1988 VFL draft

The 1988 VFL draft, held on 9 November 1988,^[1] was the third annual national draft held by the Victorian Football League (now known as the Australian Football League). It consisted of a pre-season draft and a national draft.

In 1988 there were 112 picks to be drafted between 14 teams in the national draft. The Hawthorn Football Club received the first pick in the national draft, after receiving it from St Kilda in the first ever trade involving draft picks, in return for Paul Harding, Peter Russo and Robert Handley.^[2]

Pre-draft selections

Pick	Player	Drafted to	Recruited from	League
1	Stevan Jackson	West Coast	South Fremantle	WAFL
2	Don Pyke	West Coast	Claremont	WAFL
3	Peter Sumich	West Coast	South Fremantle	WAFL
4	Craig Turley	West Coast	West Perth	WAFL
5	Scott Watters	West Coast	South Fremantle	WAFL

1988 national draft

Round	Pick	Player	Recruited from	Drafted to
1	1	Alex McDonald	Ballarat	Hawthorn
1	2	Todd Breman	Subiaco	West Coast
1	3	Carl Dilena	Sturt	Fitzroy
1	4	John McNamara	Port Fairy	North Melbourne
1	5	Chris Naish	Wangaratta	Richmond
1	6	Ray Sterrett	East Fremantle	Geelong
1	7	Leon Cameron	South Warrnambool	Footscray
1	8	Dion Scott	Devonport	Sydney
1	9	Michael Werner	West Torrens	Essendon
1	10	Peter Higgins	Claremont	West Coast
1	11	Mark Bayliss	South Fremantle	Collingwood
1	12	Brad Fox	Perth	Essendon
1	13	Darren Bennett	East Fremantle	Melbourne
1	14	Stephen Byers	New Norfolk	Hawthorn
2	15	Danny Craven	Wangaratta	St Kilda
2	16	David Bain	East Perth	Brisbane Bears
2	17	Brad Edwards	Perth	Fitzroy
2	18	Anthony Stevens	Shepparton	North Melbourne
2	19	Matthew Francis	Ballan	Richmond
2	20	Adrian Fletcher	Glenorchy	Geelong
2	21	Anthony Reynolds	Wodonga	Footscray
2	22	Paul Holdsworth	Clarence	Sydney
2	23	Michael Long	St Mary's	Essendon
2	24	David Hynes	Port Adelaide Magpies	West Coast
2	25	Colin Alexander	Clarence	Collingwood
2	26	David Regan	East Ballarat	Essendon
2	27	Rod Keogh	Castlemaine	Melbourne
2	28	Chris Martin	Seymour	Hawthorn
3	29	Tim Allen	Mornington	St Kilda
3	30	Richard Champion	Woodville	Brisbane Bears
3	31	Brenton Klaebe	Norwood	Fitzroy
3	32	Brad Sholl	Horsham	North Melbourne
3	33	Bruce Lennon	Sturt	Richmond
3	34	Daryn Cresswell	Glenorchy	Geelong
3	35	John Georgiades	Subiaco	Footscray
3	36	Nick Chigwidden	Glenelg	Sydney
3	37	Michael Strickland	Glenorchy	Essendon
3	38	Jeremy Crough	South Bendigo	West Coast
3	39	Scott Russell	Sturt	Collingwood
3	40	Glen Johnston	North Launceston	Carlton
3	41	Michael Hobbes	Eastlake	Melbourne
3	42	Dion Rhook	Hamilton Imperials	Hawthorn
4	43	Daryl Griffiths	North Launceston	St Kilda
4	44	Scott Williamson	Wangaratta Rovers	West Coast
4	45	Damian Simmonds	Wangaratta	Fitzroy
4	46	Simon McCarthy	Rochester	North Melbourne
4	47	Glen Leaf	Mildura Imperials	Richmond
4	48	Scott Jordon	South Launceston	Fitzroy
4	49	Shannon Corcoran	Glenelg	Footscray
4	50	Jim West	Glenelg	Sydney
4	51	Adrian Burns	Dromana	Essendon
4	52	Darren Bartsch	West Adelaide	West Coast
4	53	Michael Smith	Devonport	Collingwood
4	54	Michael Sexton	Sandhurst	Carlton
4	55	Andrew Ford	North Ballarat	Melbourne
4	56	Justin McGrath	Ballarat	Hawthorn
5	57	Pat Lambert	Manangatang	St Kilda
5	58	Lachlan Sim	Moe	Brisbane Bears
5	59	Matthew Dundas	Assumption College	Fitzroy
5	60	Derek Kickett	Central District	North Melbourne
5	61	Julian Moloney	Mildura Imperials	Richmond
5	62	David Welsby	Sturt	Geelong
5	63	Scott Davies	North Launceston	Footscray
5	64	Andrew Bishop	Ainslie	Sydney
5	65	Rod Saunders	Mooroopna	Essendon
5	66	Matt Richardson	Warracknabeal	West Coast
5	67	Peter Divenuto	Sandy Bay	Collingwood
5	68	Grant Povey	Claremont	Carlton
5	69	Matthew Mahoney	Eastlake	Melbourne
5	70	Russell Wilding	Lexton	Hawthorn
6	71	Graeme Kettle	South Launceston	St Kilda
6	72	Chris O'Sullivan	Coralynn	Brisbane Bears
6	73	Stephen Walker	North Hobart	Fitzroy
6	74	Steven Hamilton	North Adelaide	North Melbourne
6	75	Ty Esler	Koo-Wee-Rup	Richmond
6	76	David Preston	Bairnsdale	Geelong
6	77	Robert Bloom	Ulverstone	Footscray
6	78	Jamie Bond	Beaufort	Hawthorn
6	79	Simon Jorgensen	Castlemaine	Essendon
6	80	Damian Berto	St Mary's	West Coast
6	81	Nick Probert	Burnie Hawks	Collingwood
6	82	Anthony Loone	Deloraine	Carlton
6	83	Brian Stynes	Ireland	Melbourne
6	84	Justin Crough	Bungaree	Hawthorn
7	85	Ian Dargie	Subiaco	St Kilda
7	86	Ben Sexton	Sandhurst	Footscray
7	87	Dwaine Kretschmer	North Gambier	Fitzroy
7	88	Justin Staritski	Norwood	North Melbourne
7	89	Adam Crudden	Nar Nar Goon	Richmond
7	90	Kym Nicholls	Norwood	Geelong
7	91	Matthew Queen	Glenorchy	Footscray
7	92	Stephen Vizy	Queanbeyan	North Melbourne
7	93	Paul Hills	North Ballarat	Essendon
7	94	Andrew Geddes	Mornington	West Coast
7	95	Tony Francis	Norwood	Collingwood
7	96 (F/S)	Michael James	Ballarat	Carlton
7	97	Tom Grehan	Ireland	Melbourne
7	98	Michael Barrett	Morwell Tigers	Hawthorn
8	99	Dermot McNicholl	Ireland	St Kilda
8	100	David Kupsch	North Adelaide	Brisbane Bears
8	101	Leigh Funcke	Minyip	Fitzroy
8	102	Shaun Holloway	Ballarat	North Melbourne
8	103 (F/S)	Sean Bowden	Mildura Imperials	Richmond
8	104	Andrew Gribble	St Peters	Geelong
8	105	Chris Grant	Daylesford	Footscray
8	106 (F/S)	Gareth John	Gisborne	Sydney
8	107	Darren Mead	Port Adelaide Magpies	Essendon
8	108	Peter Melesso	Claremont	West Coast
8	109 (F/S)	Heath Shephard	Robinvale	Collingwood
8	110 (F/S)	Chris Mulcair	Bendigo	Carlton
8	111 (F/S)	Tom Kavanagh	Castlemaine	Melbourne
8	112	Troy Reid	Woorinen	Hawthorn

