Overview
Levi Casboult (born 15 March 1990) Casboult was recruited by the Carlton Football Club with its third round selection in the 2010 AFL Rookie Draft (at selection 44 overall). A few days later, on 24 December, Casboult was fortunate to walk away uninjured from in a head-on car accident: his car was struck by the car of Samir Azemi, which had jumped the median strip on the Princes Highway in Dandenong. Azemi was killed in the accident. Playing as a key forward and occasional ruckman for the club's , the Northern Blues, Casboult did not play an AFL game for Carlton in his first two seasons after being drafted, and was even on occasion dropped to the VFL reserves.
A PCL injury at the start of 2012 made his chances of ever making his senior debut seem unlikely; but, only two VFL games after his return from that injury, Casboult was called into the senior team for his debut as starting ruckman in Round 17, 2012, after injuries and suspension resulted in Carlton's first three ruck choices all being unavailable for selection. Casboult won a regular place in the senior team in 2014, playing as a forward and sometimes as a back-up ruckman. Over the course of his career, he gained attention as one of the strongest contested marks in the competition. and he was a Mark of the Year finalist in 2014.
Through the early part of his career, this strength in his game was offset by very poor goalkicking accuracy from set shots, returning less than 50% each season and not reliable even at close range; but after working with former Collingwood and North Melbourne full forward Saverio Rocca in 2015 and again in 2017, became one of the team's most reliable set shots. He led the team in goalkicking for the only time in his career in 2017, with a return of 34 goals, 18 behinds, and signed a two-year contract extension with the club after the season. After a 2018 season was abbreviated by injury, Casboult returned as a regular to the team in 2019 and 2020, and began playing swing key position roles in both the forwardline and backline, as well as back-up ruck.
Falling out of form in 2021, Casboult played about half of the season in the senior team and was delisted at the end of the year, after 154 senior games. He was subsequently picked up by in the 2022 rookie draft. Casboult kicked 59 goals in his first two seasons at Gold Coast, finishing second in the Club goalkicking award in 2022, and third in 2023. After managing only 3 games for the 2024 AFL season, Casboult announced his retirement from the AFL in October. In December, he joined Palm Beach Currumbin as both a player and an assistant coach.
Statistics
- 2012 41 6 7 12 37 17 54 31 12 43 1.2 2.0 6.2 2.8 9.0 5.2 2.0 7.2 0 - 2013 41 11 7 7 63 37 100 48 18 68 0.6 0.6 5.7 3.4 9.1 4.4 1.6 6.2 0 - 2014 41 19 15 11 109 91 200 108 43 131 0.8 0.6 5.7 4.8 10.5 5.7 2.3 6.9 0 - 2015 41 16 24 12 100 50 150 83 15 86 1.5 0.8 6.3 3.1 9.4 5.2 0.9 5.4 0 - 2016 41 20 18 18 119 72 191 107 26 6 0.9 0.9 6.0 3.6 9.6 5.4 1.3 0.3 0 - 2017 41 22 34 18 144 76 220 120 39 157 1.5 0.8 6.5 3.5 10.0 5.5 1.8 7.1 0 - 2018 41 10 12 10 61 25 86 37 12 76 1.2 1.0 6.1 2.5 8.6 3.7 1.2 7.6 0 - 2019 41 20 15 11 159 64 223 114 44 163 0.8 0.6 8.0 3.2 11.2 5.7 2.2 8.2 0 - 2020 41 17 16 8 112 40 152 80 31 86 0.9 0.5 6.6 2.4 8.9 4.7 1.8 5.1 2 - 2021 41 13 8 5 77 34 111 47 25 79 0.6 0.4 5.9 2.6 8.5 3.6 1.9 6.1 0 - 2022 30 21 35 22 114 47 161 79 21 10 1.7 1.0 5.4 2.2 7.7 3.8 1.0 0.5 0 - 2023 30 20 24 11 138 57 195 95 29 93 1.2 0.6 6.9 2.9 9.8 4.8 1.5 4.7 0 - 2024 30 3 0 1 15 12 27 6 6 23 0.0 0.3 5.0 4.0 9.0 2.0 2.0 7.7 0 - class=sortbottom ! colspan=3 Career !
198 !! 215 !! 146 !! 1248 !! 622 !! 1870 !! 955 !! 321 !! 1021 !! 1.1 !! 0.7 !! 6.3 !! 3.1 !! 9.4 !! 4.8 !! 1.6 !! 5.2 !! 2 Notes