2015 AFL draft

The 2015 Australian Football League draft consisted of the various periods where the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League can trade and recruit players following the completion of the 2015 AFL season. Additions to each club's playing list are not allowed at any other time during the year.
The key dates for the trading and drafting periods were:

Academy players to be nominated by 15 September. With a bidding process held on 24 November along with father–son selections during the national draft.
The free agency offer period; held between 9 October and 18 October. Three further free agency periods are held for delisted players, between 31 October and 9 November, 11 November to 20 November, and 25 November to 26 November.
The trade period; held between 12 October and 22 October.
The 2015 national draft; held on 24 November at the Adelaide Convention Centre, which, for the first time, included live bidding for academy and father-son selections.
The 2016 pre-season draft; which was to be held on 27 November, but was cancelled when all clubs declined to take part, and
The 2016 rookie draft; which was held on 27 November.

Additionally, following the guilty verdicts handed down to 34 past and present Essendon players in January 2016 for doping violations, Essendon was given the opportunity to recruit top-up players between January and March 2016.

Player movements

Free agency

The initial list of free agents, published in March 2015, consisted of 74 unrestricted and restricted free agents, however, 35 of those players re-signed and 15 retired during or after the home-and-away season.

Player	Date	Free agent type	Former club	New club	Compensation	Ref
	12 October 2015	Unrestricted			End of 2nd round
	12 October 2015	Restricted			2nd round
	15 October 2015	Restricted			End of 2nd round
	16 October 2015	Unrestricted			-
	6 November 2015	Delisted			-
	6 November 2015	Delisted			-
	9 November 2015	Delisted			-
	26 November 2015	Delisted			-

Trades

For the first time, clubs were allowed to trade future selections from the next year's draft as well as the current draft. Geelong became the first AFL club to trade a future draft pick on 14 October 2015 when they traded their 2016 first round pick to Carlton for Lachie Henderson.

#	Player	Traded from	Traded to	Traded for	Ref
1
1
1
2
3				first round pick
4
4
5
6
7
7
7
8				second round pick
9
9
10
10
11				third round pick
11				third round pick
12
12
13
14				fifth round pick
15
15
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
17				second round pick
17
18
18				second round pick
18
18				second round pick
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
20
20
20				first round pick
21
22
22
23
23
23
23				first round pick
23				first round pick
24
24
24				first round pick
25
26
26
26
27
27
28
28				second round pick
28
28
28
28
28
28	third round pick
29
29
30
30	third round pick
31
32
32
32
32
33				fourth round pick
33				fourth round pick
34
34				second round pick

;Note:

The numbering of the draft picks in this list may be different from 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 2015 AFL player changes

2015 national draft

The 2015 AFL national draft was held on 24 November 2015 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. For the first time, live bidding occurred during the draft for selections made under the father–son rule and from the northern state's development academies, whereby each draft selection is allocated a points value. Clubs nominating a player were forced to use their existing draft selections to match the points value of the pick used by the club bidding for the player.

Draft-eve selection order, club by club, and points value of each pick

Round	Pick	Player	Drafted to	Recruited from	League	Notes
1	1			Dandenong Stingrays	TAC Cup
1	2			Murray Bushrangers	TAC Cup
1	3			North Shore	Sydney AFL	Academy player; Melbourne's bid matched with picks 33, 36, 37 and 43
1	4			Murray Bushrangers	TAC Cup	Traded from
1	5			Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup
1	6				SANFL	Traded from St Kilda
1	7			North Ballarat Rebels	TAC Cup	Academy player; Gold Coast's bid matched with pick 11
1	8				WAFL	Traded from
1	9			Eastern Ranges	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from
1	10			Gippsland Power	TAC Cup	Traded from
1	11				SANFL	Traded from
1	12			Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup	Traded from
1	13			Collingullie-Glenfield Park	RFNL	Academy player; Richmond's bid matched with picks 34 and 40
1	14				NEAFL	Academy player; Richmond's bid matched with picks 36 and 37
1	15			North Ballarat Rebels	TAC Cup
1	16			Mangoplah-CUE	RFNL	Academy player; Adelaide's bid matched with picks 48, 50, 55 and 59
1	17			Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup
1	18			Northern Knights	TAC Cup	Traded from
1	19				SANFL	Traded from
1	20			Northern Knights	TAC Cup	Traded from
1	21			Gippsland Power	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from
1	22				TSL
1	23			Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from ; received from via a trade in 2012; received from in 2011; compensation pick from 2011
2	24				NEAFL	Academy player; Western Bulldogs' bid matched with Brisbane's next pick
2	25			Gippsland Power	TAC Cup	Traded from ; father-son eligible, but did not match bid
2	26			Dandenong Stingrays	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from
2	27			North Ballarat Rebels	TAC Cup	Traded from
2	28				SANFL	Traded from ; received from
2	29			Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup	Traded from
2	30				SANFL	Traded from
2	31			Eastern Ranges	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from
2	32			Northern Knights	TAC Cup	Traded from
2	33				TSL	Traded from ; received from ; received from ; received from ; received from
2	34				WAFL	Traded from, received from
2	35				WAFL
2	36			Bendigo Pioneers	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from
2	37				SANFL	Traded from
2	38			Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from
3	39			Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from ; free agency compensation pick
3	40			Dandenong Stingrays	TAC Cup
3	41			Narrandera	RFNL	Academy player; Melbourne's bid matched with GWS' next pick
3	42			Murray Bushrangers	TAC Cup
3	43				NEAFL	Traded from ; academy eligible, but did not match bid
3	44			Eastern Ranges	TAC Cup	Traded from
3	45			Bendigo Pioneers	TAC Cup	Traded from ; received from
3	46			Dandenong Stingrays	TAC Cup	Traded from
3	47			Gippsland Power	TAC Cup	Traded from
3	48				SANFL
3	49			Dandenong Stingrays	TAC Cup	Father–son rule selection ; Richmond's bid matched with St Kilda's next pick
3	50				SANFL
3	51			Northern Knights	TAC Cup	Traded from
3	52				TSL	Traded from
3	53			Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup	Father–son rule selection ; Essendon's bid matched with Carlton's next pick
3	54				VFL	Traded from
4	55				VFL	Traded from
4	56				SANFL
4	57			Dandenong Stingrays	TAC Cup	Traded from
4	58			Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup
4	59				TSL
4	60				WAFL
4	61				WAFL
4	62				SANFL
5	63				VFL	Traded from ; received from
5	64			North Ballarat Rebels	TAC Cup
5	65			Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup
5	66				WAFL
5	67				WAFL
6	68				VFL
6	69			Mount Gravatt	QAFL
7	70				SANFL

; 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.

2015 AFL draft

Player movements

Free agency

Trades

Retirements and delistings

2015 national draft