2010 All-Australian team

The 2010 All-Australian team represents the best performed Australian Football League (AFL) players for the 2010 season. It was announced on 13 September 2010, as a complete Australian rules football team of 22 players and a coach. An initial squad of 40 players was previously announced on 30 August 2010. The team is an honorary and does not actually play any games.

The selection panel for the 2010 All-Australian team was Andrew Demetriou (chairman), Adrian Anderson, Kevin Bartlett, Gerard Healy, James Hird, Glen Jakovich, Mark Ricciuto and Robert Walls. Healy and Walls both announced their retirement from the panel and therefore the 2010 season was their last as selectors. It was also Hird's last season as a selector, as he became coach of Essendon in 2011.

The 2010 All-Australian team was announced on 13 September 2010. Six of the 22 players were Geelong players, with four players coming from minor premiers Collingwood, while St Kilda, Melbourne, the Western Bulldogs and Hawthorn had two players each and Fremantle, Richmond, West Coast and Carlton all had a lone representative. This meant that Sydney, Brisbane, Essendon, Adelaide, Port Adelaide and North Melbourne were not represented in the final 22. Players to make the squad for the first time were James Frawley, Harry Taylor, Harry O'Brien, Jack Riewoldt, Mark LeCras, Mark Jamar and Scott Pendlebury. No current team captains were named on the field (Chris Judd, captain of Carlton, was named on the bench) and so the selectors named Hawthorn vice-captain Luke Hodge as the captain and 2009 Brownlow Medallist Gary Ablett as vice-captain, though he was neither a captain or vice-captain at the time.

Of the 18 players from the squad of 40 who missed out, the non-selections of St Kilda's Lenny Hayes, Fremantle's Matthew Pavlich, Melbourne's Brad Green and 2008 Brownlow Medal winner Adam Cooney were considered the most contentious. Hayes, in particular, was considered a surprise, with St Kilda team mate and All-Australian wingman Leigh Montagna saying "I was very surprised Lenny wasn't in the team... I pencilled him in for a captain or vice-captain. It's a big shock". Pavlich's non-selection also raised some eyebrows, with many experts predicting that the Fremantle captain would be selected in what would have been his seventh All-Australian side.

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