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Coleman Medal

Australian rules football award

Field	Value
name	Coleman Medal
image	Jeremy Cameron July 2024.jpg
alt	A man with short brown hair in a sleeveless yellow guernsey and black shorts
league	Australian Football League
givenfor	Most goals in the home-and-away season
mostwins	Dick Lee (7)
mostrecent	Jeremy Cameron ()

The Coleman Medal is an Australian rules football award given annually to the Australian Football League (AFL) player who kicks the most goals in the home-and-away season. It is named after Essendon full-forward John Coleman, one of the most prolific goalkickers in the league's history, who was league leading goalkicker for five consecutive seasons.

The medal has been presented at various different events, including the preliminary and grand finals, the All-Australian awards ceremony, and club award ceremonies. 's Jeremy Cameron is the most recent recipient, kicking 83 goals in 2025.

History

The award was first presented in 1981 to Richmond's Michael Roach. At the time, the competition was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL); it would become the AFL in 1990. It was named after John Coleman, a full-forward and Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend who scored 537 goals in 98 games for Essendon between 1949 and 1954.

In September 2001, the AFL decided to recognise all leading goalkickers prior to Roach's victory; leaders from 1955—the year after Coleman's last match—to 1980 were named retrospective Coleman Medallists, while winners prior to 1955 were named Leading Goalkicker Medallists. Medals were presented to winners or their surviving relatives in a ceremony at Melbourne Town Hall in July 2004. Jack Collins, who had been a leading advocate for naming the award after Coleman and honouring leading goalkickers prior to 1981, was the only player to receive both a Coleman and a Leading Goalkicker Medal. Upon receiving the accolades, he was "bloody angry" and complained to the AFL Commission, as he perceived the Leading Goalkicker Medal to be an inferior award.

Collingwood is the club most frequently represented by Coleman and Leading Goalkicker Medallists: its players have won on 23 occasions, six clear of Geelong's tally of 17. The majority of Collingwood's awards were contributed by Dick Lee (7) and Gordon Coventry (6), which stand as the most and second-most in league history. Coleman himself won the Leading Goalkicker Medals in all five of his complete VFL seasons to have the third-most. As of 2023, there have been five four-time medallists, five three-time medallists, and 16 dual medallists.

Recipients

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Note: Bold text denotes player currently plays in the AFL

Recipient	Year	Club	Goals	(2)	(2)	(2)	(3)	(2)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(2)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(3)	(2)	(3)	(2)	(3)	(2)	(4)	(4)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(3)	(2)	(3)	(3)	(4)	(2)	(3)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(3)	(2)	(4)	(3)	****	****	****	**** (2)	****	**** (2)
1897		22
1898		31
1899		31
1900		24
1901		34
1902		30
1903		33
1904		39
1905		38
1906		45
1907		45
1908		50
1909		55
1910		51
1911		46
1912		56
1913		53
1914		57
1915		65
1916		46
1917		50
1918		35
1919		47
1920		62
1921		61
1922		54
1923		64
1924		75
1925		70
1926		78
1927		88
1928		78
1929		118
1930		105
1931		72
1932		109
1933		108
1934		138
1935		97
1936		101
1937		64
1938		102
1939		98
1940		92
1941		88
1942		67
1943		62
1944		87
1945		67
1946		63
1947		97
1948		86
1949		85
1950		112
1951		75
1952		103
1953		96
1954		73
1955		77
1956		56
1957		74
1958		67
1959		69
1960		67
1961		54
1962		62
1963		69
1964		68
1965		56
1966		73
1967		79
1968		125
1969		122
1970		146
1971		140
1972		130
1973		84
1974		91
1975		67
1976		99
1977		105
1978		118
1979		91
1980		107
1981		86
1982		94
1983		106
1984		102
1985		93
1986		100
1987		117
1988		124
1989		128
1990		98
1991		118
1992		139
1993		124
1994		113
1995		118
1996		114
1997		81
1998		107
1999		88
2000		94
2001		96
2002		75
2003		87
2004		90
2005		74
2006		84
2007		77
2008		102
2009		86
2010		78
2011		71
2012		65
2013		68
2014		67
2015		75
2016		80
2017		69
2018		65
2019		67
2020		42
2021		58
2022		64
2023		78
2024		69
2025		83

Multiple recipients

Player	Wins	Club(s)
7		1907, 1908, 1909, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1919
6		1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1933
5		1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953
4		1943, 1944, 1945, 1947
/	1962, 1967, 1969, 1974
	1968, 1970, 1971, 1977
/	1987, 1991, 1996, 1998
/	2008, 2011, 2014, 2017
3		1963, 1964, 1965
	1988, 1989, 1992
	1993, 1994, 1995
	2000, 2001, 2003
	2010, 2012, 2018
2		1897, 1899
/	1900, 1903
	1911, 1912
	1934, 1935
	1938, 1939
/	1942, 1948
	1954, 1957
	1959, 1960
	1972, 1973
	1978, 1979
	1980, 1981
	1983, 1984
	2004, 2005
	2006, 2009
	2015, 2016
	2022, 2023
/	2019, 2025

Club totals

†	LG	C'man
Club no longer participates in the AFL
Number of Leading Goalkicker Medals (1897–1954)
Number of Coleman Medals (1955–present)

Club	Medals	Years	LG
19	4	23	1898, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1938, 1939, 1946, 1958, 1972, 1973, 1986
8	10	18	1897, 1899, 1900, 1910, 1921, 1925, 1932, 1948, 1955, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1976, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2020, 2025
8	6	14	1900, 1901, 1923, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1966, 2000, 2001, 2003
0	14	14	1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1992, 2008, 2011, 2013
4	6	10	1906, 1918, 1922, 1931, 1961, 2006, 2009, 2021, 2022, 2023
8	1	9	1897, 1904, 1911, 1912, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 2002
3	5	8	1920, 1937, 1940, 1980, 1981, 2010, 2012, 2018
3	4	7	1934, 1935, 1942, 1996, 1998, 2014, 2017
2	5	7	1902, 1936, 1956, 1987, 1991, 2004, 2005
1	4	5	1954, 1957, 1978, 1979, 1985
2	2	4	1915, 1924, 1983, 1984
1	3	4	1941, 1974, 1982, 1990
—	3	3	1999, 2015, 2016
—	2	2	2019, 2024
—	1	1	1997
—	1	1	2007
1	—	1	1913
—	0	0	—
—	0	0	—
—	0	0	—
—	—	—	—

Notes

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