Brayden Crossley Biography

Brayden Crossley accepts a 12-month anti-doping suspension, having tested positive to a banned substance midway through the 2019 AFL season.

Crossley, 20, returned a positive ASADA test for a cocaine metabolite following his participation in a NEAFL match in May 2019 and was immediately made to serve a provisional suspension.

He will be ineligible to return to sport until 28 June 2020 as a result of his suspension, but is now permitted to return to training.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the AFL said: "In imposing the 12-month sanction, the AFL accepted that Mr. Crossley's Anti-Doping Rule Violation was not intentional, and that Mr. Crossley bore No Significant Fault or Negligence within the meaning of that term under the Code."

Brayden Crossley is delisted by Gold Coast less than three months after investigations began on an alleged match-day drugs transgression.

"Brayden is a local Gold Coast product and someone who has progressed through the Gold Coast Academy pathway," Suns general manager of football operations Jon Haines said in a statement.

"Brayden has had to navigate his way through an extremely challenging period recently, and he has conducted himself with class and maturity throughout. As a club we will continue to support him and his family wherever possible."

Provisionally suspended Brayden Crossley will continue to train at the Suns after testing positive to a cocaine metabolite.

Gold Coast CEO Mark Evans told SEN that Crossley is receiving independent legal advice and support from the AFLPA.

"I'd say he's a lot clearer now on the processes ahead, which still can take many months," Evans said.

"Probably the thing we don't understand is the all of the different leads and processes to conclude an investigation and for a player to respond and that does take some time, so ultimately that could change every time something comes up that he has to deal with.

"We will provide the support for him. He's able to train under provisional suspension. We've given him a modified program so that he can come and go if he needs that, but 70 to 80 per cent of the time he is around us and the support of his club."

Brayden Crossley is on provisional suspension after testing positive to a banned substance.

It is believed the substance detected in a late May test, after a NEAFL match, by ASADA is a cocaine metabolite.

Brayden Crossley makes his AFL debut for Gold Coast with 13 disposals (7 kicks and 6 handballs), 2 marks, 5 tackles, 7 hitouts and a goal in a 9-point loss to the Western Bulldogs.