13 Facts About Brett Backwell

Brett Backwell was drafted to the elite AFL competition at number 67 selection in the 1998 AFL Draft.

Brett Backwell's father Owen was a winner of the QAFL's Grogan Medal in 1971 and 1975.

Brett Backwell debuted in the opening Round of the 1999 season.

Brett Backwell was nominated for the AFL Rising Star award.

Brett Backwell spent much of 2001 playing in Carlton's stand-alone reserves team in the Victorian Football League, where he won the JJ Liston Trophy for best and fairest.

Brett Backwell was delisted at the end of the 2001 season.

In 2003 Brett Backwell moved to Glenelg, joining his former teammate from Carlton, Heath Culpitt.

In 2006 Brett Backwell won the highest individual award in the league, the Magarey Medal, a feat heightened after he elected to have a finger amputated twelve months earlier.

Brett Backwell played out the season in the Southern Football League for Morphettville Park.

Brett Backwell served as a midfield assistant coach for South Adelaide from 2013 until 2014, before resigning.

Brett Backwell later became coach of Prince Alfred Old Collegians, taking them to the Division One minor premiership in the Adelaide Football League.

In 2005 Brett Backwell enjoyed a brief period of international celebrity status when he elected to have his left-ring finger amputated.

Brett Backwell continued to play football without any complications from only having nine fingers.