Brandon Matera

Brandon Matera
Matera playing for Gold Coast in June 2017
Personal information
Full name Brandon Matera
Date of birth (1992-03-11) 11 March 1992 (age 32)
Original team(s) South Fremantle (WAFL)
Draft Underage recruit, Gold Coast
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Position(s) Midfielder / Forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2011–2017 Gold Coast 101 (124)
2018–2020 Fremantle 043 0(46)
Total 144 (170)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2020.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Brandon Matera (born 11 March 1992) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club (2011–2017) and the Fremantle Football Club (2018–2020) in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited as one of twelve 17-year-olds made available to Gold Coast under the AFL's draft concessions.[1]

Matera is the son of former Fitzroy and West Coast player Wally Matera and the nephew of former West Coast footballers Phil and Peter Matera. He is of Italian and Indigenous Australian (Noongar) heritage.[2]

  1. ^ "Gold Coast SUNS | AFL - Brandon Matera Profile". Archived from the original on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  2. ^ "The Noongar Warriors". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 20 March 2022.