35 Facts About Brendan Fevola

Brendan Fevola was born on 20 January 1981 and is a former professional Australian rules footballer.

Brendan Fevola played with the Carlton and Brisbane Lions football clubs in the Australian Football League.

Brendan Fevola was recruited to Carlton Football Club with selection No 38 overall in the 1998 AFL Draft.

However Brendan Fevola struggled to maintain form over the next few years, playing in 39 games and kicking 66 goals between 2000 and 2002, with noticeably poor body language on-field as well as causing bad publicity through incidents off-field.

In Round 5,2003, Brendan Fevola kicked 8 goals against the Kangaroos, helping win the game for Carlton and launching himself into the eyes of AFL viewers.

In 2004, Brendan Fevola developed a ritualistic set-shot routine of taking three quick steps to shoot on goal, and this resulted in a significant increase in goalkicking accuracy, particularly from long distance.

Brendan Fevola's ritual was duly shortened to accommodate the new rule.

In 2006, Brendan Fevola capped off a stunning year and his best to that point by kicking 84 goals and winning the Coleman Medal and All-Australian selection.

Brendan Fevola scored 59 goals in 2007, then followed this up in 2008 with his career best of 99 goals for the season, seeing him finish second behind Lance Franklin in the race for the Coleman Medal.

Brendan Fevola was selected for Victoria in the once-off AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match in 2008, kicking six goals and winning the Allen Aylett Medal as best on ground.

In 2009, Brendan Fevola won his second Coleman Medal, kicking 86 goals for the season, eight goals clear of the runner-up Jonathan Brown.

Brendan Fevola is the only Carlton player ever to win the League goal-kicking twice, and it was his seventh consecutive season as the club's leading goalkicker; only Stephen Kernahan had won the award more times consecutively.

Brendan Fevola made his debut for the Lions in the first round of the 2010 season at the Gabba against the West Coast Eagles.

Brendan Fevola finished the 2010 season with 48 goals in 17 games.

On 6 April 2011, Brendan Fevola signed to play with the Casey Scorpions in the Victorian Football League in 2011.

Brendan Fevola kicked 63 goals during the home and away season, with 43 of those coming in the final six games of the season, to finish second behind Port Melbourne's Patrick Rose in the league goalkicking, and he kicked a further six goals in finals.

Brendan Fevola remained at Yarrawonga for four seasons from 2012 until 2015, kicking 357 goals from 65 matches and being part of back-to-back premierships in 2012 and 2013.

Brendan Fevola was a regular panellist on The Footy Show on the Nine Network, and was noted for his larrikin persona.

Brendan Fevola starred in the second season of I'm a Celebrity.

Brendan Fevola married Alex Cheatham on 7 October 2005 at St John's Church in Toorak.

Brendan Fevola has two daughters, Leni and Lulu, and is step-father to Mia.

Cheatham stated in a Woman's Day interview that Brendan Fevola had become "disconnected" from her following the birth of Leni.

Bingle later confessed to the five-week affair, claiming that being from Sydney, she did not know that Brendan Fevola was married until she heard his baby in the background during a phone conversation.

Brendan Fevola opened a restaurant, Fellini, in 2007 on Toorak Road, South Yarra.

Brendan Fevola has been noted as studying criminology via correspondence at Griffith University and says that becoming a police officer is a possible career after football.

Brendan Fevola has been diagnosed with depression, and he underwent 51 days of extensive rehabilitation in 2011; both his agent and manager have associated many of Brendan Fevola's antics with his depression.

In 2006 Brendan Fevola assaulted a barman during a tour of Ireland in 2006 with the Australian International Rules team, and was sent back to Australia.

In March 2008, Brendan Fevola was fined $10,000 by the club and stood down from the leadership group after urinating on a window outside a Melbourne nightclub.

In September 2009, Brendan Fevola was fined $10,000 and banned from appearing on the Grand Final Footy Show after behaving inappropriately at the 2009 Brownlow Medal count.

Brendan Fevola withdrew from the traditional lap of honour by the Coleman Medallist at the 2009 AFL Grand Final and did not attend Carlton's award night.

In September 2010 it was announced that Queensland police had launched a formal investigation into claims that Brendan Fevola had flashed a woman at a Brisbane park during a football clinic, but again there were no charges laid; the Brisbane Lions suspended him independently while it conducted its own investigation into the event.

Early on 1 January 2011, New Year's Day, Brendan Fevola was arrested in Brisbane on charges of public nuisance and obstructing police.

In 2010, it became public that Brendan Fevola was addicted to gambling, mostly playing poker and punting on horses.

In 2022 Brendan Fevola began appearing in commercials for online gambling agency Bet Nation.

Brendan Fevola scored hauls of eleven and ten goals in matches for Casey during the 2011 VFL season, against Frankston and the Northern Bullants respectively.