List of Australian Football League wooden spoons - wikipedia List of Australian Football League wooden spoons The wooden spoon is the imaginary and ironic `` award '' which is said to be won by the team finishing in last place in the Australian Football League. No physical wooden spoon award exists, other than those brought by opposition fans to taunt struggling teams, nor is such an award officially sanctioned by the VFL / AFL. However, most betting agencies will take wagers on the wooden spoon. Contents 1 Criteria 1.1 1901 -- 1907 1.2 1916 2 Records 3 Wooden spoons by season 4 Wooden spoon tally 5 Longest wooden spoon droughts 6 AFL Women 's 7 External links Criteria The team which finishes on the bottom of the ladder wins the wooden spoon. This is determined by : Fewest premiership points ( four points for a win, two points for a draw ) Lowest percentage ( the ratio of points for to points against if on same numbers of points ) No countback exists if teams finish equal on points but with a different number of wins. 1901 -- 1907 From 1901 -- 1907, the VFL season was set up such that each team played fourteen regular season games : two games against each opponent. Based upon regular season ladder positions, teams were divided into pools A ( 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th ) and B ( 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th ), and each team played the opponents from its pool once each in the `` sectional round. '' Following the sectional round, the results of these matches were added to the ladder to give a final ladder based on seventeen matches per team. As such, the wooden spooner is considered to be the team which finishes last after all seventeen matches. The three sectional games changed the outcome of the wooden spoon twice in the seven seasons of this format : in 1905, St Kilda beat Geelong in their last game, relegating Melbourne to last, and in 1907, Fitzroy won all three of their games, relegating Essendon to last. 1916 In the war - time season of 1916, only four teams ( Carlton, Collingwood, Fitzroy and Richmond ) competed. Fitzroy finished last after the home - and - away season with a record of 2 -- 9 -- 1 ( 10 pts ), and Richmond finished third with a record of 5 -- 7 -- 0 ( 20 pts ). All four teams competed in the finals under the amended Argus system in place at the time. Richmond lost their Semi-Final and finished in overall last place as the lowest placed Semi-Final loser, while Fitzroy won their Semi-Final, the Final and the Grand Final to claim the premiership. There is hence some uncertainty regarding which team should lay claim to the wooden spoon in that season ; by analogy with the minor and major premierships, it could be said that Fitzroy won the `` minor wooden spoon '' and Richmond won the `` major wooden spoon ''. The official AFL season guide recognises Richmond as the wooden spooners for the 1916 VFL season. Records St Kilda has won the most wooden spoons of any existing AFL team, with 27 ; its most recent wooden spoon was in 2014. Carlton has the longest wooden spoon drought in VFL / AFL history, and was the last of the foundation clubs to win a wooden spoon. Its first wooden spoon came in 2002, the club 's 106th season of VFL / AFL competition. Despite this, they currently have the most wooden spoons in the 21st century with four. Essendon and Collingwood are the