List of Brownlow Medal winners

The Brownlow Medal is an individual award given to the player judged fairest and best in the Australian Football League 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, with the exception of 1942–1945 due to World War II. As of 2025, the Brownlow Medal has been awarded 112 times to 91 different players in 97 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, a countback system was used to determine the winner in the event of a tie. In 1930, Judkins was awarded the medal as he had played in the fewest games; and from 1931 to 1980, the winner was the player with the most three-vote games. In 1980, the countback system was removed, and in the event of a tie, players have been considered joint winners. In 1989, the countback was retroactively removed from all previous counts, and all players who had previously lost on countback were considered joint winners.
Notes:
As a mark of respect to soldiers fighting overseas in World War II, the medal was not awarded during 1942–1945.

Ineligible players who polled the most votes

A player guilty of an offence deemed worthy of a suspension by the AFL's disciplinary tribunal for serious on-field offences is ineligible to win the Brownlow Medal. Suspended players have tallied the highest number of votes for the award on three occasions. In the third of those cases, Jobe Watson, who won in 2012, was later found guilty of breaching WADA's anti-doping code in the 2012 season, and was retrospectively ruled ineligible by the AFL Commission in November 2016.

Player	Team	Year	Votes	Outcome
		1996	21	Suspended; would have been joint winner with Hird and Voss.
		1997	27	Suspended; would have won outright, beating Harvey by one vote.
		2012	30	Awarded the medal in 2012, beating Mitchell and Cotchin by four votes. In 2016 he was retrospectively ruled ineligible because of his involvement in the Essendon supplements saga.

Multiple winners

The following players have won the Brownlow Medal multiple times.

Medals	Player	Team	Seasons
3	Haydn Bunton Sr.	Fitzroy	1931, 1932, 1935
3	Dick Reynolds	Essendon	1934, 1937, 1938
3	Bob Skilton	South Melbourne	1959, 1963, 1968
3	Ian Stewart	St Kilda / Richmond	1965, 1966, 1971
2	Ivor Warne-Smith	Melbourne	1926, 1928
2	Bill Hutchison	Essendon	1952, 1953
2	Roy Wright	Richmond	1952, 1954
2	Keith Greig	North Melbourne	1973, 1974
2	Peter Moore	Collingwood / Melbourne	1979, 1984
2	Greg Williams	Sydney / Carlton	1986, 1994
2	Robert Harvey	St Kilda	1997, 1998
2	Adam Goodes	Sydney	2003, 2006
2	Chris Judd	West Coast / Carlton	2004, 2010
2	Gary Ablett Jr.	Geelong / Gold Coast	2009, 2013
2	Nat Fyfe	Fremantle	2015, 2019
2	Lachie Neale	Brisbane Lions	2020, 2023
2	Patrick Cripps	Carlton	2022, 2024