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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.

Premierships 8Grand Final losses 5Players rated 1157

all-time VFL/AFL record · 18971996

Played 1,928Record 869-1034-25Win rate 45.7%Scoring % 94.8

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

1
Jim Grace
1890s · 47 games · midfielders
100
2
Bernie Quinlan
1960s–1980s · 189 games · forwards
100
3
Paul Roos
1980s–1990s · 269 games · defenders
100
4
Pat Hickey
1890s–1900s · 61 games · defenders
97
5
Jimmy Freake
1910s–1920s · 174 games · forwards
97
6
Jack Moriarty
1920s–1930s · 157 games · forwards
97
7
Pat Descrimes
1890s–1900s · 55 games · defenders
95
8
Charlie Norris
1910s · 106 games · defenders
95
9
Wilfred Smallhorn
1930s–1940s · 150 games · defenders
95
10
Garry Wilson
1970s–1980s · 268 games · midfielders
95
11
Bert Sharpe
1890s–1900s · 99 games · forwards
93
12
Alec Sloan
1890s–1900s · 66 games · defenders
93
13
Tom Heaney
1900s–1920s · 98 games · midfielders
93
14
Norm Smith
1930s–1950s · 17 games · forwards
93
15
Robert Walls
1960s–1980s · 41 games · forwards
93
16
Eddie Drohan
1890s–1900s · 75 games · defenders
92
17
Percy Parratt
1900s–1920s · 195 games · forwards
92
18
Haydn Bunton
1930s–1940s · 119 games · forwards
92
19
Kelly Robinson
1890s–1900s · 57 games · defenders
91
20
Denis Ryan
1930s · 70 games · midfielders
91
21
Kevin Murray
1950s–1970s · 333 games · midfielders
91
22
Bill Potter
1890s–1900s · 60 games · defenders
90
23
Mick Grace
1890s–1900s · 65 games · forwards
90
24
Fred Hughson
1930s–1940s · 164 games · defenders
90
25
Bill Dalton
1890s–1900s · 57 games · defenders
90
26
Abe McDougall
1890s–1900s · 59 games · defenders
90
27
Ron Alexander
1970s–1980s · 133 games · rucks
90
28
Wally Johnson
1900s–1910s · 190 games · defenders
89
29
Alan Ruthven
1940s–1950s · 222 games · forwards
89
30
John Murphy
1960s–1980s · 214 games · midfielders
89

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