He recovered to play his 250th game the following week, but the Lions suffered an embarrassing six-point loss to eventual premiers after they had led by 32 points at the final change.
Prior to this, Voss had suffered from tendinitis of the knee but had been able to curtail the problem.
The calf injury affected his performances, with the four games after the injury yielding a high possession count of only 16.
Voss later improved, and in Round 21 picked up 35 possessions against Port Adelaide.
1975
Michael Voss (born 7 July 1975) is a former professional Australian rules football player with the Brisbane Bears/Lions and current senior coach of the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Voss was a triple premiership captain with the Brisbane Football Club.
1992
At 17 years and 11 days of age in 1992, he debuted for the Brisbane Bears against Fitzroy at Princes Park in Melbourne in Round 18, 1992, the youngest-ever player to play a senior game for the club.
Although highly skilled, he was also slight, but he worked to get the most out of his body.
1996
He was also the first Brisbane player to win the Brownlow Medal (1996), which is considered the game's most prestigious individual award; won the Leigh Matthews Trophy twice (2002 and 2003), which is awarded annually to the league's most valued player; and has been inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
By 1996, he was one of the most accomplished players in the competition, and at the end of the season he shared the Brownlow Medal, the game's highest individual honour, with James Hird.
At the end of 1996, following the merger of the Fitzroy Football Club and the Brisbane Bears, Voss and teammate Alastair Lynch were named as inaugural co-captains of the newly formed Brisbane Lions.
1998
In 1998, Voss suffered a catastrophic injury while contesting a mark at Subiaco Oval in Perth in a match against Fremantle.
He collided with Fremantle's Shane Parker and broke his lower leg in half.
The subsequent operation was at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and it was a year before he was fit and in training to play again.
2001
Voss captained the Brisbane Lions in four consecutive AFL Grand Finals, yielding three premierships (2001–2003).
2002
His performance in the 2002 Grand Final against Collingwood was an outstanding example of courage, skill and leadership, only narrowly conceding the Norm Smith Medal to opposing captain and former Bears teammate Nathan Buckley.
2004
In early 2004, Voss kicked a career-best seven goals against a struggling Adelaide at AAMI Stadium as coach Leigh Matthews looked to play him in the forward line during the latter part of his career.
However, a heavy injury toll to the Lions meant that Voss continued his career in the midfield.
2005
In 2005, Voss suffered a badly cut calf before Round 2 while renovating his home.
2006
Additionally, he represented Australia in the 2006 International Rules Series.
As a player, he was noted for his fearless play, inspirational leadership, and the ability to turn a game.
Voss was born in Traralgon, Victoria and lived as a child in Orbost until the age of 11, when he moved with his family to Beenleigh, a northern suburb of the Gold Coast at the time.
Voss attended Trinity College during his high-school years in Queensland.
His younger brother Brett also played for the Brisbane Lions before transferring to St Kilda Football Club to enhance his opportunities to play senior football.
Voss's football skills were excellent from an early age.
He made his senior debut for Morningside in the QAFL at the age of 15 years.
A year later, he kicked 14 goals for Queensland in a second-division under-17 representative match, going on to win the inaugural Hunter Harrison Medal for the tournament.
Voss grew up supporting the Carlton Football Club.
Soon after the completion of the 2006 season, Voss announced his retirement from his playing career after 289 games and 15 years at the Brisbane Bears and Lions with three premierships and a Brownlow Medal to his name.
He was subsequently employed as a sports journalist by Channel 10 in Brisbane.
Voss said farewell in what turned out to be his last game, at the Gabba in Round 22 against St Kilda, gathering 34 possessions and two Brownlow Medal votes as a struggling Brisbane Lions team went down by 50 points to finals-bound St Kilda, who won on Brisbane's turf for the first time in a decade.
Despite losing badly, the Lions received a long-standing ovation from a sold-out home crowd after the game for their prior premiership efforts as well as general farewell to several other players.
When announcing his retirement at the end of Brisbane's 2006 season, there was speculation that Voss would soon become a senior coach or join Leigh Matthews in the Brisbane Lions coaching team.
Voss instead joined the Channel 10 sports commentary team.
Voss coached Australia's AIS Under-17 squad to victory against the South African national Australian rules football team at North West Cricket Stadium in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Voss was often mentioned as a candidate to coach the Melbourne Demons after the resignation of Neale Daniher.
He was also linked to various other coaching positions, most notably Carlton.
2008
In May 2008, Voss accepted a consultancy role with the newly established GC17 bid team and was seen by many to be the likely inaugural coach of the Gold Coast side, but he instead signed a two-year deal with the West Coast Eagles as an assistant coach, which formally removed him from the running for the vacant Gold Coast senior coaching position.
2016
This injury, along with the destabilisation caused by the merger of Fitzroy and the Bears, was a key factor in the Brisbane Lions finishing 16th (last) with a record of 5 wins, 16 losses, and 1 draw.
2019
In 2019, Kobe Howard described Voss as "one of the game's greatest players" in Australian football history.
