AFL retirements 2024: All the players who will hang up the boots this year

Kieran Francis

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Several AFL superstars have called time on their careers either during or at the conclusion of the 2024 season.

Led by Richmond icon Dustin Martin and Tom Hawkins, most of these players were celebrated during a lap of honour at the MCG on grand final day.

The Sporting News lists all the retired AFL players in 2024.

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Adelaide 

Rory Sloane

Games: 255

Goals: 136

Honours:

All Australian (2016)

Brisbane 

Joe Daniher

Games: 204

Essendon (108)
Brisbane (96)

Goals: 395

Honours:

AFL Premiership Player (2024)
All Australian (2017)

Jarryd Lyons

Games: 194

Adelaide (55)
Gold Coast (102)
Brisbane (37)

Goals: 86

Carlton

None

Collingwood 

Josh Carmichael

Games: 8

Nathan Murphy 

Games: 57

Honours: 

AFL Premiership Player (2023)

Essendon

Dyson Heppell

Games: 253

Goals: 68

Honours: 

Rising Star (2011)
All-Australian (2014)

Jake Kelly

Games: 168

Adelaide (110)
Essendon (58)

Goals: 4

Fremantle 

Josh Corbett

Games: 41

Gold Coast (36)

Fremantle (5)

Goals: 36

Geelong 

Tom Hawkins

Games: 359

Goals: 796

Honours: 

AFL Premiership Player (2009, 2011, 2022)
Coleman Medal (2020)
All-Australian (2012, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)

Zach Tuohy

Games: 288

Carlton (120)
Geelong (166)

Goals: 101

Honours: 

AFL Premiership Player (2022)
Coleman Medal (2020)
All-Australian (2012, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)

Gold Coast 

Brandon Ellis

Games: 251

Gold Coast (75)
Richmond (176)

Goals: 85

Honours:

AFL Premiership Player (2017, 2019)

Greater Western Sydney 

Adam Kennedy

Games: 153

Goals: 14

Hawthorn

Chad Wingard

Games: 218

Port Adelaide (147)
Richmond (71)

Goals: 300

Honours:

All Australian (2013, 2015)

Melbourne 

Angus Brayshaw

Games: 167

Goals: 49

Honours:

Ian Stewart Medal (2021)

Ben Brown

Games: 175

North Melbourne (130)
Melbourne (45)

Goals: 360

Honours:

AFL Premiership Player (2021)

Lachie Hunter

Games: 199

Western Bulldogs (173)
Melbourne (26)

Goals: 80

Honours:

AFL Premiership Player (2016)

North Melbourne

Hugh Greenwood

Games: 121

Adelaide (51)
Gold Coast (32)
North Melbourne (38)

Goals: 52

Liam Shiels

Games: 288

Hawthorn (255)
North Melbourne (32)

Goals: 97

Honours:

AFL Premiership Player (2013, 2014, 2015)

Port Adelaide

Charlie Dixon

Games: 221

Gold Coast (65)
Port Adelaide (156)

Goals: 357

Honours:

All Australian (2020)

Trent McKenzie

Games: 165

Gold Coast (106)
Port Adelaide (59)

Goals: 23

Richmond 

Dylan Grimes

Games: 234

Goals: 3

Honours:

AFL Premiership Player (2017, 2019, 2020)
All Australian (2019)
Robert Rose Award (2019)

Dustin Martin

Games: 302

Goals: 338

Honours:

AFL Premiership Player (2017, 2019, 2020)
Norm Smith Medal (2017, 2019, 2020)
Brownlow Medal (2017)
All Australian (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)

Sam Naismith

Games: 33

Sydney (30)
Richmond (3)

Goals: 3

Marlion Pickett

Games: 91

Goals: 27

Honours:

AFL Premiership Player (2019, 2020)

St Kilda

None

Sydney 

Sam Reid

Games: 181

Goals: 183

Honours: 

AFL Premiership Player (2012)

West Coast 

Andrew Gaff

Games: 280

Goals: 84

Honours:

All-Australian (2015, 2018)

Western Bulldogs 

Aiden O'Driscoll

Games: 0

Kieran Francis

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Kieran Francis is a senior editor at The Sporting News based in Melbourne, Australia. He started at Sportal.com.au before being a part of the transition to Sporting News in 2015. Just prior to the 2018 World Cup, he was appointed chief editor of Goal.com in Australia. He has now returned to The Sporting News where his passions lay in football, AFL, poker and cricket - when he is not on holiday.