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, 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.
Recipients
^Denotes current player+Won Brownlow in that same year
Year Winner(s) Votes Runner(s) up Votes Third place Votes Ref. 1987 229 170 166 1988 111 101 74 1989 36 30 26 1990 39 36 colspan=2 rowspan=2 1991 43 42 41 1992 46 38 37 1993 34 31 colspan=2 rowspan=2 1994 (2) 45 39 38 1995 (3) 36 33 colspan=2 rowspan=2 1996 36 35 34 1997 37 35 33 1998 39 37 30 1999 (2) 36 35 colspan=2 rowspan=3 2000 (4) 27 23 21 2001 30 17 16 2002 (2) 341 295 242 2003 (3) 303 269 257 2004 + 355 319 271 2005 + (4) 477 416 411 2006 (2) 452 440 429 2007 405 369 367 2008 450 360 316 2009 (2) 340 329 328 2010 294 286 281 2011 (3) 398 398 397 2012 403 400 396 2013 373 363 363 2014 201 + 190 148 2015 210 206 183 2016 157 146 140 2017 ^ 197 191 180 2018 ^ (2) 273 231 222 2019 (2) 258 ^ 239 234 2020 194 ^ 192 163 2021 (2) 200 160 149 2022 182 149 ^ 131 2023 ^ 200 163 ^ 158 2024 184 ^ 177 ^ 155 2025 ^ 338 ^ 286 ^ 267 2026 ^ 260 ^ 209 ^ 193
Multiple winners
^Denotes current player
Player Medals Seasons 4 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 4 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000 3 2007, 2009, 2011 2 2004, 2006 2 1989, 1999 2 2020, 2021 2 2016, 2019 ^ 2 2017, 2018
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