Lily Mithen
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Lily Mithen (born 2 March 1998) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Suns in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Melbourne Football Club from 2017 to 2024. Mithen was nominated for the AFL Women's Rising Star award in round 2 of the 2017 season and won an AFL Women's premiership with Melbourne in season 7.
Early life
Mithen's grandfather's cousin is Laurie Mithen – a Melbourne great, who played in five premierships and was named in the club's team of the century. Her father is former Nine Network journalist Anthony Mithen.
Mithen played for Newtown & Chilwell in the AFL Barwon Female Football league in her youth, tying for the league best and fairest in 2014 and winning premierships in 2014 and 2015.
AFL Women's career
Mithen was drafted by Melbourne with their tenth selection and seventy-third overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in the fifteen point loss to Brisbane at Casey Fields in the opening round of the 2017 season. After the nineteen point win against Collingwood at Ikon Park in round two—in which she recorded fourteen disposals, three marks and two tackles—she was the round nominee for the AFLW Rising Star. She played every match in her debut season to finish with seven games. She also won Geelong's 2017 best and fairest award in the club's VFL Women's team.
Melbourne signed Mithen for the 2018 season during the trade period in May 2017.
Statistics
Updated to the end of the 2025 season.
| G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
| B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks | ||
| # | Played in that season's premiership team |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
| 2017 | Melbourne | 14 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 67 | 46 | 113 | 14 | 19 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 9.6 | 6.6 | 16.1 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 0 |
| 2018 | Melbourne | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 49 | 90 | 12 | 15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.9 | 7.0 | 12.9 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 0 |
| 2019 | Melbourne | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 37 | 104 | 22 | 29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.6 | 5.3 | 14.9 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 2 |
| 2020 | Melbourne | 14 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 8.7 | 3.3 | 12.0 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 0 |
| 2021 | Melbourne | 14 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 138 | 54 | 192 | 30 | 40 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 12.5 | 4.9 | 17.5 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 5 |
| 2022 (S6) | Melbourne | 14 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 129 | 72 | 201 | 41 | 56 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 11.7 | 6.5 | 18.3 | 3.7 | 5.1 | 6 |
| 2022 (S7)# | Melbourne | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 118 | 102 | 220 | 31 | 43 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 9.1 | 7.8 | 16.9 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 1 |
| 2023 | Melbourne | 14 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 101 | 96 | 197 | 27 | 48 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 16.4 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 0 |
| 2024 | Melbourne | 14 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 60 | 132 | 23 | 53 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 6.5 | 5.5 | 12.0 | 2.1 | 4.8 | 0 |
| 2025 | Gold Coast | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 70 | 179 | 35 | 53 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.1 | 5.8 | 14.9 | 2.9 | 4.4 | 0 |
| Career | 94 | 8 | 7 | 868 | 596 | 1464 | 246 | 360 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 9.2 | 6.3 | 15.6 | 2.6 | 3.8 | 14 |
Honours and achievements
Team
- AFL Women's premiership player (Melbourne): S7
- McClelland Trophy (Melbourne): 2023
Individual
- Victoria representative honours in AFL Women's State of Origin: 2017
- AFL Women's Rising Star nominee: 2017
External links
- on the official website of the Gold Coast Football Club
- at AustralianFootball.com
- on Instagram