Get to know our second signing of the 2020 AFL Trade Period, former Lion ruckman Stefan Martin.

  1. Martin has played 190 AFL games since his debut in Round 14, 2008.
  2. He was taken with Melbourne’s pick No. 3 in the 2008 Pre-season Draft.
  3. He spent the 2007 VFL season playing for Sandringham, which at the time was affiliated with Melbourne.
  4. The Western Bulldogs will be his third AFL club, following five years as a Dee, and eight years as a Lion.
  5. The 33-year-old represented Victoria alongside Marcus Bontempelli and Jack Macrae in the State of Origin Bushfire Relief match earlier this year.
  6. He grew up playing junior basketball at an elite level, starting with the Dandenong Rangers before joining the Nunawading Spectres.
  7. Martin made the Australian under-20s representative side for basketball, and played a test series for Australia in New Zealand at 17 years old.
  8. He received a VCE entrance score of 99.75, going on to study a double degree in law/science at Melbourne University.
  9. He played his first football game for Old Haileybury at 19 years old, and went on to win the best and fairest in his first season after polling 23 of a possible 24 votes.
  10. After spending 12 years in the AFL system, Martin finally played his first final in 2019.