Tom Harley

Tom Harley, whose full name is Thomas Harley, was born on 18 July 1978 and is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. A defender standing 1.93 metres tall and weighing 95 kilograms, he was drafted to Port Adelaide as a zone selection after a junior career that ended with under-18 All-Australian selection, made just one senior appearance there, and was traded to Geelong in exchange for the 37th pick in the 1998 AFL draft. Appointed Geelong club captain before the 2007 season, he led the club to its first premiership in 44 years that year and to another in 2009, won the AFL Players Association Best Captain Award, earned All-Australian honours as vice-captain and was inducted into the Geelong Football Club Hall of Fame. After retiring he worked for the Sydney Swans, becoming their chief executive officer in 2019, and was appointed chief operating officer of the AFL in 2025.