wales Will Setterfield 20 2017 Sandringham (U18), GWS 2 0 18 6 12 297 183 114 58 56 0
Rookie List[11]
No. State Player Age AFL Debut Recruited from Career (to end 2018) 2019 Player Statistics
Gms Gls Gms Gls B D K HB M T HO
40 Victoria (state) Tomas Bugg 25 2012 Gippsland (U18), GWS, Melbourne 96 34 – – – – – – – – –
40 Victoria (state) Michael Gibbons 23 2019 Williamstown – – 21 16 14 308 196 112 69 57 0
42 South Australia Kym LeBois 19 – North Adelaide – – – – – – – – – – –
44 Victoria (state) Matthew Owies 21 – St Kevin's, Seattle Redhawks – – – – – – – – – – –
45 Victoria (state) Hugh Goddard 22 2015 Geelong (U18), St Kilda 10 1 2 0 0 12 8 4 3 3 0
46 Victoria (state) Matthew Cottrell 18 – Dandenong (U18) – – – – – – – – – – –
47 Western Australia Josh Deluca 23 2017 Subiaco, Fremantle 4 2 6 4 1 71 31 40 13 23 0
Senior coaching panel[12]
State Coach Coaching position Carlton Coaching debut Former clubs as coach
Tasmania Brendon Bolton Senior Coach
(Rds 1–11)		 2016 North Hobart (s), Tasmania (VFL) (s), Clarence (s), Box Hill (s), Hawthorn (a)
Victoria (state) David Teague Assistant coach (Forwards)
Caretaker senior coach (Rds 12-23)		 2008 Carlton (d), Northern Bullants (s), West Coast (a), St Kilda (a), Adelaide (a)
Victoria (state) John Barker Assistant coach (stoppages) 2011 St Kilda (a), Hawthorn (a)
Victoria (state) Cameron Bruce Assistant coach (midfield) 2018 Hawthorn (a)
Victoria (state) Dale Amos Assistant coach (defence) 2016 South Barwon (s), Geelong (a), Geelong reserves (s)
Victoria (state) Shane Watson Development coach (Defenders) 2016 Lower Plenty (s), Sandringham (U18) (a), Eastern (U18) (s), North Melbourne (a)
Victoria (state) Josh Fraser Development coach (Stoppages), Northern Blues senior coach 2016 Gold Coast reserves (s)
Victoria (state) Jason Davenport Development coach (Forwards) 2018 North Shore (s)
Victoria (state) Brent Stanton Development coach (Midfield) 2018
Victoria (state) Saverio Rocca Specialist coach (goalkicking) 2017
New South Wales Hamish McIntosh Specialist coach (ruck) 2019
  • For players: (c) denotes captain, (vc) denotes vice-captain, (dvc) denotes deputy vice-captain, (lg) denotes leadership group.
  • For coaches: (s) denotes senior coach, (cs) denotes caretaker senior coach, (a) denotes assistant coach, (d) denotes development coach, (m) denotes managerial or administrative role in a football or coaching department

Playing list changes

The following summarises all player changes which occurred after the 2018 season. Unless otherwise noted, draft picks refer to selections in the 2018 National Draft.

The most notable feature of the club's recruiting was the bold live draft pick trade it made with Adelaide in the National Draft. Carlton was keen to draft Liam Stocker, the 2018 Morrish Medallist whom it rated as the sixth-best draft prospect; and when he was yet to be selected in the later stages of the first round, Carlton set about arranging a trade, offering to swap 2019 first round selections with higher-ranking clubs in exchange for a low 2018 selection. After seeing Xavier Duursma selected by Port Adelaide with the No. 18 selection, Adelaide, who had wanted to recruit Duursma, agreed to the live trade. It was the first live trade in AFL Draft history after rule changes for this season allowed the practice.[13]

