Geelong AFL premiership player Mathew Stokes will face the Geelong Magistrates' Court on Friday on cocaine trafficking and possession charges.
The 25-year-old Cats star, who played in the team's 2007 premiership-winning side, was charged along with five other men in a police operation in Geelong last month.
He allegedly told police at the time that he bought one gram of cocaine for $500 from a nightclub bouncer for a friend visiting from Darwin.
If convicted of trafficking, Stokes faces a lifetime ban from football under the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code, to which the AFL is a signatory.
There is no allegation that Stokes took the cocaine himself, police said.
Stokes was charged after raids on several Geelong homes in which police seized more than $3,000 in cash and drugs worth an estimated value of $50,000.
Stokes' name came up in telephone intercepts during the operation, detectives said at the time.
He will appear for a committal mention hearing, along with co-accused Wassam Solieman, 34, of Hamlyn Heights, in the Geelong Magistrates' Court.
Stokes began playing for Geelong in 2006. He has played 71 games and kicked 108 goals.
The club has announced a range of in-house penalties for Stokes.
It has suspended him until round eight of the AFL season, fined him $5,000 and demanded he finds full-time work until round four of the season.
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