only teams to follow up a wooden spoon with a Grand Final appearance, in 1907 -- 08 and 1976 -- 77 respectively. Neither was victorious. Essendon hold the record for the swiftest rise from wooden spoon to premiership, two seasons : they finished last in 1921 and won back - to - back premierships in 1923 - 24. Melbourne and Fitzroy hold the record for the swiftest descent from premiership to wooden spoon, three seasons : Melbourne finished last in 1951 after winning the premiership in 1948, and Fitzroy laid partial claim to the 1916 wooden spoon after winning the premiership in 1913. St Kilda, Hawthorn, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney all won the wooden spoon in their inaugural season in the VFL / AFL. Collingwood in 1976 holds the record for the most wins by a wooden spooner with six. Thirteen wooden spooners failed to win a match during the season, the most recent being Fitzroy in 1964. The highest percentage recorded by a wooden spoon team was by South Melbourne, with 91.3 % in 1922. The Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide are the only teams to not have `` won '' a wooden spoon. Wooden spoons by season Season Wooden spoon Wins Losses Draws Percentage Points 1897 St Kilda 0 14 0 29.1 0 1898 St Kilda 0 14 0 33.5 0 1899 St Kilda 0 14 0 28.0 0 1900 St Kilda 13 0 39.1 1901 St Kilda 16 0 -- 1902 St Kilda 0 17 0 -- 0 1903 South Melbourne 15 0 -- 8 1904 St Kilda 14 0 -- 12 1905 Melbourne 14 0 -- 12 1906 Melbourne 16 0 -- 1907 Essendon 5 12 0 -- 20 1908 Geelong 16 0 -- 8 1909 St Kilda 15 0 59.3 8 1910 St Kilda 17 0 62.3 1911 University 17 0 52.1 1912 University 17 0 57.0 1913 University 0 18 0 57.6 0 1914 University 0 18 0 47.0 0 1915 Geelong 13 0 68.0 12 1916 Minor 1916 Major Fitzroy Richmond 5 9 7 0 81.6 89.9 10 20 1917 Richmond 11 -- 14 1918 Essendon 11 0 64.2 12 1919 Melbourne 0 16 0 43.0 0 1920 St Kilda 14 0 57.2 8 1921 Essendon 11 80.8 16 1922 South Melbourne 11 91.3 18 1923 Melbourne 13 0 80.4 12 1924 St Kilda 12 0 75.7 16 1925 Hawthorn 14 0 66.1 12 1926 North Melbourne 0 17 73.7 1927 Hawthorn 17 0 63.1 1928 Hawthorn 0 18 0 61.6 0 1929 North Melbourne 17 0 60.2 1930 North Melbourne 17 0 51.8 1931 North Melbourne 0 18 0 50.8 0 1932 Hawthorn 15 0 64.1 12 1933 Essendon 16 0 77.1 12 1934 North Melbourne 0 18 0 66.4 0 1935 North Melbourne 17 0 65.1 1936 Fitzroy 16 0 68.9 8 1937 North Melbourne 15 0 64.2 12 1938 South Melbourne 16 0 71.8 8 1939 South Melbourne 15 0 70.8 12 1940 North Melbourne 14 0 75.1 16 1941 Hawthorn 15 0 68.2 12 1942 Hawthorn 14 0 65.6 8 1943 St Kilda 8 73.9 10 1944 Geelong 17 0 58.6 1945 St Kilda 18 0 62.2 8 1946 Hawthorn 16 0 70.5 12 1947 St Kilda 17 58.7 6 1948 St Kilda 17 0 59.9 8 1949 Hawthorn 16 0 61.1 12 1950 Hawthorn 0 18 0 49.8 0 1951 Melbourne 17 0 70.5 1952 St Kilda 17 0 68.1 8 1953 Hawthorn 15 0 68.5 12 1954 St Kilda 13 72.7 18 1955 St Kilda 17 0 45.4 1956 North Melbourne 16 0 69.5 12 1957 Geelong 5 12 88.2 22 1958 Geelong 14 0 73.8 16 1959 Footscray 15 0 73.3 12 1960 Richmond 14 65.1 12 1961 North Melbourne 13 79.1 18 1962 South Melbourne 15 0 74.4 12 1963 Fitzroy 17 0 57.5 1964 Fitzroy 0 18 0 59.7 0 1965 Hawthorn 14 0 68.9 16 1966 Fitzroy 17 0 53.8 1967 Footscray 14 0 71.8 16 1968 North Melbourne 17 0 74.3 12 1969 Melbourne 17 0 83.1 12 1970 North Melbourne 18 0 79.1 16 1971 South Melbourne 19 0 69.9 12 1972 North Melbourne 21 0 62.9 1973 South Melbourne 18 0 79.0 