Homegrown or headhunted - how 2025 AFLM squads were assembled

Here’s a display of how each men’s squad was assembled for 2025 - through the draft or through trades and free agency.

The criteria I’ve applied is a homegrown player is one who entered the AFL environment through their current club, whereas a headhunted player was on someone else’s list. Players are shaded a lighter colour until their club debut year.

Game totals should reflect to the end of 2024. With several hundred players I haven’t checked through each individually, so if you notice someone is incorrect (particularly bigger things like missing debutants) yell at me on bluesky about it (link in the banner).