How What's Worn counts

The census

What's Worn tracks which football boots AFL and AFLW players actually wear. The rule at the bottom of everything: one player, one boot, counted only when the boot is positively identified. A boot is attributed from club or league imagery, club media, or reporting that names the model. If we cannot identify a boot, the player is listed with no boot on record. No record is not a guess, and it is never filled with a plausible one.

The census page carries the live numbers: brand share, the most-worn boots, and every change we have on record.

The 2025 season count and the change log

For the AFL, history begins with a verified count of the league captured on 12 September 2024, as the 2025 season lists formed: 557 players who are still on our register, each recorded with the boot they wore that day. Every future observation is added beside it, so we can say who changed boots and what they changed to.

Two honesty rules govern anything built on this record:

1. A change is known only to have happened between two observations. We never claim a switch happened on a particular date.
2. Players who have left the lists since the 2025 season count are not in the change log. We count the players we can still see.

Where the numbers come from

Every figure on the site comes from the census database: player counts, brand share, wear history, change logs. When a post says Nike wears X per cent, that is a read of the record, not an estimate. If a claim cannot be traced to the record or to a linked, attributed source, it does not run.

Corrections

The census is a living record and it gets things wrong sometimes. Spotted a boot we have wrong or missing? Email [email protected] and we will fix the row.

Links and pricing

Where to buy links go to Rebel Sport and may earn the site a commission. That commission funds the counting. It never influences a verdict; when a post says a boot is worth buying, that is the whole opinion.