Patrick Veszpremi

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Patrick Veszpremi

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| fullname = Patrick Veszpremi

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1989|09|01|df=y}}

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| death_date =

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| originalteam = Northern Knights (TAC Cup)

| draftpick = No. 11, 2007 National Draft, {{AFL Syd}}

| position = Midfielder, forward

| statsend = 2013

| careerhighlights =

| height = 187 cm

| weight = 85 kg

| years1 = 2008–2010

| club1 = {{AFL Syd}}

| games_goals1 = 11 (12)

| years2 = 2011–2013

| club2 = {{AFL WB}}

| games_goals2 = 12 {{0}}(5)

| games_goalstotal = 23 (17)

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Patrick Veszpremi (born 1 September 1989) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans and Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Originally from Bundoora, Victoria,[http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/patrick-veszpremi-seizes-moment-in-the-sun/story-e6frexx0-1225748370397 Patrick Veszpremi seizes moment in the sun] Veszpremi was drafted by Sydney from the Northern Knights in the TAC Cup with the eleventh selection in the 2007 AFL Draft. He was named in the Under 18 All Australian side as a defender, but also played as a forward, where he once kicked eight goals for the Knights in a final.[http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,22819860-23211,00.html Draft shores up Swans future]

Veszpremi made his debut for Sydney in round 18, 2008 against the Western Bulldogs in a 16-point defeat. In his fourth game, against Brisbane, Veszpremi kicked four goals.

Veszpremi was one of five teenage footballers whose final year of junior football was chronicled in the book The Draft: inside the AFL's Search for talent by Emma Quayle, published by Allen and Unwin in September 2008.Quayle, Emma (2008)[https://books.google.com/books?id=fJVBVUC3vm8C The Draft: Inside the AFL's Search for Talent]

At the end of the 2010 AFL season, Veszpremi was traded to the Western Bulldogs.{{cite news|last=Balym|first=Todd|title=Andrejs Everitt to Swans and Patrick Veszpremi to Bulldogs in first deal of trade week|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/dog-swan-may-be-first-done-deal/story-e6frf9jf-1225934784935|accessdate=6 October 2010|newspaper=Herald Sun|date=6 October 2010}} He, along with a late draft pick, were traded for Bulldogs player, Andrejs Everitt.

Veszpremi was delisted by the Bulldogs at the conclusion of the 2013 season, having made just 12 appearances for the club in three seasons. After spending the 2014 and 2015 seasons with Pascoe Vale in the Essendon District Football League (EDFL), Veszpremi played for the Essendon Doutta Stars Football Club in 2016.{{Citation needed|date=January 2019}}