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What is the longest kick in AFL history in a game?

What is the longest kick in AFL history in a game?

Currently voted the best answer. There have been many long kicks reported, including one of 100m, but the longest kick for goal I have found reported anywhere is 89 m, kicked by Jeff Fehring in 1981. The match was played at the St Kilda home ground in Moorabbin.

Has anyone kicked over the Yarra?

The winner of the longest kick, whether it was produced in the match-up round or the bonus round, won $10,000. To get across the Yarra river is 75 metres. The winner was Melbourne’s Clayton Oliver.

What ball can be kicked the farthest?

The farthest kick and catch of a football (soccer ball) by a team of two is 71.37 m (234 ft 1.84 in) and was achieved by Hobie Verhulst (Netherlands) & Nicolas Abdat (Germany) in Zeist, Netherlands, on 4 September 2019. The record was organised by Keuken Kampioen Divisie.

Who kicked most AFL goals?

Tony Lockett
Most VFL/AFL goals

# Player Goals
1 Tony Lockett 1360
2 Gordon Coventry 1299‡
3 Jason Dunstall 1254‡
4 Doug Wade 1057

Who has kicked the most goals in AFL 2021?

Harry McKay
Carlton’s Harry McKay kicked 58 goals in 2021, making him the most recent recipient….

Coleman Medal
Harry McKay, 2021 recipient
League Australian Football League
Awarded for Most goals in the home-and-away season
History

What is the longest field goal ever recorded?

64-yard
Longest NFL field goal: Broncos placekicker Matt Prater connects on a 64-yard field goal at the end of the first half on December 8, 2013. It was the longest field goal in NFL history.

What is the farthest anyone has ever kicked a football?

75.35 m
The longest football (soccer) drop kick is 75.35 m (247 ft 2 in), achieved by Ederson de Moraes (Brazil) at the Etihad Campus, in Manchester, UK, on 10 May 2018. Ederson is the first team goalkeeper for Manchester City FC.

Who can kick the farthest?

NFL

Distance Kicker Result
64 yards Matt Prater 51–28
63 yards Tom Dempsey 19–17
63 yards Jason Elam 37–24
63 yards Sebastian Janikowski 23–20

Who kicked the most goals in AFL history?

AFL/VFL Records

Record Current holder
Most Goals in a Season by a Player Bob Pratt South Melbourne 1934 and Peter Hudson Hawthorn 1971 (150 goals each).
Most Career Goals Tony Lockett: 1360
Most Career Games Brent Harvey: 432
Most Premierships Carlton & Essendon: 16

Who kicked the most goals for Collingwood?

Click here for a list of Collingwood’s leading goalkickers, year-by-year

Most Career Goals
441 Travis Cloke
423 Lou Richards
404 Anthony Rocca
371 Brian Taylor

What was the longest goal kicked in AFL history?

“A 1981 match between Collingwood and St. Kilda saw an 89m goal kicked by Jeff Fehring of St. Kilda, minutes after he was reported. He received a free kick and torpedoed an 86m kick, which bounced an extra three metres for a goal. It was one of only three of Fehring’s goals in a 22 game career.”

Who was the first VFL player to kick 500 goals?

Former Collingwood player Dick Lee was the first VFL/AFL player to kick 500 goals. This is a list of players who have kicked 500 or more goals in the Australian Football League (AFL), previously known as the Victorian Football League (VFL).

How old was Fred Fanning when he kicked the longest kick?

A young 17 year old Fred Fanning is listed as having kicked the longest kick in Australian Rules Football history with a 116 yards drop kick for Melbourne against Richmond in the 1939 VFL Seconds Grand Final at the MCG (28-Sep-1939).

Which is the longest goal kicked by a Richmond player?

tigerdan said: Possibly the longest goal by a Richmond player was Jimm Jess who (apparently) kicked a torp from the centre of the MCG that went through for a goal.