The J.A. Grogan Medal, commonly known as the Grogan Medal, is an Australian rules football award given to the best and fairest player in home and away rounds of each season's QAFL/Queensland State League competition. From 2011 to 2013 it was awarded to the best and fairest player in the North East Australian Football League Northern Conference. It was first awarded under the present name in 1946, previously being known as the De Little Medal.
| Year | Player | Club |
| 2023 | Kwaby Boakye [1] | Broadbeach |
| 2022 | Ryan Banks-Smith [2] | Aspley |
| 2021 | Jordan Moncrieff | Broadbeach |
| 2020 | Matthew Payne | Morningside |
| 2019 | Frazer Neate | Mount Gravatt |
| 2018 | Blake Erickson | Broadbeach |
| 2017 | Jason Burge Wayde Mills | Palm Beach Currumbin Labrador |
| 2016 | Jesse Derrick | Palm Beach Currumbin |
| 2015 | Callum Carseldine | Western Magpies |
| 2014 | Ryan Davey | Labrador |
| 2013 | Haydn Kiel | Southport |
| 2012 | Ryan Davey Fraser Pope Tom Salter | Labrador Southport Redland |
| 2011 | Cameron Ilett Matthew Payne | NT Thunder Southport |
| 2010 | Danny Wise | Southport |
| 2009 | Nathan Gilliland | Mount Gravatt |
| 2008 | Nathan Kinch | Morningside |
| 2007 | Todd Featherstone | Labrador |
| 2006 | Matty Payne | Zillmere Eagles |
| 2005 | David Round | Broadbeach |
| 2004 | Mick Stinear | Mount Gravatt |
| 2003 | Jacob Gough | Morningside |
| 2002 | David Round | Southport |
| 2001 | Paul O'Brien | Redland |
| 2000 | Danny Dickfos | Northern Eagles |
| 1999 | David Bain Brad Jones | Southport Mount Gravatt |
| 1998 | Dean Edwards | Morningside |
| 1997 | Jeff Brennan | Southport |
| 1996 | Corey Lambert | West Brisbane |
| 1995 | David Bain | Southport |
| 1994 | Mitch Howe | Morningside |
| 1993 | Daryl Bourke Jason Cotter Dean Warren | Morningside Southport Kedron Grange |
| 1992 | Ricky Chapman David Crutchfield Chris O'Sullivan | Morningside Southport Southport |
| 1991 | Cameron Buchanan | North Brisbane |
| 1990 | Jason Cotter | Southport |
| 1989 | Daryl Bourke | Morningside |
| 1988 | Craig Brittain | Windsor-Zillmere |
| 1987 | Terry Simmonds | Mayne |
| 1986 | Brendan McMullen Greg Packham | Coorparoo Kedron |
| 1985 | Zane Taylor | Southport |
| 1984 | Brendan McMullen | Coorparoo |
| 1983 | Peter Guy Bill Peirce | Southport Sherwood |
| 1982 | John Blair | Morningside |
| 1981 | Greg Hollick | Mayne |
| 1980 | Barry Karklis | Windsor-Zillmere |
| 1979 | Don Smith | Sandgate |
| 1978 | Peter Ives | Mayne |
| 1977 | Peter Taylor | Western Districts |
| 1976 | Barry Clarke | Wilston Grange |
| 1975 | Owen Backwell | Western Districts |
| 1974 | Jeff Ebert | Morningside |
| 1973 | Don Smith | Sandgate |
| 1972 | Barry Clarke | Wilston Grange |
| 1971 | Owen Backwell | Western Districts |
| 1970 | Kelvin Mills | Kedron |
| 1969 | Ken Garcia Terry Johnston Terry Weller | Wilston Grange Morningside Windsor-Zillmere |
| 1968 | Merv Appleyard | Wilston Grange |
| 1967 | Robin Hull | Windsor-Zillmere |
| 1966 | Gar Wah Hing | Kedron |
| 1965 | Tom Gould | Kedron |
| 1964 | Ken Grimley | Coorparoo |
| 1963 | Tom Gould | Kedron |
| 1962 | Keith Leach | Wilston Grange |
| 1961 | Keith Leach | Wilston Grange |
| 1960 | Jim Conlan Merv Dihm | Wilston Grange Morningside |
| 1959 | John Golding | Coorparoo |
| 1958 | Andy Stewart | Western Districts |
| 1957 | Keith Farnsworth | Morningside |
| 1956 | Tom Pelly | Western Districts |
| 1955 | Henry Maguire | Morningside |
| 1954 | Noel McGuinness [3] | Morningside |
| 1953 | Noel McGuinness | Morningside |
| 1952 | Bevis Howell | Coorparoo |
| 1951 | Bill Shorten | Yeronga |
| 1950 | Tom Calder Edgar Stevens | Coorparoo Sandgate |
| 1949 | Dick Parton | Windsor |
| 1948 | Tom Calder | Coorparoo |
| 1947 | Doug Pittard Fred Willets | Western Districts Yeronga |
| 1946 | Doug Pittard | Western Districts |
| 1945 | L. Anders | Workshops |
| 1942– 1944 | Not awarded | |
| 1941 | T. Nielson | Past State Commercial High School |
| 1940 | Doug Pittard | Taringa |
| 1939 | Pat Vidgen | Taringa |
| 1938 | Jim Davies | Windsor |
| 1937 | Col Stream | Windsor |
| 1936 | Not awarded | |
| 1935 | Jim Davies | Windsor |
| 1934 | Jim Davies | Windsor |
| 1931– 1933 | Not awarded | |
| 1930 | H. Green | Windsor |
| 1929 | Unknown | |
| 1928 | T. Chand | South Brisbane |
| 1927 | N. Brown | Windsor |
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