Matthew Parker (footballer)

Matthew Parker (born 25 January 1996) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played 30 matches over 4 seasons in his AFL career.

St Kilda (2019–2020)
Parker was drafted to the Saints with pick 47 in the 2018 AFL draft from South Fremantle in the WAFL.. He played 17 games in his debut season but managed only 2 in his final season. He was delisted at the end of 2020.

Return to state-league (2021)
After being delisted by St Kilda, Parker returned to his former WAFL club South Fremantle.He was selected to represent Western Australia in the interstate match against South Australia in 2021.

Richmond (2021–2022)
In the 2021 AFL Mid-Season Rookie Draft, Parker was selected by Richmond with the 10th pick. Parker played his first game with Richmond in round 18 against the Brisbane Lions.

On the 23rd of September, Parker committed to a new one-year deal to remain at Punt Road in 2022.

In 2022 Parker called time on his Richmond career and returned home to Western Australia for family reasons.

AFL statistics
! colspan=3| Career ! 30 ! 23 ! 21 ! 214 ! 117 ! 331 ! 91 ! 94 ! 0.8 ! 0.7 ! 7.1 ! 3.9 ! 11.0 ! 3.0 ! 3.1
 * 2019
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 * 34 || 17 || 16 || 13 || 119 || 61 || 180 || 50 || 51 || 0.9 || 0.8 || 7.0 || 3.6 || 10.6 || 2.9 || 3.0
 * 2020
 * 34 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 8 || 5 || 13 || 1 || 5 || 0.0 || 1.0 || 4.0 || 2.5 || 6.5 || 0.5 || 2.5
 * 2021
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * 37 || 6 || 3 || 3 || 47 || 32 || 79 || 18 || 29 || 0.5 || 0.5 || 7.8 || 5.3 || 13.2 || 3.0 || 4.8
 * 2022
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * 37 || 5 || 4 || 3 || 40 || 19 || 59 || 22 || 9 || 0.8 || 0.6 || 8.0 || 3.8 || 11.8 || 4.4 || 1.8
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 * 2022
 * style="text-align:center;"|
 * 37 || 5 || 4 || 3 || 40 || 19 || 59 || 22 || 9 || 0.8 || 0.6 || 8.0 || 3.8 || 11.8 || 4.4 || 1.8
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * }

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