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Pendlebury wants to continue in 2026, won’t play for another club
Lachlan Geleit • June 11th, 2025 1:50 pm
Collingwood great Scott Pendlebury is hoping to play on in 2026.
The 37-year-old comes out of contract at the end of the 2025 season but wants to add at least one more campaign to his career if the club will allow him.
While Pendlebury is 414 games into his AFL career – the third-most in V/AFL history – he’s still making a huge impact for the ladder leaders.
Following his most recent game where he had 29 disposals and 10 marks in the one-point King’s Birthday win over Melbourne, Pendlebury told Garry Lyon and Tim Watson on SEN that he’d love to continue playing if the club wants to keep him around.
“I probably don’t have an answer for it to be honest,” he told SEN Breakfast in regard to whether he’d play in 2026.
“All I can say is I’m loving my footy, I’m a super competitive person and I enjoy going into the club every day, I have so much fun.
“While we’re still contending and I’m playing a role that the club really values then I’d love to continue playing footy but that’s a conversation we’ll have as a club and be nice and mature about it.”
If Collingwood doesn’t offer Pendlebury a deal for 2026, there’s no doubt he’d receive interest from rival clubs in both playing and coaching roles for next season.
While there could be interest around, Pendlebury says there’s no way he’ll be pulling on another jumper as a player and will retire a Collingwood icon.
“It is really important to me to be a one-club player,” Pendlebury said.
“I’ve done 19 years there, I couldn’t imagine pulling on some other colours. It’s black and white for me.”
If Pendlebury plays on in 2026, he has every chance to break Brent Harvey’s all-time V/AFL games record of 432 games.
Currently 18 games behind the former Kangaroo, Pendlebury could theoretically pass him early in the 2026 season pending health and a potential Collingwood 2025 finals campaign.
