List of Essendon Football Club leading goalkickers
The following list details all of the major goalkicking records relating specifically to Essendon Football Club, including season highs, career highs, and game highs for both the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League) and AFL Women's, as well as the club's pre-VFL/AFL records. The AFL's annual leading goalkicker award, the Coleman Medal, is named after Essendon's John Coleman. At the 2009 Essendon Best & Fairest awards night, outgoing CEO Peter Jackson announced that the Essendon leading goalkicker medal would be named the Matthew Lloyd Medal in honour of the recently retired Matthew Lloyd.[1] This is sometimes referred to as the Matthew Lloyd Leading Goalkicker Award.[2]
Leading goalkickers by season
The following is a list of Essendon leading goalkickers in each season.[3]
Matthew Lloyd is the club's career leading goalkicker. In addition to being the club's leading goalkicker a record 12 times, Lloyd has 926 career goals, also a club record.
Coleman, seen here taking a spectacular mark over North Melbourne's full-back Vic Lawrence in 1953,[4] retired with a record average of 5.48 goals per game (subsequently only beaten by Hawthorn's Peter Hudson), and his 14 goals in a single game remains a club record.
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^"Wright claims maiden Crichton Medal". essendonfc.com.au. 3 October 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
^"Australian Football - Essendon Football Club - Honour Board". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
^The Sporting Globe's photographer, Gerard Reilly, was at the same match; and his photograph of Coleman's mark appeared on the front page of the Saturday, 30 May 1953 Sporting Globe. In the following issue, under the title "Coleman Makes It Look So Easy", the Sporting Globe published the entire five-frame sequence of Gerard Reilly's photographs.