2000 Brownlow Medal

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2000 Brownlow Medal
Winner Shane Woewodin (Melbourne)
24 votes
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The 2000 Brownlow Medal was the 73rd year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home-and-away season. [1] Shane Woewodin of the Melbourne Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-four votes during the 2000 AFL season. [2]

The Essendon Football Club set a record for the highest number of votes collected as a team, with 116 out of a possible 132 votes. The club polled at least one vote in every game, including all six votes in 14 games. [3]

Leading vote-getters

PlayerVotes
1st Shane Woewodin (Melbourne)24
2nd Scott West (Western Bulldogs)22
3rd Andrew McLeod (Adelaide)20
4th Anthony Koutoufides (Carlton)19
=5th Nathan Buckley (Collingwood)18
Brett Ratten (Carlton)
=7th Michael O'Loughlin (Sydney)16
Michael Voss (Brisbane Lions)
James Hird (Essendon)
=10th Wayne Carey (Kangaroos)14
Nick Holland (Hawthorn)
Adem Yze (Melbourne)
Brent Harvey (Kangaroos)
Tony Liberatore (Western Bulldogs)
Matthew Lloyd (Essendon)

References

  1. ↑ Lovett, Michael, ed. (2009). AFL Record Season Guide 2009. Docklands, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 496. ISBN   978-0-9805162-6-5.
  2. ↑ "2000 Brownlow Medal". AFL Tables. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  3. ↑ @js_kay (28 August 2018). "OTD in 2000 @EssendonFC polled a VFL / AFL record 116 (of possible 132) #Brownlow votes. The club polled... - all 6 votes in 14 rounds - the 3 votes in 20 rounds - at least one vote in all rounds - 74 of 78 votes in first 13 rounds" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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