Bill Dempsey

Bill Dempsey
MBE
Bill Dempsey; MBE
Personal information
Full name	William Brian Dempsey
Date of birth	17 March 1942 (age 82)
Place of birth	Birdum, Northern Territory
Position(s)	Ruckman, back pocket
Playing career1
Years	Club
1960–1976	‹The template WAFL WP is being considered for deletion.› West Perth
1959–1969	Darwin (NTFL)
Representative team honours
Years	Team
1963–1973	Western Australia
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1976.
Career highlights
	Darwin premiership side 1958–59, 1959–60, 1967–68[a]; Darwin captain 1964–65; ‹The template WAFL WP is being considered for deletion.› West Perth best and fairest 1966; ‹The template WAFL WP is being considered for deletion.› West Perth premiership side 1969, 1971, 1975; Simpson Medal 1969 (grand final); ‹The template WAFL WP is being considered for deletion.› West Perth Team of the Century (2000); West Australian Football Hall of Fame (2004); Indigenous Team of the Century (2005); AFL Northern Territory Hall of Fame (2010); Australian Football League Hall of Fame Inductee;
	Source: AustralianFootball.com

William Brian Dempsey MBE (born 17 March 1942) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Darwin Football Club in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL) and the West Perth Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). Dempsey is an inductee of both the AFL Northern Territory and the West Australian Football Halls of Fame. Dempsey's 341 premiership games for West Perth is second only to Mel Whinnen's 367 as a club and WAFL record.

^ These tallies refer to premiership matches (home-and-away and finals matches) only.