Charlie Ballard

Charlie Ballard played 141 senior AFL games for Gold Coast between 2018 and 2026, lining up most often as a defender. On 23-0, Charlie Ballard's career spans 2 decades, from the 2010s to the 2020s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Charlie Ballard at a peak of 82 out of 100, reached in the 2020s. That figure measures Charlie Ballard only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 2020s defender can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Charlie Ballard polled 4 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Charlie Ballard with a best season of 293 disposals in 2023, 3 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 3 votes in 2021. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.