Matthew Ahmat

Matthew Ahmat
Personal information
Full name	Matthew Ahmat
Date of birth	27 June 1974 (1974-06-27) (age 37)
Place of birth	Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Original team	Darwin
Height/Weight	175 cm / 75 kg
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1991-92 1994 Total -	Brisbane Bears Sydney Swans	6 (1) 2 (0) 8 (1)
1 Playing statistics to end of 1994 season .

Matthew Ahmat (born 27 June 1974 in Alice Springs) is a former Indigenous Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Bears and Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the early 1990s.^[1]

The Ahmat name has had a long association with the Northern Territory Football League and both his father and grandfather played at his original club, Darwin. He started his AFL career at Brisbane but struggled to establish a place in the Robert Walls coached side.

After spending the 1993 season in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) playing for Norwood, Ahmat received a lifeline from Sydney, who recruited him with the first pick of the 1993 Mid-Season Draft. Ahmat made appearances in two of the opening three rounds of Sydney's 1994 campaign but could not extend his AFL career any further.^[2]

References

1. ^ Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
2. ^ Matthew Ahmat's statistics from AFL Tables

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Name	Ahmat, Matthew
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Date of birth	27 June 1974
Place of birth	Alice Springs, Northern Territory
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