Tim Kelly (footballer)

Tim Kelly
Personal information
Date of birth (1994-07-26) 26 July 1994
Original team(s) South Fremantle (WAFL)
Draft No. 24, 2017 national draft
Debut Round 1, 2018, Geelong
vs. Melbourne, at MCG
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb)
Position(s) Midfielder / forward
Club information
Current club Geelong
Number 11
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2018– Geelong 23 (24)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2018.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Tim Kelly (born 26 July 1994) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the West Coast Eagles Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a midfielder. He requested a trade to the West Coast Eagles at the end of the 2018 season due to personal reasons.

Kelly is from Perth and played his junior football for Palmyra. He has an Indigenous Australian father and a Chilean mother.[1] He made his senior WAFL debut for the South Fremantle Football Club in 2013. He was runner-up in the club best and fairest in 2014.[2] During the 2017 WAFL season he finished runner-up in the Sandover Medal to Haiden Schloithe.[3] Before being drafted into the AFL, Kelly was an apprentice electrician. He has three children with his partner Caitlin Miller.[4]

Kelly was drafted by Geelong with their second selection and twenty-fourth overall in the 2017 national draft.[5] He made his debut in the three point win against Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the opening round of the 2018 season.[6] In 2018 at the AFL Players'Association Awards he was voted Best First Year Player by fellow players.

At the end of 2018, Kelly requested a trade to West Coast.

References

  1. ↑ AFL draft: South Fremantle star Tim Kelly ripe for the picking
  2. ↑ Tim Kelly WAFL statistics
  3. ↑ New recruit Tim Kelly fits the Cats to a T
  4. ↑ Will it be a case of 'sixth time lucky' for South Fremantle star Tim Kelly at AFL draft?
  5. ↑ Reid, Russell (25 November 2017). "AFL draft 2017: Cats pounce on Tim Kelly, the Bulldog who lit up the WAFL". The West Australian. Seven West Media. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  6. ↑ Cleary, Mitch (23 March 2018). "'Big Sav' one of three debutants for Cats". AFL.com.au. Telstra Media. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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