Fitzroy
Fitzroy'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 · 1897–1996
Biggest win: 190 pts v Melbourne (1979).
premiership years
1944 · 1922 · 1916 · 1913 · 1905 · 1904 · 1899 · 1898
Fitzroy — club history & record
Fitzroy have won 8 VFL/AFL premierships between 1898 and 1944, the most recent in 1944. The club has also finished runner-up 5 times, losing the Grand Final in 1923, 1917, 1906 and 1903 and others.
Across 1897–1996, Fitzroy have played 1,928 senior matches in the data here for a record of 869–1034–25 — a 45.7% win rate, with a scoring percentage of 94.8. Their biggest recorded victory is a 190-point win over Melbourne in 1979.
By our era-fair rating, the greatest Fitzroy players are led by Jim Grace (100), Bernie Quinlan (100), Paul Roos (100), Pat Hickey (97) and Jimmy Freake (97). In all, 1,157 players who pulled on the Fitzroy jumper are rated here, ranked below by how they measured against their own contemporaries.
Greatest Fitzroy players
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