1. Jesse Hogan was born on 12 February 1995 and is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League.
58 Facts About Jesse Hogan
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Jesse Hogan was a standout basketballer and footballer at a young age, representing Western Australia in both sports and played in the West Australian Football League colts competition with the Claremont Football Club.
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Jesse Hogan was rewarded with All-Australian selection as a junior in the 2012 AFL Under 18 Championships and in turn, he was drafted by Melbourne with the second selection in the 2012 mini-draft, meaning he was ineligible to play in the 2013 AFL season.
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In October 2018, he was acquired by Fremantle in a trade that sent him back home to Western Australia after two unsuccessful years at the Dockers, Jesse Hogan was traded to Greater Western Sydney.
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Jesse Hogan is the youngest of four children by twelve years and was raised in Scarborough in Perth, Western Australia.
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Jesse Hogan attended Newman College and played his junior football with the Marist Junior Football Club.
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Jesse Hogan was awarded state selection in the under-16 Western Australian basketball squad, where his passion was with basketball before focusing on becoming a professional footballer.
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Jesse Hogan received mid-year state honours in 2012 and was selected in the Western Australian squad in the under 18 championships despite being ineligible for the 2012 AFL draft as a 17-year old.
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Jesse Hogan was highly rated during the championships and was touted as one of the two players who would be selected in the 2012 mini-draft.
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In October 2012, Jesse Hogan was acquired by the Melbourne Football Club with the second selection in the 2012 mini-draft, a special draft for players who were too young to be eligible for selection in the main 2012 AFL draft.
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Jesse Hogan was given permission by the AFL to play for Melbourne in the 2013 NAB Cup.
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Jesse Hogan was often compared to other young key-forwards including Tom Boyd, Jonathon Patton and Joe Daniher as to who would be the best.
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Jesse Hogan was declared the player who could lift Melbourne from the bottom of the ladder.
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In March 2014, Jesse Hogan was sidelined after he sustained a lower back injury in Melbourne's NAB Challenge match against Geelong.
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Jesse Hogan finished the game with two goals and seven marks, helping Melbourne to their first 100-plus score since round 14,2013.
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Jesse Hogan played 20 matches in his debut season, kicking 44 goals, the most for a player aged under 21 in their debut season since Chris Grant of Footscray kicked 51 goals in 1990.
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Jesse Hogan was the leading goalkicker for Melbourne and finished third in the league for contested marks with 47 during the home and away season.
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Jesse Hogan was one of the early favourites to win the 2015 AFL Rising Star alongside Isaac Heeney of Sydney a seven-week knee injury to Heeney led many to believe the Rising Star winner would be decided between Jesse Hogan and Patrick Cripps of Carlton.
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In what was predicted to be one of the closest vote counts for the Rising Star, Jesse Hogan was the eventual winner of the Ron Evans Medal, earning the maximum five votes from nine of the ten judges, with Kevin Sheehan awarding him four out of five votes.
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Jesse Hogan ultimately finished with 49 votes out of a possible 50.
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Jesse Hogan became the first key forward to win the award since Nick Riewoldt won in 2002, and the second Melbourne player overall to receive the award after Jared Rivers won in 2004.
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Jesse Hogan's season was later assessed by journalists at AFL Media as the third best by any rising star winner since 2000.
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Jesse Hogan was one of the three Melbourne players nominated for the AFLPA MVP award, alongside Nathan Jones and Bernie Vince.
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Hype surrounding Jesse Hogan entering the 2016 season was high when Collingwood captain Scott Pendlebury claimed he could kick 100 goals during the season, and Herald Sun head of football writer, Mark Robinson, named him in the top fifty best players in the league.
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Jesse Hogan played in the opening match of the 2016 NAB Challenge against Port Adelaide and the final match against St Kilda, with the latter drawing criticism for his goalkicking technique, particularly from former Melbourne forward David Schwarz, who labelled his goalkicking as "shocking and a disgrace".
