Footage has emerged of troubled Western Bulldogs player Jamarra Ugle-Hagan at the scene where a gun was fired outside a Melbourne nightclub at the weekend.

It shows Ugle-Hagan standing with a friend outside the Love Machine club about 2.30am on Sunday.

A third male approaches the pair and a brief scuffle breaks out between Ugle-Hagan’s associate and the man.

The former No.1 draft pick attempts to intervene before he steps back as the fight spills onto the street.

Police claim that’s when a gun was fired.

The scuffling pair fled the scene, while Ugle-Hagan was seen re-entering the nightclub.

Ugle-Hagan maintains he is being treated as a witness in the shooting and has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

9News understands the full-forward told the Western Bulldogs he got into an Uber after the shooting.

Love Machine nightclub will be forced to shut this weekend after the Victorian Liquor Commission temporarily revoked its liquor licence amid safety concerns.