Geelong
Geelong'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: 186 pts v Melbourne (2011).
premiership years
2022 · 2011 · 2009 · 2007 · 1963 · 1952 · 1951 · 1937 · 1931 · 1925
Geelong — club history & record
Geelong have won 10 VFL/AFL premierships between 1925 and 2022, the most recent in 2022. The club has also finished runner-up 10 times, losing the Grand Final in 2025, 2020, 2008 and 1995 and others.
Across 1897–2026, Geelong have played 2,618 senior matches in the data here for a record of 1443–1151–24 — a 55.6% win rate, with a scoring percentage of 108.4. Their biggest recorded victory is a 186-point win over Melbourne in 2011.
By our era-fair rating, the greatest Geelong players are led by Eddy James (100), Edward Greeves (100), Bernie Smith (100), Peter Pianto (100) and Doug Wade (100). In all, 1,122 players who pulled on the Geelong jumper are rated here, ranked below by how they measured against their own contemporaries.
Greatest Geelong players
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