1989 pre-season draft

Round	Player	Recruited from	Drafted to
1	Brian Winton	Essendon	St Kilda
2	John Gastev	West Coast	Brisbane Bears
3	Wally Matera	West Coast	Fitzroy
4	Travis Martin-Beynon	Southport	North Melbourne
5	Jeremy Crough	West Coast	Richmond
6	Andrew Rogers	Essendon	Geelong
7	Mark Williams	Carlton	Footscray
8	Robert Teal	Hawthorn	Sydney
9	Brian Hinkley	Geelong	Essendon
10	Shane Cable	Perth	West Coast
11	Murray Wrensted	West Coast	Collingwood
12	Simon Verbeek	Richmond	Carlton
13	Dannie Seow	Collingwood	Melbourne
14	Mathew Shinners	Hawthorn	Hawthorn
15	Brendan Lowther	Carlton	St Kilda
16	David Wittey	St Kilda	Brisbane Bears
17	Kevin Caton	West Coast	Fitzroy
18	Leigh Tudor	North Melbourne	North Melbourne
19	Matt Richardson	West Coast	Richmond
20	Spiro Malakellis	Geelong	Geelong
21	Tim Harrington	Collingwood	Footscray
22	Darren Ogier	North Melbourne	Sydney
23	Paul McWilliam	Sturt	Essendon
24	Clinton Browning	East Fremantle	West Coast
25	James Pyke	Norwood	Collingwood
26	Ashley Matthews	Carlton	Carlton
27	James Tomkins	Melbourne	Melbourne
28	Jon Gahan	Hawthorn	Hawthorn
29	Tony Elshaug	Collingwood	St Kilda
30	Simon Hose	Sydney	Brisbane Bears
31	Peter Bourke	Essendon	Fitzroy
32	Chris Lindsay	West Torrens	North Melbourne
33	Stuart Griffiths	Old Melbournians	Richmond
34	Darren Savickas	Geelong	Geelong
35	Tony Evans	St Kilda	Footscray
36	Brett Scott	Sydney	Sydney
37	Rodney Lawson	Kalkee	Essendon
38	Shane Ellis	East Fremantle	West Coast
39	John McKay	Old Xaverians	Collingwood
40	Paul Payne	Melbourne	Carlton
41	Michael Atkins	Footscray	Melbourne
42	Brett Sherriff	Hawthorn	Hawthorn
43	Lazar Vidovic	Castlemaine	St Kilda
44	Glen Reeves	Hawthorn	Brisbane Bears
45	Dean Lupson	Essendon	Fitzroy
46	Tony Furey	North Melbourne	North Melbourne
47	Justin Paul	Richmond	Richmond
48	Garry Phillips	Old Haileyburians	Geelong
49	Jolyon Keeble	Hawthorn	Footscray
50	Michael Phyland	Sydney	Sydney
51	Gary Barrow	Essendon	Essendon
52	Richard Geary	South Fremantle	West Coast
53	Nick Foley	Narrandera	Collingwood
54	Tim Taylor	Therry	Carlton
55	Matthew Febey	Melbourne	Melbourne
56	Adam Ladbroke	Brisbane Bears	Hawthorn