2025 Brownlow Medal

2025 Brownlow Medal
2025 Brownlow Medallist, Matt Rowell
Date	Monday, 22 September 2025
Location	Crown Palladium
Hosted by	Hamish McLachlan and Rebecca Maddern
Winner	Matt Rowell (Gold Coast)
Television/radio coverage
Network	Seven Network
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The 2025 Brownlow Medal was the 98th 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 22 September in Melbourne at the Crown Palladium, five days before the grand final. Matt Rowell of Gold Coast won the medal with 39 votes.

West Coast, who finished 18th with a 1–22 record, polled only 12 votes across all of their players combined, the lowest-ever tally for any club under the 3–2–1 voting system in a season of any length. ^[1]

Leading vote-getters

Overall

	Player	Club	Votes [2]
1st	Matt Rowell	Gold Coast	39
2nd	Nick Daicos	Collingwood	32
3rd	Bailey Smith	Geelong	29
4th	Jordan Dawson	Adelaide	27
5th	Andrew Brayshaw	Fremantle	26
=6th	Noah Anderson	Gold Coast	25
	Marcus Bontempelli	Western Bulldogs
	Caleb Serong	Fremantle
=9th	Max Gawn	Melbourne	23
	Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera	St Kilda

Most votes per club

Club rank	Overall rank [a]	Player	Club	Votes [2]
1st	1st	Matt Rowell	Gold Coast	39
2nd	2nd	Nick Daicos	Collingwood	32
3rd	3rd	Bailey Smith	Geelong	29
4th	4th	Jordan Dawson	Adelaide	27
5th	5th	Andrew Brayshaw	Fremantle	26
6th	=6th	Marcus Bontempelli	Western Bulldogs	25
=7th	=9th	Max Gawn	Melbourne	23
		Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera	St Kilda
=9th	=11th	Hugh McCluggage	Brisbane Lions	21
		Finn Callaghan	Greater Western Sydney
		Zak Butters	Port Adelaide
		Chad Warner	Sydney
13th	=15th	Tim Taranto	Richmond	20
14th	18th	Patrick Cripps	Carlton	19
15th	=20th	Jai Newcombe	Hawthorn	17
16th	=27th	Zach Merrett	Essendon	14
17th	=32nd	Luke Davies-Uniacke	North Melbourne	11
18th	=91st	Harley Reid	West Coast	3
		Liam Ryan

1. Taking into account eligibility, i.e. excluding suspended players

Team totals

Ranking	Club	Total votes [3]
1st	Geelong	99
2nd	Brisbane Lions	98
3rd	Gold Coast	95
4th	Adelaide	93
5th	Sydney	91
6th	Western Bulldogs	90
7th	Fremantle	88
8th	Collingwood	83
9th	Greater Western Sydney	82
10th	Hawthorn	80
11th	Melbourne	65
=12th	Carlton	60
	Port Adelaide
14th	St Kilda	55
15th	North Melbourne	45
16th	Essendon	40
17th	Richmond	33
18th	West Coast	12

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. ^[4]

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. ^[5]

References

1. "Your club's Brownlow: West Coast's horror night, Tiger's hot streak". Australian Football League . Melbourne. 22 September 2025. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
2. "Brownlow Medal live tracker". Australian Football League . Melbourne. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
3. Farquhar, Hayden (23 September 2025). "Every AFL club's Brownlow vote leader, team totals revealed". Zero Hanger. Australia. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
4. "Brownlow Medal History". Australian Football League . Melbourne. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
5. "Australian Football League Regulations" (PDF). Australian Football League . Melbourne. 23 February 2024. pp. 90–91. Retrieved 25 September 2025.