10 Facts About Bayley Fritsch

Bayley Fritsch was born on 6 December 1996 and is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Bayley Fritsch's season saw him drafted by the Melbourne Football Club in the second round of the 2017 AFL draft and he made his AFL debut in the opening round of the 2018 AFL season.

Bayley Fritsch was born to Pauline and Scott Bayley Fritsch on 6 December 1996.

Bayley Fritsch then joined the Casey Scorpions in the Victorian Football League at the start of the 2015 season, but experienced two injury-plagued seasons with a back fracture in 2015 and a knee injury in 2016.

Bayley Fritsch enjoyed continuity in the 2017 VFL season when he played nineteen matches and kicked forty-two goals for the season to finish as the runner-up in the Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal as the VFL leading goalkicker.

Towards the end of the season, he was being touted as a potential AFL draftee when he was one of ten VFL players invited to the Victoria combine, with Casey Demons coach, Justin Plapp, saying Bayley Fritsch could become a "serious player" in the AFL if given the chance.

Bayley Fritsch was recruited by the Melbourne Football Club, Casey's AFL affiliate team, with their second pick and thirty-first overall in the 2017 national draft.

Bayley Fritsch competed for Melbourne for the first time in the AFLX competition, in which he kicked three goals in the second match with the Herald Sun's Glenn McFarlane writing the early glimpse of Fritsch showed he has strong composure in attack.

Bayley Fritsch played in both of Melbourne's JLT Community Series matches and after the first match, in which he kicked three goals and was the standout player according to Fox Sports Australia's Riley Beveridge, widespread media were noting he was a strong chance to make his AFL debut in round 1.

Bayley Fritsch made his debut in the three point loss to Geelong at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the opening round of the 2018 season.