Recycled AFL players: Which players are at new clubs for 2025?

Kieran Francis

Recycled AFL players: Which players are at new clubs for 2025? image

Following the AFL player movement and draft periods, several AFL players have joined new job for another chance or new opportunities.

Recycled players can form the backbone of a club's strength, just ask Hawthorn with the likes of Jarman Impey, Karl Amon, Sam Frost, Jack Scrimshaw, Massimo D'Ambrosio, Lloyd Meek, Mabior Chol and Jack Ginnivan, while they have added Tom Barrass and Josh Battle for 2025.

Which players did your AFL club nab from another team?

The Sporting News lists all the ex-AFL players on the move for 2025.

AFL DRAFT NEWS: 

 Adelaide

AFL Free Agency

Isaac Cumming (GWS)

AFL Trade

Alex Neal Bullen (Melbourne)

James Peatling (GWS)

Brisbane

AFL Pre-Season Draft

Sam Day (Gold Coast)

Carlton

AFL Free Agency

Nick Haynes (GWS)

Collingwood

AFL Free Agency

Harry Perryman (GWS)

Tim Membrey (St Kilda)

AFL Trade

Dan Houston (Port Adelaide)

Essendon

None

Fremantle

AFL Trade

Shai Bolton (Richmond)

Geelong

AFL Free Agency

Jack Martin (Carlton)

AFL Trade

Bailey Smith (Western Bulldogs)

Gold Coast

AFL Free Agency

Elliot Himmelberg (Adelaide)

AFL Trade

Dan Rioli (Richmond)

John Noble (Collingwood)

AFL Rookie Draft

Max Knobel (Fremantle)

GWS

AFL Trade

Jake Stringer (Essendon)

Hawthorn

AFL Free Agency

Josh Battle (St Kilda)

AFL Trade

Tom Barrass (West Coast)

Melbourne

AFL Free Agency

Tom Campbell (St Kilda)

AFL Trade

Harry Sharp (Brisbane)

North Melbourne

AFL Trade

Jack Darling (West Coast)

Caleb Daniel (Western Bulldogs)

Luke Parker (Sydney)

Jacob Konstanty (Sydney)

Port Adelaide

AFL Trade

Jack Lukosius (Gold Coast)

Rory Atkins (Gold Coast)

Joe Richards (Collingwood)

Richmond

None

St Kilda

AFL Free Agency

Jack Carroll (Carlton)

AFL Trade

Jack Macrae (Western Bulldogs)

Sydney

AFL Rookie Draft

Ben Paton (St Kilda)

West Coast

AFL Free Agency

Jack Graham (Richmond)

AFL Trade

Liam Baker (Richmond)

Matt Owies (Carlton)

Western Bulldogs

AFL Trade

Matthew Kennedy (Carlton)

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.