| Lily Mithen | |||
|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) Mithen playing for Gold Coast in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Lily Mithen | ||
| Born | (1998-03-02)2 March 1998 (age 27) | ||
| Original team | North Geelong Football Club (GDFL) | ||
| Draft | No. 73,2016 national draft | ||
| Debut | Round 1, 2017,Melbourne vs.Brisbane, atCasey Fields | ||
| Height | 159 cm (5 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Gold Coast | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2017–2024 | Melbourne | 82 (8) | |
| 2025– | Gold Coast | 12 (0) | |
| Total | 94 (8) | ||
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 2017 | Victoria | 1 (0) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2025 season. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
| Source:AustralianFootball.com | |||
Lily Mithen (born 2 March 1998) is anAustralian rules footballer playing for theGold Coast Suns in theAFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for theMelbourne Football Club from 2017 to 2024. Mithen was nominated for theAFL Women's Rising Star award in round 2 of the 2017 season and won anAFL Women's premiership with Melbourne in season 7.
Mithen's grandfather's cousin isLaurie Mithen – a Melbourne great, who played in five premierships and was named in the club's team of the century.[1] Her father is formerNine Network journalistAnthony Mithen.[2]
Mithen played forNewtown & Chilwell in theAFL Barwon Female Football league in her youth, tying for the league best and fairest in 2014[3] and winning premierships in 2014 and 2015.[4]
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Mithen was drafted by Melbourne with their tenth selection and seventy-third overall in the2016 AFL Women's draft.[5] She made her debut in the fifteen point loss toBrisbane atCasey Fields in the opening round of the2017 season.[6] After the nineteen point win againstCollingwood atIkon Park in round two—in which she recorded fourteen disposals, three marks and two tackles—she was the round nominee for theAFLW Rising Star.[7] She played every match in her debut season to finish with seven games. She also won Geelong's 2017 best and fairest award in the club'sVFL Women's team.[8]
Melbourne signed Mithen for the 2018 season during the trade period in May 2017.[9]
Updated to the end of the 2025 season.[10]
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks | ||
# | Played in that season's premiership team |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
| 2017 | Melbourne | 14 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 67 | 46 | 113 | 14 | 19 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 9.6 | 6.6 | 16.1 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 0 |
| 2018 | Melbourne | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 49 | 90 | 12 | 15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.9 | 7.0 | 12.9 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 0 |
| 2019 | Melbourne | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 37 | 104 | 22 | 29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.6 | 5.3 | 14.9 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 2 |
| 2020 | Melbourne | 14 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 8.7 | 3.3 | 12.0 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 0 |
| 2021 | Melbourne | 14 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 138 | 54 | 192 | 30 | 40 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 12.5 | 4.9 | 17.5 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 5 |
| 2022 (S6) | Melbourne | 14 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 129 | 72 | 201 | 41 | 56 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 11.7 | 6.5 | 18.3 | 3.7 | 5.1 | 6 |
| 2022 (S7)# | Melbourne | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 118 | 102 | 220 | 31 | 43 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 9.1 | 7.8 | 16.9 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 1 |
| 2023 | Melbourne | 14 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 101 | 96 | 197 | 27 | 48 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 16.4 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 0 |
| 2024 | Melbourne | 14 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 60 | 132 | 23 | 53 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 6.5 | 5.5 | 12.0 | 2.1 | 4.8 | 0 |
| 2025 | Gold Coast | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 70 | 179 | 35 | 53 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.1 | 5.8 | 14.9 | 2.9 | 4.4 | 0 |
| Career | 94 | 8 | 7 | 868 | 596 | 1464 | 246 | 360 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 9.2 | 6.3 | 15.6 | 2.6 | 3.8 | 14 | ||
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