| 1996 Trade for Mick McGuane | ||
| Carlton | McGuane (3 games) | 23 XG |
| Collingwood | #19 (Tuckey - 22 games) + #65 (Cassidy - 2 games) | 74 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Simon Minton-Connell | ||
| Hawthorn | #29 (Turvey - 10 games) | 48 XG |
| Western Bulldogs | Minton-Connell (25 games) | 39 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Scott Cummings | ||
| Essendon | #5 (McAlister - 6 games) + #28 (Johnson - 184 games) | 173 XG |
| Port Adelaide | Cummings (37 games) | 23 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Barry Standfield | ||
| Adelaide | Standfield (13 games) | 23 XG |
| Western Bulldogs | #32 (Plunkett - 47 games) + #47 (Montgomery - 204 games) | 60 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Troy Gray | ||
| St Kilda | Gray (9 games) | 20 XG |
| Sydney | #34 (Corcoran - 2 games) | 42 XG |
| 1996 Trade for John Barnett | ||
| Collingwood | Barnett (8 games) | 72 XG |
| North Melbourne | #70 (Hay - 0 games) | 6 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Trent Ormond-Allen | ||
| Adelaide | Ormond-Allen (42 games) | 151 XG |
| Melbourne | #83 (Gehling - 0 games) | 6 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Shayne Breuer, Cameron Roberts and Hamish Simpson | ||
| Geelong | Roberts (11 games) + Simpson (18 games) + #8 (Brockman - 12 games) + #43 (Corrigan - 53 games) | 291 XG |
| Port Adelaide | Breuer (54 games) + #37 (Kingsley - 170 games) | 78 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Trent Nichols | ||
| North Melbourne | #50 (McCormick - 0 games) | 16 XG |
| Richmond | Nichols (19 games) | 39 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Shane Bond and Brayden Lyle | ||
| Port Adelaide | Bond (57 games) + Lyle (90 games) | 43 XG |
| West Coast | #57 (Cummings - 2 games) | 11 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Richard Osborne | ||
| Collingwood | Osborne (29 games) | 19 XG |
| Western Bulldogs | #61 (Powell - 142 games) | 11 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Tim Cook, Scott Hodges and Aaron Keating | ||
| Adelaide | Cook (8 games) + Keating (6 games) | 148 XG |
| Port Adelaide | Hodges (0 games) | 28 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Tim Hargreaves and Aaron Lord | ||
| Geelong | Hargreaves (20 games) | 14 XG |
| Hawthorn | Lord (93 games) | 14 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Mark Orchard, Anthony Rocca and Ben Wilson | ||
| Collingwood | Rocca (220 games) | 157 XG |
| Sydney | Orchard (41 games) + Wilson (4 games) + #14 (O'Farrell - 21 games) + #33 (Sangster - 2 games) | 296 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Andrew Balkwill, Brent Heaver and Ben Nelson | ||
| Carlton | Balkwill (1 games) + Nelson (40 games) | 153 XG |
| Port Adelaide | Heaver (16 games) | 23 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Brett James and Jonathon Ross | ||
| Adelaide | James (76 games) | 29 XG |
| Collingwood | Ross (0 games) | 23 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Nick Pesch and Clay Sampson | ||
| Adelaide | Sampson (24 games) | 16 XG |
| Melbourne | Pesch (4 games) | 23 XG |
| 1996 Trade for David Brown and Nick Laidlaw | ||
| Adelaide | Laidlaw (0 games) | 77 XG |
| Port Adelaide | Brown (22 games) | 39 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Justin Crawford and David McEwan | ||
| Hawthorn | Crawford (29 games) | 76 XG |
| Sydney | McEwan (0 games) + #17 (Warfe - 84 games) | 146 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Ilija Grgic and Luke Trew | ||
| West Coast | Grgic (23 games) | 21 XG |
| Western Bulldogs | Trew (0 games) + #20 (Dent - 71 games) | 143 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Paul Geister, Kent Kingsley and Wade Kingsley | ||
| North Melbourne | Kingsley (12 games) + Kingsley (0 games) | 154 XG |
| Port Adelaide | Geister (1 games) | 38 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Matthew Primus | ||
| Brisbane | #3 (Hilton - 91 games) + #26 (Notting - 208 games) | 222 XG |
| Port Adelaide | Primus (137 games) | 138 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Ian Downsborough | ||
| Port Adelaide | Downsborough (7 games) | 52 XG |
| West Coast | #1 (Gardiner - 181 games) + #24 (Wooden - 96 games) | 274 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Gavin Wanganeen | ||
| Essendon | #2 (Heffernan - 170 games) + #25 (Bomford - 28 games) | 243 XG |
| Port Adelaide | Wanganeen (173 games) | 29 XG |
| 1996 Trade for Adam Heuskes | ||
| Port Adelaide | Heuskes (37 games) | 151 XG |
| Sydney | #4 (Kinnear - 6 games) + #27 (Cook - 193 games) | 182 XG |