1999 Essendon Football Club season

The 1999 season was the Essendon Football Club's 103th season in the Australian Football League

Ladder

1999 AFL Ladder
	Team	P	W	L	D	PF	PA	%	Pts
1	Essendon	22	18	4	0	2400	1905	126.0	72
2	Kangaroos (P)	22	17	5	0	2463	2129	115.7	68
3	Brisbane Lions	22	16	6	0	2422	1671	144.9	64
4	Western Bulldogs	22	15	6	1	2363	1993	118.6	62
5	West Coast	22	12	10	0	2068	1937	106.8	48
6	Carlton	22	12	10	0	2088	2028	103.0	48
7	Port Adelaide	22	12	10	0	1851	2054	90.1	48
8	Sydney	22	11	11	0	2184	2128	102.6	44
9	Hawthorn	22	10	11	1	1858	1943	95.6	42
10	St Kilda	22	10	12	0	1978	2021	97.9	40
11	Geelong	22	10	12	0	2328	2454	94.9	40
12	Richmond	22	9	13	0	1977	2170	91.1	36
13	Adelaide	22	8	14	0	1903	2232	85.3	32
14	Melbourne	22	6	16	0	1850	2293	80.7	24
15	Fremantle	22	5	17	0	1981	2403	82.4	20
16	Collingwood	22	4	18	0	1973	2326	84.8	16
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points for, PA = Points against

Playing squad

	Senior list
27	Steven Alessio	36	Simon Eastaugh	28	Mark Johnson	29	Gary Moorcroft
39	Matthew Banks	31	Dustin Fletcher	40	Chris Ladhams	15	Michael Prior
16	Paul Barnard	30	Mark Fraser	17	Judd Lalich	9	Adam Ramanauskas
20	Peter Berbakov	37	Ilija Grgic	18	Matthew Lloyd	7	Dean Solomon
8	Darren Bewick (v)	11	Damien Hardwick	13	Michael Long	19	Peter Somerville (v)
32	Justin Blumfield	26	Chris Heffernan	25	Scott Lucas	12	Michael Symons
23	Mark Bolton	3	Aaron Henneman	4	Daniel McAlister	1	Andrew Ukovic
33	Blake Caracella	5	James Hird	10	Mark McVeigh	21	Dean Wallis
38	Sean Denham	42	Danny Jacobs	2	Mark Mercuri	6	Sean Wellman
34	Jordan Doering	14	Jason Johnson	24	Joe Misiti	35	Barry Young
22	Ben Doolan
	Rookie list
43	Dean Rioli

Player movements

Arrivals	Player	From		Departures	Player	To
Rookie elevation	Mark Johnson			Retired	Gary O'Donnell
National draft	Ilija Grgic	West Coast		Traded	Andrew Bomford	Sydney
	Aaron Henneman	Murray Bushrangers			Che Cockatoo-Collins	Port Adelaide
	Danny Jacobs	Prahran Dragons			Ricky Olarenshaw	Collingwood
	Chris Ladhams	North Adelaide		Delisted	David Calthorpe
	Mark McVeigh	NSW-ACT Rams			Ryan O'Connor
	Adam Ramanauskas	Dandenong Stingrays			Matthew Watson
					Tim Williams
					Robert Di Rosa (rookie)
					Winis Imbi (rookie)
					Lachlan Oakley (rookie)

VSFL Reserves Squad

	Reserves list
46	Geoff Clark	52	Andrew Dimattina	49	Stephen Milne
51	Ben Collins	45	Marcus Dollman	50	Shane Sheppard

VSFL Ladder

1999 VSFL Ladder
	Team	P	W	L	D	PF	PA	%	Pts
1	St Kilda	20	15	5	0	1924	1466	131.2	60
2	Melbourne	20	15	5	0	2029	1659	122.3	60
3	Richmond	20	13	7	0	2041	1635	124.8	52
4	Collingwood	20	12	8	0	1879	1579	119.0	48
5	Western Bulldogs	20	11	9	0	1909	1838	103.9	44
6	Essendon (P)	20	10	10	0	1891	2080	90.9	40
7	Sydney	20	8	12	0	1951	2180	89.5	32
8	North Melbourne	20	7	13	0	1738	1970	88.2	28
9	Geelong	20	7	13	0	1801	2209	81.5	28
10	Hawthorn	20	6	14	0	1687	1868	90.3	24
11	Carlton	20	6	14	0	1648	2014	81.8	24
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points for, PA = Points against