Chris Burgess
Games Played 8
Career 2024 - 2025
Debut 2024
Date of Birth 26/11/1995
Biography
AFC Debut Number: 260 AFC Debut Game: Round 1 v Gold Coast, 2024
AFC Career Guernsey Number: 21
Forward Chris Burgess arrived at the Crows via a trade with Gold Coast at the end of the 2023 season.
He was drafted to Gold Coast from West Adelaide in 2018 and played 36 AFL games for the Suns. Burgess kicked three goals in Gold Coast’s 2023 VFL grand final victory and also won consecutive Jim ‘Frosty’ Miller Medals as the competition’s leading goal kicker in 2022 and 2023.
He made his Crows debut in Round One, 2024, and went on to feature in a total of seven games as a forward and back-up ruck, kicking seven goals. In 2025, Burgess won the SANFL Club Champion award and kicked 56 goals but only made one AFL appearance late in the minor round.
Stats
| Season | No. | Games | Goals | Behinds | Kicks | Handballs | Disposals | Marks | Tackles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 36 | 18 | 54 | 22 | 9 |
| 2025 | 21 | 1 | - | 1 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 2 |
| Totals | - | 8 | 7 | 7 | 44 | 20 | 64 | 27 | 11 |