List of Essendon Football Club leading goalkickers

The following list details all of the major goalkicking records relating specifically to Essendon Football Club, including season highs, career highs, and game highs for both the Australian Football League and AFL Women's, as well as the club's pre-VFL/AFL records. The AFL's annual leading goalkicker award, the Coleman Medal, is named after Essendon's John Coleman. At the 2009 Essendon Best & Fairest awards night, outgoing CEO Peter Jackson announced that the Essendon leading goalkicker medal would be named the Matthew Lloyd Medal in honour of the recently retired Matthew Lloyd. This is sometimes referred to as the Matthew Lloyd Leading Goalkicker Award.

Leading goalkickers by season

The following is a list of Essendon leading goalkickers in each season.

VFL/AFL era

Season	Player	Goals
1897		23†
1898		20†
1899		15
1900	✪	25†
1901	✪	34†
1902		32†
1903		15
1904		25†
1905		29†
1906		31†
1907		16
1908		26†
1909		40†
1910		30†
1911		35†
1912		43†
1913		29
1914		28
1915		14
1916	Did not compete due to WWI	—
1917	Did not compete due to WWI	—
1918		15
1919		15
1920		33
1921		17
1922		36†
1923	✪	68†
1924		50†
1925		37†
1926		36†
1927		35
1928		39
1929		40
1929		40
1930		54
1931		50
1932		52
1933		51
1934		61
1935		52
1936		50
1937		44
1938		68
1939		71
1940		48†
1941		65†
1942		61†
1943		31†
1944		42†
1945		48
1946		66†
1947		50†
1948		52†
1949	✪	100†
1950	✪	120†
1951	✪	75†
1952	✪	103
1953	✪	97†
1954		42
1955		51†
1956		33
1957		34†
1958		31
1959	✪	78†
1960	✪	67†
1961		33
1962		39†
1963		36
1964		32†
1965		54†
1966	✪	76†
1967		40
1968		51†
1969		43
1970		33
1971		31
1972		107†
1973		63†
1974		77
1975		48
1976		39
1977		38
1978		47
1979		57†
1980		45
1981		42†
1982		49†
1983		64†
1984		63†
1985		48†
1986		47†
1987		43
1988		37
1989		39†
1990		43†
1991		42†
1992		59
1993		65†
1994		32
1995		47†
1996		39†
1997		63
1998		70†
1999		87†
2000	✪	109†
2001	✪	105†
2002		47†
2003	✪	93†
2004		96†
2005		59
2006		67
2007		62
2008		62
2009		35†
2010		24
2011		34†
2012		32
2013		30
2014		28†
2015		34
2016		43
2017		65†
2018	'	30
2019		33†
2020		19
2021		41†
2022	'	53
2023		51
2024		43
2025		28

Leading career goalkickers for Essendon

	Player	Games	Goals	Average	Seasons
1		270	926	3.43	1995–2009
2		378	575	1.52	1974–1992
3		98	537	5.48	1949–1954
4		224	520	2.32	1983–2002
5		290	496	1.71	1942–1957
6		270	471	1.74	1996–2009
7		294	447	1.52	1978–1992
8		320	442	1.38	1933–1951
9		182	420	2.31	1966–1976
10		152	415	2.73	1928–1937
11		124	372	3	1929–1937
12		109	361	3.31	1937–1944
13		253	343	1.36	1992–2007
14		307	335	1.09	1977–1994
15		238	332	1.39	1988–2000
16		193	303	1.57	1957–1967
17		224	301	1.34	1953–1967
18		201	278	1.38	1977–1990
19		131	256	1.95	1940–1949
20		207	242	1.17	1992–2004