2014 AFL draft

The 2014 AFL draft consists of the various periods where the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League can trade and recruit players following the completion of the 2014 AFL season. Additions to each club's playing list are not allowed at any other time during the year. This was the last year in which any team passed on a selection in the national draft.
The key dates for the trading and drafting periods are:

The free agency offer period between 3 October and 13 October. Three further free agency periods are held for delisted players, between 1 November and 12 November, 14 November to 19 November and 28 November to 1 December.
Father–son and academy players were nominated by 3 October, with a bidding process held on 6 October.
The trade period; which was held between 6 October and 16 October
The 2014 national draft; which was conducted on 27 November 2014 at the Gold Coast Convention Centre.
The 2015 pre-season draft which was held on 3 December 2014 and
The 2015 rookie draft, also held on 3 December 2014.

Final club lists for the 2015 AFL season were lodged to the AFL on 5 December 2014.
The 2014 draft was the best draft from a NSW/ACT perspective in recent history, as there were as many as seven players recruited from the region. Isaac Heeney was taken at pick 18, followed by Jack Hiscox, Abe Davis, Jack Steele, Dougal Howard, Logan Austin and Jeremy Finlayson. This total of seven new recruits was just one player less than what was recruited from the traditional football state of Western Australia.

Player movements

Free agency

The initial list of free agents, published in March 2014, consisted of 48 unrestricted free agents and nine restricted free agents. The mid-year revision in July listed 27 unrestricted free agents and only two restricted free agents, due to players re-signing with their existing clubs or announcing their retirement.
The final free agents list issued on 29 September, the week before the trade period commenced, consisted of 13 unrestricted free agents and only Shaun Higgins on the restricted free agent list, reflecting that most of the original list had either re-signed with their current club or retired from the AFL. James Frawley, Jarrad Waite, Dustin Fletcher, Brad Sewell, Luke McPharlin, Adam Goodes and Nick Malceski were the highest profile players remaining on the list.

Player	Date	Free agent type	Former club	New club	Compensation	Ref
	3 10 2014	Unrestricted			-
	3 10 2014	Restricted			2nd round
	6 10 2014	Unrestricted			1st round
	6 10 2014	Unrestricted			2nd round
	11 10 2014	Unrestricted			-
	02 11 2014	Delisted			-
	05 11 2014	Delisted			-
	2 11 2014	Delisted			-
	3 11 2014	Delisted			-
	3 11 2014	Delisted			-
	5 11 2014	Delisted			-
	5 11 2014	Delisted			-

Trades

The AFL trade period will run from Monday 6 October until Thursday 16 October. The AFL announced that it was shortening the trade period by one day from the usual Friday deadline due to Etihad Stadium, which is used by the AFL clubs during the trade period, being booked on the Friday for the International Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses.
On 9 October it was revealed that the AFL had banned the Sydney Swans from recruiting players, either by trading or through free agency signing, for the next two trading periods, unless the club was prepared to give up its cost of living allowance, the allowance above the base salary cap which the club is permitted to pay its players to reflect the higher cost of living in Sydney compared with Melbourne. Sydney opted to abide by the restrictions in order to retain its COLA, and recruited no players. The club was not restricted from receiving draft picks in exchange for players leaving the club.

#	Player	Traded from	Traded to	Traded for	Ref
1	Jonathan O'Rourke Pick 43			Pick 19 Pick 40
2	Jeff Garlett Pick 83			Pick 61 Pick 79
3	Joel Patfull			Pick 21
4	Allen Christensen			Pick 21
5	Heritier Lumumba			Mitch Clark
5	Mitch Clark			Travis Varcoe
5	Travis Varcoe			Heritier Lumumba
6	Dayne Beams Pick 67			Jack Crisp Pick 5 Pick 25
7	Levi Greenwood			Pick 25
8	Rhys Stanley Pick 60			Pick 21
9	Kristian Jaksch Mark Whiley Pick 19			Pick 7
10	Ryan Griffen Pick 6			Tom Boyd
11	Jonathan Giles Pick 62			Pick 53
12	Paddy Ryder			Pick 17 Pick 37
13	Adam Cooney			Pick 37
14	Mitch Hallahan			Pick 47 Pick 49
15	Sam Frost Pick 40 Pick 53			Pick 23
16	Shane Biggs Pick 39			Pick 37
17	Liam Jones			Pick 46
18	Kyle Cheney Luke Lowden Pick 43 Pick 47 Pick 59			Pick 31 Pick 50 Pick 68
19	Pick 10 Pick 47			Pick 14 Pick 35

Note: The numbering of the draft picks in this list may be different to the agreed draft picks at the time of the trade, due to adjustments from either the insertion of free agency compensation draft picks or clubs exiting the draft before later rounds.

Retirements and delistings

List of 2014 AFL player changes

2014 national draft

The 2014 AFL national draft was held on 27 November 2014 at the Gold Coast Convention Centre.

