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John Worsfold Medal

Australian rules football award

Summary

Australian rules football award

The John Worsfold Medal is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player(s) adjudged the best and fairest at the West Coast Eagles throughout the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL) season.

Sixteen individual players have won the West Coast best and fairest since the award was introduced for West Coast's inaugural 1987 season. The record of the most Club Champion Awards by an individual player is four which is held by Glen Jakovich and Ben Cousins. Both players also share the record for the most consecutive best and fairests, having both won three consecutive awards.

The Club Champion Award was renamed the John Worsfold Medal in 2013, after former premiership-winning captain and coach John Worsfold.

Voting procedure

Various procedures have been used by the match committee to determine the club champion:

1987: unknown
1988: unknown
1989–2001: The match committee collectively award three votes to the best player, two votes to the second-best player and one vote to the third-best player in each match.
2002–04: Each member of the match committee rates every player to a maximum of five votes for each match.
2005–13: Each member of the match committee rates every player on a 5–4–3–2–1 basis for each match.
2014–present: Each member of the match committee rates every player to a maximum of three votes for each match.

Recipients

A man with light brown hair in a black jacket walks across a grassed playing field — John Worsfold, the namesake of the award, won in 1988.

A man with light brown hair in a black jacket jogs across a grassed playing field — Guy McKenna won in 1989 and 1999.

A man with brown hair in a navy blue jacket sits with his hands on his lap — Chris Judd won the [[2004 Brownlow Medal]] in the same year he won the John Worsfold Medal.

A man with brown hair in a blue guernsey with yellow shoulders stands on a grassed playing field — Mark LeCras won in 2010.

+	Won Brownlow in that same year

Year	Winner(s)	Votes	Runner(s) up	Votes	Third place	Votes	Ref.
1987		229		170		166	url=http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/afl/teams/west-coast/west-coast-eagles-standouts-matt-priddis-and-eric-mackenzie-clear-favourites-for-john-worsfold-medal/news-story/070481fb4fc8e6455f9c896b164d4c5a	title=West Coast Eagles standouts Matt Priddis and Eric Mackenzie clear favourites for John Worsfold Medal	last=Robinson	first=Chris	date=2 October 2014	work=Perth Now	publisher=News Corp Australia	access-date=23 September 2016}}
1988		111		101		74
1989		36		30		26	url=http://www.aflca.com.au/index.php?id=17&coachID=1865367	title=Guy McKenna	work=AFL Coaches Association	publisher=Fox Sports Pulse	access-date=23 September 2016}}
1990		39		36	colspan=2 rowspan=2
1991		43		42		41
1992		46		38		37
1993		34		31	colspan=2 rowspan=2
1994	(2)	45		39		38
1995	(3)	36		33	colspan=2 rowspan=2
1996		36		35		34
1997		37		35		33
1998		39		37		30
1999	(2)	36		35	colspan=2 rowspan=3
2000	(4)	27		23		21
2001		30		17		16
2002	(2)	341		295		242
2003	(3)	303		269		257
2004	+	355		319		271	url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-06-09/the-chris-judd-file-everything-you-need-to-know-about-star-midfielders-afl-career	title=The Chris Judd file: everything you need to know about star midfielder's career	date=9 June 2015	work=AFL.com.au	publisher=Bigpond	access-date=23 September 2016}}
2005	+ (4)	477		416		411
2006	(2)	452		440		429
2007		405		369		367
2008		450		360		316
2009	(2)	340		329		328
2010		294		286		281
2011	(3)	398		398		397
2012		403		400		396
2013		373		363		363
2014		201	+	190		148
2015		210		206		183
2016		157		146		140
2017	^	197		191		180
2018	^ (2)	273		231		222
2019	(2)	258	^	239		234
2020		194	^	192		163
2021	(2)	200		160		149
2022		182		149	^	149	131
2023	^	200	^	163	^	158
2024		184	^	177	^	155
2025	^	338	^	286	^	267

Multiple winners

A man with brown hair holds a yellow football on a grassed playing field — Elliot Yeo is one of eight players to have won multiple times.

^	Denotes current player

Player	Medals	Seasons
	4	2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
	4	1993, 1994, 1995, 2000
	3	2007, 2009, 2011
	2	2004, 2006
	2	1989, 1999
	2	2020, 2021
	2	2016, 2019
^	2	2017, 2018

References

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References

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(4 October 2014). "Eric Mackenzie: 2014 John Worsfold Medallist". [[Bigpond]].
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"Chris Lewis". Australian Football.
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Quartermaine, Ben. (10 October 2015). "Andrew Gaff upsets Matt Priddis to win West Coast's best-and-fairest". [[News Corp Australia]].
Quartermane, Braden. (6 October 2016). "West Coast midfielder Luke Shuey caps his finest season by winning his first John Worsfold Medal". [[News Corp Australia]].
King, Travis. (7 October 2017). "Former Lion flies high as Eagles' best". [[Australian Football League]].
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(2022-08-26). "Barrass joins Eagles elite".
(2023-09-02). "Kelly joins Eagles elite".
(2024-09-19). "Gov's gong! Star defender adds missing piece".
(6 September 2025). "First-year Eagle beats out young duo to win best and fairest". [[AFL Media]].

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