Tony Lockett

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tony Lockett
Occupation	Australian Rules Footballer
Date Of Birth	Mar 9, 1966(1966-03-09)
Age	58
Birthplace	Ballarat
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Pisces

Tony Lockett Biography

Tony Lockett is one of the most popular and richest Australian Rules Footballer who was born on March 9, 1966 in Ballarat, Australia. Australian rules footballer who played for St. Kilda and Sydney from 1983-2002. He ended his career as the top VFL/AFL scorer of all-time.

Alister Carr was his teammate on St. Kilda in 1994.

Anthony Howard “Tony” Lockett (born 9 March 1966) is a former Australian rules football player. Nicknamed “Plugger”, Lockett is the highest goalscorer in the history of the VFL/AFL with 1,360 goals in a career of 281 games, starting in 1983 with the St Kilda Football Club and ending in 2002 with the Sydney Swans. Lockett won the Brownlow Medal in 1987, becoming the first and only full forward to ever win the award. He is a four-time Coleman Medallist, kicked more than 100 goals in a season on six occasions (an AFL record he shares with Jason Dunstall of Hawthorn) and is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame. In 1999, Lockett broke the all-time goals record when he kicked his 1300th goal, surpassing Gordon Coventry’s record of 1299 which had stood for 62 years. Lockett’s new record remains unbeaten.

Lockett began playing Australian Rules with the Under 12s team of his father’s club, North Ballarat Football Club, in 1974. He played a total of 120 junior games with the club. He had played just five senior games as a 16-year-old in 1982 with North Ballarat before he was recruited by VFL club St Kilda and moved to Melbourne.

His father Howard also played Australian rules football.

Tony Lockett Net Worth

Tony Lockett is one of the richest Australian Rules Footballer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tony Lockett 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He played 120 junior games for North Ballarat.

He kicked 127 goals in 17 games for St Kilda was in 1991, setting a goals per game record.

He has appeared in various television commercials, including Advanced Hair and Lowes Menswear (in Sydney). While at a taping session for a Lowes commercial, Lockett engaged in a friendly wrestling match with former amateur rugby player Adrian “Ace” Mueller, who was at the time working for Lowes corporate division. According to some reports, the friendly wrestle developed into something quite competitive, with Lockett pinning Mueller (an exponent of the Israeli self-defence system, Krav Maga). Lockett appeared with Stephen Curry and Dave Lawson in a Toyota Memorable Moments advertisement which takes a lighthearted look at some moments in his career such as the piglet “Pluga”, “One Tony Lockett”, “That Point” and his 1,300th goal (including the pitch invasion).

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Tony Lockett height 6 ft 3 in Tony weight 247  lbs & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Tony Lockett Dating?

According to our records, Tony Lockett married to Vicki Lockett. As of December 1, 2023, Tony Lockett’s is not dating anyone.

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Lockett’s career was marred by several high-profile tribunal appearances. The most famous was in an 11-goal match for St Kilda, against his future club, Sydney, in 1994 when he broke Peter Caven’s cheek-bone as he led out from full-forward and the unaware Caven was back-tracking for the ball. The incident resulted in an eight-week suspension for charging.

Facts & Trivia

Tony Ranked on the list of most popular Australian Rules Footballer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Tony Lockett celebrates birthday on March 9 of every year.

In 1995, Lockett transferred to the Sydney Swans, where he played for another six seasons. He was an instant success with the Swans, helping the team into the 1996 finals series and subsequently into the 1996 AFL Grand Final. With scores tied in the preliminary final game, Lockett kicked a point after the siren to give Sydney a one-point victory. Despite a groin injury he played in the grand final, which the Swans lost to North Melbourne. It was the only grand final appearance of Lockett’s career.

When did Tony Lockett kick his 1000 goal?

Franklin creates history and becomes just the sixth player to kick 1000 goals in an AFL/VFL career. AND THEN there were six. The last time men, women and children jumped the fence and chased down a Sydney superstar was when Tony Lockett booted his 1300th goal at the SCG on June 6, 1999.

Where is Tony Lockett now?

The St Kilda legend took his own life in the single-car crash the day after his birthday in September 2019. He was later diagnosed with CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), which is associated with repeated blows to the head and can only be diagnosed after death.

Did Tony Lockett win a Brownlow?

1987 Brownlow Medal
Winners| Tony Lockett (St Kilda) John Platten (Hawthorn) 20 votes
Television/radio coverage
Network| Seven Network
← 1986 Brownlow Medal 1988 →

When did Tony Lockett kick his 1300 goal?

Kilda in 1992. His remarkable goal-kicking career culminated in the 1999 season , in which Lockett, at age 33, kicked his 1,300th goal, breaking the previous record of 1,299 goals set by Gordon Coventry of Collingwood. That record had been a fixture in the history books since Coventry’s retirement in 1937.

Who tackled the pig?

Darren Holmes , who was a pretty hard-at-it half-back flanker, made a brilliant tackle on the pig in the opposite forward pocket (despite Holmes’s 63 games, The Encyclopaedia of AFL footballers said the moment was his “greatest claim to fame”).