Tony Liberatore

Tony Liberatore
Personal information
Date of birth (1966-02-11) 11 February 1966 (age 58)
Original team(s) Brunswick City(EDFL)/ North MelbourneU19
Height 163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1986–2002 Footscray/Western Bulldogs 283 (95)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
Victoria ? (?)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2002.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Tony Liberatore (born 11 February 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Liberatore is the only player to have won league best-and-fairest medals in all three grades of VFL/AFL football (under 19s, reserves and seniors). Liberatore is one of the shortest players to have played in the VFL/AFL competition and the shortest player to have won a Brownlow Medal.

Playing as a rover, Liberatore was a long-time holder of the VFL/AFL record for most career tackles.[1]

Liberatore was born in Australia to Italian parents.[2]

  1. ^ "Player Totals". AFL Tables. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  2. ^ pg 375. Australia's Blackest Sporting Moments: The Top 100. By Stephen Hagan. Published by Ngalga Warralu Publishing Pty Ltd, 2006. ISBN 1-921212-00-4, 978-1-921212-00-0