Norm Smith Medal

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox sports award The Norm Smith Medal is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged the best on ground in the grand final of the Australian Football League (AFL). Prior to 1990, the competition was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1] It was first presented in the 1979 VFL Grand Final, and it was won by Wayne Harmes, playing in Carlton's premiership victory against Collingwood.[2] The award is named in honour of Norm Smith,[2] who won four VFL premierships as a player and six as coach for the Melbourne Football Club.[3]

Dustin Martin (2017, 2019 and 2020) is the only player to win the award three times.[4] The award is usually won by a player on the winning team in the grand final; only four players have received the award as members of the losing teams: Maurice Rioli in 1982, Gary Ablett Sr. in 1989, Nathan Buckley in 2002, and Chris Judd in 2005.[5] The club with the most Norm Smith Medal wins is Hawthorn, with eight awards won by players representing the club. The most recent recipient of the award is Brisbane's Will Ashcroft.

Voting and presentation

The winner is voted on by a five-member panel consisting of former players, journalists and media personalities, with one member designated as the chair.[6] Each panellist independently awards three votes, two votes and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second best and third best in the match, respectively. These are tallied and the highest number of combined votes wins the medal.[7]

There is no chance of a tie for the medal; if two players are tied for votes, the following countbacks will apply in order:

  • the player with the higher number of three-votes;
  • the player with the higher number of two-votes;
  • the player deemed best by the panel chair.[7]

Paul Chapman is the only player to win on a countback,[8] after he and Jason Gram tied with nine votes apiece in 2009.[9][10]

In some years judges were required to lodge their decisions prior to the completion of the match, to ensure votes were compiled in time for the ceremony.[11] This was changed following the 2002 AFL Grand Final, after Michael Voss had five crucial possessions in the last five minutes of the close game which could have swayed the voting, but eventually placed fourth behind Nathan Buckley.[11] After the match, three of the five judges suggested they would have voted differently if they had lodged their votes after the final siren.[11]

Prior to the 2016 season, if the grand final resulted in a draw, the game would be replayed the following week.[12] In such instances, a separate Norm Smith Medal was awarded in each game.[13] Since 2016, a drawn grand final would result in the use of extra time to determine the winner, rather than a full-match replay.[12]

The medal is presented in a post-match ceremony held immediately after the conclusion of the match. Since 2004, former Norm Smith medallists have presented the award, in the order of the year in which they won;[14] as of 2024, Gary Ablett Sr. is the only former winner to decline presenting the award;Template:Fact and Nathan Buckley's position in the sequence was skipped in 2019, as he was coaching Collingwood, who were yet to be eliminated when the decision on presenter had to be made.[15]

Recipients

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Nathan Buckley is one of just four players to have received the Norm Smith Medal as a member of the losing grand final team, winning the award in 2002.[5]
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Chris Judd is the most recent player to receive the medal as a member of the losing grand final team, winning in 2005.[5]
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Luke Hodge is one of just five players to have won multiple Norm Smith Medals, winning in 2008 and 2014.[4]
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Paul Chapman is the only player to win the Norm Smith Medal on a countback, winning in 2009.[9]
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Lenny Hayes is the only player to have won a Norm Smith medal in a drawn grand final, doing so in 2010.[13]
Table key
^ Player was member of losing team
Table of recipients
Year Recipient Club Ref
1979 Script error: No such module "Sort". Carlton [2]
1980 Script error: No such module "Sort". Richmond [16]
1981 Script error: No such module "Sort". Carlton [17]
1982 Script error: No such module "Sort".^ Richmond [18]
1983 Script error: No such module "Sort". Hawthorn [19]
1984 Script error: No such module "Sort". Essendon [20]
1985 Script error: No such module "Sort". Essendon [21]
1986 Script error: No such module "Sort". Hawthorn [22]
1987 Script error: No such module "Sort". Carlton [23]
1988 Script error: No such module "Sort". (2) Hawthorn [22]
1989 Script error: No such module "Sort".^ Geelong [24]
1990 Script error: No such module "Sort". Collingwood [25]
1991 Script error: No such module "Sort". Hawthorn [26]
1992 Script error: No such module "Sort". West Coast [27]
1993 Script error: No such module "Sort". Essendon [28]
1994 Script error: No such module "Sort". West Coast [29]
1995 Script error: No such module "Sort". Carlton [30]
1996 Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:AFL NM [31]
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". Adelaide [4]
1998 Script error: No such module "Sort". (2) Adelaide [4]
1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:AFL NM [32]
2000 Script error: No such module "Sort". Essendon [14]
2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". Brisbane Lions [33]
2002 Script error: No such module "Sort".^ Collingwood [34]
2003 Script error: No such module "Sort". Brisbane Lions [35]
2004 Script error: No such module "Sort". Template:AFL [36]
2005 Script error: No such module "Sort".^ West Coast [37]
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". West Coast [38]
2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". Geelong [39]
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". Hawthorn [40]
2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". Geelong [41]
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". St Kilda [42]
2010 (R) Script error: No such module "Sort". Collingwood [43]
2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". Geelong [44]
2012 Script error: No such module "Sort". Sydney [45]
2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". Hawthorn [46]
2014 Script error: No such module "Sort". (2) Hawthorn [47]
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". Hawthorn [48]
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". Western Bulldogs [49]
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". Richmond [50]
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". West Coast [51]
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". (2) Richmond [52]
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". (3) Richmond [53]
2021 Script error: No such module "Sort". Melbourne [54]
2022 Script error: No such module "Sort". Geelong [55]
2023 Script error: No such module "Sort". Collingwood [56]
2024 Script error: No such module "Sort". Brisbane Lions [57]
2025 Script error: No such module "Sort". (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Brisbane Lions [58]

Players with multiple wins

Table of multiple recipients
Player Team Medals Years
Dustin Martin Richmond 3 2017, 2019, 2020
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Adelaide 2 1997, 1998
Script error: No such module "Sort". Hawthorn 2 2008, 2014
Script error: No such module "Sort". Brisbane Lions 2 2024, 2025

Club totals

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Club Total Years
Hawthorn 8 Script error: No such module "sort".
Geelong 5 Script error: No such module "sort".
Richmond 5 Script error: No such module "sort"., 2019, 2020
West Coast 5 Script error: No such module "sort".
Carlton 4 Script error: No such module "sort".
Collingwood 4 Script error: No such module "sort".
Essendon 4 Script error: No such module "sort".
Brisbane Lions 4 Script error: No such module "sort".
Adelaide 2 Script error: No such module "sort".
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St Kilda 1 Script error: No such module "sort".
Sydney 1 Script error: No such module "sort".
Western Bulldogs 1 Script error: No such module "sort".
Melbourne 1 Script error: No such module "sort".
Fremantle 0 —
Template:AFL GWS 0 —
Template:AFL GC 0 —

See also

References

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Bibliography

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External links

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