AFL Awards winners: Final All Australian team, AFLPA MVP, Leigh Matthews Trophy, AFLCA Champion, Most Courageous, Best Captain

Kieran Francis

AFL Awards winners: Final All Australian team, AFLPA MVP, Leigh Matthews Trophy, AFLCA Champion, Most Courageous, Best Captain image

The AFL Awards night saw the naming of the All-Australian 2022 team and several other individual honours.

The AFL Coaches Association announced its Champion Player of the Year award and its Best Young Player.

The AFL Players Association revealed its Best First Year Player, Most Courageous Player, Best Captain and MVP.

Charlie Curnow was recognised as the Coleman Medal winner, while Nick Daicos clinched the Rising Star.

See the All-Australian team and all the award winners below.

All-Australian team 2022

FB Tom Stewart (GEE) Steven May (MEL) Brayden Maynard (COL)
HB Jack Sinclair (STK) Sam Taylor (GWS) Adam Saad (CAR)
C Touk Miller (GCS) Clayton Oliver (MEL) Callum Mills (SYD)
HF Shai Bolton (RIC) Jeremy Cameron (GEE) Christian Petracca (MEL)
FF Charlie Curnow (CAR) Tom Hawkins (GEE) Tyson Stengle (GEE)
R Max Gawn (MEL) Patrick Cripps (CAR) Lachie Neale (BRIS)
INT Mark Blicavs (GEE) Andrew Brayshaw (FRE) Isaac Heeney (SYD)
  Connor Rozee (POR)    

AFL Awards Winners

AFL Coaches Association Champion Player of the Year Award

Melbourne's Clayton Oliver and Gold Coast's Touk Miller have tied to win the prestigious honour voted by the coaches.

AFL COACHES ASSOCIATION CHAMPION PLAYER OF THE YEAR VOTING

98 votes = Clayton Oliver (Melbourne)
98 votes = Touk Miller (Gold Coast)
92 votes - Lachie Neale (Brisbane)
89 votes - Christian Petracca (Melbourne)
88 votes - Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide)
86 votes - Patrick Cripps (Carlton)
76 votes - Jeremy Cameron (Geelong)
74 votes - Andrew Brayshaw (Fremantle)
65 votes - Callum Mills (Sydney)
60 votes - Mark Blicavs (Geelong)

AFL Players Association MVP - Leigh Matthews Trophy

Fremantle midfielder Andrew Brayshaw has won the best player award as voted by his peers.

LEADERBOARD

1. Andrew Brayshaw (Fremantle)

2. Clayton Oliver (Melbourne)

3. Shai Bolton (Richmond)

4. Lachie Neale (Brisbane Lions)

5. Jeremy Cameron (Geelong Cats)

AFL Rising Star winner

Collingwood's Nick Daicos was rewarded with the  AFL's Rising Star Award after a stellar season in just his first year of AFL football.

Click here for the Rising Star leaderboard.

AFLCA Best Young Player

Hawthorn midfielder Jai Newcombe wins the award after a stellar season in the engine room.

AFLPA Best Captain

Collingwood veteran Scott Pendlebury has been named as best captain in the AFL by his peers.

LEADERBOARD

1. Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood)

2. Joel Selwood (Geelong Cats)

3. Max Gawn (Melbourne

4. Patrick Cripps (Carlton)

5. Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs)

AFLPA Most Courageous

Richmond utility Liam Baker has been voted as most courageous by his fellow players.

LEADERBOARD

1. Liam Baker (Richmond)

2. Brayden Maynard (Collingwood)

3. Jack Viney (Melbourne)

4. Paddy McCartin (Sydney Swans)

5. Sam Docherty (Carlton)

AFLPA Best First Year Player

After winning the Rising Star award, Collingwood jet Nick Daicos has also been voted best first year player by his peers.

LEADERBOARD

1. Nick Daicos (Collingwood)

2. Nic Martin (Essendon)

3. Marcus Windhager (St Kilda)

4. Joshua Gibcus (Richmond)

5. Jesse Motlop (Carlton)

Kieran Francis

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Kieran Francis is a senior editor at The Sporting News based in Melbourne, Australia. He started at Sportal.com.au before being a part of the transition to Sporting News in 2015. Just prior to the 2018 World Cup, he was appointed chief editor of Goal.com in Australia. He has now returned to The Sporting News where his passions lay in football, AFL, poker and cricket - when he is not on holiday.