The Michael Tuck Medal was awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the AFL Pre-season Cup Final. The award was presented annually between 1992 and 2013; since 2014, the award has not been presented due to the preseason being structured without a final. It is named after Michael Tuck, who played 426 senior matches for between 1972 and 1991 and was the VFL/AFL games record holder until being surpassed by Brent Harvey in Round 19, 2016.
Recipients Year Player Team1992 Hawthorn1993 Essendon1994 Essendon1995 North Melbourne1996 St Kilda1997 Carlton1998 North Melbourne1999 Hawthorn2000 Essendon2001 Port Adelaide2002 Port Adelaide2003 Adelaide2004 St Kilda2005 Carlton2006 Adelaide2007 Carlton2008 St Kilda2009 Geelong2010 Western Bulldogs2011 Collingwood2012 Adelaide2013 Brisbane Lions
Italics - denotes winner from losing team of that Grand Final.
Trivia Adelaide's Simon Goodwin is the only player to win the medal despite playing in the losing side when they were defeated by Geelong in 2006. Nick Stevens is the only player to win two Michael Tuck medals. He won the award in 2002 with , and in 2007 with . Tuck committed an amusing faux pas in 2005, when he himself accidentally referred to the medal as the Norm Smith Medal while presenting it (the Norm Smith Medal is awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the premiership season grand final). He has alluded to this mistake prior to awarding the medal in future seasons by emphasising his name; in 2009 his words were "my name is Michael Tuck, and the winner of the Michael Tuck Medal is Joel Selwood."
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