page_title: Norm Smith Medal
section_title: Recipients
hierarchical_section_title: Norm Smith Medal / Recipients
caption_attribution_description: English: Paul Chapman in Round 19 of the 2011 AFL season
context_page_description: The Norm Smith Medal is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged the best on ground in the Grand Final of the Australian Football League. Prior to 1990 the competition was known as the Victorian Football League. It was first presented in the 1979 VFL Grand Final, and was won by Wayne Harmes, playing in Carlton's premiership victory against Collingwood. The award was named in honour of Norm Smith, a former six-time premiership coach for Melbourne.
  The award is usually won by a player on the winning team in the Grand Final; only four players have received the award as members of the losing teams: Maurice Rioli in 1982, Gary Ablett Sr. in 1989, Nathan Buckley in 2002 and Chris Judd in 2005. Lenny Hayes remains the only player to have won the award in a drawn Grand Final in 2010, with Scott Pendlebury winning the award for the Grand Final replay the following week. Four players, Gary Ayres, Andrew McLeod, Luke Hodge and Dustin Martin, have each won the award twice. The club with the most Norm Smith Medal wins is Hawthorn, with eight awards won by players representing the team.
caption: Paul Chapman is the only player to win the Norm Smith Medal on a countback, winning in 2009.[9]
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