Carlton
Carlton's greatest players, ranked by an era-fair rating built from real career stats, Brownlow votes and honours — plus the club's complete premiership history.
all-time VFL/AFL record · 1897–2026
Biggest win: 140 pts v St Kilda (1985).
premiership years
1995 · 1987 · 1982 · 1981 · 1979 · 1972 · 1970 · 1968 · 1947 · 1945 · 1938 · 1915 · 1914 · 1908 · 1907 · 1906
Carlton — club history & record
Carlton have won 16 VFL/AFL premierships between 1906 and 1995, the most recent in 1995. The club has also finished runner-up 13 times, losing the Grand Final in 1999, 1993, 1986 and 1973 and others.
Across 1897–2026, Carlton have played 2,666 senior matches in the data here for a record of 1503–1128–35 — a 57% win rate, with a scoring percentage of 107.9. Their biggest recorded victory is a 140-point win over St Kilda in 1985.
By our era-fair rating, the greatest Carlton players are led by Ted Kennedy (100), Bert Deacon (100), Stephen Silvagni (100), Chris Judd (100) and Charlie Curnow (98). In all, 1,262 players who pulled on the Carlton jumper are rated here, ranked below by how they measured against their own contemporaries.
Greatest Carlton players
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