2024 Brownlow Medal

2024 Brownlow Medal
2024 Brownlow Medallist, Patrick Cripps
Date	Monday, 23 September 2024
Location	Crown Palladium
Hosted by	Hamish McLachlan and Rebecca Maddern
Winner	Patrick Cripps (Carlton)
Television/radio coverage
Network	Seven Network Telstra

The 2024 Brownlow Medal was the 97th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the best and fairest player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home-and-away season. The count took place on Monday 23 September in Melbourne at the Crown Palladium, five days before the grand final. Patrick Cripps of Carlton won the medal with 45 votes; it was his second medal, having previously won the medal in 2022.

Cripps tally of 45 votes broke by a considerable margin the previous record for most votes in a Brownlow Medal count under the 3–2–1 voting system, which was 36 votes held by Dustin Martin (2017) and Ollie Wines (2021); 2024 runner-up Nick Daicos also exceeded the prior record, polling 38 votes. Cripps also set a new record by polling 1.96 votes per game across the season, breaking Lachie Neale's 2020 record of 1.82.^[1]

Leading vote-getters

Overall

	Player	Club	Votes
1st	Patrick Cripps	Carlton	45
2nd	Nick Daicos	Collingwood	38
3rd	Zak Butters	Port Adelaide	29
4th	Caleb Serong	Fremantle	28
N/A	Isaac Heeney	Sydney	28*
5th	Tom Green	Greater Western Sydney	27
6th	Adam Treloar	Western Bulldogs	26
=7th	Errol Gulden	Sydney	25
	Matt Rowell	Gold Coast
9th	Jai Newcombe	Hawthorn	24
10th	Chad Warner	Sydney	23

* The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the AFL Tribunal during the year.

Most votes per club

Overall rank[2]	Club rank	Player	Club	Votes
1st	1st	Patrick Cripps	Carlton	45
2nd	2nd	Nick Daicos	Collingwood	38
3rd	3rd	Zak Butters	Port Adelaide	29
4th	4th	Caleb Serong	Fremantle	28
4th*	4th*	Isaac Heeney	Sydney	28*
6th	6th	Tom Green	Greater Western Sydney	27
7th	7th	Adam Treloar	Western Bulldogs	26
8th	8th	Matt Rowell	Gold Coast	25
9th	10th	Jai Newcombe	Hawthorn	24
10th	12th	Lachie Neale	Brisbane Lions	22
11th	16th	Luke Davies-Uniacke	North Melbourne	18
		Zach Merrett	Essendon
		Jordan Dawson	Adelaide
14th	19th	Christian Petracca	Melbourne	16
		Jeremy Cameron	Geelong
		Rowan Marshall	St Kilda
17th	45th	Elliot Yeo	West Coast	8
18th	67th	Tim Taranto	Richmond	5
		Shai Bolton

* *Ineligible due to suspension.

Team totals

Ranking[2]	Club	Total votes
1st	Sydney	103
2nd	Western Bulldogs	91
3rd	Fremantle	87
	Carlton	87
5th	Greater Western Sydney	85
6th	Port Adelaide	84
7th	Brisbane Lions	82
	Hawthorn	82
9th	Geelong	68
	Collingwood	68
11th	Melbourne	67
	Essendon	67
13th	Gold Coast	64
	St Kilda	64
15th	Adelaide	52
16th	North Melbourne	42
17th	West Coast	30
18th	Richmond	19

Voting procedure and eligibility

The four 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.^[3]

Any suspension throughout the home-and-away season renders a player ineligible to win the award. However, umpires must still award votes to any player they deem worthy and all votes are tallied regardless of ineligibility.

In the event of an ineligible player receiving the most votes, the next eligible player is awarded the Brownlow Medal.

There is no countback if there is a tie on votes, with joint winners awarded.^[4]

References

1. "Brownlow Medal Winners". AFL Tables. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
2. "AFL Tables - 2024 Brownlow Medal". afltables.com. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
3. "Brownlow Medal history and winners - AFL.com.au". afl.com.au. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
4. "Australian Football League Regulations-Brownlow Medal" (PDF). afl.com.au. Retrieved 19 September 2024.