{"id":73562,"date":"2026-08-17T04:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/73562\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T04:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:11:15","slug":"sydney-players-in-alleged-incident-sexual-assault-investigation-started-by-police-who-was-involved-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/73562\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney players in alleged incident, sexual assault investigation started by police: Who was involved?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney players in alleged incident, sexual assault investigation started by police: Who was involved?<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several Sydney<\/a> AFL players have been involved in an alleged incident at a Melbourne<\/a> hotel, with police confirming they are\u00a0“investigating a report of a sexual assault in East Melbourne on August 17”.<\/p>\n

The Swans released a statement on Monday afternoon confirming that an alleged incident occurred at the Pullman East Melbourne hotel in the aftermath of the team’s 36-point win against Essendon<\/a> at the MCG on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“The Sydney Swans can confirm several players were involved in an alleged incident in Melbourne last night,” the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The Swans have notified the AFL and relevant authorities and cannot provide further comment at this stage.”<\/p>\n

A Victoria Police statement indicated a ‘sexual assault’ investigation had been commenced after a report was made on an incident that occurred in East Melbourne on August 17.<\/p>\n

“The incident occurred at a hotel on Wellington Parade in the early hours of the morning,” the statement read.<\/p>\n

“The exact circumstances are yet to be established and the investigation into the incident remains ongoing.”<\/p>\n

Which Sydney players were involved in the incident?<\/p>\n

The names of the Sydney players involved in the alleged incident have not been released publicly.<\/p>\n

Channel 7 journalist Tom Morris suggested on X that star players were involved in the alleged incident.<\/p>\n

“Club aware of details, which are believed to be sensitive and potentially very damaging to star players,” Morris wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sporting News will update this story as details come to hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney players in alleged incident, sexual assault investigation started by police: Who was involved? originally appeared on The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[105423,17936,1712,364,247,28256],"class_list":["post-73562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-afl-players","tag-east-melbourne","tag-sexual-assault","tag-star-players","tag-sydney","tag-the-swans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}