Doig Medal

The Doig Medal is the best and fairest award given out to the player considered best and fairest during a season for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL.

It was renamed in 2000^[1] after the legendary Fremantle footballing family, the Doigs, who have had over 17 members play league football for East Fremantle or South Fremantle in the WAFL. The most famous is George Doig who has been inducted in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.^[2]

Eight different players won the award between 1995 and 2002 until Peter Bell won his second medal in 2003.^[3] Following Bell's third medal in 2004, Matthew Pavlich won four consecutive medals to hold the record of six medals in total.^[4] Nat Fyfe became the third player to win multiple Doig medals when he won consecutive medals in 2013 and 2014.^[5]

Recipients

^	Denotes current player
+	Player won Brownlow Medal in same season

Season	Winner	Runner up	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Ref.
1995	Mann, PeterPeter Mann	Kickett, DaleDale Kickett	Allan, BenBen Allan	Chisholm, ScottScott Chisholm	O'Reilly, StephenStephen O'Reilly	[6]
1996	O'Reilly, StephenStephen O'Reilly	Kickett, DaleDale Kickett	Chisholm, ScottScott Chisholm	Mann, PeterPeter Mann	Callaghan, CraigCraig Callaghan	[7]
1997	Kickett, DaleDale Kickett	Parker, ShaneShane Parker	Callaghan, CraigCraig Callaghan	Wills, AndrewAndrew Wills	Harding, GregGreg Harding	[1]
1998	Norrish, JasonJason Norrish	Fletcher, AdrianAdrian Fletcher	Callaghan, CraigCraig Callaghan	Bond, ChrisChris Bond	Parker, ShaneShane Parker	[1]
1999	Fletcher, AdrianAdrian Fletcher	Modra, TonyTony Modra	Bandy, DanielDaniel Bandy	Kickett, DaleDale Kickett	Waterhouse, CliveClive Waterhouse	[1]
2000	Cook, TroyTroy Cook	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	Waterhouse, CliveClive Waterhouse	Bandy, DanielDaniel Bandy	Fletcher, AdrianAdrian Fletcher	[8]
2001	Bell, PeterPeter Bell	Black, HeathHeath Black	Carr, MatthewMatthew Carr	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Cook, TroyTroy Cook	[9]
2002	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Bell, PeterPeter Bell	Parker, ShaneShane Parker	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	Simmonds, TroyTroy Simmonds	[10]
2003	Bell, PeterPeter Bell (2)	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	Haddrill, RobbieRobbie Haddrill	McManus, ShaunShaun McManus	[9]
2004	Bell, PeterPeter Bell (3)	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Longmuir, JustinJustin Longmuir	McPharlin, LukeLuke McPharlin	[11]
2005	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich (2)	Bell, PeterPeter Bell	N/A	Black, HeathHeath Black	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	[10]
		Parker, ShaneShane Parker
2006	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich (3)	Bell, PeterPeter Bell	N/A	Parker, ShaneShane Parker	Carr, JoshJosh Carr	[10]
		Johnson, MichaelMichael Johnson
2007	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich (4)	Grover, AntoniAntoni Grover	McPharlin, LukeLuke McPharlin	Bell, PeterPeter Bell	N/A	[10]
				Carr, JoshJosh Carr
				Hayden, RogerRoger Hayden
				Solomon, DeanDean Solomon
2008	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich (5)	Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands^	McPharlin, LukeLuke McPharlin	Palmer, RhysRhys Palmer	Johnson, MichaelMichael Johnson^	[12]
2009	Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands^	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Tarrant, ChrisChris Tarrant	Duffield, PaulPaul Duffield	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	[13]
	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy^
2010	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy^	Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands^	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Hill, StephenStephen Hill^	Broughton, GregGreg Broughton	[14]
2011	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich (6)	Fyfe, NatNat Fyfe^	Broughton, GregGreg Broughton	McPharlin, LukeLuke McPharlin	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy^	[15]
2012	Crowley, RyanRyan Crowley	Mayne, ChrisChris Mayne^	Johnson, MichaelMichael Johnson^	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	McPharlin, LukeLuke McPharlin	[16]
2013	Fyfe, NatNat Fyfe^	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy^	Johnson, MichaelMichael Johnson^	Crowley, RyanRyan Crowley	Spurr, LeeLee Spurr^	[17]
2014	Fyfe, NatNat Fyfe^ (2)	Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands^	Hill, StephenStephen Hill^	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy^	Ballantyne, HaydenHayden Ballantyne^	[18]
2015	Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands^ (2)	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy^	Hill, StephenStephen Hill^	Fyfe, NatNat Fyfe+^	Walters, MichaelMichael Walters^	[19]
2016	Neale, LachieLachie Neale^	Hill, StephenStephen Hill^	Walters, MichaelMichael Walters^	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Spurr, LeeLee Spurr^	[20]

