Bailey Humphrey will challenge two pieces of club history this year having already claimed a significant statistical milestone which slid under the radar last year.

The now 20-year-old forward/utility will go into his third AFL season having played more games for the SUNS as a teenager than anyone else.

Pick #6 in the 2022 National Draft from Moe via the Gippsland Power, Humphrey played 19 consecutive games in 2023 after making his debut in Round 4, and added 21 games last year, missing Round 2 with a shoulder injury and being managed in Round 8.

Humphrey’s 40 games as a teenager bettered the previous best of 36 games by Harley Bennell and Kade Kolodjashnij. David Swallow (33), Dion Prestia and Jack Lukosius (31), Callum Ah Chee and Tom Lynch (30) also topped 30.

He signed a four-year contract extension through to the end of 2028 just eight games into his career in 2023, and after a good pre-season, Humphrey will be eyeing another strong campaign in 2025.

His 19 games as an 18-year-old is second in SUNS history behind Swallow’s 21 in the club’s first season in 2011.

He needs 18 games in 2025 to equal the Jack Lukosius club record at 58 games at the time of his 21^st birthday.

And, with 19 wins in his 40 games, he is poised to take from Malcolm Rosas Jnr the club record for the fastest player to 20 wins. Rosas was 42 games.

To better the Rosas mark Humphrey will need the SUNS to beat West Coast in the revised season opener in Perth on Sunday to become the 37^th SUNS player to 20 wins.

Lukosius, now at Port Adelaide, also holds the club games record for a player at his 23^rd birthday (93) and his 24^th birthday, while Swallow is #1 for players at their 22^nd birthday, having played 73.

Charlie Ballard is #1 for players at their 25^th birthday, having played 128 games.

Of the SUNS’ 149 players all-time, 74 debuted for the club as teenagers, and a further 10 debuted before turning 21.

Swallow, the games record holder, is the youngest SUNS debutant at 18 years 134 days, while the oldest SUNS club debutant was ex-Carlton forward Levi Casboult at 32 years, 5 days in 2022.

Nick Malceski, now a SUNS Development Coach, is the only other player to wear SUNS colours for the first time beyond the age of 30. The former Sydney premiership hero was 30 years 232 days in 2015.

Casboult, 34 years, nine days old when he played his last game in red and yellow last year, is the oldest SUNS player of all time, from Michael Rischitelli (33 years, 228 days), Gary Ablett Jnr (33 years, 83 days), Jarrod Harbrow (33 years, 34 days).

Jarrod Witts, having turned 32 last September, is in contention move to fifth place on that list this week.

Swallow, who was 32 in November, would have been the sixth player of 32+ years but for injury which will delay his start to the 2025 season.

Matt Rowell will take a club record streak of 79 consecutive games into the new season – three ahead of Sam Collins. Noah Anderson, on a 60-game run, is fifth on this list behind Witts, who played 64 games in a row from 2018-21, and Swallow’s 61-game streak from 2021-24.