Overview

• Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast and the Western Bulldogs each supplied five players to the extended squad.
• Fremantle and Greater Western Sydney had four selections, Collingwood and Geelong three, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Port Adelaide and Sydney two, and Richmond and St Kilda one.
• Twenty-eight players in the 44 are in line for a first All-Australian blazer.
• Carlton, Essendon, North Melbourne and West Coast had no players named in the squad.
• Notable omissions included Cal Wilkie, Tristan Xerri, Connor Rozee and Lachie Neale, with Neale affected by a late-season quad injury; the panel is chaired by Andrew Dillon alongside Eddie Betts, Jude Bolton, Nathan Buckley, Kane Cornes, Abbey Holmes, Glen Jakovich, Laura Kane and Matthew Pavlich, and AFL.com.au published an unofficial 22 naming Jordan Dawson captain.