John Worsfold Medal

For the equivalent AFL Women's award, see West Coast Club Champion (AFL Women's).

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,^[1] 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.^[2]

Recipients

 

John Worsfold, the namesake of the award, won in 1988.

 

Guy McKenna won in 1989 and 1999.

 

Chris Judd won the 2004 Brownlow Medal in the same year he won the John Worsfold Medal.

 

Mark LeCras won in 2010.

^	Denotes current player
+	Won Brownlow in that same year

Year	Winner(s)	Votes	Runner(s) up	Votes	Third place	Votes	Ref.
1987	Steve Malaxos	229	Ross Glendinning	170	Chris Mainwaring	166	^[3]
1988	John Worsfold	111	Guy McKenna	101	Chris Mainwaring	74	^[4]
1989	Guy McKenna	36	Chris Mainwaring	30	Chris Lewis	26	^[5]
1990	Chris Lewis	39	Michael Brennan	36	—		^[6]
			Dwayne Lamb
1991	Craig Turley	43	Guy McKenna	42	Peter Matera	41	^[3]
1992	Dean Kemp	46	Chris Mainwaring	38	Glen Jakovich	37	^[7]
1993	Glen Jakovich	34	Peter Matera	31	—		^[8]^[9]
	Don Pyke		Peter Wilson
1994	Glen Jakovich (2)	45	Don Pyke	39	Guy McKenna	38	^[8]
1995	Glen Jakovich (3)	36	Dean Kemp	33	—		^[8]
			Mitchell White
1996	Drew Banfield	36	Chris Mainwaring	35	Guy McKenna	34	^[10]
1997	Peter Matera	37	Dean Kemp	35	Chad Morrison	33	^[11]
					Paul Symmons
1998	Ashley McIntosh	39	Ben Cousins	37	Fraser Gehrig	30	^[12]
					Chris Waterman
1999	Guy McKenna (2)	36	Drew Banfield	35	—		^[5]
			Michael Braun
			Ben Cousins
2000	Glen Jakovich (4)	27	Dean Kemp	23	Chad Morrison	21	^[8]
2001	Ben Cousins	30	Michael Collica	17	Chad Fletcher	16	^[13]
					Rowan Jones
2002	Ben Cousins (2)	341	Daniel Kerr	295	Chris Judd	242	^[14]
2003	Ben Cousins (3)	303	Chris Judd	269	Chad Fletcher	257	^[13]
2004	Chris Judd+	355	Chad Fletcher	319	Dean Cox	271	^[15]
2005	Ben Cousins+ (4)	477	Chris Judd	416	Dean Cox	411	^[16]
2006	Chris Judd (2)	452	Darren Glass	440	Ben Cousins	429	^[15]
2007	Darren Glass	405	Adam Hunter	369	Adam Selwood	367	^[17]
2008	Dean Cox	450	Quinten Lynch	360	Adam Selwood	316	^[18]
2009	Darren Glass (2)	340	Shannon Hurn^	329	Mark LeCras	328	^[19]
2010	Mark LeCras	294	Matt Priddis	286	Beau Waters	281	^[20]
2011	Darren Glass (3)	398	Matt Priddis	398	Dean Cox	397	^[21]
2012	Scott Selwood	403	Dean Cox	400	Shannon Hurn^	396	^[22]
2013	Matt Priddis	373	Eric Mackenzie	363	Josh Kennedy	363	^[23]
2014	Eric Mackenzie	201	Matt Priddis+	190	Luke Shuey^	148	^[24]
2015	Andrew Gaff^	210	Matt Priddis	206	Josh Kennedy	183	^[25]
2016	Luke Shuey^	157	Josh Kennedy	146	Andrew Gaff^	140	^[26]
2017	Elliot Yeo^	197	Jeremy McGovern^	191	Luke Shuey^	180	^[27]
2018	Elliot Yeo^ (2)	273	Jack Redden^	231	Shannon Hurn^	222	^[28]
2019	Luke Shuey^ (2)	258	Elliot Yeo^	239	Brad Sheppard	234	^[29]
2020	Nic Naitanui^	194	Andrew Gaff^	192	Brad Sheppard	163	^[30]
2021	Nic Naitanui^ (2)	200	Dom Sheed^	160	Andrew Gaff^	149	^[31]
2022	Tom Barrass^	182	Shannon Hurn^	149	Tim Kelly^	131

Multiple winners

 

Elliot Yeo is one of eight players to have won multiple times.

