| Player | Era | Recruited From |
| Arthur Cummins | 1897 | Castlemaine |
| Alf Moore | 1898 | Norwood / Swan Hill |
| Frank Field | 1901 - 1902 | Tarnagulla (Dunolly) |
| Jim Opie | 1902 - 1905 | Melb. University / Prahran / St Kilda / Sandhurst Juniors |
| John McFarlane | 1902 | Bendigo |
| Bob Jacobson | 1903 | Maryborough |
| Archie McNeel | 1905 | Castlemaine |
| Alex Johnston | 1906 | Lancefield |
| Fred Jinks | 1906 - 1909 | Eaglehawk |
| Horrie Pearce | 1907 | California Gully (Bendigo) |
| George Stewart | 1909 | Eaglehawk |
| Jack Bristow | 1910 | Carlton Juniors / Lancefield |
| Bert Cowley | 1911 | Echuca |
| Bill Johnson | 1912 | Queensland / Essendon / West Melb. VFA / Castlemaine |
| Paddy Mills | 1912 - 1913 | South Bendigo / Melbourne / Northcote |
| Alf Baud | 1913 - 1915 | Eaglehawk / South Bendigo |
| Chris Cameron | 1913 | Beverley / Rushworth Tigers |
| Percy Daykin | 1914 - 1921 | South Bendigo |
| Bill Cook | 1914 | Bendigo City |
| Albert Scadden | 1914 | South Bendigo |
| George Muir | 1915, 1918 | Northcote / Bendigo |
| Darcy Lear | 1917 | Bendigo District |
| Hedley Blackmore | 1917 - 1923 | Maldon |
| Jack Keily | 1918 | Havelock |
| Bert Boromeo | 1919 - 1923 | Maryborough |
| Jack Stephenson | 1920 - 1922 | Maryborough / Dunolly |
| Jack Morrissey | 1920 - 1927 | Dunolly |
| Maurie Beasy | 1920 - 1928 | Dunolly |
| Horrie Clover | 1920 - 1931 | Maryborough / Temperence Club Maryborough |
| Alex Duncan | 1921 - 1930 | Statford / Carlton / Romsey / Coburg |
| Harold Credlin | 1922 - 1925 | Carlton Juniors / Inglewood |
| Bob Wilson | 1923 - 1925 | Kerang |
| Harold Carter | 1924 - 1928 | Fitzroy / South Bendigo |
| Ned Kick | 1925 | Dunolly |
| Percy Outram | 1925 - 1927 | Kyabram / Wesley College |
| Ted Brewis | 1925 - 1928 | Maffra / Maryborough / Camberwell / Preston |
| Charlie McSwain | 1925 - 1930 | Preston / Merebin |
| Les Johnson | 1927 - 1928 | Maryborough |
| Vin Arthur | 1927 - 1933 | South Bendigo / Carlton / St Kilda / Richmond District / Drouin |
| Jack King | 1929 | Eaglehawk |
| Bill Lever | 1929 - 1930 | Rochester |
| Creswell 'Mickey' Crisp | 1931 - 1941 | Wedderburn / Sandhurst |
| Norm Le Brun | 1935 | Collingwood / Essendon / Sandhurst / Sth Melbourne / Richmond / Moorabbin |
| George Collard | 1935 - 1938 | Sandhurst |
| Gordon Crisp | 1936, 1938 | Wedderburn |
| Arch Shields | 1937 - 1938 | Teachers Training College / Tongala |
| Charlie McInnes | 1938 - 1946 | Tyntynder (Swan Hill) |
| Arthur Sanger | 1938 - 1947 | Castlemaine / Daylesford |
| Jim Jones | 1939 - 1946 | Ouyen |
| Jim Mooring | 1940 - 1949 | Creswick / Maryborough / Piangil |
| Tom Dillon | 1943, 1946 | Bendigo |
| Jim Clark | 1943 - 1951 | Elmore |
| Herb Turner | 1944 - 1949 | West Melb. / Eaglehawk |
| Fred Rose | 1945 | Swan Hill |
| Frank McGrath | 1945 | Melbourne / Boort |
| Ray Garby | 1946 - 1950 | Cohuna / Assumption College / AIF |
| Vin English | 1950 - 1956 | Sandhurst |
| Jack Mills | 1950 - 1957 | South Bendigo |
| Doug Beasy | 1951 - 1959 | Dunolly |
| Ron Robertson | 1952 - 1956 | South Bendigo |
| Jack Hosking | 1953 | South Bendigo |
| Noel Evans | 1953 | Sandhurst |
| George Ilsley | 1954 | Eaglehawk |
| Noel O'Brien | 1954 - 1955 | Echuca / Lockington |
| Kevin Hunt | 1954 | Pyramid Hill |
| Peter Aitken | 1955 | Kyabram |
| Max Ellis | 1956 | South Bendigo |
| Don Nicholls | 1956 - 1961 | Maryborough |
| Ross Ousley | 1956 - 1958 | Golden Square |
| Leo Brereton | 1957 - 1962 | Cohuna / Union |
| John Nicholls | 1957 - 1974 | Maryborough |
| Denis Strauch | 1957 - 1960 | Eaglehawk |
| Bill Arch | 1958 - 1962 | Kyneton / Ballarat YCW / St Pat's Ballarat |
| John O'Keefe | 1959 - 1960 | Mildura Imperials |
| Barry Bryant | 1960 - 1961 | Kyabram / Walwa (Corryong) |
| Graeme Anderson | 1961 - 1968 | Watchem-Corack / Seaford |
| Murray Kick | 1961 - 1965 | Donald |
| Brian Holcombe | 1961 | Mildura Imperials |
| Ken Greenwood | 1962 - 1966 | South Bendigo |
| Greg Hardie | 1963 - 1965 | Leitchville |
| Ian Nankervis | 1964 - 1966 | Mildura Imperials / Dookie / Shepparton |
| Barry Mulcair | 1965 - 1967 | South Bendigo |
| Maurie Fowler | 1966 | Kyabram |
| Bob Lane | 1966 | Kerang |
| Dick Vandenberg | 1966 | Robinvale |
