Former North Melbourne champion Shannon Grant has been charged with 18 offences, including assault and criminal damage, following an alleged violent attack on a woman in Victoria late last year.

Police attended the 40 year-old's Highett home in Melbourne’s south-east, where he was arrested and charged by Sandringham police over a December 17 incident.

Camera Icon Shannon Grant during his time as coach of Frankston. Credit: Getty Images

Separately, Queensland police want to speak with the 1999 Norm Smith medallist and AFL premiership hero regarding another assault, on the same woman, in Queensland in recent months.

Grant had a decorated 300-game career at the Kangaroos where he won a best and fairest, Norm Smith Medal and a premiership.

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He was recently an assistant coach at Essendon and the Western Bulldogs before taking VAFA Premier side St Kevin’s to their maiden top-tier premiership last season.

Grant entered his forced resignation at St Kevin’s on Saturday.

Camera Icon Shannon Grant was formerly a Western Bulldogs assistant after retiring from the AFL. Credit: Getty Images

The arrest comes just days after Grant’s premiership teammate Glenn Archer confirmed he would fight assault charges stemming from a junior football match in June last year.

The former North Melbourne defender was convicted of assaulting a runner at the under-15s football match at a court hearing last September, and fined $2000.

He has since lodged an appeal against that conviction, with the matter still to be heard in the Victorian Supreme Court.