The 2009 AFL Draft consists of four opportunities for player acquisitions during the 2009/10 Australian Football League off-season. These were the Trade Week (held between 5 October and 9 October), the National Draft (held on 26 November), the Pre-Season Draft (15 December) and the Rookie Draft (15 December).

In the lead up to the trade week many high profile players such as Brendan Fevola, Darren Jolly, Shaun Burgoyne, Luke Ball, Barry Hall, Andrew Lovett and Josh Gibson either requested to be traded or were suggested to be likely to be traded during the AFL's annual trading period. Of these players, only Luke Ball was unable to secure a trade by the end of the week.

Trade week was significantly more active than the previous year. Four trades involving seven players, including a three-team, four-player trade, were completed on the first day of the trade week alone, compared to only six players traded in the entire 2008 trade week. Overall, twenty-three players changed clubs (the most since the 2003 trade week), and twenty-five draft picks were traded. Of the sixteen active clubs, only the Adelaide Crows did not make a trade.

Majak Daw (born 11 March 1991, in Khartoum, Sudan) is a professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League (AFL). Daw and his family in Australia are refugees from the civil wars in Sudan. Daw became the first Sudanese Australian to be drafted to an AFL club when he was contracted to the North Melbourne Football Club in the 2009 AFL Draft. Daw's drafting gained international attention: it was reported by the BBC and the Voice of America. Daw made his first appearance for North Melbourne in an NAB Cup match on 20 February 2011. Daw signed a new contract at the end of the 2011 season that will keep him at the North Melbourne Football Club for 2 more years.

Daw was born in Khartoum, Sudan, the third of his parents' nine children. His family fled the Second Sudanese Civil War, living in Egypt for three years, then moved to Australia in 2003. Daw attended secondary school at MacKillop College in Werribee, where he was first encouraged to play Australian Football.

Playing for the Western Jets Daw was identified as a future "key position" player by North Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs. Daw went to the 2009 Victorian Screening portion of the AFL pre-draft testing. He impressed with a 13.6 in the beep test and 3.03 seconds in a 20 metre sprint along with a standing jump of 70 centimetres. He was one of 11 young Australian rules footballers to be given 2010 Mike Fitzpatrick Scholarships awarded by the AFL Players Association, and accepted the awards on behalf of the other players.

Gary Rohan (born 7 June 1991) is an Australian rules footballer for the Sydney Swans Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Rohan represented Victoria Country at the 2009 AFL National Under 18 Championships, winning the team's MVP award as well as All-Australian honours. Geelong Falcons regional manager Michael Turner described Rohan as "the most exciting player I've ever seen".

Rohan was drafted to Sydney with the sixth selection (just the Swans' second top-10 draft pick since the late 1990s) in the 2009 AFL Draft from the Geelong Falcons. Rohan made his AFL debut in round 7 of the 2010 season, against reigning premiers, Geelong, at Kardinia Park, where he had played much of his junior football with the Falcons. Rohan finished his debut season having played nine senior games for the Swans and kicking seven goals.

Much of Rohan's 2011 season was written off due to a serious hamstring injury but, when he returned to the senior side late in the year, he managed to have a profound impact on the side's performance. He was played as a near-permanent forward and performed well as he kicked goals and chased and tackled hard.

Joel Houghton (born 26 November 1991) is an Australian rules footballer for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League. He was selected by the Dockers with the 36th pick in the 2009 AFL Draft. Houghton has been described as a tall forward with a great set shot and outstanding endurance.

Houghton was selected as a WA Under-18 representative in 2009, and played all 5 games at the championships, kicking 10 goals. During the WA state screening later in the year, and ran a beep test of 15.1, outstanding for someone of 194 cm. Houghton was drafted to the dockers on his birthday, and was later presented with the No. 17 guernsey.

Anthony Morabito (born 29 October 1991) is an Australian rules footballer with the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Morabito is a tall, quick, powerful midfielder, who was selected by Fremantle with their first round selection (fourth overall) in the 2009 AFL Draft. Originally from Harvey, he played for Peel Thunder in the WAFL and represented Western Australia in the 2007 Under 16s, 2008 Under 18s and 2009 AFL National Under 18 Championships. He performed very well at the 2009 Championships, being named in the Under-18 All-Australian Team and awarded the most valuable player in Western Australia's championship-winning side. He was the first of thirteen WAFL-based players to be selected in the 2009 Draft.

Often compared to Adam Goodes due to his appearance, size and versatile playing style, After being suggested as a possible top-10 selection in the draft following the National Under 18 Championships, he was correctly predicted to be the fourth overall selection in the lead-up to the draft.