Collingwood
Collingwood'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: 178 pts v St Kilda (1979).
premiership years
2023 · 2010 · 2010 · 1990 · 1977 · 1958 · 1953 · 1936 · 1935 · 1930 · 1929 · 1928 · 1927 · 1919 · 1917 · 1910 · 1903 · 1902
Collingwood — club history & record
Collingwood have won 18 VFL/AFL premierships between 1902 and 2023, the most recent in 2023. The club has also finished runner-up 27 times, losing the Grand Final in 2018, 2011, 2003 and 2002 and others.
Across 1897–2026, Collingwood have played 2,716 senior matches in the data here for a record of 1640–1045–31 — a 61% win rate, with a scoring percentage of 112.3. Their biggest recorded victory is a 178-point win over St Kilda in 1979.
By our era-fair rating, the greatest Collingwood players are led by Archie Smith (100), Dick Lee (100), Gordon Coventry (100), Syd Coventry (100) and Albert Collier (100). In all, 1,205 players who pulled on the Collingwood jumper are rated here, ranked below by how they measured against their own contemporaries.
Greatest Collingwood players
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