Ferguson played 47 AFL matches over five years at the Melbourne Football Club between 2003 and 2007, before a long state league career that included captaining West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and winning the club's best and fairest award on four occasions.

Recruited from Victorian Football League (VFL) club Frankston Dolphins in the 2002 National Draft (fifth round selection; number 66 overall), Ferguson was a good contributor to the Demons as a tall defender and fill in ruckman.

[2] Ferguson was West Adelaide's captain when they were defeated by the Norwood Football Club in the 2012 SANFL Grand Final.

In the end Norwood ran out 49 point winners with a score of 12.7 (79) to Wests 3.12 (30) in front of 29,661 fans at AAMI Stadium.

West Adelaide's strong start to the 2013 season, where for the first time in many years they kicked over 100 points in three consecutive games (including a 106-point win over South Adelaide at Hickinbotham Oval in Round 3), has seen Ferguson one of five Bloods players selected to the South Australian training squad for the state game against the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL North) to be played at West's home ground, City Mazda Stadium, on 11 May 2013.