		Player			Notes
1	1		Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup
1	2	*	Eastern Ranges	TAC Cup
1	3		Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup	Free agency compensation pick
1	4		South Fremantle	WAFL
1	5		Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup	Traded from
1	6		Murray Bushrangers	TAC Cup	Traded from
1	7		Calder Cannons	TAC Cup	Traded from
1	8		Calder Cannons	TAC Cup
1	9		Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup	Father–son rule selection – son of Peter Moore
1	10		NT Thunder	NEAFL	Traded from
1	11		Western Jets	TAC Cup
1	12		Western Jets	TAC Cup
1	13		Southport/Broadbeach	NEAFL
1	14		Calder Cannons	TAC Cup	Traded from
1	15		South Fremantle	WAFL	Traded from ; compensation pick from 2012
1	16		West Adelaide	SANFL
1	17		Northern Knights	TAC Cup	Traded from
1	18		Cardiff	BDAFL	Academy player
1	19		Swan Districts	WAFL	Traded from ; received from
1	20		Western Jets	TAC Cup	First selection at end of first round due to supplements scandal penalty
1	21		Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from ; received from ; received from via a trade in 2012; traded by in 2010; Compensation pick from 2010
2	22		Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup
2	23		Gisborne	Bendigo Football League	Traded from
2	24		Belconnen	NEAFL	Academy player
2	25		Eastern Ranges	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from
2	26		Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup
2	27		Gippsland Power	TAC Cup	Free agency compensation pick
2	28		Western Jets	TAC Cup
2	29		Calder Cannons	TAC Cup
2	30		Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup
2	31		Murray Bushrangers	TAC Cup	Traded from
2	32		Dandenong Stingrays	TAC Cup
2	33		Western Jets	TAC Cup
2	34		Swan Districts	WAFL
2	35		North Adelaide	SANFL	Traded from
2	36		Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup
2	37		Sturt	SANFL	Traded from ; received from ; received from
2	38		Sydney University	NEAFL	Academy player
2	39		Port Adelaide	SANFL	Traded from ; Free agency compensation pick
2	40		Glenelg	SANFL	Traded from ; received from
3	41		Dandenong Stingrays	TAC Cup
3	42		Glenelg	SANFL	Father–son rule selection – son of Steven Stretch
3	43		Claremont	WAFL	Traded from ; received from
3	44		Aspley	NEAFL	Academy player
3	45		Dandenong Stingrays	TAC Cup
3	46		South Adelaide	SANFL	Traded by
3	47		Glenelg	SANFL	Traded from ; received from ; received from
3	48		Calder Cannons	TAC Cup
3	49		Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from via a trade in 2013; traded by in 2010; Compensation pick from 2010
3	50		Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup	Traded by
3	51		Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup
3	52		Murray Bushrangers	TAC Cup
3	53		North Ballarat Rebels	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from
3	54		Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup
3	55		Sturt	SANFL
3	56		Murray Bushrangers	TAC Cup
3	57	Passed	—	—
3	58		Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup	Traded by
4	59		Gippsland Power	TAC Cup	Traded by
4	60		Perth	WAFL	Traded from
4	61		Aspley	NEAFL	Academy player
4	62		Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup	Father–son rule selection – son of Brian Cordy
4	63		Calder Cannons	TAC Cup
4	64	Passed	—	—
4	65		Glenorchy	TSL	Traded by
4	66		Calder Cannons	TAC Cup
4	67		North Ballarat Rebels	TAC Cup
4	68		Subiaco	WAFL
4	69		Belconnen	NEAFL
4	70		UNSW-Eastern Suburbs	Sydney AFL	Academy player
5	71	Passed	—	—	Traded from
5	72	Passed	—	—
5	73		Bendigo Pioneers	TAC Cup
5	74	Passed	—	—
5	75	Passed	—	—
5	76			WAFL	Father–son rule selection – son of Chris Waterman
5	77		Northern Knights	TAC Cup
5	78		North Ballarat Rebels	TAC Cup
5	79	Passed	—	—
6	80	Passed	—	—
6	81		Lauderdale	TSL
6	82	Passed	—	—
6	83	Passed	—	—
6	84		South Fremantle	WAFL
7	85		Sydney Hills Eagles	NEAFL	Academy player
7	86		Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup	Father–son rule selection – son of Scott Clayton
7	87	Passed	—	—

; Notes

Compensation picks are selections in addition to the normal order of selection, allocated to clubs by the AFL as compensation for losing uncontracted players to the new expansion clubs, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney. The picks can be held for up to five years and clubs declare at the beginning of the season of their intent to utilise the pick at the end of the season. Picks could be traded to other clubs in return for players or other draft selections.
Free agency compensation picks are additional selections awarded to teams based on their net loss of players during the free agency trade period.
Academy players are local zone selections available to the four NSW and Queensland clubs. Both academy and father–son selections are subject to a bidding process, where the club with the family or academy connection must match any opposition club's bid with their next available selection.