| Player | Era | Recruited From |
| Tom Blake | 1897 | Carlton VFA / St Kilda VFA / St Kilda Royals |
| George Johnston | 1897 | Albert Park |
| Henry McPetrie | 1897 | Richmond City / St Kilda VFA / West Beach |
| Bill Woodhouse | 1897 - 1898 | Carlton VFA / Broken Hill / St Kilda VFA / Melbourne Grammar |
| Chic Breese | 1897 - 1898 | Carlton VFA / Williamstown / Ascot Vale / Wesley College |
| Fred Barlow | 1898 | Sth Melbourne VFA / Ascot Vale |
| Charles Raff | 1901 | Carlton Juniors / St Kilda / Parkville |
| George Cornelius | 1901 | South Melbourne / Port Melbourne |
| Joe McShane | 1902 - 1904 | Geelong / Geelong VFA / Sth Melbourne / Geelong VFA / Marylebone / Criterion Juniors |
| Jim Opie | 1902 - 1905 | Melbourne University / Prahran / St Kilda / Sandhurst Juniors |
| Albert Trim | 1903 - 1904 | Sth Melbourne / Beechworth |
| Jim Cullen | 1904 | Leopold / Melbourne / Sth Melb. Juniors / Sth Melb. / Essendon / Port Melb. |
| Jim Kennedy | 1905 - 1907 | Brighton Juniors / Essendon / Parkville |
| George Blake | 1905 | St Kilda / St Kilda College |
| Dick Harris | 1906 - 1911 | Essendon / Nth Melbourne VFA / Caulfield |
| Bill Hickey | 1907 | Sth Melbourne / Wangaratta |
| Harvey Kelly | 1907 - 1909 | Sth Fremantle / East Fremantle / Sth Melbourne / Graham Street Wesleys |
| Tom Clancy | 1910 - 1914 | South Melbourne / Leopold / Williamstown VFA |
| Percy Sheehan | 1910 | Fitzroy / Caulfield Juniors |
| Jack Wells | 1910 - 1914 | St Kilda / Midland Junction, Kalgoolie, WA |
| Bill Goddard | 1910 | South Melbourne / North Fremantle |
| Reuben Holland | 1910 | South Melbourne / Camberwell |
| Billy Dick | 1911 - 1918 | Fitzroy / Brighton / East Brunswick |
| Harry Matheson | 1911 - 1912 | St Kilda / Clifton Juniors, Brighton District |
| Charlie Taylor | 1911 | Melbourne / Hawthorn Juniors / Caulfield |
| Harry Curtis | 1913 | Wesley Collegians / Carlton College |
| Ted Brown | 1914 - 1920 | South Ballarat / St Kilda / Caulfield Juniors |
| Steve Leehane | 1914 - 1919 | Cheltenham |
| Bill Hore | 1915 - 1919 | Melbourne / St Kilda / Northcote / Carlton District / Police |
| Wally Don | 1913 | Teacher's Training College * |
| Vic Gordon | 1915 | Melbourne / St Kilda / Hawthorn VFA |
| Percy Jackson | 1918 | St Kilda / Sth Melbourne / Port Melbourne Juniors |
| Jack Scobie | 1919 | East Fremantle / Sth Melbourne / Rose of Nortcote |
| Joe Prince | 1919 | Sth Melbourne / St Kilda / Preston VFA / Rose of Nortcote / Avenel |
| Croft McKenzie | 1920 - 1923 | Numurkah / Wesley College |
| Ray Harper | 1924 | St Kilda / Brighton Grammar / Hamilton College |
| Pat Kennedy | 1923 - 1925 | University Blacks / Newman College / Sth Melbourne CYMS / Cobram |
| Harold Rumney | 1925 - 1926 | Brighton |
| Maurie Connell | 1925 - 1929 | University Blues / Brighton / Newman College (Carlton) / Sth Melb. / Yarrawonga / St Pat's Ballarat |
| George Robbins | 1925, 1929 | St Kilda / Rutherglen / Wesley College (Melb.) |
| Tom Kennedy | 1927 | Chelsea |
| Vin Arthur | 1927 - 1933 | South Bendigo / Carlton / St Kilda / Richmond District / Drouin |
| Charlie Davey | 1927 - 1937 | Chelsea Juniors |
| Paul Cameron | 1928 | South Melbourne / Middle Park |
| Bobby Mills | 1934 | Footscray / Koo-wee-rup / Police |
| Don McIntyre | 1935 - 1942 | Pakenham / Geelong |
| Max Wenn | 1953 - 1954 | Oakleigh VFA / Berwick |
| Rod Leffanue | 1933 | Sth Melbourne / Middle Park |
| Alby De Luca | 1934 - 1935 | Prahran VFA / Sandringham VFA |
| Bernie Treweek | 1934 - 1935 | Caulfield / CBC Victoria Parade |
| Norm Le Brun | 1935 | Collingwood / Essendon / Sandhurst / Sth Melb. / Richmond 2nd's / Moorabbin |
| Clem Neeson | 1936 - 1937 | Cheltenham |
| Norm Cashin | 1936 - 1937 | Tarwin Lower / Glenhuntly Amateurs |
| Brighton Diggins | 1938 - 1940 | South Melbourne / Subiaco WA |
| Lance Regnier | 1941 | St Kilda / Sandringham / Prahran VFA Reserves / Warrnambool |
| Harcourt Dowsley | 1941 | Melbourne Reserves / Old Melburnians / Melbourne Grammar |