16 Melbourne 19 0 77.1 12 South Melbourne 20 0 75.0 8 1976 Collingwood 6 16 0 86.4 24 1977 St Kilda 17 73.5 16 1978 Melbourne 5 17 0 69.1 20 1979 St Kilda 19 0 65.0 12 1980 Fitzroy 17 86.0 18 1981 Melbourne 21 0 63.5 1982 Footscray 19 0 68.1 12 St Kilda 5 17 0 79 20 1984 St Kilda 5 17 0 76 20 1985 St Kilda 19 0 64.7 12 1986 St Kilda 20 0 71.9 8 Richmond 5 17 0 83 20 St Kilda 18 0 82 16 Richmond 5 17 0 71 20 Brisbane Bears 18 0 71 16 1991 Brisbane Bears 19 0 70 12 Sydney 18 74 14 Sydney 19 0 63 Sydney 18 0 78 16 1995 Fitzroy 20 0 58.2 8 Fitzroy 21 0 49.5 Melbourne 18 0 60.8 16 1998 Brisbane Lions 5 16 75 22 1999 Collingwood 18 0 84.8 16 2000 St Kilda 19 70.5 10 2001 Fremantle 20 0 72.0 8 2002 Carlton 19 0 73.1 12 2003 Western Bulldogs 18 74.8 14 Richmond 18 0 69.2 16 2005 Carlton 17 75.5 18 2006 Carlton 18 74.2 14 2007 Richmond 18 77.2 14 2008 Melbourne 19 0 62.6 12 2009 Melbourne 18 0 74.7 16 West Coast 18 0 77.1 16 2011 Gold Coast 19 0 56.27 12 2012 Greater Western Sydney 20 0 46.17 8 2013 Greater Western Sydney 21 0 50.97 2014 St Kilda 18 0 60.8 16 2015 Carlton 18 0 64.8 16 2016 Essendon 19 0 61 12 2017 Brisbane Lions 5 17 0 74.3 20 Wooden spoon tally Club Total Wooden Spoons Years of Wooden Spoon St Kilda 27 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1904, 1909, 1910, 1920, 1924, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1977, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 2000, 2014 North Melbourne 13 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1940, 1956, 1961, 1968, 1970, 1972 Melbourne 12 1905, 1906, 1919, 1923, 1951, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1981, 1997, 2008, 2009 Hawthorn 11 1925, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1965 South Melbourne / Sydney 11 1903, 1922, 1938, 1939, 1962, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1992, 1993, 1994 Fitzroy 8 * 1916 *, 1936, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1980, 1995, 1996 Richmond 7 * 1916 *, 1917, 1960, 1987, 1989, 2004, 2007 Geelong 5 1908, 1915, 1944, 1957, 1958 Essendon 5 1907, 1918, 1921, 1933, 2016 University 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914 Footscray / Western Bulldogs 1959, 1967, 1982, 2003 Carlton 2002, 2005, 2006, 2015 Brisbane Bears 1990, 1991 Brisbane Lions 1998, 2017 Collingwood 1976, 1999 Greater Western Sydney 2012, 2013 Fremantle 2001 West Coast Eagles Gold Coast 2011 Port Adelaide 0 N / A Adelaide 0 N / A current clubs are shown in bold * See 1916 explanation above Longest wooden spoon droughts Club Time period Years Carlton 1897 -- 2002 105 Essendon 1933 -- 2016 83 Collingwood 1897 -- 1976 79 Geelong 1958 -- present 59 Hawthorn 1965 -- present 52 North Melbourne 1972 -- present 45 Richmond 1917 -- 1960 43 Fitzroy 1897 -- 1936 39 Footscray 1925 -- 1959 34 See discussion on 1916 wooden spoon. AFL Women 's Season Wooden spoon Wins Losses Draws Percentage Points 2017 Greater Western Sydney 5 51.8 6 External links AFL Wooden Spoon Awardees Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Australian_Football_League_wooden_spoons&oldid=803887748 '' Categories : Australian Football League awards Australian Football League Australian rules football - related lists Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 5 October 2017, at 08 : 51. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who has won the most afl wooden spoons
Answer: St Kilda