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 named 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.^[1]

Eight different players won the award between 1995 and 2002 until Peter Bell won his second medal in 2003.^[2] Following Bell's third medal in 2004, Matthew Pavlich won four consecutive medals to hold the record of six medals in total.^[3] Nat Fyfe became the third player to win multiple Doig medals when he won consecutive medals in 2013 and 2014.^[4]

Year	Winner	Runner Up	Third	Fourth	Fifth
2015	Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands[5]	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy	Hill, StephenStephen Hill	Fyfe, NatNat Fyfe	Walters, MichaelMichael Walters
2014	Fyfe, NatNat Fyfe[4]	Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands	Hill, StephenStephen Hill	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy	Ballantyne, HaydenHayden Ballantyne
2013	Fyfe, NatNat Fyfe[6]	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy	Johnson, MichaelMichael Johnson	Crowley, RyanRyan Crowley	Spurr, LeeLee Spurr
2012	Crowley, RyanRyan Crowley[7]	Mayne, ChrisChris Mayne	Johnson, MichaelMichael Johnson	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	McPharlin, LukeLuke McPharlin
2011	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich[8]	Fyfe, NatNat Fyfe	Broughton, GregGreg Broughton	McPharlin, LukeLuke McPharlin	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy
2010	Mundy, DavidDavid Mundy[9]	Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Hill, StephenStephen Hill	Broughton, GregGreg Broughton
2009	Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands[10]	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Tarrant, ChrisChris Tarrant	Duffield, PaulPaul Duffield	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby and David Mundy
2008	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Sandilands, AaronAaron Sandilands	McPharlin, LukeLuke McPharlin	Palmer, RhysRhys Palmer	Johnson, MichaelMichael Johnson
2007	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Grover, AntoniAntoni Grover	McPharlin, LukeLuke McPharlin	Bell, PeterPeter Bell, Josh Carr, Dean Solomon and Roger Hayden
2006	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Bell, PeterPeter Bell and Michael Johnson		Parker, ShaneShane Parker	Carr, JoshJosh Carr
2005	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Bell, PeterPeter Bell and Shane Parker		Black, HeathHeath Black	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby
2004	Bell, PeterPeter Bell	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Longmuir, JustinJustin Longmuir	McPharlin, LukeLuke McPharlin
2003	Bell, PeterPeter Bell	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	Haddrill, RobbieRobbie Haddrill	McManus, ShaunShaun McManus
2002	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Bell, PeterPeter Bell	Parker, ShaneShane Parker	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	Simmonds, TroyTroy Simmonds
2001	Bell, PeterPeter Bell	Black, HeathHeath Black	Carr, MatthewMatthew Carr	Pavlich, MatthewMatthew Pavlich	Cook, TroyTroy Cook
2000	Cook, TroyTroy Cook	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	Waterhouse, CliveClive Waterhouse	Bandy, DanielDaniel Bandy	Fletcher, AdrianAdrian Fletcher
1999	Fletcher, AdrianAdrian Fletcher	Modra, TonyTony Modra	Bandy, DanielDaniel Bandy	Kickett, DaleDale Kickett	Waterhouse, CliveClive Waterhouse
1998	Norrish, JasonJason Norrish	Fletcher, AdrianAdrian Fletcher	Callaghan, CraigCraig Callaghan	Bond, ChrisChris Bond	Parker, ShaneShane Parker
1997	Kickett, DaleDale Kickett	Parker, ShaneShane Parker	Callaghan, CraigCraig Callaghan	Wills, AndrewAndrew Wills	Harding, GregGreg Harding
1996	O'Reilly, StephenStephen O'Reilly	Kickett, DaleDale Kickett	Chisholm, ScottScott Chisholm	Mann, PeterPeter Mann	Callaghan, CraigCraig Callaghan
1995	Mann, PeterPeter Mann	Kickett, DaleDale Kickett	Allan, BenBen Allan	Chisholm, ScottScott Chisholm	O'Reilly, StephenStephen O'Reilly

References

• Les Everett (2014). Fremantle Dockers: An Illustrated History. Slattery Media Group. pp. 238–256. ISBN 978-0-9875263-4-2.

1. George Doig - Condolence Statement by WA Premier Alan Carpenter (29 November 2006)
2. Ahmed, Nabila & Ryan, Melissa (4 October 2003) Buckley is Magpies best, again
3. Hagdorn, Kim (4 October 2008) Fremantle skipper Matthew Pavlich wins fifth Doig Medal
4. Miller, Dale (16 November 2014). "Fyfe named Freo best and fairest".
5. Quartmaine, Braden (10 October 2015). "Ruckman Aaron Sandilands wins Fremantle Dockers club champion award Doig Medal".
6. Kastanis, Costa (17 November 2013). "Fyfe wins the Doig Medal".
7. O’Donoghue,, Craig (7 October 2012). "Crowley hails coach Lyon after winning Doig Medal". The West Australian.
8. Quartermaine, Braden (9 October 2011). "Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich wins sixth Doig Medal". The Sunday Times.
9. Kastanis, Costa (3 October 2010). "It's David's Doig". Archived from the original on 14 February 2011.
10. Chadwick, Justin (10 October 2009). "Fremantle ruckman Aaron Sandilands wins the Doig Medal after stellar season".