For the early part of the season, the bold decision looked likely to backfire badly, and as late as Round 13, Adelaide was sitting in the top four while Carlton was on the bottom of the ladder, opening the possibility that it would lose the 2019 No. 1 selection in the deal. However, Carlton's stronger end-of-season form saw it rise to 16th, and Adelaide lost seven of its last nine games to fall to 11th; and when the teams entered the 2019 National Draft, Carlton had effectively traded pick No. 4 for pick No. 9 and Stocker.[13] Carlton ultimately traded pick 9 as well, turning the 2019 No. 4 pick into three late first round selections: Stocker (No. 19, 2018), Brodie Kemp (No. 17, 2019) and Sam Philp (No. 20, 2019).[14]

In

Player Former Club League via
Western Australia Alex Fasolo Collingwood AFL Unrestricted free agency signing; Collingwood received a third round compensation draft pick[15]
Western Australia Mitch McGovern Adelaide AFL AFL trade period. In a three-way trade among Carlton, Adelaide and Sydney, Carlton received McGovern and Adelaide's third-round draft selection in the 2019 draft; and sent one of the club's priority mature age player pre-listing concessions and its fifth-round selection in the 2019 National Draft to Adelaide; and two second-round draft selections (provisionally No. 24 and 26) to Sydney.[16]
New South Wales Will Setterfield Greater Western Sydney AFL AFL trade period, received along with a fourth-round draft selection (provisionally No. 71), in exchange for a third round draft selection (provisionally No. 43) and Carlton's second-round draft pick in the 2019 National Draft.[17]
Victoria (state) Matthew Owies Seattle University NCAA Category B rookie selection, (basketball).[18]
Victoria (state) Nic Newman Sydney AFL AFL trade period, in exchange for Carlton's fourth-round draft pick in the 2019 National Draft.[19]
Victoria (state) Sam Walsh Geelong (U18) TAC Cup AFL National Draft, first round selection (No. 1 overall)[20]
Victoria (state) Liam Stocker Sandringham (U18) TAC Cup AFL National Draft, first round selection (No. 19 overall)[20]
Victoria (state) Finbar O'Dwyer Murray (U18) TAC Cup AFL National Draft, fourth round selection (No. 66 overall)[20]
Victoria (state) Ben Silvagni Oakleigh (U18) TAC Cup AFL National Draft, fifth round selection (No. 70 overall). (Father–son rule eligible, but not bid on by other clubs)[20]
Victoria (state) Hugh Goddard St Kilda AFL AFL Rookie Draft, first round selection (No. 1 overall).[20]
Victoria (state) Tomas Bugg Melbourne AFL AFL Rookie Draft, second round selection (No. 19 overall).[20]
Victoria (state) Michael Gibbons Williamstown VFL Pre-season supplemental selection period.[21]
Victoria (state) Matt Cottrell Dandenong (U18) VFL Pre-season supplemental selection period.[21]
Western Australia Josh Deluca Subiaco WAFL AFL Midseason Draft, first round selection (No. 1 overall).[22]

Out

Player New Club League via
Victoria (state) Alex Silvagni Retired after the 2018 season.[23]
Victoria (state) Cam O'Shea University Blues[24] VAFA Delisted after the 2018 season.[25]
Victoria (state) Aaron Mullett Mooroolbark[26] EFL Delisted after the 2018 season.[25]
Victoria (state) Matt Shaw Southport[27] NEAFL Delisted from the rookie list after the 2018 season.[25]
Western Australia Jesse Glass-McCasker Swan Districts[28] WAFL Delisted from the rookie list after the 2018 season.[25]
South Australia Matthew Wright Adelaide reserves[29] SANFL Retired after the 2018 season.[30]
Republic of Ireland Ciarán Byrne Louth GAA GAA Retired after the 2018 season.[31]
Republic of Ireland Cillian McDaid Galway GAA GAA Retired after the 2018 season.[31]
New South Wales Sam Rowe St Kilda[32] AFL Delisted after the trade period.[33]
Victoria (state) Jed Lamb Bentleigh[34] SFNL Delisted after the trade period.[33]
Victoria (state) Sam Kerridge White Hills[35] Heathcote District FNL Delisted after the trade period.[33]
Victoria (state) Nick Graham Darley[36] Ballarat FL Delisted after the trade period.[33]
Victoria (state) Tomas Bugg Retired in February 2019.[37]
Western Australia Jarrod Pickett Retired in June 2019.[38]

