Caleb Graham

Caleb Graham (born 12 September 2000) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Caleb Graham
Graham playing for Gold Coast in May 2019
Personal information
Full name	Caleb Graham
Nickname(s)	Crab
Date of birth	(2000-09-12) 12 September 2000 (age 24)
Place of birth	Cairns, Queensland
Original team(s)	Palm Beach Currumbin (QAFL)
Draft	No. 71, 2018 national draft
Height	195 cm (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	92 kg (203 lb)
Position(s)	Defender
Club information
Current club	Gold Coast
Number	46
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2019–	Gold Coast	37 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2024.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Early life

Graham was born and raised in Cairns, Queensland.^[1] He began playing junior football for the North Cairns Tigers at five years of age.^[2] Graham later switched to the Cairns Saints and was placed in the Gold Coast Suns Academy as a teenager. At the start of 2016, he relocated with his family to the Gold Coast where he started playing locally for the Palm Beach Currumbin Australian Football Club and attended Palm Beach Currumbin State High School.^[3] While at Palm Beach Currumbin he played in back-to-back QAFL senior premierships,^[4] including playing on former AFL Premiership forward Barry Hall at 17 years and 10 days of age in the 2017 QAFL Grand Final.^[5]

In November 2018, he was drafted by the Gold Coast Football Club with pick 71 in the AFL draft.^[6]

AFL career

Graham made his AFL debut at 18 years of age in Round 21 of the 2019 AFL season, which also happened to be QClash18 against the Brisbane Lions.^[7]

Statistics

'Statistics are correct to the end of 2024^[8]

Legend

G	Goals	K	Kicks	D	Disposals	T	Tackles
B	Behinds	H	Handballs	M	Marks	H/O	Hit-outs

Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals								Averages (per game)
				G	B	K	H	D	M	T	H/O	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	H/O
2019	Gold Coast	46	3	0	0	18	17	35	11	4	0	0.0	0.0	6.0	5.7	11.7	3.7	1.3	0.0
2020[a]	Gold Coast	46	7	0	0	36	14	50	25	2	0	0.0	0.0	5.1	2.0	7.1	3.6	0.3	0.0
2021	Gold Coast	46	12	0	1	52	33	85	42	8	82	0.0	0.1	4.3	2.8	7.1	3.5	0.7	6.8
2022	Gold Coast	46	15	1	0	95	38	133	52	14	2	0.1	0.0	6.3	2.5	8.9	3.5	0.9	0.1
2023	Gold Coast	46	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2024	Gold Coast	46	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Career			37	1	1	201	102	303	130	28	84	0.0	0.0	5.4	2.8	8.2	3.5	0.8	2.3

1. The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.