Who is retiring in 2025? This year's AFL departing class

Tom Naghten

Who is retiring in 2025? This year's AFL departing class image

As the 2025 AFL season nears its conclusion, several stars have already confirmed this will be their last year in the competition.

Perhaps most notably, Fremantle champion and two-time Brownlow Medal winner Nat Fyfe has announced his retirement as he looks to bow out with a maiden Dockers flag.

He'll be joined by the likes of Luke Bruest, Callan Ward, Travis Boak and Jeremy McGovern in hanging up their boots.

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Read on for the full 2025 retiring class:

Who is retiring from the AFL in 2025?

Adelaide

  • Matt Crouch - 164 games

Brisbane

 

Carlton

  • Sam Docherty - 184 games (13 Brisbane, 171 Carlton)

Collingwood

  • Will Hoskin-Elliott - 242 games (52 GWS, 190 Collingwood), x1 Premiership (2023)

Essendon

 

Fremantle

  • Nat Fyfe - 245 games, x2 Brownlow Medals
  • Quinton Narkle - 59 games (41 Geelong, 16 Port Adelaide, 2 Geelong)
  • Michael Walters - 239 games

Geelong

  • Mitch Duncan - 305 games, x2 Premierships (2011, 2022)

Gold Coast

 

GWS

  • Callan Ward - 327 games (60 GWS, 267 GWS)

Hawthorn

  • Luke Breust - 307 games, x3 Premierships (2013-2015)
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Melbourne

 

North Melbourne

 

Port Adelaide

  • Rory Atkins - 140 games (101 Adelaide, 37 Gold Coast, 2 Port Adelaide)
  • Travis Boak - 388 games
  • Willie Rioli - 109 games (51 West Coast, 58 Port Adelaide), x1 Premiership (2018)

Richmond

  • Kamdyn McIntosh - 214 games, x2 Premierships
  • (2017, 2020)

St Kilda

  • Jimmy Webster - 180 games

Sydney

 

West Coast

  • Jayden Hunt - 172 games (114 Melbourne, 58 West Coast)
  • Jeremy McGovern - 197 games, x1 Premiership (2018)
  • Dom Sheed - 165 games, x1 Premiership (2018)

Western Bulldogs

  • Taylor Duryea - 219 games (118 Hawthorn, 101 Western Bulldogs), x2 Premierships (2014, 2015)

Tom Naghten

Tom Naghten is a senior editor at The Sporting News Australia where he's been part of the team since 2017. He predominantly covers boxing and MMA. In his spare time, he likes to watch Robbie Ahmat's goal against the Kangaroos at the SCG in 2000.