Dane Rampe

Dane Rampe ( ; born 2 June 1990) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously served as co-captain of the Swans from 2019 until the end of the 2023 season.

Early life Rampe was born in Sydney and grew up in Clovelly, New South Wales. His grandparents and father had migrated to Sydney from Estonia. Rampe grew up near to the SCG and attended the Sydney Swans v match in which Tony Lockett kicked his record-breaking 1,300th AFL goal as one of the hundreds who flooded the field when it occurred. He credits this event as converting him in to a passionate Swans fan, The Swans-West Coast Eagles rivalry also inspired an intense passion for AFL.

Rampe was educated at Newington College in Stanmore where he played basketball and soccer. An obvious athletic talent, his school asked him to switch from soccer to rugby union at age 17. He was soon noticed by AFL talent scouts and signed on to the Sydney Swans Academy. Feeling he had missed his chance to break into the AFL he returned to Sydney. On 24 May 2017, it was announced that he would wear number 50 on his guernsey, rather than his usual 24, for the round 10 Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round game against . This was to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum, which allowed Indigenous Australians to be counted with the general population in the census.

Rampe had an outstanding 2019 season, albeit not without some controversy. He was appointed co-captain alongside Josh Kennedy and Luke Parker prior to the season, and he won his first best-and-fairest award for the Swans after playing all but one match for the year. He gained notoriety during the year when he jumped onto a goalpost after the Round 8 match against Essendon to stop David Myers from trying to kick a goal after the siren. He was fined for his stunt, and for saying "You talk like a little girl" to the umpire.

In 2020, Rampe had another excellent year in defence, although impeded significantly with a broken hand sustained in Rd 8 against Hawthorn. Remarkably he had continued to play another four games with the injury, before further damage led to a premature end to his season. His courage over continuing to play with the injury lead to him being awarded the Robert Rose Award for Most Courageous Player at the end of the season.

Statistics Updated to the end of round 22, 2026.

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