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List Of Geelong Football Club Individual Awards And Records
This is a list of individual awards achieved by the Geelong Football Club since it joined the Victorian Football League in 1897. VFL/AFL Awards Other honours Media awards Club awards and honours Carji Greeves Medal AFL Women's Best and Fairest Leading goalkicker Other awards VFL best and fairest VFL Women's best and fairest , - , 2018 ! scope="row", , , - , 2019 ! scope="row", , , - , 2020 ! scope="row", ''Not awarded'' , , - , 2021 ! scope="row", , , - , 2022 ! scope="row", , , - Geelong's Team of the Century Hall of Fame The Geelong Football Club Hall of Fame reflects the contributions of players and coaches who have made significant contributions to the club across their respective careers. The club inducts individuals into the Hall of Fame on a case-by-case basis, and although there is no provision for automatic inclusion, the individual needs to satisfy a selection of criteria to be considered for induction. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geelong Football Club
The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition, and are the 2022 reigning premiers. The club formed in 1859, making it the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world.Official Website of the Geelong Football Club Retrieved on 10 June 2007. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Football Media Association Player Of The Year
The Australian Football Media Association Player of the Year award (also known as the Australian Football Media Association MVP award) is an award for the Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling ... (AFL) given by the Australian Football Media Association (AFMA). It has been awarded annually since 1973, with the exception of 2003, when no award was given. Winners References Australian Football League awards Australian rules football awards 1973 establishments in Australia {{AFL-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 VFL Season
The 1899 VFL season was the third season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs, ran from 13 May until 16 September, and comprised a 14-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring all eight clubs. The premiership was won by the Fitzroy Football Club for the second time and second time consecutively, after it defeated by one point in the 1899 VFL Grand Final. Premiership season In 1899, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves" (although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match). Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Once the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1899 VFL ''Premiers'' were determined by the specific format and conventions of the 1898 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Leith
John Goodwin 'Jack' Leith (12 August 1872 – 24 April 1935) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the early years of the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). Leith was a forward and prior to joining Melbourne in the last Victorian Football Association (VFA) season in 1896 played with Carlton. He was a centre half forward in Melbourne's 1900 premiership team and topped the club's goalkicking on five occasions in his career: 1896, 1897, 1899, 1902 and 1907. When having a set shot at goal he used the place kick and once, in a game against St Kilda, kicked five goals from place kicks. He retired at the end of the 1908 season but returned to the league in 1911 when Melbourne were struggling, thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 VFL Season
The 1897 VFL season was the inaugural season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the new highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs, ran from 8 May until 4 September, and comprised a 14-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs. The new league was established when eight clubs from the Victorian Football Association – , , , , , , and – seceded at the end of 1896. The inaugural premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club after it won all three of its matches in the finals series. Premiership season In 1897, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 20 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves" (although any of the 20 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match). Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Once the 14-round home-and-away seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleman Medal
The Coleman Medal is an Australian rules football award given annually to the Australian Football League (AFL) player who kicks the most goals in the home-and-away season. It is named after Essendon full-forward John Coleman, one of the most prolific goalkickers in the league's history. The medal has been presented at various different events, including the preliminary and grand finals, the All-Australian awards ceremony, and club award ceremonies. Carlton's Charlie Curnow is the most recent recipient, kicking 64 goals in 2022. History The award was first presented in 1981 to Richmond's Michael Roach; At the time, the competition was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL); it would become the AFL in 1990. It was named after John Coleman, a full-forward and Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend who scored 537 goals in 98 games for Essendon between 1949 and 1954. In September 2001, the AFL decided to recognise all leading goalkickers prior to Roach's victory; le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Brownlow Medal
The 2016 Brownlow Medal was the 89th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home and away season. Patrick Dangerfield of the Geelong Football Club won the medal by polling thirty-five votes during the 2016 AFL season, at the time the most by any player under the 3-2-1 voting system, beating the previous record of 34 votes set by Dane Swan in 2011. Leading vote-getters Voting procedure The three field umpires (those umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match and award three votes, two votes, and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second-best and third-best in the match, respectively. The votes are kept secret until the awards night, and they are read and tallied on the evening. A change was made in 2015 to the rules under which players could become ineligible for the Brownlow Medal. Under previous rules, players were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Brownlow Medal
The 2009 Brownlow Medal was the 82nd year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home and away season. Gary Ablett of the Geelong Football Club won the medal by polling thirty votes during the 2009 AFL season. Ablett won the award with thirty votes, eight votes ahead of 2004 medal winner, Chris Judd. It was Ablett's first Brownlow, despite winning many other awards in the previous few years and being the Brownlow pre-count favourite for the previous three years. It was the second time in three years that a player from Geelong won the Brownlow Medal. Leading vote-getters Ablett's victory Gary Ablett's victory in the 2009 medal followed his sixth-place finish in 2007 and his third-place finish in 2008. In all three years he was the favourite to win the award. Ablett polled in 13 matches, including eight best-on-ground performances. His seventh consecutive best-on-ground performance in round 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Brownlow Medal
The 2007 Brownlow Medal was the 80th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home and away season. Jimmy Bartel of the Geelong Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-nine votes during the 2007 AFL season. Leading vote-getters Jimmy Bartel won by seven votes despite missing the final two games after having an appendectomy. polled the most votes of all teams with 108 total votes, although , and also had 16 players receive votes. Chris Judd was the early leader, setting the record for polling votes in the most consecutive games with votes in the first eight games, before not receiving another vote for the remainder of the season. * The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the AFL Tribunal during the year. Voting procedure The three field umpires (those umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Brownlow Medal
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The 1989 Brownlow Medal was the 62nd year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Paul Couch of the Geelong Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-two votes during the 1989 VFL season. Leading votegetters * The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the VFL Tribunal during the year. References Brownlow Medal 1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Brownlow Medal
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The 1962 Brownlow Medal was the 35th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Alistair Lord of the Geelong Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-eight votes during the 1962 VFL season. Leading votegetters References 1962 in Australian rules football 1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Brownlow Medal
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The 1951 Brownlow Medal was the 24th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Bernie Smith of the Geelong Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-three votes during the 1951 VFL season. Leading votegetters References 1951 in Australian rules football 1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
