As of the end of the 2016 AFL season, 12486 players have played AFL football. There are now articles on all of them. See the Petscan list (switch to CSV to download the full list).

But, there are still lots of tasks to do. The Project's Cleanup list is updated weekly on Tuesdays.

To help in the tasks below, the following online references may help:

AFL Tables
AustralianFootball.com
WAFL stats
Old newspapers from Trove
Digitised Footy Records
To search the google newspaper archives, add "site:google.com/newspapers" to any google search like this.

The Footy History forum on BigFooty.com hosts many discussions and attempts to find detailed information on former players.

Each state's historical births/deaths/marriage records can also help, but the level of freely available online info varies by state. Genealogy websites like Ancestry are generally not suitable to use for confirmation, but may offer a lead or direction to search the other sources.

Birthdate missing

Only 3 players are missing their birthdate - see also Col Hutchinson's request from 2012 when 10 players were missing birthdates (page 16, AFL Record 2012, Rd 3).

Living, born in the 1910s

1 player is listed as living and born in the 1910s.

Player	Wikidata	DoB (Age)	Clubs
Jim Miller	Q9666229	(1919-05-30) 30 May 1919 (age 104)	Footscray

Living, born in the 1920s

34 players are listed as living and born in the 1920s.

1925 births

Player	Wikidata	DoB (Age)	Club
Angus Abbey	Q4764059	(1925-11-15) 15 November 1925 (age 98)	Footscray
Gordon Green	Q21597850	(1925-05-31) 31 May 1925 (age 98)	North Melbourne
Max Glass	Q22277951	(1925-10-02) 2 October 1925 (age 98)	South Melbourne

1926 births

Player	Wikidata	DoB (Age)	Club
Charlie King	Q21176202	(1926-07-31) 31 July 1926 (age 97)	Geelong
Dick Jones	Q5273069	(1926-06-05) 5 June 1926 (age 97)	South Melbourne, West Torrens

1927 births

Player	Wikidata	DoB (Age)	Club
Bill Redmond	Q16090564	(1927-05-29) 29 May 1927 (age 96)	Carlton
Bob Templeton	Q19879855	(1927-10-25) 25 October 1927 (age 96)	Footscray
Cliff Riley	Q22280036	(1927-02-02) 2 February 1927 (age 97)	St Kilda
Greg Lourey	Q18346166	(1927-08-01) 1 August 1927 (age 96)	Melbourne, Fitzroy
Harry Paynter	Q18357703	(1927-09-17) 17 September 1927 (age 96)	Collingwood

Possibly living

5 players are listed as possibly living. AustralianFootball.com is the only stats site that includes dates of death. Club websites often have articles when former players die. The annual AFL Record Season Guide has recently included an obituary list for the previous year. The Ryerson Index catalogs death and funeral notices.

Player	Wikidata	DoB (Age, if alive)	Club
Des Bell	Q18351299	(1923-05-23) 23 May 1923 (age 100)	Melbourne
Jack Taylor (Australian footballer)	Q21176272	(1924-05-09) 9 May 1924 (age 99)	Hawthorn
Fred Payne (footballer)	Q5496054	(1927-02-04) 4 February 1927 (age 97)	Essendon
Jack MacDonald (footballer)	Q6113807	(1927-05-16) 16 May 1927 (age 96)	Hawthorn
Barry Griffiths (Australian footballer)	Q21176187	(1929-07-12) 12 July 1929 (age 94)	Hawthorn

Death date missing

21 players are listed as missing their death date. This thread on Bigfooty Footy History forum discusses the search for many of these players.

Player	Wikidata	DoB
Frank Corby	Q18356077	(1924-12-24)24 December 1924
Jack Cliff	Q22003677	(1919-05-23)23 May 1919
Alby Williams	Q21932275	(1916-08-03)3 August 1916
George Prismall	Q21176427	(1915-03-10)10 March 1915
Alf Neeson	Q20679321	(1914-06-15)15 June 1914
Bill Hearn	Q19976081	(1913-03-04)4 March 1913
Jack McKenzie (footballer, born 1908)	Q21176594	(1908-08-19)19 August 1908
Fred Coulsell	Q21176557	(1905-12-17)17 December 1905
Harry Brown (Australian footballer)	Q22003491	(1903-10-16)16 October 1903
Ray Ross (footballer, born 1900)	Q21176633	(1900-05-02)2 May 1900
Bill Woods (Australian footballer)	Q21176766	(1890-08-31)31 August 1890
Arch Robinson	Q19975141	(1890-07-09)9 July 1890
Jim Smith (footballer, born 1887)	Q23617756	(1887-02-11)11 February 1887
Joe Marchant (footballer)	Q22018907	(1884-09-11)11 September 1884
Bobby Craig (Australian footballer)	Q18358891	(1882-03-29)29 March 1882
Charlie Jenkins (Australian rules footballer)	Q5085077	(1878-06-17)17 June 1878
Mick O'Hagan	Q22019165	(1878-01-22)22 January 1878
Otto Buck	Q16066863	(1876-11-15)15 November 1876
Edmund Kirwin	Q22018807	(1876-03-31)31 March 1876
Tom Lee (footballer, born 1874)	Q18641485	(1874-12-11)11 December 1874
George Lockwood	Q5541797	(1872-12-06)6 December 1872
Sam Reid (footballer, born 1872)	Q16066785	(1872-06-17)17 June 1872

