Peter Burgoyne

Peter Burgoyne playing for Port Adelaide during the 2007 AFL Season
Personal information
Birth	29 January 1978 (1978-01-29) (age 31)
Recruited from	St Mary's (NTFL)
Playing career¹
Debut	Round 1, 29 March 1997, Port Adelaide vs. Collingwood, at Melbourne Cricket Ground
Team(s)	Port Adelaide (1997-2009) 240 games, 193 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 2009 season
Career highlights
Port Magpies premiership side 1998 International Rules Series 1999, 2003 South Australia Origin Representative 1999 Port Adelaide premiership side 2004 Port Adelaide Best Finals Player 2007 Indigenous Team of the Century

Peter Gabriel Burgoyne (born 29 January 1978) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Peter plays primarily in midfield and on the halfback flank. He is the elder brother of fellow Port Adelaide player, Shaun Burgoyne and is the son of former Port Adelaide player Peter Burgoyne Snr.

[edit] Early Life

Peter is of Indigenous Australian descent with tribal ancestry that can be traced to the Kokatha (Nunga) in South Australia^[1]

He grew up in the Northern Territory and began playing football with the St Marys Football Club in the Northern Territory Football League.

[edit] AFL Career

Beginning his AFL career with the inaugural Port Adelaide side to enter the AFL, Burgoyne has become well-regarded for his performance as an attacking midfielder. He was selected straight from the Port Adelaide side in the SANFL in their changeover from one league to the other.

Honours include being selected as part of the International rules series in 1999 and was a vital part of Port's premiership side of 2004. Burgoyne was also named in the Indigenous Team of the Century. Despite being selected for and representing South Australia in the final State of Origin game versus Victoria in 1999, Burgoyne was not technically eligible under the existing rules, having resided in the Northern Territory and not SA for the majority of his life between the ages of 10 and 17.

In 2007 Burgoyne made a highly successful transition to the halfback flank following an injury-riddled 2006 in his usual midfield role, finishing third in the club's Best and Fairest count. His tremendous finals series was also acknowledged with the Power's 'Best Finals Player' award.

At the end of the 2009 season, Peter retired with team mate Brendon Lade.

[edit] See also

• After the siren kicks in Australian rules football

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Peter Burgoyne profile on the Official AFL Website of the Port Adelaide Football Club
• Peter Burgoyne's statistics from AFL Tables

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1970s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e