Steele Sidebottom

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Australian rules footballer

title: "Steele Sidebottom" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["collingwood-football-club-players", "collingwood-football-club-premiership-players", "copeland-trophy-winners", "1991-births", "living-people", "australian-people-of-english-descent", "sportspeople-of-english-descent", "australian-rules-footballers-from-victoria-(state)", "murray-bushrangers-players", "all-australians-(afl)", "vfl/afl-premiership-players", "21st-century-australian-sportsmen"] description: "Australian rules footballer" topic_path: "sports" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_Sidebottom" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Steele Sidebottom
image	Steele Sidebottom 2017.6.jpg
caption	Sidebottom playing for Collingwood in June 2017
fullname	Steele Robert Sidebottom
nickname	Rusty, Steelo, BlueScope
birth_date
birth_place	Victoria
originalteam	Congupna Football Club (Murray Football League)
draftpick	No. 11, 2008 National Draft,
height	184 cm
weight	86 kg
position	Midfielder
currentclub
guernsey	22
years1	2009–
club1
games_goals1	354 (209)
statsend	the 2025 season
sooyears1	2020
sooteam1	Victoria
soogames_goals1	1 (0)
careerhighlights	* 2× AFL premiership player: 2010, 2023
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All-Australian team: 2018
2× Copeland Trophy: 2017, 2018
Collingwood co-vice captain: 2015–2022
Gary Ayres Award: 2018
2x Anzac Day Medal: 2016, 2025
2× 22under22 team: 2012, 2013 Steele Robert Sidebottom (born 2 January 1991) is a professional Australian rules football player currently playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.

He made the All-Australian team in 2018 and is a two-time Copeland Trophy winner.

Recruited from Congupna Football Club and the Murray Bushrangers, Sidebottom was selected by Collingwood with selection 11 in the 2008 AFL draft. Sidebottom had a 10-goal best-on-ground performance in the 2008 TAC Cup Grand Final. He is strong overhead and in one-on-one contests. An AIS/AFL Academy graduate and Vic Country representative in 2008, Sidebottom also was selected in the All-Australian team following the 2008 AFL Under 18 Championships.

A midfielder, Sidebottom became a star player for Collingwood. He has won the Copeland Trophy twice as the club's best and fairest (2017, 2018) and also played in premierships in 2010 and 2023. Sidebottom has been named in the All-Australian team in 2018 on a wing in addition to finishing second in the 2018 Brownlow Medal. He has been the co-vice captain of Collingwood since the 2015 season to 2022.

Career

Sidebottom made his AFL debut vs St Kilda in Round 7, 2009, where St Kilda defeated Collingwood by 88 points.

In the semi-final against Adelaide of the 2009 AFL Season, Sidebottom had his first major breakthrough, where he notched up 25 disposals in a come-from-behind win.

In 2010, Sidebottom played in all but one game for the Magpies, including both the drawn Grand Final and Grand Final replay. At 19 years of age, he was the youngest member of Collingwood's 2010 Premiership side.

On 6 October 2017, Sidebottom won the Copeland Trophy.

In the 2018 Brownlow Medal count, Sidebottom finished in second place (his career best).

In 2020, Sidebottom was handed a four match suspension for breaching the AFL's COVID-19 protocols, after he and teammate Lynden Dunn had shared an Uber together and visited several homes, with the night concluding with Sidebottom being driven home by police.

In Round 11 2023, Sidebottom played his 300th AFL game, becoming the fourth Collingwood player ever to do so. In the milestone match, he injured his MCL and did not play again until Round 18. In the Grand Final of that year, Sidebottom kicked a goal with a 60-metre bomb in the last quarter which ultimately proved vital to Collingwood's premiership victory.

Statistics

Updated to the end of the 2024 season.

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2009
11
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25
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2011
25
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2012
24
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2013
23
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2014
19
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2015
16
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2016
20
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2017
22
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2018
26
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2019
23
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2020
9
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2021
21
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2022
25
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20
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2024
22
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2025
23
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! 354 !! 209 !! 146 !! 4712 !! 3481 !! 8193 !! 1748 !! 1317 !! 0.6 !! 0.4 !! 13.3 !! 9.8 !! 23.1 !! 4.9 !! 3.7 !! 112
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Notes

Honours and achievements

Collingwood

2× AFL Premiership (Collingwood): 2010, 2023
McClelland Trophy (Collingwood): 2010, 2011
AFL Minor Premiership (Collingwood) 2010, 2011 2023
NAB Cup (Collingwood) 2011

Individual

References

Collingwood Football Club. (2025-07-08). "What’s your name and what do your teammates call you? 🤣😭".
McFarlane, Glenn. (9 July 2011). "Collingwood's Steele Sidebottom reveals why he loves to return to his band of brothers". [[Herald Sun]].
Gleeson, Michael. (2022-09-09). "Collingwood’s man of Steele was rusty". [[The Age]].
(13 May 2010). "Beg, borrow or Steele". [[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney).
(2018-10-05). "Collingwood stars Steele Sidebottom and Brodie Grundy can’t be split after a countback in the 2018 Copeland Trophy".
Edmund, Sam (2 October 2008) [http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,24433497-19742,00.html Steele Sidebottom dominates under-18 final]; Herald Sun
[[Kevin Sheehan. Sheehan, Kevin]] (19 July 2008) [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204162117/http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/63694/default.aspx Shifter's wrap: Under-18 All-Australian team]
McFarlane, Glenn. (6 October 2017). "Steele Sidebottom pips Taylor Adams to claim his first Collingwood Copeland Trophy". [[News Corp Australia]].
(2018-09-24). "Hawthorn's Tom Mitchell wins 2018 Brownlow Medal". ABC News.
Marc McGowan. (1 July 2020). "Pies fume at 'excessive' COVID ban for Steele". Australian Football League.
"Steele Sidebottom's player profile". AFL Tables.

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