FREMANTLE legend Matthew Pavlich is on the cusp of joining one of the AFL’s most elite clubs.

It’s an achievement not even goalkicking greats Tony Lockett, Jason Dunstall and Gary Ablett Snr could accomplish or long-serving stars Brent Harvey and Simon Madden.

Just four players have played 300 games and kicked 700 goals in VFL/AFL history and Pavlich needs just one more goal to join them.

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He would join four of the biggest names to ever play the game; Gordon Coventry, Leigh Matthews, Kevin Bartlett and Bernie Quinlan.

Pavlich kicked two goals in the Dockers’ loss to Adelaide in Round 21, taking him to 699 career majors in 352 games but is set to sit out this week’s clash against GWS meaning he has just one more game, against the Western Bulldogs, to reach the milestone.

It’s expected Pavlich will retire at the end of the season and bow out as the greatest player from either West Australian club.

Matthew Pavlich kicks a goal this season. Picture: Daniel Wilkins Source: News Corp Australia

Matthew Pavlich in his debut season. Source: News Limited

Pavlich finished as Fremantle’s leading goalkicker eight times, kicking 70 goals in a season twice 71 in 2006 and 72 in 2007.

A six-time All-Australian, ironically Pavlich was first selected at fullback in 2002 before moving forward on a more permanent basis.

The VFL/AFL’s greatest goalkicker, Tony Lockett, kicked 1360 majors in just 281 games, overtaking Collingwood immortal Coventry’s record in 1999.

Dunstall’s career was cut short by injury after 269 games with 1254 goals to his name while Ablett Snr played 248 for 1030 goals.

Richmond’s Jack Titus retired in 1943 - after injury and the Tigers deciding he was too old at 35 - leaving him agonisingly short of the 300-700 mark with 970 goals in 294 games.

He would kick 119 goals for VFA club Coburg in 1945, proving his age had not diminished his ability.

AN ILLUSTRIOUS CLUB - VFL/AFL 300 GAMES & 700 GOALS

PLAYER GAMES GOALS AVE GOALS PER GAME Gordon Coventry (Collingwood) 306 1299 4.25 Leigh Matthews (Hawthorn) 332 915 2.76 Bernie Quinlan (Foots/Fitz) 366 817 2.23 Kevin Bartlett (Richmond) 403 778 1.93 Matthew Pavlich (Fremantle)* 352 699 1.99 Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda)* 317 679 2.14 Lance Franklin (Haw/Syd) 241 773 3.21

* still playing

The 300 game-700 goal club could grow further in the next two years with Lance Franklin and Nick Riewoldt closing in.

St Kilda captain Riewoldt currently has 317 games to his name and needs 21 more goals to reach 700 while Swans’ superstar Franklin has 773 goals in 241 games.

If Franklin can play the 59 more games needed for 300, he could have as many as 962 - if he can keep up his 3.21 goals per game average - putting him in reach of the magical 1000-goal mark, a mark just five men have reached, Lockett, Coventry, Dunstall, Doug Wade and Ablett Snr.

Harvey, North Melbourne’s VFL/AFL games record-breaker, now has 429 games to his name but has spent a lot of his career in the midfield, limiting him to 513 goals.

While Madden similar spent the majority of his career in the ruck before moving forward later, playing 378 games for 575 goals at Essendon.