Injuries are part of the game and always has a negative impact on an AFL team, however some clubs just get hit harder with the injury stick than others.
Carlton, who have lost Matthew Kreuzer, Matthew Kennedy and Jacob Weitering in the past week alone for their round five match have been slugging it out this season, with their best players continuing to drop.
On the other side of the coin, a team like Richmond has only seen one premiership player, Daniel Rioli miss signification action due to injury, which holds them in good stead in terms of selection flexibility and staying at almost full strength.
Afl.com.au have ranked all the AFL teams by 'games lost to injury', which is essentially tallying all the games players have had to be declared unavailable throughout the season.
Where does your team rank?
- Carlton - 30 games lost
- Collingwood - 28 games lost
- GWS Giants - 28 games lost
- Adelaide Crows - 27 games lost
- Western Bulldogs - 26 games lost
- Essendon - 23 games lost
- Geelong Cats - 22 games lost
- Fremantle - 21 games lost
- West Coast Eagles - 17 games lost
- Hawthorn - 16 games lost
- Sydney Swans - 15 games lost
- Gold Coast Suns - 14 games lsot
- North Melbourne - 14 games lost
- Brisbane Lions - 13 games lost
- Melbourne - 13 games lost
- Port Adelaide - 12 games lost
- St Kilda - 12 games lost
- Richmond - 9 games lost