List management

Player Change
Priority draft pick After requesting a priority draft pick after the 2018 season, Carlton was granted priority access to pre-list up to two mature aged players from state league clubs.[39]
AFL Trade Period Received a third round draft pick (provisionally No. 42) from Geelong in exchange for one of the club's priority mature age player pre-listing concessions.[40]
2018 National Draft live trading Gained a first round draft selection (No. 19) from Adelaide in exchange for the two clubs swapping first-round selections in the 2019 National Draft.[41]
2018 National Draft live trading Traded a fourth-round selection (No. 64) to Adelaide in exchange for a lower fourth-round selection (No. 67) and Adelaide's fifth-round selection in the 2019 AFL Draft;[42] then on-traded the No. 67 selection to St Kilda in exchange for a fifth-round selection (No. 75) and St Kilda's fourth-round selection in the 2019 National Draft.[43]

Season summary

Pre-season

The club played two full-length practice matches as part of the JLT Community Series.

Date and local time Opponent Scores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold) Venue Attendance
Home Away Result
Thursday, 28 February (6:40 pm) Essendon 15.10 (100) 14.7 (91) Won by 9 points[44] Ikon Park (H) 8,215
Monday, 11 March (2:10 pm) Collingwood 11.11 (77) 10.13 (73) Lost by 4 points[45] Morwell Recreation Reserve (A) 6,386

Home and away season

Rd Date and local time Opponent Scores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold) Venue Attendance Ladder
position
Home Away Result
1 Thursday, 21 March (7:20 pm) Richmond 9.10 (64) 14.13 (97) Lost by 33 points[46] Melbourne Cricket Ground (H) 85,016 14th
2 Saturday, 30 March (4:10 pm) Port Adelaide 11.6 (72) 13.10 (88) Lost by 16 points[47] Adelaide Oval (A) 41,552 15th
3 Saturday, 6 April (1:45 pm) Sydney 10.14 (74) 14.9 (93) Lost by 19 points[48] Marvel Stadium (H) 39,290 16th
4 Sunday, 14 April (2:40 pm) Gold Coast 8.11 (59) 8.9 (57) Lost by 2 points[49] Metricon Stadium (A) 14,176 18th
5 Sunday, 21 April (1:10 pm) Western Bulldogs 7.15 (57) 15.11 (101) Won by 44 points[50] Marvel Stadium (A) 35,069 15th
6 Sunday, 28 April (3:20 pm) Hawthorn 13.15 (93) 13.10 (88) Lost by 5 points[51] University of Tasmania Stadium (A) 15,888 15th
7 Sunday, 5 May (1:10 pm) North Melbourne 8.14 (62) 18.12 (120) Lost by 58 points[52] Marvel Stadium (H) 42,430 17th
8 Saturday, 11 May (1:45 pm) Collingwood 13.9 (87) 16.10 (106) Lost by 19 points[53] Melbourne Cricket Ground (H) 69,289 18th
9 Sunday, 19 May (4:40 pm) GWS 20.18 (138) 7.3 (45) Lost by 93 points[54] GIANTS Stadium (A) 9,599 18th
10 Sunday, 26 May (3:20 pm) St Kilda 9.14 (68) 8.7 (55) Lost by 13 points[55] Marvel Stadium (A) 35,058 18th
11 Sunday, 2 June (3:20 pm) Essendon 11.8 (74) 4.9 (33) Lost by 41 points[56] Melbourne Cricket Ground (A) 50,423 18th
12 Saturday, 8 June (1:45 pm) Brisbane Lions 11.12 (78) 9.9 (63) Won by 15 points[57] Marvel Stadium (H) 32,211 18th
13 Saturday, 15 June (7:25 pm) Western Bulldogs 15.10 (100) 15.13 (103) Lost by 3 points[58] Marvel Stadium (H) 35,479 18th
14 Bye 18th
15 Sunday, 30 June (3:20 pm) Fremantle 11.9 (75) 11.13 (79) Won by 4 points[59] Optus Stadium (A) 37,293 17th
16 Sunday, 7 July (1:10 pm) Melbourne 15.10 (100) 15.15 (105) Lost by 5 points[60] Melbourne Cricket Ground (H) 55,593 17th
17 Saturday, 13 July (1:45 pm) Sydney 8.14 (62) 9.15 (69) Won by 7 points[61] Sydney Cricket Ground (A) 32,570 17th
18 Saturday, 20 July (2:10 pm) Gold Coast 15.9 (99) 11.9 (75) Won by 24 points[62] Marvel Stadium (H) 31,765 16th
19 Saturday, 27 July (2:10 pm) Adelaide 13.9 (87) 9.6 (60) Won by 27 points[63] Melbourne Cricket Ground (H) 38,369 16th
20 Sunday, 4 August (3:20 pm) West Coast 11.9 (75) 15.9 (99) Lost by 24 points[64] Marvel Stadium (H) 32,802 16th
21 Sunday, 11 August (3:20 pm) Richmond 11.7 (73) 6.9 (45) Lost by 28 points[65] Melbourne Cricket Ground (A) 51,039 16th
22 Saturday, 17 August (1:45 pm) St Kilda 11.12 (78) 10.8 (68) Won by 10 points[66] Melbourne Cricket Ground (H) 51,786 16th
23 Saturday, 24 August (4:35 pm) Geelong 19.15 (129) 8.13 (61) Lost by 68 points[67] GMHBA Stadium (A) 31,669 16th

