Sydney
Sydney'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: 171 pts v St Kilda (1919).
premiership years
2012 · 2005 · 1933 · 1918 · 1909
Sydney — club history & record
Sydney have won 5 VFL/AFL premierships between 1909 and 2012, the most recent in 2012. The club has also finished runner-up 14 times, losing the Grand Final in 2024, 2022, 2016 and 2014 and others.
Across 1897–2026, Sydney have played 2,609 senior matches in the data here for a record of 1263–1321–25 — a 48.9% win rate, with a scoring percentage of 99.5. Their biggest recorded victory is a 171-point win over St Kilda in 1919.
By our era-fair rating, the greatest Sydney players are led by Bob Pratt (100), Paul Roos (100), Tony Lockett (100), Lance Franklin (100) and Charlie Curnow (98). In all, 1,464 players who pulled on the Sydney jumper are rated here, ranked below by how they measured against their own contemporaries.
Greatest Sydney players
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