The Norm Smith Medal is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged the best on ground in the grand final of the Australian Football League. Prior to 1990, the competi
Norm Smith Medal 2010
Nathan Buckley is one of just four players to have received the Norm Smith Medal as a member of the losing grand final team, winning the award in 2002.
Chris Judd is the most recent player to receive the medal as a member of the losing grand final team, winning in 2005.
Luke Hodge is one of just five players to have won multiple Norm Smith Medals, winning in 2008 and 2014.
Norman Walter Smith was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League. After more than 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smith began a twenty-year coac
Norm Smith Medal
…the 1979 VFL Grand Final, and it was won by Wayne Harmes, playing in Carlton's premiership victory against Collingwood. The award is named in honour of Norm Smith, who won four VFL premierships as a player and six as coach for the Melbourne Football Club. Dustin Martin (2017, 2019 and 2020) is the only player to…
Norm Smith playing for Melbourne, c. 1940s
Smith emerging onto the field for the 1946 VFL Grand Final
Statue of Smith in Yarra Park