Awards, records and events

Game records
  • Round 5 – Carlton's score of 15.11 (101) against Western Bulldogs was its first score exceeding 100 points since Round 12, 2016, ending a streak of 59 consecutive games failing to score 100 points. It is the second-longest such streak in the club's history, exceeded only by a streak between 1897 and 1904 when scores above 100 were highly uncommon.[68]
  • Round 12 – Carlton's home win against Brisbane Lions was its first since Round 8, 2018, ending a club record streak of 11 consecutive home losses.[68]
Player records
  • Round 5 – Patrick Cripps recorded 32 handpasses against Western Bulldogs, the most ever by a Carlton player in a single game, breaking Greg Williams' 1994 record of 28.[69]
  • Round 19 – Patrick Cripps recorded 19 clearances against Adelaide, breaking his own record for most clearances ever by a Carlton player in a game, and the most by any player in the league since 2011.[69]

Individual awards

John Nicholls Medal

The Carlton Football Club Best and Fairest awards night took place on 4 October. The John Nicholls Medal, for the best and fairest player of the club, as well as several other awards, were presented on the night.[70]

John Nicholls Medal

The winner of the John Nicholls Medal was Patrick Cripps, who polled 143 votes. It was Cripps' third John Nicholls Medal, having won the medal previously in 2015 and 2018, and at 24 he became the youngest player ever to win the award three times (surpassing John Nicholls, who won his third at 26). Cripps won a close count ahead of Ed Curnow, who finished second with 138 votes, and Lachie Plowman, who finished third with 134 votes; it was the highest medal placing for both players.[70]

Pos.
 Player
 Votes
1st Patrick Cripps 143
2nd Ed Curnow 138
3rd Lachie Plowman 134
4th Sam Walsh 125
5th Levi Casboult 116
6th Jacob Weitering 110
7th Liam Jones 95
8th Marc Murphy 88
9th Kade Simpson 87
10th Sam Petrevski-Seton 68
Other awards

The following other awards were presented on John Nicholls Medal night:-[70]

  • Best First-Year Player – Sam Walsh
  • Best Clubman – Ed Curnow
  • Spirit of Carlton Award – Jacob Weitering
  • Bill Lanyon Inner Blue Ruthless Award – Patrick Cripps
  • Carltonians William A. Cook Award – Patrick Cripps
  • Coaches' Award – Levi Casboult

AFL Rising Star

Sam Walsh was the winner of the 2019 NAB AFL Rising Star award, making him the first Carlton player to win the award in the men's competition in its 27-year history. Walsh was nominated for the award in Round 4, and quickly became a strong favourite to win. He went on to poll 54 out of a possible 55 votes in the final count, meaning ten of the eleven judges placed him first and one placed him second. He won by 12 votes from second place getter Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide).[71] The strength of his performances and his ability to have an impact in games in only his first season was widely noted, and in the process he broke the record for most disposals in a season by a first year player.