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Jesse Hogan played in 21 out of a possible 22 matches in 2016 due to being a late withdrawal from the twenty-nine point win against Hawthorn in round 20 after he bruised his knee hitting the goal post in the two-point win against Gold Coast the week before.
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Jesse Hogan kicked a total of 41 goals, which made him Melbourne's leading goalkicker.
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Jesse Hogan was named in the "20in2020" team, a team comprising the best twenty players drafted from the previous four AFL Academy intakes, and he was named in the AFL Media team of the week three times during the season.
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In February 2017, after a standout pre-season, new Melbourne senior coach Simon Goodwin predicted that Jesse Hogan would be a key driver behind any future Melbourne success due to being in a settled environment following his contract extension in 2016.
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Jesse Hogan played the first two matches of the year before he was reported for striking Sam Rowe in Melbourne's twenty-two point win against Carlton in round two and was ultimately suspended for two matches.
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Jesse Hogan returned from suspension for the Anzac Day eve match against Richmond at the MCG in round five.
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Jesse Hogan returned the next week for the round seven match against Hawthorn, before being a late withdrawal for the match against Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval a week later due to illness.
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Jesse Hogan returned to playing nine weeks after the initial cancer diagnosis in the eight point win against Carlton at the MCG in round sixteen.
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Jesse Hogan played four consecutive matches until he broke his collarbone in the first quarter of the round nineteen match against North Melbourne at Blundstone Arena.
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Jesse Hogan was named in the AFL Media team of the week.
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Jesse Hogan finished the season with ten matches and twenty goals.
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In 2018, Jesse Hogan was key to Melbourne's push for its first finals campaign in 12 years.
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However, following a loss to Sydney in round 21, Jesse Hogan was ruled out for the rest of the season with a partial stress fracture in the navicular bone in his foot.
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At the time of his injury, Jesse Hogan was sixth on the Coleman Medal table with 47 goals.
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On 19 July, Jesse Hogan was ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a recurrence of an injury to the navicular bone in his right foot, which was initially sustained with Melbourne in 2018.
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On 29 January 2020, Jesse Hogan took leave away from the club to deal with mental health challenges.
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Jesse Hogan was traded on the first day of trade period in exchange for pick 54.
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Jesse Hogan kicked a game-high four goals in his debut for the Giants in round seven of the 2021 season against Adelaide.
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Jesse Hogan only missed one more game from round 17 onwards and finished the home and away season with 18 goals in eight games.
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Jesse Hogan made his finals debut against Sydney in the Elimination Final, kicking two goals and taking six contested marks.
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Jesse Hogan pinged his calf during the match and missed the Giants' semi-final.
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On 23 August 2021, Jesse Hogan signed a one-year contract extension with the Giants.
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Jesse Hogan dealt with soft-tissue soreness during the 2022 pre-season, which led to him missing round one.
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On 12 August 2022, Jesse Hogan signed a new two-year deal with the Giants.
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On 19 August 2023, Jesse Hogan kicked a career-high nine goals with 17 marks and 24 disposals in a 126-point win over Essendon.
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On 16 March 2024, Jesse Hogan kicked six goals with 18 disposals and eight marks in a 39-point win over North Melbourne.
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Jesse Hogan would go on to win the award with 69 goals kicked in the home and away season, 11 more than the next best goal scorer Jeremy Cameron.
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Jesse Hogan finished with a goalkicking accuracy of 65.7 per cent, third behind Matthew Lloyd and Fraser Gehrig as the most accurate Coleman winners since 2002, when shots on goal started to be measured.
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When measured by just goals and behinds, Jesse Hogan became the sixth most accurate Coleman winner in the past 50 years.
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Jesse Hogan finished with a career-high 77 goals after a five-goal semi-final performance against Brisbane.
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Jesse Hogan earned All-Australian honours for the first time and was named the recipient of the Kevin Sheedy Medal as the club's best and fairest.
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Jesse Hogan missed the start of the 2025 season with a broken thumb.
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Jesse Hogan returned in round four to kick four goals against Hawthorn.