Under the rules that were agreed between the AFL and AFL Players Association (AFLPA) in February 2010, Restricted and Unrestricted Free Agents may consider offers from rival clubs during the post-season period.
An offer to a player only includes capped salary and capped ASA (Additional Service Agreements) amounts.
Under the AFL Player Rules, an Unrestricted Free Agent may automatically move to the club of his choice.
An offer to a Restricted Free Agent may be matched by his club, which has right of first refusal over his services. If the unrestricted free agent player does not wish to remain with his original club, he must enter the draft or seek a trade.
Compensation in the form of AFL allocated draft picks will apply to clubs with a net loss of free agents. This will be based on a formula determined by the AFL.
The Free Agency period is open from October 1 to 5pm, October 19.
The AFL Trade Period for clubs will run from October 8 to 2pm, October 26.
How Free Agency works
A player has served seven seasons or less of AFL football at one club, and is now out of contract:
The player is not eligible for free agency if his club wishes to retain him. He may only move clubs via a trade or the Draft. If he delists himself, he is subject to the Draft, and may be selected by any club.
A player has served seven seasons or less of AFL football at one club, and has been delisted by his club:
The player is a Free Agent and is eligible to field offers from all rival AFL clubs.
The player must decide on the best offer of his choice from one rival club.
The player can move automatically to the new club of his choice.
His original club, which chose to delist him, does not receive any compensation pick for the loss of the player.
A player has served eight or more seasons of AFL football at one club, is one of the top 25 per cent highest-paid players at his club, and is now out of contract for the first time since March 1 in his eighth season. (Restricted Free Agent):
The player is eligible to field offers from all rival AFL clubs.
If he wishes to change clubs, the player must decide on the best offer of his choice from one rival club.
His club has the right to match the presented offer.
If the club matches the offer, he may choose to remain with his original club, seek a trade or enter the Draft.
If the club does not or can not match the offer, the player can move to the new club of his choice.
His original club will receive a compensation pick for the loss of the player, on an AFL-determined formula to apply where clubs lose more free agents than they gain in any single transfer period.
A player has served eight or more seasons of AFL football at one club, is not one of the top 25 per cent highest-paid players at his club, and is now out of contract for the first time since reaching eight seasons of service. (Unrestricted Free Agent):
The player is eligible to field offers from all rival AFL clubs.
If he wishes to change clubs, the player must decide on the best offer of his choice from one rival club.
His club does not have the right to match the presented offer, and the player can move automatically to the new club of his choice.
His original club will receive a compensation pick for the loss of the player, on an AFL-determined formula to apply where clubs lose more free agents than they gain in any single transfer period.
A player has served ten or more seasons of AFL football at one club, has already come out of contract once in the period after March 1 in his eighth season, and is now out of contract. (Unrestricted Free Agent):
The player is eligible to field offers from all rival clubs.
If he wishes to change clubs, the player must decide on the best offer of his choice from one rival club.
His club does not have the right to match the presented offer, and the player can move automatically to the new club of his choice.
His original club will receive a compensation pick for the loss of the player, on an AFL-determined formula to apply where clubs lose more free agents than they gain in any single transfer period.
Hawthorn Free Agents
Clinton Young (Unrestricted)Michael Osborne (Unrestricted)
Thomas Murphy (Unrestricted)
Free Agents at other clubs at the beginning of the Free Agency period
Chris Knights (Adelaide, Unrestricted)Jordan Russell (Carlton, Unrestricted)
Bret Thornton (Carlton, Unrestricted)
Ben Johnson (Collingwood, Unrestricted)
Ricky Dyson (Essendon, Unrestricted)
Dustin Fletcher (Essendon, Unrestricted)
David Hille (Essendon, Unrestricted)
Nathan Lovett-Murray (Essendon, Unrestricted)
Angus Monfries (Essendon, Restricted)
Henry Slattery (Essendon, Unrestricted)
Luke McPharlin (Fremantle, Unrestricted)
Shannon Byrnes (Geelong, Unrestricted)
Josh Hunt (Geelong, Unrestricted)
Matthew Bate (Melbourne, Unrestricted)
Lynden Dunn (Melbourne, Unrestricted)
Brent Moloney (Melbourne, Restricted)
Jared Rivers (Melbourne, Unrestricted)
Troy Chaplin (Port Adelaide, Restricted)
Brett Ebert (Port Adelaide, Unrestricted)
Danyle Pearce (Port Adelaide, Restricted)
Steven Salopek (Port Adelaide, Unrestricted)
Jacob Surjan (Port Adelaide, Unrestricted)
Luke McGuane (Richmond, Restricted)
Jason Blake (St Kilda, Unrestricted)
Raphael Clarke (St Kilda, Unrestricted)
Brendon Goddard (St Kilda, Restricted)
Jude Bolton (Sydney, Unrestricted)
Jarred Moore (Sydney, Unrestricted)
Quinten Lynch (West Coast, Unrestricted)
Mark Nicoski (West Coast, Unrestricted)
Will Minson (Western Bulldogs, Unrestricted)
