2004 AFL draft

2004 AFL draft
General information
Date(s)20 November 2004
LocationMelbourne Park Function Centre
Network(s)Fox Sports
Sponsored byNational Australia Bank
Overview
LeagueAFL
First selectionBrett Deledio (Richmond)
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The 2004 AFL draft, concerning player acquisitions in the 2004/05 Australian Football League off-season, consisted of a trade period, a national draft, a pre-season draft, and the elevation of rookies. The AFL draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.

In 2004 there were 78 picks to be drafted between 16 teams in the national draft. Richmond received the first pick in the national draft after finishing on the bottom of the ladder during the 2004 AFL season. Three teams were allocated priority draft picks for winning 5 or fewer games in the previous season, Richmond, Hawthorn and Western Bulldogs.[1] Carlton's two-year ban from the first and second rounds of the AFL draft expired in 2004 and they returned to the early part of the draft, with selections 9 and 25.[2] As it had traded away its first and second round draft picks in 2001, effectively the Blues' first and second round draft picks were its first since 2000. They finished the 2004 season 11th with 10 wins and 12 losses, too high to be eligible for a priority draft pick.

  1. ^ "AFL to alter priority pick order". Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Carlton Crisis". Archived from the original on 17 August 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2011.