Birthdate mixups[edit]

As there is no easy method to harvest all of the birthdates from Wikipedia, the birthdays as recorded in WikiData have been compared against the birthdates on AFL Tables. Over 12000 match, but 260 have either the day, month or year mismatched. 41 have all 3 different. 69 have the day and month wrong, with 29 of those appearing to be a US style MM-DD vs DD-MM issue. Some may have been corrected in the articles, but WikiData wasn't updated. Others maybe correct in the article/WikiData, but incorrect on AFL Tables. Club websites, AustralianFootball.com, Footy Records and historical newspapers (trove.nla.gov.au) should be checked to try and work out which is correct. If an error is found, then the AFL and AFL Tables should be notified.

US/Aus style different

Title	WikiData	Debut	AFL Tables DOB	WikiData DOB
Frank Hodgins	Q21078479	24/07/1915	1888-05-04	1888-04-05

Day and month different

Title	WikiData	Debut	AFL Tables DOB	WikiData DOB	Comments
Tom Fox (Australian politician)	Q16066869	17/05/1902	1876-09-21	1876-10-03	Birth/Christening?
Joe Paton	Q15998291	8-May-1897	1878-09-05	1878-08-21	Birth/Christening?
Harry Morgan (footballer)	Q5671167	25/04/1914	1889-05-15	1889-09-16	AustFootball has 24 March
Johnny Davies	Q16005792	24/06/1922	4/02/1900	18/06/1900
Tommy McHenry	Q19875443	2/05/1925	22/09/1903	2/06/1903
Harry Davie	Q5668284	23/08/1924	22/05/1905	30/03/1905
Les McCann (footballer)	Q16012474	17/06/1944	20/02/1920	29/08/1920
Terry Fulton	Q7704419	27/08/1949	17/04/1930	12/03/1930
Glenn Elliott (footballer)	Q5568797	31/05/1969	15/08/1950	25/01/1950
Tony May	Q18353276	16/04/1977	17/05/1954	7/03/1954

Completely different

Title	WikiData	Debut	AFL Tables DOB	WikiData DOB
Dan Collins (footballer)	Q22017443	15-May-1897	1871-01-10	1872-08-22
Syd Phillips	Q22019239	8-May-1897	1871-08-07	1874-05-27
George Morgan (footballer)	Q22019032	23-Jul-1898	1875-03-23	1877-10-10
Charlie Colgan	Q23035894	14-May-1898	1875-07-04	1878-02-09
Herb Bruton	Q23583150	7/05/1904	1878-06-09	1880-05-27
Des Griffin (footballer)	Q22018593	23/07/1904	1881-11-14	1882-06-26
Frank Dunne (footballer)	Q21664381	6/05/1905	1884-02-16	1872-01-01
Les Irwin (footballer)	Q18346089	15/05/1909	1887-03-03	1882-02-23
Robert Duncan (footballer)	Q19974585	17/07/1909	1889-02-16	1891-11-27
Frank Ballantyne	Q20738338	5/06/1916	1893-08-12	1891-09-30
Alf Hammond	Q22018618	29/07/1911	1894-04-28	1887-07-30
Stan Cooper (footballer)	Q22017454	20/05/1922	1896-11-11	1899-04-08
Alby Anderson	Q19974333	3/05/1924	11/06/1901	1894-08-26
Reg Boyle	Q18641370	16/05/1925	3/03/1903	20/02/1905
Ted Shiels	Q21069617	13/07/1929	22/02/1907	25/06/1908
Bill Anderson (footballer, born 1911)	Q21078186	30/07/1932	3/03/1909	12/02/1911
Joe Oakley	Q21070031	26/05/1934	27/04/1910	28/01/1914
David Wilkie (footballer)	Q21151386	19/05/1934	8/09/1913	27/06/1914
Billy Wells (footballer)	Q20679460	30/05/1936	25/11/1914	1/02/1916
Jack Conley (Australian rules footballer)	Q6111769	22/07/1944	18/10/1920	3/02/1923
Reg Hall	Q19976015	22/08/1953	20/03/1932	19/11/1931
Hugh Earnshaw	Q21078100	6/06/1959	10/05/1937	16/02/1939
Brian Cahill (footballer)	Q23751964	19/04/1958	22/11/1938	13/12/1936
Des English	Q5263451	19/04/1980	9/10/1957	22/01/1956
Daniel Hargraves	Q5217426	28/05/1994	24/01/1976	6/12/1975

