| Darcy Lang | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Darcy Lang | ||
| Date of birth | (1995-11-21)21 November 1995 (age 29) | ||
| Place of birth | Colac | ||
| Original team(s) | Colac (GFL) Geelong Falcons (TAC Cup) | ||
| Draft | 16th overall2013 AFL Draft | ||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Carlton | ||
| Number | 16 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2014–2017 | Geelong | 44 (31) | |
| 2018–2020 | Carlton | 20 (12) | |
| Total | 64 (43) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of end of 2020 season. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources:AFL Tables,AustralianFootball.com | |||
Darcy Lang (born 21 November 1995) is anAustralian rules footballer. He played for seven years in theAustralian Football League, withGeelong andCarlton.
Darcy grew up inColac, Victoria and played for Victoria Country in the2013 AFL Under 18 Championships, where he suffered a broken leg.[1]
Lang was drafted byGeelong with the 16th overall selection in the2013 national draft.[1] He made his debut for Geelong in the round 13 win againstSt Kilda in2014.[2] In August 2015, he was the round nominee for theAFL Rising Star after the round 21 draw toSt Kilda, where he recorded sixteen disposals, three marks and two tackles.[3] He played a total of 44 matches for Geelong over four seasons.
On the second last day of the 2017 trade period, Lang confirmed his desire to move to Carlton. He was officially traded to Carlton the next day.[4] He made his Carlton debut in Round 8, 2018 againstEssendon, and kicked a goal with his first kick in a Carlton jumper, less than a minute into the game. He was a fringe player across his first two seasons with the club, playing 19 games, but played only one game in his final season, 2020, and battled ankle injuries during his time at the club. he was delisted at the end of the 2020 season.[5]
After being delisted, Lang played forWaratah[6] in the 2020/21Northern Territory Football League summer season.
He returned to Geelong after signing as a VFL-listed player with its reserves team in 2021.[7]
From 2022 until the end of the 2023 season, Lang was co-coach of theColac Football Club playing in theGeelong Football Netball League (GNFL). He would step down from the coaching role due to work commitments,[8] but continued to play for the club in 2024.[9] Lang won the Colac club's best and fairest award in 2022, winning the Ted Parker Medal to join his father Phil as winners of the award.[10] He would have won theMathieson Medal as the GFNL's best and fairest player in 2022 polling 26 votes, but was ruled ineligible due to suspension.[11][12]
In 2024, he would kick 33 goals for Colac to finish fifth in the GNFL best and fairest count.[13]
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | ||||
| 2014 | Geelong | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 2.0 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | Geelong | 11 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 151 | 120 | 271 | 63 | 55 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 7.6 | 6.0 | 13.6 | 3.2 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | Geelong | 11 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 102 | 82 | 184 | 46 | 36 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 7.9 | 6.3 | 14.2 | 3.5 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | Geelong | 11 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 75 | 84 | 159 | 31 | 54 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 7.5 | 8.4 | 15.9 | 3.1 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | Carlton | 16 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 94 | 58 | 152 | 44 | 40 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 8.6 | 5.3 | 13.8 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
| 2019 | Carlton | 16 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 44 | 19 | 63 | 24 | 24 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 5.5 | 2.4 | 7.9 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | Carlton | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Career | 64 | 43 | 29 | 473 | 367 | 840 | 210 | 217 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 7.4 | 5.7 | 13.1 | 3.3 | 3.4 | ||