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 player 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.^[1]

Recipients

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

Year	Winner(s)	Votes	Runner(s) up	Votes	Third place	Votes	Ref.
1987	Malaxos, SteveSteve Malaxos	229	Glendinning, RossRoss Glendinning	170	Mainwaring, ChrisChris Mainwaring	166	[2]
1988	Worsfold, JohnJohn Worsfold	111	McKenna, GuyGuy McKenna	101	Mainwaring, ChrisChris Mainwaring	74	[3]
1989	McKenna, GuyGuy McKenna	36	Mainwaring, ChrisChris Mainwaring	30	Lewis, ChrisChris Lewis	26	[4]
1990	Lewis, ChrisChris Lewis	39	Brennan, MichaelMichael Brennan	36	N/A		[5]
			Lamb, DwayneDwayne Lamb
1991	Turley, CraigCraig Turley	43	McKenna, GuyGuy McKenna	42	Matera, PeterPeter Matera	41	[2]
1992	Kemp, DeanDean Kemp	46	Mainwaring, ChrisChris Mainwaring	38	Jakovich, GlenGlen Jakovich	37	[6]
1993	Jakovich, GlenGlen Jakovich	34	Matera, PeterPeter Matera	31	N/A		[7][8]
	Pyke, DonDon Pyke		Wilson, PeterPeter Wilson
1994	Jakovich, GlenGlen Jakovich (2)	45	Pyke, DonDon Pyke	39	McKenna, GuyGuy McKenna	38	[7]
1995	Jakovich, GlenGlen Jakovich (3)	36	Kemp, DeanDean Kemp	36	N/A		[7]
			White, MitchellMitchell White
1996	Banfield, DrewDrew Banfield	36	Mainwaring, ChrisChris Mainwaring	35	McKenna, GuyGuy McKenna	34	[9]
1997	Matera, PeterPeter Matera	37	Kemp, DeanDean Kemp	35	Morrison, ChadChad Morrison	33	[10]
					Symmons, PaulPaul Symmons
1998	McIntosh, AshleyAshley McIntosh	39	Cousins, BenBen Cousins	37	Gehrig, FraserFraser Gehrig	30	[11]
					Waterman, ChrisChris Waterman
1999	McKenna, GuyGuy McKenna (2)	36	Banfield, DrewDrew Banfield	35	N/A		[4]
			Braun, MichaelMichael Braun
			Cousins, BenBen Cousins
2000	Jakovich, GlenGlen Jakovich (4)	27	Kemp, DeanDean Kemp	23	Morrison, ChadChad Morrison	21	[7]
2001	Cousins, BenBen Cousins	30	Collica, MichaelMichael Collica	17	Fletcher, ChadChad Fletcher	16	[12]
					Jones, RowanRowan Jones
2002	Cousins, BenBen Cousins (2)	341	Kerr, DanielDaniel Kerr	295	Judd, ChrisChris Judd	242	[13]
2003	Cousins, BenBen Cousins (3)	303	Judd, ChrisChris Judd	269	Fletcher, ChadChad Fletcher	257	[12]
2004	Judd, ChrisChris Judd+	355	Fletcher, ChadChad Fletcher	319	Cox, DeanDean Cox	271	[14]
2005	Cousins, BenBen Cousins+ (4)	477	Judd, ChrisChris Judd	416	Cox, DeanDean Cox	411	[15]
2006	Judd, ChrisChris Judd (2)	452	Glass, DarrenDarren Glass	440	Cousins, BenBen Cousins	429	[14]
2007	Glass, DarrenDarren Glass	405	Hunter, AdamAdam Hunter	369	Selwood, AdamAdam Selwood	367	[16]
2008	Cox, DeanDean Cox	450	Lynch, QuintenQuinten Lynch	360	Selwood, AdamAdam Selwood	316	[17]
2009	Glass, DarrenDarren Glass (2)	340	Hurn, ShannonShannon Hurn^	329	LeCras, MarkMark LeCras	328	[18]
2010	LeCras, MarkMark LeCras^	294	Priddis, MattMatt Priddis^	286	Waters, BeauBeau Waters	281	[19]
2011	Glass, DarrenDarren Glass (3)	398	Priddis, MattMatt Priddis^	398	Cox, DeanDean Cox	397	[20]
2012	Selwood, ScottScott Selwood	403	Cox, DeanDean Cox	400	Hurn, ShannonShannon Hurn^	396	[21]
2013	Priddis, MattMatt Priddis^	373	Mackenzie, EricEric Mackenzie^	363	Kennedy, JoshJosh Kennedy^	363	[22]
2014	Mackenzie, EricEric Mackenzie^	201	Priddis, MattMatt Priddis+^	190	Shuey, LukeLuke Shuey^	148	[23]
2015	Gaff, AndrewAndrew Gaff^	210	Priddis, MattMatt Priddis^	206	Kennedy, JoshJosh Kennedy^	183	[24]
2016	Shuey, LukeLuke Shuey^	157	Kennedy, JoshJosh Kennedy^	146	Gaff, AndrewAndrew Gaff^	140	[25]

Multiple winners

Player	Medals	Seasons
Cousins, BenBen Cousins	4	2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
Jakovich, GlenGlen Jakovich	4	1993, 1994, 1995, 2000
Glass, DarrenDarren Glass	3	2007, 2009, 2011
Judd, ChrisChris Judd	2	2004, 2006
McKenna, GuyGuy McKenna	2	1989, 1999

References

General

• "Honour Roll". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
• "West Coast Eagles Club Champion Award". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 24 September 2011.

Specific

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