Year different

Title	WikiData	Debut	AFL Tables DOB	WikiData DOB
Norm Smith	Q7051585	17/08/1935	21/11/1914	21/11/1915
Jack Morgan (footballer)	Q21151542	20/05/1944	3/12/1922	3/12/1920
Jack Cooper (footballer, born 1922)	Q16089911	10/05/1947	29/12/1922	29/12/1924
Bill Lumsden	Q22006402	24/04/1948	24/12/1923	24/12/1924
Bob Stone	Q18358888	20/06/1942	26/05/1925	26/05/1926
Bernard Considine	Q4893019	7/06/1952	8/04/1927	8/04/1925
Ron Dunn (footballer)	Q20273492	6/05/1950	19/04/1929	19/04/1928
Doug Palmer	Q5300801	19/04/1952	23/06/1929	23/06/1930
Bob McKenzie (footballer)	Q7347553	17/04/1948	19/12/1929	19/12/1928
Ray Martini	Q16091919	1/07/1950	14/07/1930	14/07/1931
Harry Sullivan (footballer)	Q5672661	26/08/1950	8/04/1932	8/04/1933
George Stafford (footballer)	Q16091642	18/08/1951	21/10/1932	21/10/1930
Ron Morgan (footballer)	Q20273714	17/04/1954	21/12/1932	21/12/1931
John Benetti	Q6221509	26/04/1958	17/06/1936	17/06/1937
Don Hall (footballer)	Q16105099	31/05/1958	7/06/1937	7/06/1939
Ian Aston	Q5980796	28/04/1956	14/10/1937	14/10/1938
Phil Garwood	Q21095508	18/04/1964	24/12/1941	24/12/1939
Hugh Bromell	Q18205635	19/04/1965	2/01/1942	2/01/1944
Kevin Morris (Australian footballer)	Q18098669	14/06/1971	20/08/1950	20/08/1951
John Tresize	Q6261257	2/04/1977	26/02/1953	26/02/1954
Michael Gallagher (footballer)	Q6830500	9/05/1987	9/05/1966	9/05/1965

