| Mark Keane | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Keane with Adelaide in May 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Born | (2000-03-17)17 March 2000 (age 25) | ||
| Original teams | Cork GAA,Ballygiblin GAA,Mitchelstown GAA | ||
| Draft | 2019 rookie draft category B selection | ||
| Height | 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Weight | 92 kg (203 lb) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Adelaide | ||
| Number | 48 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2019–2021 | Collingwood | 5 (0) | |
| 2023– | Adelaide | 49 (0) | |
| Total | 54 (0) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of round 24, 2025. | |||
| Sources:AFL Tables,AustralianFootball.com | |||
Mark Keane (born 17 March 2000) is anIrish professionalAustralian rules footballer who plays for theAdelaide Football Club after previously playing for theCollingwood Football Club in theAustralian Football League (AFL).
Keane grew up inMitchelstown inCounty Cork, Ireland.[1] He playedhurling andGaelic football in Cork and represented Cork at U20 level in football. Keane was scouted by anAustralian Football League recruiter while playing for North Cork in 2017 and tested at the 2017AFL European Combine in Dublin where he was offered a contract with theCollingwood Football Club.[2]
Keane joined Collingwood as a Category B rookie in 2018 after a two-week trial at the club.[3] He made his debut in the club's round 9 match in the2020 AFL season againstFremantle, where the Magpies lost by 12 points.[4] In January 2022, Keane left Collingwood and the AFL to play Gaelic Football with Mitchelstown GAA in Ireland.[5]
Ultimately, Keane returned to Australia and signed withAdelaide in the 2023 pre-season supplemental signing period (SPP).[6] He made his debut with the Adelaide Crows in Round 20 in 2023 with a Showdown win against Port Adelaide.[7] Keane had a break-out year in2024, headlined by a dominant defensive performance where he had 26 disposals and 11 marks in the Crows' loss toFremantle.[8] Keane missed only two games for the season, and despite rumours that he would request a trade to return toCollingwood, Keane re-committed to Adelaide beyond his contracted year of 2025,[9] extending until 2028.[10]
Keane returned to Ireland in 2020 and was brought on as a substitute for Cork againstKerry in the2020 Munster Senior Football Championship. He scored the late goal that knocked Kerry out of the competition, in what was described as "one of the biggest upsets in recent championship history... a strike so late it had eerie echoes ofTadhg Murphy's 1983 goal at the same end of the ground that similarly put Kerry out of the championship".[11][12]
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
| 2019 | Collingwood | 47 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2020[a] | Collingwood | 47 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 7.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Collingwood | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 25 | 56 | 23 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 7.8 | 6.3 | 14.0 | 5.8 | 0.3 | 0 |
| 2022 | Collingwood | 47 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023 | Adelaide | 48 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 21 | 67 | 29 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.2 | 4.2 | 13.4 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 2024 | Adelaide | 48 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 270 | 83 | 353 | 113 | 22 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 12.9 | 4.0 | 16.8 | 5.4 | 1.1 | 0 |
| 2025 | Adelaide | 48 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 295 | 75 | 370 | 113 | 28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.8 | 3.0 | 14.8 | 4.5 | 1.1 | 1 |
| Career | 56 | 0 | 2 | 647 | 206 | 853 | 279 | 56 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.6 | 3.7 | 15.2 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 1 | ||
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