Brenton Sanderson played a total of 209 AFL games with three clubs: Adelaide, Collingwood and Geelong. Brenton was the 2001 Geelong Best and Fairest winner. In 2011, Brenton was appointed as the Senior Coach of the Adelaide Crows, he was their coach from 2012-2014. Brenton was the AFL National Academy Head Coach from 2015-2016. More recently, he has been an Assistant Coach (Forwards) at Collingwood from 2016-2021, he left the club at the end of the 2021 season.