Leading goalkickers

Harry McKay was Carlton's leading goalkicker for the season with 26 goals.[72] It was McKay's first time as Carlton's leading goalkicker. 2018 leading goalkicker Charlie Curnow finished third despite playing only eleven games due to injury.

Player Goals Behinds
Harry McKay 26 30
Mitch McGovern 22 11
Charlie Curnow 18 8
Michael Gibbons 16 14
Levi Casboult 15 11

Other

Honorific teams
  • Patrick Cripps was named in the centreline of the 2019 All-Australian team. It was Cripps' second consecutive time selected in the team.[73] He was the only Carlton player in the team, or in the original 40-man squad.[74]
  • Three Carlton players were named in the 22under22 team for the 2019 season: Harry McKay, Sam Walsh and Jacob Weitering.[75] Two other players, Zac Fisher and Sam Petrevski-Seton, were named in the original squad of 40, giving Carlton an equal league-high five nominees in the squad.[76]
AFLPA Awards

For each of the AFLPA awards, one or three Carlton players were nominated by an internal vote of Carlton players; Patrick Cripps and Sam Docherty were also nominated for the Best Captain award by default (despite Docherty not having played a game due to injury).[77]

Carlton had its strongest showing in the AFLPA awards in history, winning two and placing in third. Patrick Cripps won the Leigh Matthews Trophy as AFLPA Most Valuable Player for the first time in his career, finishing 313 votes ahead of Geelong's Tim Kelly; he also placed second in the Best Captain award with 128 votes, behind only West Coast's Shannon Hurn who polled 171. Sam Walsh was a runaway winner of the Best First Year Player award, polling more than three times as many votes as runner up Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide).[75]

Leigh Matthews Trophy (Most Valuable Player)
Robert Rose Award (Most Courageous Player)
Best First Year Player
Best Captain
Australian Football Hall of Fame

Women's teams

AFL Women's

Squad

After having finished last in the 2018 AFLW season, the club replaced inaugural coach Damien Keeping with former Carlton and Northern Bullants player Daniel Harford, who had been coached at Balwyn and St Kevins over the previous decade. Key recruitments to the Carlton AFLW squad were Amelia Mullane, traded from Collingwood, and Madison Prespakis and Abbie McKay in the draft – the latter being the daughter of club champion and administrator Andrew McKay.[79] Brianna Davey remained captain of the club for the second consecutive season; Katie Loynes was vice-captain.[80]

The club's 2019 squad is given below. The number of games played and goals scored in the 2019 season is given in parentheses.[81]

Carlton Football Club (AFL Women's)
Senior list Coaching staff

Head coach

Assistant coaches

Legend:
  • (c) Captain(s)
  • (vc) Vice-captain(s)

Updated: 29 December 2024
Source(s): Senior list, Coaching staff


Season summary

The AFL Women's competition expanded from eight clubs to ten in 2019; and to accommodate this within the seven week season, the clubs were split into two conferences of five teams each. Carlton, after losing its first two matches against Conference A opponents, finished the season with four wins from its last five, losing only in a close game to Conference B rival Geelong. This saw Carlton finish atop the ladder within Conference B, and saw the team qualify for the finals for the first time.

This conclusion to the season was not without controversy, as Carlton qualified with a record of 4–3 and a percentage of 99.6%, which was a poorer numerical record than both the Kangaroos and Melbourne who missed the finals from Conference A.[82]

Rd Date and local time Opponent Scores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold) Venue Attendance
Home Away Result
1 Sunday, 3 February (1:05 pm) Kangaroos 7.10 (52) 2.4 (16) Lost by 36 points[83] North Hobart Oval (A) 4,896
2 Sunday, 10 February (4:05 pm) Adelaide 7.2 (44) 9.3 (57) Lost by 13 points[84] Ikon Park (H) 3,150
3 Saturday, 16 February (4:45 pm) GWS 5.6 (36) 10.5 (65) Won by 29 points[85] Blacktown ISP Oval (A) 3,823
4 Saturday, 23 February (4:45 pm) Geelong 2.7 (19) 1.8 (14) Lost by 5 points[86] GMHBA Stadium (A) 7,060
5 Saturday, 2 March (7:15 pm) Collingwood 4.10 (34) 4.5 (29) Won by 5 points[87] Ikon Park (H) 3,215
6 Sunday, 10 March (4:05 pm) Brisbane 6.7 (43) 4.3 (27) Won by 16 points[88] Ikon Park (H) 2,900
7 Sunday, 17 March (4:05 pm) Western Bulldogs 5.8 (38) 6.5 (41) Won by 3 points[89] VU Whitten Oval (A) 9,609

