Adam McPhee
Personal information
Full name	Adam McPhee
Date of birth	6 October 1982 (1982-10-06) (age 27)
Place of birth	Melbourne, Australia
Height	6 ft 3 in / 1.90 m
Playing position	Half Back Flank
Club information
Current club	Essendon Football Club
Number	33
Youth career
	Dandenong U18
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2001 - 2002 2003 - 2009	Fremantle Dockers Essendon Football Club	25 (9) 134 (74) Total: 159 games, 83 goals
National team
2004	Australia	1 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2009. * Appearances (Goals)

Adam McPhee (born 6 October 1982) is an Australian rules football football player, who currently wears the number 33 jumper for the Essendon Football Club. He is a versatile player who has played in both attack and defence and is much admired for his aggressive approach at the football.

McPhee was originally recruited by the Fremantle Dockers, with whom he made his debut in 2001. He was nominated for the AFL Rising Star award that year. To the end of 2002, McPhee played 25 games in total for the Dockers, after which he asked to be traded back to his home state of Victoria. McPhee got his wish when he was traded to the Bombers in a three way deal involving Essendon, Fremantle and Brisbane.

In McPhee's first year at Essendon he played every game and his tough approach earned him the club's "most courageous player" award. However it was in 2004 that McPhee really made his mark as an AFL player. In that year he was selected on the half-back flank in the All Australian Team, won the W.S. Crichton Medal as Essendon's best and fairest player and was Essendon's highest vote getter in the Brownlow Medal.

In 2005, McPhee was restricted to only 14 games through injury and could not repeat his feats of 2004.

On 30 July 2006, McPhee played his 100th senior game at the Telstra Dome. It was capped off with a win over the Brisbane Lions which broke the club's longest streak without a win in its history, when he took a spectacular mark and also kicked a magnificent goal on the run.^[1] He missed out on the honour the previous week because of a one match suspension served for striking St Kilda's Robert Harvey in an attempted spoil. To date he has kicked 67 goals in senior appearances for the Essendon Football Club.

On Anzac Day 2009, McPhee celebrated his 150th game with a five point victory over Collingwood.^[2]

On 13 January 2008 McPhee married Bree Hately.^[3] Together they run a fashion boutique called Sekushi and have a son, Taj, born on 3 September 2008.

After long discussions about a new contract with the Bombers, McPhee did not re-sign with Essendon by the 2.00pm deadline on 10 November 2009. He is now on the market, with reports stating that he hopes to make a return to Fremantle through the pre-season draft.^{[citation needed]}

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• Adam McPhee's statistics from AFL Tables