We spent our time productively during the cancelled 2020 season and delved into the history books to find out some interesting info and stats in relation to the great game of Victorian country footy.

Since the first VFL season in 1897, footballers from the country have been involved in the 'big league', so we thought, which country footy club has produced the most VFL/AFL footballers? We trawled through lists of every player to ever play VFL/AFL to find out those who were recruited from Victorian country clubs.

There are a couple of things you need to know regarding how we created our list and therefore our numbers.

• We checked the lists of every player to play at least 1 game of VFL/AFL.
• Our list also includes those who were drafted since 1987 but may not have played a game of VFL/AFL. 
• The list includes players we know who were recruited before the drafts began, but didn't play any VFL/AFL
  games.
• 2020 draftees are included.

While we think our list is pretty close to being complete, we do know we may have missed players as we had no record of where they were recruited from prior to 1987 and the implementation of the national draft.

To simplify things, as there have been many clubs that have merged or changed names since their inception, we have simply recorded the player under the club they were originally recruited or drafted from. 

Complete List