| Noel Bishop | 1968 | Maryborough |
| Mark Amos | 1970 - 1971 | Montmorency / Robinvale |
| Peter Fyffe | 1970 - 1973 | Newstead |
| Paul Hurst | 1970 - 1974 | Sandhurst |
| Brian Walsh | 1970 - 1975 | Sandhurst |
| Trevor Keogh | 1970 - 1981 | Sandhurst |
| Geoff Southby | 1971 - 1984 | Sandhurst / Powerhouse (VAFA) |
| Peter Hall | 1971 - 1974 | Castlemaine |
| Paul O'Brien | 1971 - 1972 | Echuca |
| Greg Kennedy | 1972 - 1975 | Eaglehawk / Wycheproof |
| Eric Pascoe | 1972 - 1976 | Northern United |
| Ray Byrne | 1973 - 1978 | Golden Square |
| Rod Ashman | 1973 - 1986 | Eaglehawk |
| Graeme Whitnall | 1972 - 1975 | Maryborough / Talbot |
| Graeme Robertson | 1974 - 1975 | Kangaroo Flat |
| Russell Ohlsen | 1975 - 1978 | Maryborough / Royal Park |
| Wayne Deledio | 1975 | Dunolly |
| Danny Halloran | 1975 - 1977 | Kyneton |
| Garry Higgins | 1975 - 1976 | Maryborough / Maryborough Rovers |
| Jim Buckley | 1976 - 1990 | Kyneton |
| Peter Brown | 1976 - 1980 | Campbell's Creek |
| Trevor Fletcher | 1976 - 1977 | South Bendigo / Charlton |
| Tony Southcombe | 1977 | Golden Square |
| John Tresize | 1977 - 1978 | Kennington / Sandhurst |
| Jim Canfield | 1977 | Birchip / St Vincent's College (Junortoun, Bendigo) |
| Ken Sheldon | 1977 - 1986 | Mitiamo |
| Warren 'Wow' Jones | 1978 - 1985 | Castlemaine |
| Peter McConville | 1978 - 1985 | Golden Square |
| Peter Fitzpatrick | 1978 - 1980 | Golden Square |
| Peter Francis | 1979 - 1981 | Heathcote / South Bendigo |
| Des English | 1980 - 1986 | Eaglehawk |
| Denis Lenaghan | 1981 - 1982 | Sandhurst / Pennant Hills, NSW / Sandhurst / Bendigo YCW |
| Brendan Hartney | 1981 - 1985 | Sandhurst |
| Bruce Reid | 1983 - 1985 | Footscray / Sandhurst |
| Daryl Gilmore | 1983 | Eaglehawk |
| Ricky Nixon | 1983 - 1985 | Golden Square |
| Peter Dean | 1984 - 1998 | South Bendigo |
| Peter Rohde | 1985 - 1987 | Kangaroo Flat / Sandhurst |
| Dean Strauch | 1986 - 1989 | Golden Square |
| Michael Gallagher | 1987 - 1989 | Golden Square |
| Adrian Bassett | 1990 - 1992 | Coburg VFA / Southport / Campbell's Creek / Castlemaine |
| Michael Sexton | 1990 - 2000 | Sandhurst |
| Michael James | 1991 | Robinvale / St Pat's Ballarat |
| Greg Williams | 1992 - 1997 | Sydney / Geelong / Golden Square |
| Steven Oliver | 1992 - 1994 | Castlemaine |
| Brett Sholl | 1992 - 1994 | Nth Melb. Reserves / Mildura Irymple |
| Brendon Parker | 1992 - 1993 | Tongala |
| Ben Sexton | 1996 | Footscray / Sandhurst |
| Damien Lock | 1998 - 1999 | Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Eaglehawk |
| Heath Culpitt | 1999 - 2001 | Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Castlemaine |
| Jordan Doering | 1999 - 2001 | Essendon Reserves / Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Sandhurst |
| Ian Prendergast | 2001 - 2006 | Oakleigh Chargers U/18's / Kerang Rovers |
| Luke Livingston | 2002 - 2006 | Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Kerang |
| Blake Campbell | 2002 - 2003 | Murray Bushrangers U/18's / Tongala |
| Callan Beasy | 2002 - 2004 | Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Swan Hill |
| Trent Sporn | 2002 - 2006 | Nth Adelaide / Murrayville, Vic. |
| Andrew Walker | 2004 - 2016 | Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Echuca |
| Ross Young | 2007 | Northern Bullants VFL / University Blues / Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Donald |
| Andrew Collins | 2011 - 2013 | Richmond / Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Sandhurst / Sandhurst Marist Dockers |
| Matthew Dick | 2015 - 2016 | Sydney Swans / Calder Cannons U/18's / Macedon |
| Sam Kerridge | 2016 - 2018 | Adelaide Crows / Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Mildura |
| Lachie Plowman | 2016 - 2023 | GWS Giants / Calder Cannons U/18's / Macedon |
| Paddy Dow | 2018 - 2023 | Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Geelong Grammar / Swan Hill |
| Lochie O'Brien | 2018 - 2023 | Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Geelong Grammar / South Mildura |
| Angus Schumacher | 2018 - 2019 | Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Strathfieldsaye |
| Brodie Kemp | 2020 - ? | Bendigo Pioneers U/18's / Echuca |
(Cached)