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AFL Power List 2025: The 50 most influential figures in footy ranked

The AFL is big business – and full of big personalities. Some sit firmly in the public eye and some less so, but Michael Warner lifts the lid on who the 50 most influential people are in footy.

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They’re the movers and shakers who wield power and influence over Australia’s biggest sport.

2025 AFL Power List: The 50 most influential figures in footy ranked.

Michael Warner

Michael Warner is an award-winning investigative journalist with Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper, and also CODE Sports, and author of the best-selling book, The Boys' Club, the inside story behind the power and politics of the Australian Football League. In 2022, he won the Walkley Award for sports reporting, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill and was named the Harry Gordon Australian Sports Journalist of the Year.

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