Round 1, 2005, Carlton vs. Kangaroos, at Telstra Dome
Height
174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight
75 kg (165 lb)
Position(s)
Small Forward
Playing career1
Years
Club
Games (Goals)
2005–2013
Carlton
184 (290)
2014–2019
Adelaide
132 (310)
2020–2021
Carlton
034 0(40)
Total
350 (640)
Representative team honours
Years
Team
Games (Goals)
2007-2013
Indigenous All-Stars
2 (2)
2020
All Stars
1 (0)
International team honours
2010–2017
Australia
7 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2021.
2 State and international statistics correct as of 2020.
Career highlights
3× All-Australian: (2015, 2016, 2017)
4× Adelaide leading Goalkicker: (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
2× Carlton leading Goalkicker: (2010, 2012)
4× AFL Goal of the Year: (2006, 2015, 2016, 2019)
Carlton Best First-Year player: (2005)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
Edward Robert Betts III (born 26 November 1986) is a former Australian rules football player who played as a forward for Carlton and Adelaide in the Australian Football League between 2005 and 2021. As of 2024[update] he is an educator and mentor to Indigenous Australian youth, heading up the Eddie Betts Foundation.
Betts was originally drafted by Carlton with pick No. 3 in the 2004 Pre-Season Draft, where he played for nine years before Adelaide signed him as a free agent at the end of 2013. He moved back to Carlton at the conclusion of the 2019 season, where he would finish his career at the end of the 2021 season, having played a total of 350 games and kicked 640 goals. By the time of his retirement in 2021, Betts held the record for goal assists in the AFL, with a total of 318.
Following retirement, Betts worked as a part-time development coach at the Geelong Football Club before departing in November 2022 to focus on his foundation supporting young Indigenous Australians in sport. He is also an anti-racism advocate.
educator and mentor to Indigenous Australian youth, heading up the EddieBetts Foundation. Betts was originally drafted by Carlton with pick No. 3 in the 2004...
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pandemic on several AFL clubs, players, and staff. Nic Naitanui and EddieBetts were filmed almost continuously, with other players featured including...
of any wrongdoing by the AFL in the EddieBetts affair, which became newsworthy following an allegation that Betts's transfer to the Crows from Carlton...
2022, winning the premiership with them that year. Stengle lives with EddieBetts in Melbourne. Stengle was taken in by his grandmother, Debra, at the...
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four high-profile players: Patrick Dangerfield (captain of the Bolts), EddieBetts (Deadlys), Nat Fyfe (Flyers) and Jack Riewoldt (Rampage). The tournament...
afterwards, Nick Vlastuin slipped over near the Adelaide goal mouth and EddieBetts kicked the Crows' second. Richmond full forward Jack Riewoldt missed...
year she also presented the Goal of the Year award to Adelaide player EddieBetts. Holmes was drafted by the Adelaide Football Club with their thirteenth...
decided by an 11-person panel consisting of Gillon McLachlan (chair), EddieBetts, Jude Bolton, Nathan Buckley, Kane Cornes, Andrew Dillon, Glen Jakovich...
(Brisbane) 16 Ben Brown (North Melbourne) 17 Neville Jetta (Melbourne) 18 EddieBetts (Adelaide) 20 Chad Wingard (Port Adelaide) 21 Luke Shuey (West Coast)...
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playing as a small defender, successfully negating small forwards such as EddieBetts, Chad Wingard and Luke Dahlhaus. In 2018, Jetta was awarded the Jim Stynes...
West Media. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019. "Crow no more: Eddie makes fairytale return to Carlton". afl.com.au. Telstra Media. 14 October...
injuries between the initial team announcement and the game itself, with EddieBetts replacing Dayne Zorko in the All-Stars side and Travis Boak and Andrew...
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