Month different

Title	WikiData	Debut	AFL Tables DOB	WikiData DOB
Ted Terry	Q7693788	11/05/1929	4/07/1904	4/06/1904
Reg Coyle	Q7307751	10/07/1937	1/10/1917	1/08/1917
Russell Hill (footballer)	Q20984463	19/08/1944	9/02/1920	9/03/1920
Ken McLean	Q16012838	8/05/1943	21/12/1922	21/11/1922
Noel Baker	Q18249324	23/05/1953	22/12/1933	22/11/1933
Vin Sabbatucci	Q7931330	22/05/1954	12/01/1935	12/07/1935
Marshall Younger	Q6773840	14/04/1956	21/05/1939	21/06/1939
Graham Bamford	Q19955820	9/05/1964	1/06/1944	1/07/1944
John Bonney	Q6222457	15/04/1967	21/05/1946	21/11/1946
Bob Lane (Australian footballer)	Q16008736	23/07/1966	12/12/1946	12/02/1946
Neville Stone	Q18391902	25/04/1966	14/12/1946	14/11/1946
Norm Mitchell	Q19875690	10/05/1969	30/07/1949	30/06/1949
Harry Frei	Q5668945	23/04/1973	1/03/1951	1/05/1951
Michael Zemski	Q6835518	7/04/1973	10/08/1953	10/09/1953
Peter Williamson (footballer)	Q18218201	21/08/1971	1/12/1953	1/11/1953
Greg MacDonald	Q18392436	11/08/1973	1/12/1954	1/11/1954
Kevin Bryant	Q6395921	7/04/1979	8/01/1955	8/07/1955
Mark Alves	Q18205027	16/07/1977	19/12/1956	19/11/1956
Bruce Gonsalves	Q18379153	9/08/1975	26/12/1956	26/11/1956
Michael Howard (Australian footballer)	Q16196066	25/08/1984	8/03/1965	8/02/1965
Shaun Smith (Australian rules footballer)	Q7490974	18/04/1987	22/06/1969	22/07/1969
Jon Ballantyne (footballer)	Q16146495	25/08/1990	29/07/1969	29/06/1969
Damian Lang	Q5212280	27/03/1994	3/03/1976	3/05/1976
Eddie Sansbury	Q5336470	28/03/2004	26/11/1983	26/12/1983
Alistair Smith (Australian footballer)	Q4727318	10/04/2011	8/09/1990	8/08/1990
Bill Windley	Q4911402	8-May-1897	1868-08-28	1868-11-28
Len Morrison	Q16031802	14-May-1898	1872-12-23	1872-11-23
Simon Roberts (footballer)	Q16066881	20/07/1901	1876-12-12	1876-11-12
John Nilen	Q22019125	21/05/1910	1878-01-30	1878-10-30
Charlie Curtis	Q16066912	21-May-1898	1878-12-17	1878-11-17
Barney Lazarus	Q16000319	14/06/1902	1879-12-18	1879-11-18
Willie Hines	Q21078982	2/05/1903	1880-04-28	1880-07-28
Bill McVeigh	Q15998131	20/05/1905	1881-12-17	1881-11-17
Dick Hart (footballer)	Q16027032	4/05/1901	1881-12-25	1881-11-25
Bill Webb (Australian footballer)	Q21070286	9/06/1902	1883-07-06	1883-04-06
Arch Corbett	Q4785293	25/05/1912	1883-10-18	1883-08-18
Ned Harper	Q18641454	11/06/1910	1883-12-10	1883-11-10
Percy Salmon	Q21078518	4/07/1908	1885-12-20	1885-10-20
Frank Sanguinetti	Q19975170	15/08/1908	1886-05-05	1886-03-05
Archie Wilson (Australian footballer)	Q16067357	27/08/1910	1888-04-25	1888-08-25
Alex Barningham	Q15998776	1/05/1909	1889-02-22	1889-08-22
Don Munro (Australian footballer)	Q20738402	3/05/1913	1891-06-01	1891-07-01
Joe Campbell (Australian footballer)	Q22017389	26/06/1920	1893-08-10	1893-10-10

