Jason Dunstall

Jason Dunstall
Personal information
Full name	Jason Hadfield Dunstall
Date of birth	(1964-08-14) 14 August 1964 (age 52)
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland
Original team(s)	Coorparoo
Height / weight	188 cm / 100 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1985–1998	Hawthorn	269 (1254)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1988–1989	Victoria	4 (10)
1992–1993	Queensland	2 (14)
1996	Allies	1 (0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1998.
Career highlights
Club 4× VFL/AFL premiership player: 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991 AFLPA MVP (Leigh Matthews Trophy): 1992 3× Coleman Medal: 1988, 1989, 1992 2× All-Australian team: 1992, 1993, 1994 4× Peter Crimmins Memorial Trophy: 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993 12× Hawthorn leading goalkicker: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998 Hawthorn captain: 1995–1998 Australian Football Hall of Fame Hawthorn Hall of Fame – legend status Hawthorn Team of the Century (forward pocket) Representative E. J. Whitten Medal: 1989 Simpson Medal: 1989 Captain of the Allies
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Club

Representative

Jason Hadfield Dunstall (born 14 August 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Arguably the greatest Australian rules footballer to come from Queensland, Dunstall made his name as a full-forward at a time when great full-forwards graced the field. His contemporaries included Tony Lockett, Gary Ablett Sr and Tony Modra. He is one of only five players to have kicked over 1,000 career goals in the VFL/AFL, and only Lockett and Collingwood's Gordon Coventry have kicked more career goals. In an interview in 2011, champion North Melbourne footballer Wayne Carey regarded Dunstall as the best player he had seen and played against.

Dunstall was born and raised in Brisbane. He attended the Anglican Church Grammar School from 1977 to 1981. At school he played soccer as a goalkeeper and also rugby union.

His junior football was spent playing with the Coorparoo Football Club in the then Queensland Australian Football League.

At 188 cm, Dunstall was not an overly tall full-forward and was not known for taking overhead marks. Instead, he often used his explosive pace off the mark to lead into space, which enabled him to take trademark chest marks and diving marks. At other times, he used his stocky 100-kilogram frame to outbody opponents.

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