Brownlow Medal Winners
1924 to Present

The Brownlow Medal is Australian rules football’s highest individual honour, awarded each year to the player judged the fairest and most brilliant in the home-and-away season. Votes are cast by the field umpires after each game on a 3-2-1 basis, with the winner revealed at a count held on the Monday before the AFL Grand Final.

First awarded in 1924 and named in honour of former Geelong VFA captain and administrator Charles Brownlow, the medal has been won by some of the greatest players in the history of the game. Haydn Bunton claimed it three times in the 1930s, a feat later matched by Bob Skilton and Ian Stewart. In the modern era, Patrick Cripps became the most recent player to win the award twice, taking home the medal in both 2022 and 2024.

Ties are a recurring feature of the count. The 2003 Brownlow produced the most crowded finish in the award’s history, with Mark Ricciuto, Nathan Buckley and Adam Goodes all finishing level on 22 votes. The voting system itself has evolved over the decades, with a brief experiment using two field umpires in 1976 and 1977 producing unusually high vote totals for those years.

The table below lists every Brownlow Medal winner since the inaugural count, including vote totals and tied results where applicable.