List Of Brownlow Medal Winners
The Brownlow Medal (formally the Charles Brownlow Trophy) is an individual award given to the player judged fairest and best in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the regular season. Determined by votes cast by the officiating umpires after each game, it is considered the highest honour for individual players in the AFL. The medal has been awarded every year since 1924 Brownlow Medal, 1924, with the exception of an intermission from 1942–1945 due to World War II. As of 2024, the Brownlow Medal has been awarded 111 times to 90 different players in 96 medal counts. Winners by season Voting systems: *1924–1930 – Single umpire awards 1 vote to best on ground only *1931–1975 – Single umpire awards 3–2–1 votes to best three on ground *1976–1977 – Two umpires separately award 3–2–1 votes to best three on ground *1978–pres – Umpiring team collectively awards 3–2–1 votes to best three on ground Until 1980 VFL season, 1980, a countback sys ...
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Brownlow Medal
The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as Charlie), is awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the four officiating field umpires after each game. It is the most prestigious award for individual players in the AFL. It is also widely acknowledged as the highest individual honour in the sport of Australian rules football. The medal was first awarded by the Victorian Football League (VFL). It was created and named in honour of Charles Brownlow, a former Geelong Football Club footballer (1880–1891) and club secretary (1885–1923), and VFL president (1918–19), who had died in January 1924 after an extended illness. Fairest and best Although the award is generally spoken of the ''best and fairest'', the award's specific criterion is ''fairest and best'', reflecting an emphasis on sportsmanship and fair play (this also explains the de ...
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1989 Brownlow Medal
The 1989 Brownlow Medal was the 62nd year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Paul Couch of the Geelong Football Club won the medal by polling 22 votes during the 1989 VFL season. Leading vote-getters * The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the VFL Tribunal during the year. References Brownlow Medal 1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

1938 Brownlow Medal
The 1938 Brownlow Medal was the 15th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Dick Reynolds of the Essendon Football Club won the medal by polling eighteen votes during the 1938 VFL season. Leading votegetters References 1938 in Australian rules football 1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...

1937 Brownlow Medal
The 1937 Brownlow Medal was the 14th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Dick Reynolds of the Essendon Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-seven votes during the 1937 VFL season. Leading votegetters References 1937 in Australian rules football 1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Feb ...

1936 Brownlow Medal
The 1936 Brownlow Medal was the 13th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Denis Ryan of the Fitzroy Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-six votes during the 1936 VFL season. Leading votegetters References 1936 in Australian rules football 1936 Events January–February * January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House. * January 28 – Death and state funer ...

1935 Brownlow Medal
The 1935 Brownlow Medal was the 12th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Haydn Bunton of the Fitzroy Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-five votes during the 1935 VFL season. Leading votegetters References 1935 in Australian rules football 1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...

1934 Brownlow Medal
The 1934 Brownlow Medal was the 11th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home-and-away season. Dick Reynolds of the Essendon Football Club won the medal by polling nineteen votes during the 1934 VFL season. In the last game of the 1934 season, Haydn Bunton Sr dominated; and, as he walked off the ground, he made a flippant remark to umpire Jack McMurray Sr., along the lines of: "That wasn't bad today, Jack." "Never try to bribe an umpire," McMurray apparently replied—and left him out of the votes. Bunton lost the Brownlow medal to Dick Reynolds by one vote. Leading vote-getters References 1934 in Australian rules football 1934 {{AFL-stub ...
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1933 Brownlow Medal
The 1933 Brownlow Medal was the tenth year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Wilfred Smallhorn of the Fitzroy Football Club won the medal by polling eighteen votes during the 1933 VFL season. Leading votegetters References 1933 in Australian rules football 1933 Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independen ...

1932 Brownlow Medal
The 1932 Brownlow Medal was the ninth year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Haydn Bunton of the Fitzroy Football Club won the medal for the second consecutive year by polling twenty-three votes during the 1932 VFL season. Leading votegetters References 1932 in Australian rules football 1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

1930 Brownlow Medal
The 1930 Brownlow Medal was the seventh year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. The award was won jointly by Stan Judkins of the Richmond Football Club, Harry Collier of the Collingwood Football Club, and Allan Hopkins of the Footscray Football Club. It was the first time more than one player won the award in the same year. History Under the voting system in place at the time, the central umpire awarded one vote to the best player on the ground in each match. When the votes were counted on 17 September, three players tied for the most votes with four each: Harry Collier of the Collingwood Football Club, Allan Hopkins of the Footscray Football Club, and Stan Judkins of the Richmond Football Club. It was the first time there had been a tie for the award; however, at the time, the league did not recognise ties for the medal, and needed to break the tie. The medal was not ...
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1929 Brownlow Medal
The 1929 Brownlow Medal was the sixth year the award was presented to the player adjudged the best and fairest, fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Albert Collier of the Collingwood Football Club won the medal by polling six votes during the 1929 VFL season. A new provision was introduced to suspend Brownlow Medal voting during rounds when the Victoria Australian rules football team, state team was active to avoid disadvantaging the players selected in the team. This provision was not repeated in future years. Leading votegetters References

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1928 Brownlow Medal
The 1928 Brownlow Medal was the fifth year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Ivor Warne-Smith of the Melbourne Football Club won the medal by polling eight votes during the 1928 VFL season; having previously won the 1926 Brownlow Medal, Warne-Smith became the league's first dual Brownlow Medallist. Leading votegetters References 1928 in Australian rules football 1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...