Melbourne
Melbourne'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: 141 pts v Hawthorn (1926).
premiership years
2021 · 1964 · 1960 · 1959 · 1957 · 1956 · 1955 · 1948 · 1941 · 1940 · 1939 · 1926 · 1900
Melbourne — club history & record
Melbourne have won 13 VFL/AFL premierships between 1900 and 2021, the most recent in 2021. The club has also finished runner-up 6 times, losing the Grand Final in 2000, 1988, 1958 and 1954 and others.
Across 1897–2026, Melbourne have played 2,577 senior matches in the data here for a record of 1181–1374–22 — a 46.3% win rate, with a scoring percentage of 96. Their biggest recorded victory is a 141-point win over Hawthorn in 1926.
By our era-fair rating, the greatest Melbourne players are led by Ivor Warne-Smith (100), Fred Fanning (100), Don Cordner (100), Peter Moore (100) and Jim Stynes (100). In all, 1,396 players who pulled on the Melbourne jumper are rated here, ranked below by how they measured against their own contemporaries.
Greatest Melbourne players
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