AFL General Counsel Andrew Dillon today said two clubs – Collingwood and Fremantle - had each been sanctioned for a failure to provide up-to-date player whereabouts information to ASADA.

Under the requirements of the Anti-Doping Code, all clubs in the AFL competition are required to keep ASADA notified at all times of the whereabouts of listed playersfor testing purposes. AFL players may be tested 365 days of the year for WADA prohibited drugs.

Under the operation of the AFL’s code with ASADA, it is the club that is sanctioned for the failure to provide whereabouts information, not the individual player, but in each of these cases the players had failed to keep their club informed of all of his movements and contact details.

Collingwood was fined $7500 (three players not providing up to date information) and Fremantle was fined $5000 (two players).

Mr Dillon said that no tests were missed for any player from either of the two clubs that had been sanctioned. While no tests were missed and each club had endeavoured to keep all details up to date with regular reminders to its players, both clubs had been sanctioned as the rules needed to be fully complied with at all times.