John Worsfold Medal

The John Worsfold Medal is the award given to the West Coast Eagles player determined to have been the "Best and Fairest" throughout an 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–: Each member of the match committee rates every player to a maximum of three votes for each match.^[1]

List of winners

Year	Winner(s)	Votes	Runner(s)-up	Votes	Third-place	Votes
1987	Steve Malaxos	229	Ross Glendinning	170	Chris Mainwaring	166
1988	John Worsfold	111	Guy McKenna	101	Chris Mainwaring	74
1989	Guy McKenna	36	Chris Mainwaring	30	Chris Lewis	26
1990	Chris Lewis	39	Michael Brennan Dwayne Lamb	36	John Worsfold	35
1991	Craig Turley^[b]	43	Guy McKenna	42	Peter Matera	41
1992	Dean Kemp	46	Chris Mainwaring	38	Glen Jakovich	37
1993	Glen Jakovich Don Pyke	34	Peter Matera Peter Wilson	31	Paul Harding	30
1994	Glen Jakovich	45	Don Pyke	39	Guy McKenna	38
1995	Glen Jakovich	36	Dean Kemp Mitchell White	36	Guy McKenna Ryan Turnbull	31
1996	Drew Banfield	36	Chris Mainwaring	35	Guy McKenna	34
1997	Peter Matera^[b]	37	Dean Kemp	35	Chad Morrison Paul Symmons	33
1998	Ashley McIntosh	39	Ben Cousins	37	Fraser Gehrig Chris Waterman	30
1999	Guy McKenna	36	Drew Banfield Michael Braun Ben Cousins	35	David Wirrpanda	34
2000	Glen Jakovich	27	Dean Kemp	23	Chad Morrison	21
2001	Ben Cousins	30	Michael Collica	17	Chad Fletcher Rowan Jones	16
2002	Ben Cousins	341	Daniel Kerr	295	Chris Judd	242
2003	Ben Cousins	303	Chris Judd	269	Chad Fletcher	257
2004	Chris Judd ^[a]	355	Chad Fletcher	319	Dean Cox	271
2005	Ben Cousins ^[a]	477	Chris Judd	416	Dean Cox	411
2006	Chris Judd	452	Darren Glass	440	Ben Cousins	429
2007	Darren Glass	405	Adam Hunter	369	Adam Selwood	367
2008	Dean Cox	450	Quinten Lynch	360	Adam Selwood	316
2009	Darren Glass	340	Shannon Hurn	329	Mark LeCras	328
2010	Mark LeCras	294	Matt Priddis	286	Beau Waters	281
2011	Darren Glass	398	Matt Priddis	398	Dean Cox	397
2012	Scott Selwood	403	Dean Cox	400	Shannon Hurn	396
2013	Matt Priddis	373	Eric Mackenzie	363	Josh Kennedy	363
2014	Eric Mackenzie	201	Matt Priddis^a	190	Luke Shuey	148
2015	Andrew Gaff	210	Matt Priddis	206	Josh Kennedy	183

Notes

^a Also won the Brownlow Medal.

^b Also finished runner-up in the Brownlow Medal. Daniel Kerr finished runner-up in the Brownlow Medal in 2005 and 2007, but did not poll in the top three of the Club Champion Award in these years.

References

1. "Eric Mackenzie: 2014 John Worsfold Medallist". West Coast Eagles. Retrieved October 4, 2014.

• "Honour Roll". West Coast Eagles. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
• West Coast Eagles Club Champion Award 1987–2010