Liam Ryan (footballer)


Liam Ryan is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League. He is a small forward.
Ryan is from Geraldton, Western Australia. His father Darren "Snotty" Ryan played WAFL football for Claremont. Ryan began his football career with Rovers in the Great Northern Football League. In 2016 he moved to Perth to play for the Subiaco Football Club in the West Australian Football League. Beginning in the reserves, he was moved up to the seniors after only four games, and subsequently kicked 40 goals from 16 senior games. In the 2017 WAFL season, Ryan won the Bernie Naylor Medal as the competition's leading goal-kicker. He kicked 73 goals from 23 games.
Ryan was drafted into the AFL by West Coast with their third selection and twenty-sixth overall in the 2017 national draft. He made his debut in the twenty-nine point loss to at Optus Stadium in the opening round of the 2018 season.

Statistics

! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2019
! colspan=3| Career
! 19 !! 24 !! 18 !! 153 !! 55 !! 208 !! 51 !! 44 !! 1.3 !! 0.9 !! 8.1 !! 2.9 !! 10.9 !! 2.7 !! 2.3