| Year |
|
Club |
Player |
Games |
Goals |
Votes |
Honours |
| 1981 |
|
Fitzroy |
Dean Turner |
110 (54) |
47 |
6 |
|
| 1982 |
|
North Melbourne |
Richard Cousins |
60 (0) |
21 |
8 |
|
| 1986 |
|
Essendon |
Andrew Payze |
14 (0) |
2 |
0 |
|
| 1987 |
|
North Melbourne |
Michael Murphy |
29 (3) |
63 |
0 |
|
| 1988 |
|
Essendon |
Michael Werner |
60 (40) |
80 |
0 |
|
| 1989 |
|
Fitzroy |
Dale Kickett |
181 (15) |
64 |
15 |
B&F: 1997 |
| 1990 |
|
West Coast |
Matt Clape |
87 (29) |
62 |
12 |
Prem: 1995 |
| 1991 |
|
Geelong |
Stephen O'Reilly |
146 (36) |
21 |
7 |
B&F: 1996 |
| 1992 |
|
Melbourne |
Martin Pike |
247 (24) |
126 |
36 |
B&F: 1996; Prem: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 |
| 1993 |
|
Fitzroy |
Rowan Warfe |
110 (26) |
5 |
2 |
|
| 1994 |
|
Collingwood |
Ben Wilson |
6 (2) |
0 |
0 |
|
| 1995 |
|
Western Bulldogs |
Allen Jakovich |
7 |
7 |
0 |
|
| 1996 |
|
Port Adelaide |
Mark Harwood |
30 |
19 |
0 |
|
| 1997 |
|
Port Adelaide |
Chad Cornes |
255 (239) |
179 |
50 |
AA: 2004, 2007; Prem: 2004 |
| 1998 |
|
Essendon |
Mark McVeigh |
232 |
107 |
23 |
|
| 1999 |
|
St Kilda |
Caydn Beetham |
37 |
9 |
2 |
|
| 2000 |
|
Richmond |
Kayne Pettifer |
113 |
132 |
7 |
|
| 2001 |
|
Melbourne |
Luke Molan |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2002 |
|
North Melbourne |
Hamish McIntosh |
126 (107) |
66 |
10 |
AA40: 2007, 2009 |
| 2003 |
|
North Melbourne |
David Trotter |
7 |
2 |
0 |
|
| 2004 |
|
Carlton |
Jordan Russell |
125 (116) |
18 |
1 |
|
| 2005 |
|
Brisbane |
Mitch Clark |
106 (82) |
111 |
12 |
AA40: 2009 |
| 2006 |
|
St Kilda |
David Armitage |
169 |
98 |
40 |
|
| 2007 |
|
St Kilda |
Ben McEvoy |
252 (91) |
106 |
19 |
Prem: 2014, 2015 |
| 2008 |
|
North Melbourne |
Jack Ziebell |
280 |
183 |
58 |
|
| 2009 |
|
Port Adelaide |
Andrew Moore |
60 (55) |
19 |
0 |
|
| 2010 |
|
Gold Coast |
Dion Prestia |
214 (95) |
70 |
69 |
B&F: 2019; AA40: 2019; Prem: 2017, 2019, 2020 |
| 2011 |
|
GWS |
Adam Tomlinson |
178 (140) |
35 |
0 |
|
| 2012 |
|
Richmond |
Nick Vlastuin |
217 |
29 |
8 |
AA40: 2020; Prem: 2017, 2019, 2020 |
| 2013 |
Comp |
Melbourne |
Christian Salem |
165 |
26 |
7 |
AA40: 2021; Prem: 2021 |
| 2014 |
FS |
Collingwood |
Darcy Moore |
156 |
67 |
12 |
AA: 2020, 2023; Prem: 2023 |
| 2015 |
|
Melbourne |
Sam Weideman |
75 (59) |
77 |
0 |
|
| 2016 |
|
Gold Coast |
Will Brodie |
54 (25) |
10 |
11 |
|
| 2017 |
|
Western Bulldogs |
Aaron Naughton |
129 |
203 |
18 |
|
| 2018 |
|
Adelaide |
Chayce Jones |
82 |
18 |
0 |
|
| 2019 |
|
Fremantle |
Liam Henry |
45 (43) |
15 |
3 |
|
| 2020 |
|
Essendon |
Archie Perkins |
66 |
46 |
2 |
|
| 2021 |
|
Richmond |
Josh Gibcus |
20 |
3 |
0 |
|
| 2022 |
|
West Coast |
Reuben Ginbey |
23 |
1 |
0 |
|
| 2023 |
|
Gold Coast |
Ethan Read |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|