page_title: Coleman Medal
section_title: Multiple recipients
hierarchical_section_title: Coleman Medal / Recipients / Multiple recipients
caption_attribution_description: English: Josh Kennedy during the AFL round five match between Carlton and West Coast on 21 April 2018 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria.
context_page_description: The Coleman Medal is an Australian rules football award given annually to the Australian Football League player who kicks the most goals in the home-and-away season. It is named after John Coleman, a full forward and Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend who scored 537 goals in 98 games for Essendon. The award was first presented in 1981 to Richmond's Michael Roach, who scored 86 goals for the season. At the time, the competition was known as the Victorian Football League; it would become the AFL in 1990.
  Although the recipient is known on completion of the home-and-away season, the medal itself is not given immediately. Its presentation venue has varied; it has been given at the preliminary and grand finals, the All-Australian awards ceremony, and club award ceremonies.
  In September 2001, the AFL decided to recognise all leading goalkickers prior to Roach's victory; leaders from 1955 – the year after Coleman's last match – to 1980 were named retrospective Coleman Medallists, while winners prior to 1955 were named Leading Goalkicker Medallists. Medals were presented to winners or their surviving relatives in a ceremony at Melbourne Town Hall in July 2004.
caption: Josh Kennedy is one of 15 players to twice score the most goals in a season.
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