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Essendon Bombers

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Team Details

Established	1871
Home Ground	Etihad Stadium
Captain	Dyson Heppell
Coach	John Worsfield
Premierships	16 (1897, 1901, 1911, 1912, 1923, 1924, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1962, 1965, 1984, 1985, 1993, 2000)
Wooden Spoons	5 (1907, 1918, 1921, 1933, 2016)
Brownlow Medals	Dick Reynolds (1934, 1937, 1938), Bill Hutchison (tied 1952, 1953), Graham Moss (1976), Gavin Wanganeen (1993), James Hird (tied 1996)
Norm Smith Medals	Billy Duckworth (1984), Simon Madden (1985), Michael Long (1993), James Hird (2000)
Coleman Medals	Ron Evans (1959, 1960), Ted Fordham (1966), Matthew Lloyd (2000, 2001, 2003)
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2020 Player Movements

2020 Gains None
2020 Losses David Myers (retired)
Re-Signed Patrick Ambrose (2021), Dylan Clarke (2021), Sam Draper (2023), Darcy Parish (2021), Brandon Zerk-Thatcher (2021)
Off Contract 2019 Mark Baguley, Mitch Brown, Zac Clarke, Matt Dea, Aaron Francis, Matt Guelfi, Michael Hartley, Jordan Houlahan, Thomas Jok, Luke Lavender, Jake Long, Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti, Ben McNiece, Trent Mynott, Mason Redman, Will Snelling

2019 Playing Squad

Player	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
AMBROSE, Patrick	✔	✔	✔
BAGULEY, Mark	✔
BEGLEY, Joshua	✔	✔
BELLCHAMBERS, Tom	✔	✔
BROWN, Mitch	✔
CLARKE, Dylan	✔	✔	✔
CLARKE, Zac	✔
DANIHER, Joe	✔	✔
DEA, Matt	✔
DRAPER, Sam	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
FANTASIA, Orazio	✔	✔	✔
FRANCIS, Aaron	✔
GLEESON, Martin	✔	✔
GOWN, Noah	✔	✔
GUELFI, Matt	✔
HAM, Brayden	✔	✔
HARTLEY, Michael	✔
HEPPELL, Dyson (c)	✔	✔
HOOKER, Cale	✔	✔	✔
HOULAHAN, Jordan	✔
HURLEY, Michael	✔	✔	✔	✔
JOK, Thomas	✔
LANGFORD, Kyle	✔	✔
LAVENDER, Luke	✔
LAVERDE, Jayden	✔	✔
LONG, Jake	✔
MCDONALD-TIPUNGWUTI, Anthony	✔
MCGRATH, Andrew	✔	✔
MCKENNA, Conor	✔	✔	✔
MCKERNAN, Shaun	✔	✔
MCNIECE, Ben	✔
MERRETT, Zach	✔	✔	✔
MOSQUITO, Irving	✔	✔
MUTCH, Kobe	✔	✔
MYERS, David	✔
MYNOTT, Trent	✔
PARISH, Darcy	✔	✔	✔
REDMAN, Mason	✔
RIDLEY, Jordan	✔	✔
SAAD, Adam	✔	✔
SHIEL, Dylan	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
SMITH, Devon	✔	✔	✔
SNELLING, Will	✔
STEWART, James	✔	✔
STRINGER, Jake	✔	✔	✔
ZAHARAKIS, David	✔	✔	✔
ZERK-THATCHER, Brandon	✔	✔	✔