Multiple winners

^	Denotes current player

Player	Medals	Seasons
Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	6	2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011
Bell, PeterPeter Bell	3	2001, 2003, 2004
Fyfe, NatNat Fyfe^	2	2013, 2014
Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands^	2	2009, 2015

References

General

• "Honour Roll". FremantleFC.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
• Everett, Les (2014). Fremantle Dockers: An Illustrated History. Slattery Media Group. pp. 238–256. ISBN 978-0-9875263-4-2.

Specific

1. Washbourne, Michael (2 October 2008). "The 10 greatest players in Fremantle Dockers history". The Sunday Times. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
2. Carpenter, Alan (29 November 2006). George Doig - Condolence Statement (PDF) (Speech). Assembly. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
3. Ahmed, Nabila; Ryan, Melissa (4 October 2003). "Buckley is Magpies best, again". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
4. Hagdorn, Kim (4 October 2008). "Fremantle skipper Matthew Pavlich wins fifth Doig Medal". The Sunday Times. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
5. Miller, Dale (16 November 2014). "Fyfe named Freo best and fairest". The West Australian. Seven West Media. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
6. "Peter Mann re-elected unopposed". FremantleFC.com.au. Bigpond. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
7. Duffield, Mark (24 October 2012). "Mann bids for seat on Freo board". The West Australian. Seven West Media. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
8. O’Donoghue, Craig (1 June 2010). "Cook calls it quits". The West Australian. Seven West Media. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
9. Green, Warwick (5 June 2015). "AFL Hall of Fame 2015: Peter Bell driven by determination to succeed". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
10. Australian Associated Press (9 October 2011). "Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich wins AFL club's best player in 2011, collecting sixth Doig Medal". Fox Sports (Australia). News Corp Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
11. "Champions medals for Judd, Bell". ABC Online. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2 October 2004. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
12. "Pavlich makes it five Doig Medals". ABC Online. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 5 October 2008. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
13. Chadwick, Justin (10 October 2009). "Fremantle ruckman Aaron Sandilands wins the Doig Medal after stellar season". The Courier-Mail. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
14. Mic, Cullen (3 October 2010). "Mundy wins Doig Medal". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
15. Quartermaine, Braden (9 October 2011). "Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich wins sixth Doig Medal". The Sunday Times. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
16. O’Donoghue, Craig (7 October 2012). "Crowley hails coach Lyon after winning Doig Medal". The West Australian. Seven West Media. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
17. Brad, Elborough (17 November 2013). "Nat Fyfe wins Fremantle Dockers Doig Medal". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
18. Hagdorn, Kim (16 November 2014). "Nat Fyfe wins Fremantle's 2014 Best and Fairest award". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
19. Quartmaine, Braden (10 October 2015). "Ruckman Aaron Sandilands wins Fremantle Dockers club champion award Doig Medal". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
20. Tom, Wildie (8 October 2016). "Neale claims first Doig Medal". FremantleFC.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 9 October 2016.