Collingwood was the first club in the VFL/AFL to produce a 100-game player, when Charlie Pannam reached the milestone late in the 1902 season, and the Magpies have been setting new benchmarks ever since.

While only four players - Scott Pendlebury, Steele Sidebottom, Tony Shaw and Gordon Coventry - have topped 300 games,  we've also been blessed with some of the oldest and youngest players the game has known. And two of the most consistent, with Jock McHale's phenomenal run of 191 consecutive games one of the best on record only recently eclipsed by Jack Crisp.

The tables below highlight a range of different games-based records set by Collingwood players since 1892, up to the end of the 2024 season.

  Most Career Games
403* Scott Pendlebury
331* Steele Sidebottom
313 Tony Shaw
306 Gordon Coventry
277 Wayne Richardson
268 Len Thompson
264 Scott Burns
261 Jock McHale
260 Nathan Buckley
258 Dane Swan
254 Gavin Brown
253 Harry Collier
250 Peter Daicos
250 Lou Richards

 

  Most Career Finals
31 Gordon Coventry
31* Scott Pendlebury
27 Harry Collier
26 Albert Collier
26* Steele Sidebottom

 

  Most Career Wins
243* Scott Pendlebury
220 Gordon Coventry
193 Harry Collier

 

  Most Consecutive Games
231* Jack Crisp (+ 6 with Brisbane)
191 Jock McHale
136 Tarkyn Lockyer

 

  Most Games as Captain or acting Captain
206 Scott Pendlebury
161 Nathan Buckley
149 Syd Coventry
123 Tony Shaw
116 Wayne Richardson
105 Phonse Kyne
104 Nick Maxwell

 

  Most Games as Coach
714 Jock McHale
286 Mick Malthouse
272 Phonse Kyne
224 Leigh Matthews
218 Nathan Buckley
193 Bob Rose

 

  Most Games in VFA Years (1892-96)
87 Archie Smith
79 Bill Proudfoot
74 Harry Dowdall
72 Eddie Murphy
69 Bill Strickland

 

  Youngest Players
15y 287d Keith Bromage
15y 297d Albert Collier
15y 349d Len Fitzgerald

 

  Oldest Players
39y 95d Ted Rowell
38y 144d Les Hughes
38y 75d Bill Proudfoot

 

  Oldest to Make Collingwood Debut
34y 49d Ben Hudson
32y 286d Richard Osborne
32y 81d Daniel Wells

 

  Oldest to Make VFL/AFL Debut
32y 264d Bill Strickland
31y 98d Jack Geddes
30y 273d Marsh Herbert

 

  Games Record Holders - Progressive
1892 18 - Andy Allan, Archie Smith, George Watt
1893 37 - George Anderson, Andy Allan
1894 51 - George Anderson, Ernie Ashton
1895 68 - Archie Smith (broke Ashton's tally of 55 in Rd 6 v Carlton)
1896-1902 Archie Smith (finished in 1902 with 176 games)
1903 186 - Jack Monohan (broke Smith's record in Rd 10 v St Kilda)
1903-07 Jack Monohan (retired in 1907 with 236 games)
1908-15 236 - Jack Monohan
1915 237 - Jock McHale (broke Monohan's record in the 1915 Grand Final v Carlton)
1916-20 Jock McHale (retired in 1920 with 261 games)
1921-35 261 - Jock McHale
1935 262 - Gordon Coventry (broke McHale's record in Rd 9 v Carlton)
1935-37 Gordon Coventry (retired in 1937 with 306 games)
1938-94 306 - Gordon Coventry
1994 307 - Tony Shaw (broke Coventry's record v Bulldogs in Rd 18 1994)
1995 313 - Tony Shaw
2020 314 - Scott Pendlebury (broke Tony Shaw's record v Port Adelaide in Rd 18 2020)
2020- 403* - Scott Pendlebury