^	Denotes current player

Player	Medals	Seasons
Ben Cousins	4	2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
Glen Jakovich	4	1993, 1994, 1995, 2000
Darren Glass	3	2007, 2009, 2011
Chris Judd	2	2004, 2006
Guy McKenna	2	1989, 1999
Luke Shuey^	2	2016, 2019
Elliot Yeo^	2	2017, 2018
Nic Naitanui^	2	2020, 2021

References

General

• "Honour Roll". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
• "West Coast Eagles Club Champion Award". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 24 September 2011.

Specific

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3. Robinson, Chris (2 October 2014). "West Coast Eagles standouts Matt Priddis and Eric Mackenzie clear favourites for John Worsfold Medal". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
4. White, Simon (10 June 2011). "Not happy, John: Worsfold again denied Hall of Fame honour". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
5. "Guy McKenna". AFL Coaches Association. Fox Sports Pulse. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
6. "Chris Lewis". Australian Football. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
7. Sapienza, Joseph (5 August 2011). "Our West Coast Hall of Fame inductees". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
8. "Hall of Fame an honour for Jakovich". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. 8 May 2008. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
9. Rucci, Michelangelo (19 March 2016). "Don Pyke's vision for his first job as an AFL senior coach is to be very much in the background". The Advertiser. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
10. Lavell, Steven (24 June 2016). "Fitting swan song for old favourite". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
11. Washbourne, Michael (1 July 2008). "The 10 greatest players in West Coast Eagles history". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
12. "Ashely McIntosh". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. 9 August 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
13. "Ben Cousins, controversial West Coast and Richmond star, retires from AFL". Fox Sports (Australia). News Corp Australia. 17 August 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
14. "How the best was won". The Age. Fairfax Media. 7 October 2002. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
15. "The Chris Judd file: everything you need to know about star midfielder's career". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
16. "Cousins awarded Eagles' best and fairest". ABC Online. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 October 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
17. Cowley, Michael (15 May 2009). "How Sydney dealt Glass to the West Coast". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
18. Schmook, Nathan (4 October 2008). "Cox wins Eagles best and fairest". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
19. Clarke, Tim (12 September 2009). "Eagles champion: Glass more than half full". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
20. Chadwick, Justin (11 September 2010). "West Coast sharpshooter Mark LeCras wins West Coast's best and fairest". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
21. Leitch, Chris (9 October 2011). "Glass edges out Priddis to win Eagles B&F". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
22. Schmook, Nathan (5 October 2012). "Young Selwood is best Eagle". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
23. Malcolm, Alex (30 November 2013). "Priddis wins first West Coast best and fairest". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
24. Hagdorn, Kim (4 October 2014). "West Coast Eagles defender Eric Mackenzie awarded John Worsfold Medal for best player". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
25. Quartermaine, Ben (10 October 2015). "Andrew Gaff upsets Matt Priddis to win West Coast's best-and-fairest". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
26. Quartermane, Braden (6 October 2016). "West Coast midfielder Luke Shuey caps his finest season by winning his first John Worsfold Medal". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
27. King, Travis (7 October 2017). "Former Lion flies high as Eagles' best". Australian Football League. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
28. King, Travis (6 October 2018). "Eagle joins greats with back-to-back B&Fs". afl.com.au. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
29. Stocks, Gary (4 October 2018). "Second gong for Shuey". westcoasteagles.com.au. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
30. Stocks, Gary (20 October 2020). "SNaitanui claims maiden John Worsfold Medal". westcoasteagles.com.au. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
31. Stocks, Gary (16 September 2021). "SNaitanui goes back-to-back". westcoasteagles.com.au. Retrieved 16 September 2021.

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