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Jack Lukosius (born 9 August 2000) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Early life

Lukosius was born in Adelaide, South Australia. His father, Robert, is of Lithuanian origin and played professional football for Woodville-West Torrens in the SANFL.[1]

Jack participated in the Auskick program at Hentley[2] and grew up playing high level Australian rules football and cricket in Adelaide for Fulham Cricket Club while attending Henley High School with future Gold Coast teammate Izak Rankine.[3] Such was his talent in cricket, he was selected as the opening bowler for South Australia at the 2016-17 U17 national carnival but gave the sport away soon after to focus on football.[4] He made his senior SANFL debut for Woodville-West Torrens in a 2017 preliminary final against Sturt where he finished with 12 disposals, 8 marks and 4 goals.[5]

Leading into his final year of junior football, Lukosius was considered a potential number-one draft pick by many draft analysts[6] and drew comparisons to superstar St Kilda forward Nick Riewoldt.[7][8] In 2018, he played a big part in South Australia's U18 national championships victory[9] and Henley High School's SA schools championship.[10] He also played for Woodville's senior SANFL side but would once again play in a losing preliminary final that year. He was drafted by Gold Coast with their first selection in the 2018 national draft, which was the second pick overall.[11]

AFL career

Lukosius made his AFL debut in Gold Coast's one-point loss to St Kilda in the opening round of the 2019 AFL season.

In Round 3, 2023, Lukosius kicked a career high five goals including a 73-metre inswinging goal with a drop punt to help secure a 19-point Suns victory over the reigning premier Geelong.[12]

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2022 season[13]
Legend
  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
2019 Gold Coast 41 21 3 4 183 54 237 90 44 0.1 0.2 8.7 2.6 11.3 4.3 2.1
2020[a] Gold Coast 13 17 3 3 219 59 278 62 27 0.2 0.2 12.9 3.5 16.4 3.7 1.6
2021 Gold Coast 13 22 3 11 382 60 442 172 32 0.1 0.5 17.4 2.7 20.1 7.8 1.5
2022 Gold Coast 13 13 8 14 143 33 176 62 28 0.62 1.08 11.00 2.54 13.54 4.77 2.15
Career 63 12 20 813 179 992 338 110 0.2 0.3 12.9 2.8 15.7 5.4 1.7
  1. ^ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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