Kent Butcher

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}}

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{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Kent Butcher

| image =

| fullname = Kent Butcher

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|11|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place =

| death_date =

| death_place =

| originalteam = Grovedale/Geelong

| draftpick = 45th, 1993 Pre-Season draft

| height = 180 cm

| weight = 82 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1996

| years1 = 1993–1995

| club1 = Collingwood

| games_goals1 = 22 (3)

| years2 = 1996

| club2 = Sydney Swans

| games_goals2 = {{0}}0 (0)

| careerhighlights = * Harry Collier Trophy 1993

• 1994 AFL Rising Star nominee

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Kent Butcher (born 5 November 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Butcher played both under-19s and reserves football for Geelong, but it was at Collingwood that he started his AFL career. In round eight of the 1994 season, the rebounding defender would receive a Rising Star nomination for his 20 disposal game against St Kilda on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.{{cite web |url=http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/K/Kent_Butcher.html |title=AFL Tables: Kent Butcher |website=afltables.com}}

An injury brought an end to his time at Collingwood and he was delisted, and was picked up by the Sydney Swans with the seventh selection of the 1996 Pre-season draft.{{cite book|last=Lovett, Michael|title=AFL 2004 – The Official Statistical History Of The AFL| publisher=AFL Publishing|year=2004|isbn=0-9580300-5-7}} He didn't play a senior AFL game for the Swans.

Butcher, a former Grovedale player, would move back to Geelong, where he played and coached.{{cite book|last1=Holmesby|first1=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim|title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers| publisher=BAS Publishing|year=2007|isbn=978-1-920910-78-5}}