Michael Armfield

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 Career Highlights
  • GFC League Player Number: 643
  • GFC League Debut: Escort Cup, 1979
  • Glenelg 19791981
    • 40 games
    • 1 goal
  • Played in 1981 Grand Final side
 Other Career Highlights
  • North Adelaide 1982-1988
  • 134 games, 13 goals
  • Premiership player 1987
Michael Armfield 1981

Biographical

  • Born: 19 December 1959
  • Height: 184 cm
  • Weight: 84kg


  • Recruited from: Millicent

Guernsey Number: 18


Recruited from Millicent, where he kicked 80 goals in 1978.

Left Glenelg to play with North Adelaide (as part of a transfer deal involving the Stringer brothers). Played in a premiership in 1987, which was only his 3rd League game for the season. He also played in the grand Final loss in 1985 to his old team, the Bays.

Armfield later went on to coach throughout South Australia. He joined Collingwood as a South Australian recruiter in 1999, and has spent over two decades in the position as the club’s South Australian Recruiting Manager. Armfield combined his work as a fireman with more than 1500 games of football.

His son, Darcy Armfield, made his League debut v South Adelaide in 2010.

References

1. Glenelg Football Club

2. Pride of the Bay, Peter Cornwall and John Wood

3. Border Watch

4. SANFL Football Budget 1981 grand final edition

5. Collingwood special services award 2017]

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