Geoff Christian Medal


The Geoff Christian Medal, commonly referred to as the Christian Medal, is an Australian rules football award given to the best player in the Australian Football League from one of the two teams based in Western Australia, the Fremantle Football Club and the West Coast Eagles. First awarded during the 1999 season, the award is named after and struck in honour of Geoff Christian, a sports writer and broadcaster who served as chief football writer for The West Australian between 1961 and 1988, before being posthumously inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame and the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and 2004, respectively.
Votes for the medal are awarded by ABC Radio commentators on a 3–2–1 basis at the end of each match. The most recent medal, awarded at the end of the 2019 regular season, was won by Fremantle's Nat Fyfe. The award has been won multiple times by six players, Matthew Pavlich, Paul Hasleby, Nat Fyfe and Neale of Fremantle, and Daniel Kerr and Matt Priddis of West Coast. Fyfe has won the medal four times, the only player to do so.

List of winners

YearNameClubVotes
1999Adrian Fletcher–
2000Troy Cook
Paul Hasleby
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2001Ben Cousins–
2002Matthew Pavlich22
2003Peter Bell28
2004Paul Hasleby 27
2005Matthew Pavlich 26
2006Chris Judd18
2007Daniel Kerr26
2008Matthew Pavlich 29
2009Aaron Sandilands25
2010Beau Waters19
2011Matt Priddis28
2012Daniel Kerr 24
2013Nat Fyfe31
2014Matt Priddis 38
2015Nat Fyfe 33
2016Lachie Neale38
2017Nat Fyfe 24
2018Lachie Neale 23
2019Nat Fyfe Fremantle26