Essendon
Essendon'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: 165 pts v Sydney (1964).
premiership years
2000 · 1993 · 1985 · 1984 · 1965 · 1962 · 1950 · 1949 · 1948 · 1946 · 1942 · 1923 · 1912 · 1911 · 1901
Essendon — club history & record
Essendon have won 15 VFL/AFL premierships between 1901 and 2000, the most recent in 2000. The club has also finished runner-up 14 times, losing the Grand Final in 2001, 1990, 1983 and 1968 and others.
Across 1897–2026, Essendon have played 2,629 senior matches in the data here for a record of 1440–1152–37 — a 55.5% win rate, with a scoring percentage of 106.1. Their biggest recorded victory is a 165-point win over Sydney in 1964.
By our era-fair rating, the greatest Essendon players are led by Ted Kennedy (100), Dick Reynolds (100), John Coleman (100), Graham Moss (100) and Terry Daniher (98). In all, 1,221 players who pulled on the Essendon jumper are rated here, ranked below by how they measured against their own contemporaries.
Greatest Essendon players
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