John Worsfold Medal

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

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John Worsfold, the namesake of the award, won in 1988.
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Guy McKenna won in 1989 and 1999.
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Chris Judd won the 2004 Brownlow Medal in the same year he won the John Worsfold Medal.
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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
1988 John Worsfold 111 Guy McKenna 101 Chris Mainwaring 74
1989 Guy McKenna 36 Chris Mainwaring 30 Chris Lewis 26
1990 Chris Lewis 39 Michael Brennan 36
Dwayne Lamb
1991 Craig Turley 43 Guy McKenna 42 Peter Matera 41
1992 Dean Kemp 46 Chris Mainwaring 38 Glen Jakovich 37
1993 Glen Jakovich 34 Peter Matera 31
Don Pyke Peter Wilson
1994 Glen Jakovich (2) 45 Don Pyke 39 Guy McKenna 38
1995 Glen Jakovich (3) 36 Dean Kemp 33
Mitchell White
1996 Drew Banfield 36 Chris Mainwaring 35 Guy McKenna 34
1997 Peter Matera 37 Dean Kemp 35 Chad Morrison 33
Paul Symmons
1998 Ashley McIntosh 39 Ben Cousins 37 Fraser Gehrig 30
Chris Waterman
1999 Guy McKenna (2) 36 Drew Banfield 35
Michael Braun
Ben Cousins
2000 Glen Jakovich (4) 27 Dean Kemp 23 Chad Morrison 21
2001 Ben Cousins 30 Michael Collica 17 Chad Fletcher 16
Rowan Jones
2002 Ben Cousins (2) 341 Daniel Kerr 295 Chris Judd 242
2003 Ben Cousins (3) 303 Chris Judd 269 Chad Fletcher 257
2004 Chris Judd+ 355 Chad Fletcher 319 Dean Cox 271
2005 Ben Cousins+ (4) 477 Chris Judd 416 Dean Cox 411
2006 Chris Judd (2) 452 Darren Glass 440 Ben Cousins 429
2007 Darren Glass 405 Adam Hunter 369 Adam Selwood 367
2008 Dean Cox 450 Quinten Lynch 360 Adam Selwood 316
2009 Darren Glass (2) 340 Shannon Hurn 329 Mark LeCras 328
2010 Mark LeCras 294 Matt Priddis 286 Beau Waters 281
2011 Darren Glass (3) 398 Matt Priddis 398 Dean Cox 397
2012 Scott Selwood 403 Dean Cox 400 Shannon Hurn 396
2013 Matt Priddis 373 Eric Mackenzie 363 Josh Kennedy 363
2014 Eric Mackenzie 201 Matt Priddis+ 190 Luke Shuey 148
2015 Andrew Gaff^ 210 Matt Priddis 206 Josh Kennedy 183
2016 Luke Shuey 157 Josh Kennedy 146 Andrew Gaff^ 140
2017 Elliot Yeo^ 197 Jeremy McGovern^ 191 Luke Shuey 180
2018 Elliot Yeo^ (2) 273 Jack Redden 231 Shannon Hurn 222
2019 Luke Shuey (2) 258 Elliot Yeo^ 239 Brad Sheppard 234
2020 Nic Naitanui 194 Andrew Gaff^ 192 Brad Sheppard 163
2021 Nic Naitanui (2) 200 Dom Sheed^ 160 Andrew Gaff^ 149
2022 Tom Barrass^ 182 Shannon Hurn 149 Tim Kelly^ 131
2023 Tim Kelly^ 200 Oscar Allen^ 163 Liam Duggan^ 158

Multiple winners

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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