A year-by-year look at how Shaun Burgoyne's decorated career has progressed.
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2000
Burgoyne is taken by Port Adelaide with Pick 12 in the 2000 national draft.
2002
He makes his AFL debut with Port Adelaide in Round 3 against St Kilda. Playing alongside his brother Peter, he registers one disposal!
After a five-week stint out of the senior side, Burgoyne returned in Round 10 and played 15 of Port’s final 16 games of the season including qualifying, semi and preliminary finals.
2004
He then played every game of the 2003 and 2004 seasons, culminating in a winning Grand Final over Brisbane in 2004 – his first taste of premiership glory.
2005
After an injury interrupted start to the season, Burgoyne hits his straps towards the backend of the season, winning the Showdown Medal for a 32-possession and one-goal performance in Round 20.
2006
Playing all 22 games of Power’s ’06 campaign, Burgoyne puts together arguably the best season of his career, earning a spot in the All Australian team.
2007
Burgoyne again featured in each of Port Adelaide’s 25 matches in 2007, including the Power’s devastating Grand Final loss at the hands of Geelong.
Despite the side’s poor showing, Burgoyne was one of his side’s best players, collecting 19 touches, seven tackles, six clearances and two goals.
2008
As a side, Port Adelaide’s form drops majorly following its Grand Final heartbreak, managing just seven wins across its campaign, but Burgoyne’s output holds strong, averaging 20.2 touches across his 19 appearances.
2009
Appointed as Port’s vice-captain over the summer, the 2009 season doesn’t quite go to plan for Burgoyne, who was cut down by a knee injury suffered in Round 3. He misses the next three months of football but is able to recover in time for the final six games of the year.
At the end of the season, Burgoyne requests a trade and ultimately lands at Hawthorn following a complicated four-team trade.
2010
Arriving on crutches following post-season knee surgery, Burgoyne endures a broken jaw and a hamstring injury before finally making his Hawks debut in Round 8 against Richmond.
Despite the delayed start, he doesn’t miss a game following that, featuring in the club’s final 16 games of the season, including an elimination final loss to Fremantle.
2011
Burgoyne continued to prove his durability in his second season at the Hawks, missing just one game, as the Hawks fell agonisingly close to another Grand Final berth – losing to Collingwood by three points in the preliminary final.
2012
The 2012 season saw Hawthorn endure another heart-breaking end, losing to the Swans by 10 points in the Grand Final.
In the second Grand Final appearance of his career, Burgoyne again proved his affinity for the big stage, with his 21 disposals, 10 tackles and eight clearances seeing him amongst the Hawks best performers in the loss.
2013
Spurred on by the devastation of the year previous, Hawthorn dropped just three games on its way to a second consecutive Grand Final berth.
One of the crowning moments of Burgoyne’s illustrious career comes in the preliminary final, as he delivered a three-goal performance including a memorable final term major that clinched the ticket to the Big Dance.
This time against Fremantle, the Hawks made a return to the premiership pinnacle and Burgoyne had his second premiership medal.
2014
Burgoyne again played every game of the 2014 campaign on the way to his third premiership medal and second consecutive flag for the Hawks.
2015
Burgoyne became one of just 11 players in VFL/AFL history to win at least four premierships when the Hawks again saluted on the final Saturday in September.
2016
Burgoyne reached his 300-game milestone in Round 5 of the 2016 season, becoming just the fifth Indigenous player to do so.
Later in the year, in a qualifying final against Geelong, Burgoyne moved past Gordon Coventry into outright second place for most finals played, behind only Michael Tuck.
2017
Burgoyne wore the number 67 for Sir Doug Nicholls Round in Round 10 to commemorate the 1967 referendum which allowed Indigenous Australians to be counted with the general population in the census.
2019
In Round 20 of the 2019 season, Burgoyne passed Swans great Adam Goodes to become the Indigenous games record-holder as he played his 373rd game.
2020
Burgoyne kicked his 300th career goal against Port Adelaide in Round 13.
2021
Against his former club Port Adelaide in Round 16, Burgoyne became the fifth player in VFL/AFL history and first Indigenous player to reach the 400-game milestone.