Day different

Title	WikiData	Debut	AFL Tables DOB	WikiData DOB
Percy Fletcher (footballer)	Q21176753	17/08/1901	1879-10-10	1879-10-20
Sam Stivey	Q7408205	30/08/1902	1881-03-18	1881-03-15
Paddy Shea	Q7123624	14/05/1904	1886-03-17	1886-03-16
Tommy Hughes (Australian footballer)	Q7819538	17/06/1911	1891-01-23	1891-01-01
William Armstrong (footballer)	Q8004545	20/05/1911	1892-04-19	1892-04-10
Joe Shelley	Q6212326	29/04/1911	1892-09-18	1892-09-08
Malcolm Kennedy (footballer)	Q6742421	3/06/1911	1892-10-30	1892-10-23
Stan Anderson (Australian footballer)	Q21070116	17/05/1919	1893-07-22	1893-07-26
Harry Kerley	Q5670251	7/06/1915	1894-12-12	1894-12-13
Ray Ross (footballer, born 1903)	Q20007173	16/09/1922	24/04/1903	20/04/1903
Percy Outram	Q16009669	13/06/1925	21/05/1903	19/05/1903
Charlie Parsons (footballer)	Q16073476	27/04/1929	24/08/1903	27/08/1903
Bob Murdoch (Australian footballer)	Q21176603	30/04/1932	17/06/1909	14/06/1909
Bill Ralston (footballer)	Q18358224	23/05/1936	16/09/1910	19/09/1910
Ingy Norman	Q20737583	27/08/1938	10/04/1911	20/04/1911
Jack Patterson (footballer)	Q21997090	9/05/1931	27/05/1911	28/05/1911
Frank Finn (footballer)	Q16018742	2/06/1934	18/11/1911	13/11/1911
Bill Cahill	Q4908382	26/06/1937	5/12/1911	3/12/1911
Peter Chitty	Q7173262	18/07/1936	11/03/1912	12/03/1912
Tom Re	Q19877509	29/08/1936	3/02/1913	2/02/1913
Herbie Matthews	Q5736134	30/04/1932	12/11/1913	20/11/1913
Harold Daly	Q5660430	4/07/1942	18/10/1915	8/10/1915
Charlie Challenger	Q20988897	18/05/1940	19/12/1917	9/12/1917
Jeff Grieve	Q18152067	3/05/1941	21/01/1918	27/01/1918
Ced Hovey	Q18398285	2/06/1945	18/07/1918	12/07/1918
Laurie Taylor (footballer, born 1918)	Q6501739	6/05/1944	21/10/1918	12/10/1918
Trojan Darveniza	Q7845105	22/04/1946	30/11/1921	3/11/1921
Percy Hunt	Q19518424	21/04/1945	12/11/1922	1/11/1922
Jim Clark (Australian footballer)	Q6194205	19/06/1943	24/03/1925	25/03/1925
Jack Connally	Q22003700	21/06/1947	23/02/1927	22/02/1927
Vic Lawrence (Australian rules footballer)	Q7924843	15/05/1948	2/01/1928	3/01/1928
Jim Deane	Q6194577	19/04/1954	22/01/1928	2/01/1928
John Kennedy Sr.	Q16090838	22/04/1950	29/12/1928	20/12/1928
Jack Thomson	Q18377862	13/08/1949	25/01/1929	22/01/1929
Pat Twomey	Q7144083	7/06/1947	2/04/1929	1/04/1929
Jack Collins (footballer, born 1930)	Q6111509	22/04/1950	3/01/1930	5/01/1930
Bruce Comben	Q16091418	22/04/1950	23/10/1930	25/10/1930
Maurie Considine	Q16093467	19/07/1952	14/06/1932	26/06/1932
Ron Hovey	Q7363941	5/05/1951	25/08/1932	26/08/1932
Frank Munro (Australian footballer)	Q16095777	24/04/1954	27/04/1934	23/04/1934
Geoff Case	Q5534077	23/05/1953	15/09/1935	18/09/1935
Graeme Pinfold	Q18326324	27/04/1957	24/04/1936	20/04/1936
Bob Norman (footballer)	Q18358851	4/05/1957	14/01/1937	4/01/1937
Dave Burt	Q18350467	22/06/1957	23/01/1937	1/01/1937
Lance Oswald	Q6483503	20/04/1957	14/02/1937	18/02/1937
Ross G. Smith	Q7369342	22/04/1961	12/09/1942	8/09/1942
Mick Erwin	Q6838162	28/04/1962	6/06/1943	8/06/1943
Jim Read (footballer)	Q6197682	28/07/1962	26/12/1943	22/12/1943
Peter Boyne	Q7172915	6/06/1964	28/05/1944	24/05/1944
Kevin Billing	Q6395837	25/08/1962	26/10/1944	22/10/1944
Euan Campbell	Q18205782	3/08/1968	25/09/1945	24/09/1945
Peter Eakins	Q7173797	30/05/1970	12/02/1947	16/02/1947
Brian McKenzie (footballer)	Q18378955	23/07/1966	31/03/1947	3/03/1947
Jeff McGee	Q16121890	27/05/1967	27/01/1948	8/01/1948
Chris Fowler (footballer)	Q18206882	15/04/1967	28/08/1948	22/08/1948
Ted Hopkins	Q7693312	10/06/1968	27/05/1949	28/05/1949
John Greening	Q6236197	11/05/1968	20/12/1950	25/12/1950
Jeff Murray	Q6174584	1/04/1978	7/04/1952	17/04/1952
Rod Appleton	Q19870741	5/04/1975	19/05/1953	15/05/1953
Brian Peake	Q4965016	20/06/1981	5/12/1953	4/12/1952
Robert Hyde (footballer)	Q7345751	26/05/1973	1/11/1954	4/11/1954
Mark Eaves	Q6767476	20/03/1982	3/04/1961	13/04/1961
Steven Da Rui	Q16195486	2/04/1988	21/03/1964	24/03/1964
Ben Ingleton	Q19874610	18/05/1985	24/08/1967	27/08/1967
Darren Hulme	Q5224983	30/05/1997	10/07/1977	19/07/1977
Troy Longmuir	Q7846887	23/05/1998	25/05/1979	27/05/1979
Chris Ladhams	Q5107173	1/04/2001	21/10/1980	24/10/1980
Stephen Kenna	Q7609671	27/03/2004	10/10/1981	8/10/1981