PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MAY 12: Sydney Stack of the Tigers handballs during the round eight AFL match between the Fremantle Dockers and the Richmond Tigers at Optus Stadium on May 12, 2019 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Former Richmond player Sydney Stack is reportedly set to face court early next month after being charged with a string of driving offences.

Stack was delisted by the Tigers at the end of last season after four years at Punt Road, where he played 35 games for the Victorian club.

The 22-year-old would appear in two games in his final season with Richmond, one as an unused medical sub.

The young utility has since returned home to Western Australia and is understood to have trained with WAFL outfit the Perth Demons over the course of the off-season as he looks to keep his AFL dream alive.

According to The Herald Sun, Stack will be needing to make a return to Melbourne next month for a mention hearing relating to six driving offences.

Charges include drink driving, driving without a license and driving an unregistered vehicle, as well as two counts of driving against a red traffic light.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 12: Sydney Stack of the Tigers takes part during a Richmond Tigers AFL training session at Punt Road Oval on September 12, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

He will face the Melbourne Magistrates Court on February 1.

The charges come after an AFL career that saw Stack embroiled in off-field controversies on multiple occasions during his four seasons with the Tigers.

In 2020 both Stack and Richmond teammate Callum Coleman-Jones were handed 10-game suspensions after being involved in a brawl on the Gold Coast during the league's time in a Queensland hub to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Both players were caught by CCTV on public streets - breaching the league's strict COVID protocols policy.

Later that year Stack spent 21 days behind bars after being arrested by police in WA. After police handed him a move-on notice for disorderly conduct they realised he was supposed to be self-isolating after recently arriving from another state.

Stack spent Christmas in jail and would be fined $6000 in 2021 for breaching WA's quarantine rules.