Conference B
Pos Team
 Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts Qualification
1 Carlton 7 4 3 0 257 258 99.6 16 Preliminary finals
2 Geelong 7 3 4 0 154 235 65.5 12
3 Greater Western Sydney 7 2 5 0 208 295 70.5 8
4 Brisbane 7 2 5 0 193 274 70.4 8
5 Collingwood 7 1 6 0 162 243 66.7 4
Source: womens.afl
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
Finals

Finishing first in Conference B, Carlton qualified for the preliminary finals, hosting Fremantle, who had finished second in Conference A. Carlton dominated the preliminary final throughout, gaining a strong lead with a four-goals-to-none second quarter and maintaining that advantage to victory.[90]

This set up a Grand Final against Adelaide. After an even first quarter which saw Adelaide hold a nine-point quarter time lead, Adelaide proceeded to dominate the second quarter with six goals to Carlton's one, which opened a 40-point half time lead which effectively killed the contest. Only one goal was kicked after half time as Adelaide finished with a 45-point win.[91]

Rd Date and local time Opponent Scores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold) Venue Attendance
Home Away Result
Preliminary final Saturday, 23 March (2:45 pm) Fremantle 9.10 (64) 4.4 (28) Won by 36 points[90] Ikon Park (H) 7,146
Grand Final Sunday, 31 March(12:30 pm) Adelaide 10.3 (63) 2.6 (18) Lost by 45 points[91] Adelaide Oval (A) 53,034
Notable events
  • In Round 3 against GWS, Carlton scored its highest AFLW score ever, 10.5 (65).[85]
  • In Round 3 against GWS, Carlton won its first match since Round 2, 2018, ending a 7-game losing streak.[85]
  • A picture taken by AFL Media photographer Michael Willson of Tayla Harris kicking for goal in Round 7 became the target of sexual internet trolling after it was posted on social media by Seven Network.[92] Harris re-tweeted the photograph with the caption: "Here's a pic of me at work... think about this before your derogatory comments, animals," in what became an iconic symbol calling for changes in attitudes towards women's sportspeople.[92] Seven initially removed the photo, before reinstating it with an apology for yielding to the trolls instead of moderating them.[93] Willson later won the inaugural Women in Sport Photo Action Awards for the image.[94]
  • Carlton's preliminary final winning margin of 36 points against Fremantle was Carlton's greatest winning margin in AFLW history.[90]
  • The attendance of 53,034 at the Grand Final was, at the time, a record for any stand-alone women's sporting event in Australian history.[91] This was surpassed in March 2020 by the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Final; but, as of 2020, remains the highest crowd for a women's Australian football match.[95]
Awards

The following individual awards and honours were won by Carlton players:

VFL Women's

Carlton's VFL Women's team contested the VFL Women's competition for the second time, finishing twelfth out of thirteen teams with a win–loss record of 3–10–1.[101]

Northern Blues

The Carlton Football Club had a full affiliation with the Northern Blues during the 2019 season. It was the seventeenth (and ultimately, the last) season of the clubs' affiliation, which had been in place since 2003. Carlton senior- and rookie-listed players who were not selected to play in the Carlton team were eligible to play for the Northern Blues senior team in the Victorian Football League. The club's home matches were split between the VFL club's traditional home ground Preston City Oval, and Carlton's traditional home ground Ikon Park. The club finished tenth out of fifteen on the final ladder with a win–loss record of 7–11, missing the finals. Carlton-listed player Hugh Goddard won the Laurie Hill Trophy as Northern Blues' best and fairest.[102]

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