| Position | Captain | Player | Age | Club | Drafted | Games | Games Pre | Times AA |
| Tony Buhagiar | 23 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Peter Carey | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| David Cloke | 23 | Richmond | 21 | 98 | 1 | |||
| Graham Cornes | 30 | North Melbourne | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Bruce Doull | 28 | Carlton | 21 | 189 | 1 | |||
| Kym Hodgeman | 22 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Ken Hunter | 21 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Des James | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Peter Jonas | 19 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Gary Malarkey | 25 | Geelong | 20 | 42 | 1 | |||
| Bruce Monteath | 23 | Richmond | 22 | 74 | 1 | |||
| Kelvin Moore | 28 | Hawthorn | 22 | 181 | 1 | |||
| Peter Moore | 21 | Collingwood | 25 | 88 | 1 | |||
| Geoff Morris | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Brian Peake | 25 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Michael Roach | 20 | Richmond | 19 | 12 | 1 | |||
| Darryl Sutton | 26 | North Melbourne | 25 | 46 | 1 | |||
| Michael Tuck | 25 | Hawthorn | 22 | 138 | 1 | |||
| Michael Turner | 24 | Geelong | 22 | 84 | 1 | |||
| Garry Wilson | 25 | Fitzroy | 24 | 143 | 1 |