North Melbourne
North 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 · 1925–2026
Biggest win: 141 pts v Richmond (1990).
premiership years
1999 · 1996 · 1977 · 1975
North Melbourne — club history & record
North Melbourne have won 4 VFL/AFL premierships between 1975 and 1999, the most recent in 1999. The club has also finished runner-up 6 times, losing the Grand Final in 1998, 1978, 1977 and 1976 and others.
Across 1925–2026, North Melbourne have played 2,135 senior matches in the data here for a record of 912–1204–19 — a 43.2% win rate, with a scoring percentage of 92.7. Their biggest recorded victory is a 141-point win over Richmond in 1990.
By our era-fair rating, the greatest North Melbourne players are led by Gary Dempsey (100), Keith Greig (100), Ross Glendinning (100), Wayne Carey (98) and Barry Cable (93). In all, 1,079 players who pulled on the North Melbourne jumper are rated here, ranked below by how they measured against their own contemporaries.
Greatest North Melbourne players
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