Jack Dyer Medal


The Jack Dyer Medal is an Australian rules football award given each season to the player or players adjudged best and fairest for the Richmond Football Club.
The award is now named in honour of Jack Dyer, a champion ruckman who won the award five times from 1937 to 1946. He was one of the inaugural "Legends" inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
Other multiple winners have been Kevin Bartlett ; Wayne Campbell and dual Brownlow Medallist Roy Wright ; Ron Branton, Neville Crowe, Geoff Raines, Brownlow Medallist Bill Morris, and Trent Cotchin. Basil McCormack, Jack Titus, Leo Merrett, Des Rowe, Dave Cuzens, Royce Hart, Maurice Rioli, Dale Weightman, Matthew Knights, Tony Free, Joel Bowden, Brett Deledio, Dustin Martin, and most recently Jack Riewoldt have all won the award twice.
Bill Morris, Roy Wright, Ian Stewart, Trent Cotchin and Dustin Martin all won the best and fairest in the same years that they won their Brownlow Medals at Richmond, while Stan Judkins, Brownlow Medallist in 1930, never won the club's award.
The voting system as of the 2023 AFL season, consists of all the team’s players on match day receiving a rating from 0-5 based on their overall performance.
The match committee assesses each player’s offensive, defensive and contest impacts on the game.
After those game phases have been analysed, the 0-5 rating is given as a joint match committee decision.
Votes are not allocated for what the match committee deems a below-average performance.

Recipients

SeasonRecipientRef.
1908 to 1926
1927
1928
1929
1930 to 1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948+
1949
1950
1951
1951
1952+
1953
1954+
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971+
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012+
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017+
2018
2019^
2020^
2021
2022^
2023^
2024Daniel Rioli
2025^

Multiple winners

PlayerMedalsSeasons
51937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946
51967, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1977
41995, 1997, 1999, 2002
41951, 1952, 1954, 1957
31960, 1961, 1962
32011, 2012, 2014
31963, 1964, 1966
31945, 1948, 1950
31978, 1980, 1981
22004, 2005
21958, 1959
22008, 2009
22016, 2017
21989, 1993
21969, 1972
21990, 1992
21927, 1928
21942, 1944
22010, 2018
21982, 1983
21951, 1955
^22023, 2025
21929, 1941
21986, 1987

Removed winners

Following a nineteen-year investigation undertaken by members of the Richmond Historical Committee, it was announced in November 2019 that their research into the history of the award had discovered that 18 of the 22 awards between 1911 and 1936 were not actually presented at the time but were instead erroneously added retrospectively in 1988 and 1991.
This caused a degree of controversy, as this resulted in Jack Dyer's record tally of six medals being reduced to five, equal with Kevin Bartlett. In addition, Ray Martin also had his back-to-back medals reduced to one, and a further twelve players—including those from the club's earliest years in the VFL/AFL, members of the club's 1920–1921 premiership teams, and teammates of Dyer—had all of their awards removed from the records.
SeasonRecipient
1911
1913
1914
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1932
1933
1934
1936