THE AFL wishes to congratulate Brisbane Lions' Lachie Neale ahead of his 300th AFL game on Sunday.

A two-time premiership player and Brownlow Medallist, Neale is set to become the 112th player in VFL/ AFL history to reach 300 games.   

The AFL's Historian has compiled a list of key numbers and achievements across Neale's career:

The 112th person to play 300 career games

When he debuted in 2012, there were 64 players in the 300 game club

PLAYERS TO REACH 300 VFL/AFL GAMES  

 
MISCELLANEOUS

• Pick No. 58 in the 2011 Draft
• Debuted in Round 4, 2012 against St Kilda. Neale started the game on the bench as the sub. He was subbed into the game midway through the third quarter
• Neale becomes the fourth player to debut as a sub and go on to reach 300 career games, after Luke Parker, Luke Breust and Dayne Zorko
• Played 135 games for Fremantle between 2012 and 2018 before being traded to the Brisbane Lions ahead of the 2019 season
• Premiership player in 2024 and 2025, also played in the 2013 and 2023 Grand Finals
• Neale was the starting sub in both the 2013 and 2025 Grand Finals. Braeden Campbell is the only other player to be the starting sub in multiple Grand Finals
• Co-captain of the Brisbane Lions between 2023 and 2025
• In 2024, Neale and Harris Andrews became the inaugural recipients of the Ron Barassi medal (awarded to the premiership captain)
• A four-time All Australian (2019, 2020, 2022 and 2024), and has also been named in the extended squad on 4 other occasions (2015, 2016, 2018 and 2023)
• A six-time Best and Fairest winner, and runner up on two other occasions
• Lachie is one of five players to have won multiple Best and Fairests at multiple clubs: 
• Barry Davis – Essendon and North Melbourne
• Terry Wallace – Footscray and Hawthorn
• Chris Judd – West Coast and Carlton
• Gary Ablett Jr – Geelong and Gold Coast SUNS
• Lachie Neale – Fremantle and Brisbane Lions 
• One of four players to have won consecutive club Best and Fairests when changing clubs in between the two wins:
• John Murphy – Fitzroy and South Melbourne, 1977-78    
• Peter Bell – North Melbourne and Fremantle, 2000-01
• Patrick Dangerfield – Adelaide Crows and Geelong Cats, 2015-16
• Lachie Neale – Fremantle and Brisbane Lions
• One of four players to win the Brownlow Medal, AFL MVP, Coaches Association Award, Club Best and Fairest and also make All-Australian team in the same season:
•   Gary Ablett Jr, 2009
•   Patrick Dangerfield, 2016
•   Dustin Martin, 2017
•   Lachie Neale, 2020
• A two-time Brownlow medallist (2020 and 2023). Neale joins Dick Reynolds, Robert Harvey, Adam Goodes and Gary Ablett Jr as the only multiple Brownlow medallists to have also played 300 career games
• Neale is the only player in VFL/AFL history to have polled at least 25 Brownlow votes in four different seasons
• The only clubs the Neale has never polled Brownlow votes against are Brisbane (played them six times while at Fremantle) and Geelong (17 home and away games)
• Has missed 38 games on his way to 300. His longest consecutive game streak is 88 games between 2014 and 2017
• At 13 years and 364 days, he will be the 27th quickest of the players to 300 games. Neale’s 300th game (19 April, 2026) is one day shy of the anniversary of his debut match (20 April, 2012)
• Three-time Glendinning-Allan medallist (best player in West Coast  Eagles v Fremantle games)
• Two-time Marcus Ashcroft medallist (best player in Brisbane Lions v Gold Coast SUNS games)
• Neale is the only person to have won Best on Ground awards for multiple non-Victorian intrastate rivalries.
• Has played games at 21 different venues. Only David Swallow and Jarrod Witts (22 each) have played at more
• Dayne Zorko is the only other person in the 300 club to have played at 21 different grounds
• Neale becomes the 19th person to play 300 VFL/AFL games without having played for a Victorian based club. Joins Luke Power as the only players to have achieved the feat by playing at multiple clubs
• Has only had two coaches in his career, Ross Lyon and Chris Fagan
• Played on the winning side in each of his milestone games to date (debut, 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250).  A victory on Sunday will see him become the fifth person to play in wins in all milestone games from debut through game 300
• Grew up in Kybybolite, a small town in South Australia with a population of around 100 people
• Neale has played in 25 finals in 10 different finals campaigns. He won the Gary Ayres medal as the best player of the finals in 2024
• Neale holds the VFL/AFL record for most disposals in a final – 46 in the 2021 Qualifying Final against Melbourne
• Is the only player left in the competition who has played in a winning final in Geelong
• Has collected 8187 disposals to date. The only player to have clocked up more than 8000 disposals in their first 300 career games

MOST GAMES PLAYED ALONGSIDE LACHIE NEALE

Neale has played games alongside 155 teammates.

Has played 100+ games with  15 of them.

Has played in wins alongside 140 of the 155. 

 
MOST GAMES PLAYED AGAINST LACHIE NEALE
 

 
WIN LOSS RECORDS IN 50 GAME SPANS

Best:  38-12  (2013-15)
Worst:  14-36 (2015-18)