| Fred Davies | 1941 - 1952 | Seaford |
| Wilf Atkinson | 1942 | Sandringham VFA / Hampton |
| Jack Howell | 1942 - 1954 | Chelsea |
| Bert Lucas | 1944 | Sandringham VFA |
| Les Marden | 1944 | Ormond / Navy |
| Hal Hanton | 1945 | Army / Frankston Juniors |
| Alex Hanton | 1946 | Army / Frankston Juniors |
| Frank Cahill | 1948 - 1949 | Footscray / Spotswood / Emerald |
| Geoff Brokenshire | 1949 - 1950 | Collingwood / Sandringham VFA |
| Harry Caspar | 1950 - 1955 | Northcote VFA / Sorrento |
| Don Calder | 1950 - 1953 | Crib Point / Frankston |
| Harry Sullivan | 1950 - 1954 | Brighton Technical School |
| Keith Warburton | 1951 - 1955 | Brighton |
| Bill Milroy | 1951 - 1956 | North Melbourne / Flinders Navy Base / Terang |
| Ken McKaige | 1953 - 1954 | Melbourne / Old Melburnians |
| Bob Crowe | 1954 - 1964 | Mentone |
| Chris Pavlou | 1958 - 1961 | Frankston |
| Keith Robinson | 1956 | Melbourne / Ormond |
| Kevan Hamilton | 1956 | Melbourne Reserves / McKinnon |
| Bill Armstrong | 1958 - 1959 | Chelsea |
| Vasil Varlamos | 1960 - 1964 | Mentone |
| Graeme Anderson | 1961 - 1968 | Watchem-Corack / Seaford |
| Peter Falconer | 1962 - 1963 | Seaford / Geelong / Geelong Amateurs |
| Bruce Bentley | 1964 | East Brighton |
| Jeff Trotman | 1965 | Ormond Amateurs / Brighton Grammar |
| Peter McLean | 1966 - 1968 | Melbourne / Old Melburnians |
| Gil Lockhart | 1966 | Beaumaris |
| Ken Jungwirth | 1967 | Melbourne / Murrumbeena High School |
| Peter Smith | 1968 - 1970 | Melbourne / Melbourne Grammar |
| Geoff Southby | 1971 - 1984 | Sandhurst / Powerhouse (Albert Park) |
| Rod Galt | 1975 - 1979 | Western Suburbs, NSW / St Kilda / Beaumaris |
| Greg Wells | 1980 - 1982 | Melbourne / Bentleigh-McKinnon YCW |
| Scott Howell | 1980 - 1985 | East Sandringham |
| Rohan Brown | 1983 | Old Melburnians |
| David Rhys-Jones | 1985 - 1992 | Sydney Swans / Oakleigh Districts |
| Ian Herman | 1987 - 1991 | Collegians (Albert Park) |
| Simon Verbeek | 1989 - 1991 | Oakleigh VFA / Richmond Reserves / St Arnaud |
| Rohan Welsh | 1992 - 1997 | Dandenong VFA / Essendon Reserves / St Bernards (Niddrie) |
| Ben Robertson | 1992 | Noble Park |
| Brad Pearce | 1994 - 1999 | Brisbane Bears / Sth Launceston / St Kilda Reserves / Springvale |
| Darren Hulme | 1997 - 2004 | Dandenong Stingrays U/18's / Frankston Bombers |
| Kris Massie | 1998 - 2001 | Dandenong Stingrays U/18's / Edithvale - Aspendale |
| Brendan Fevola | 1999 - 2009 | Dandenong Stingrays U/18's / Beaconsfield / Narre-Warren / Berwick |
| John Hynes | 1998 | Prahran Dragons U/18's / Cheltenham |
| Laurence Angwin | 2003 | Adelaide Crows / Box Hill Hawks / Dandenong Stingrays U/18's / Bonbeach |
| Chris Bryan | 2005 - 2006 | Frankston VFL / Sandringham VFL / Sandringham Dragons U/18's / Keysborough |
| Chris Judd | 2008 - 2015 | West Coast Eagles / Sandringham Dragons U/18's / Caulfield Grammar |
| Robert Warnock | 2010 - 2015 | Fremantle / Sandringham Dragons U/18's / Old Brighton / East Sandringham |
| Andrew McInnes | 2011 - 2014 | Dandenong Stingrays U/18's / Devon Meadows |
| Levi Casboult | 2010 - ? | Dandenong Stingrays U/18's / Beaconsfield |
| Andrejs Everitt | 2014 - 2016 | Sydney / Western Bulldogs / Dandenong U/18's / Somerville |
| Jacob Weitering | 2016 - ? | Dandenong U/18's / Peninsula Grammar / Mount Martha JFC |
| Liam Sumner | 2016 - 2017 | GWS Giants / Sandringham U/18's / St Pauls'-McKinnon |
| Cameron Polson | 2017 - 2020 | Sandringham U/18's / Haileybury College / St Peters / Dingley JFC |
| Matt Shaw | 2018 | Gold Coast Suns / Dandenong Stingrays / Chelsea & Carrum Junior FC |
| Tom de Koning | 2018 - ? | Dandenong Stingrays / Mount Martha JFC |
| Nic Newman | 2019 - ? | Sydney Swans / Frankston (VFL) / Dandenong Stingrays / Mornington, Mt Martha JFC |
| Liam Stocker | 2019 - 2022 | Sandringham Dragons / Old Haileybury FC / Haileybury College / East Sandringham |
| Matt Cottrell | 2019 - ? | Dandenong Stingrays / Pearcedale Senior FC |
(Cached)