Craig Bradley

Craig Bradley
Personal information
Full name	Craig Edwin Bradley
Date of birth	(1963-10-23) 23 October 1963 (age 53)
Place of birth	Ashford, South Australia
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	81 kg (179 lb)
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1981–1985	Port Adelaide (SANFL)	98 (105)
1986–2002	Carlton (VFL/AFL)	375 (247) 473 (352) (Overall)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1983–1999	South Australia	19 (?)
International team honours
1984–2002	Australia	9 (?)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2002.
Career highlights
VFL/AFL 4× All-Australian team: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 3× Carlton Best and Fairest: 1986, 1988, 1993 2× VFL/AFL premiership: 1987, 1995 Michael Tuck Medal: 1997 Carlton games record holder: (375) Carlton Captain: 1998–2001 Carlton Hall of Fame: Legend Status Carlton Team of the Century – wing SANFL 3× Port Adelaide Best and Fairest: 1982, 1984, 1985 SANFL premiership: 1981 South Australian Football Hall of Fame Port Adelaide Team of the Century – wing Representative 2× National Football Carnival Championship: 1988, 1993 3× All-Australian team: 1983, 1985, 1986 4× Fos Williams Medal: 1985, 1986, 1991, 1993 Simpson Medal: 1985 South Australia captain Overall Australian Football Hall of Fame Australian football senior games record holder: (501)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

375 (247)

VFL/AFL

SANFL

Representative

Overall

Craig Edwin Bradley (born 23 October 1963) is a former professional Australian rules footballer and first class cricketer. He is the games record holder at the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League. Bradley is the all-time record holder for top level Australian Rules Football league games played with 473 played in his AFL/VFL/SANFL career.

Born in Ashford in suburban Adelaide, Bradley made his senior football debut in 1981 as a seventeen-year-old for Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), which proved to be Port's third premiership season in a row. In his second season, Bradley won Port Adelaide's Best and Fairest award, and won two more, in 1984 and 1985; and, he was runner-up for the Magarey Medal in 1985.Victorian Football League (VFL) club Essendon approached Bradley in 1981, but Bradley turned down the offer, wishing to remain in South Australia with Port Adelaide and to build on his promising cricket career. After 98 games with Port Adelaide, Bradley was recruited by VFL club Carlton in 1986 as part of a recruiting drive that also netted future captain Stephen Kernahan and Peter Motley.

Bradley had already played first class cricket for South Australia and various Australian junior sides and at first continued to play cricket for Victoria, although the increasing demands of football led him to retire from cricket after four first-class games. He played grade cricket for Port Adelaide until 1987/88 (originally returning to South Australia each summer after the football season to do so), and from 1988/89 until his retirement from cricket after the 1991/92 season, he played district cricket in Victoria for the Melbourne Cricket Club. Bradley holds the distinction as the last active VFL/AFL player to win a Victorian district cricket premiership, achieving the feat in 1988/89, and had an agreement with the Carlton Football Club that district cricket finals took precedence over early season home-and-away football games if there was a clash.

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