The AFL off-season comes with best and fairest awards to reflect on and reward the best club players from all 18 sides.

Every club has now confirmed their 2024 club champion, along with the top ten finishers and other worthy award winners.

Here is each AFL club's 2024 best and fairest winner, as well as other high vote-getters and award winners from each side.

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Carlton

Carlton captain Patrick Cripps has added a record fifth John Nicholls Medal to his Brownlow-winning 2024 season after taking out the Blues' best and fairest.

The 2024 title sees Cripps level Nicholls himself as the only Blues to have won the club gong five times, with Cripps having won it previously in 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2022.

Cripps polled a total of 204 votes and was recognised as the team's best player in nine of his 24 games this year to hold a 56-vote gap over the next best, while just seven votes separated the rest of the top five.

Defender Nic Newman finished in second with 148 votes, while Sam Walsh (147 votes), Jacob Weitering (144) and George Hewett (141) also polled well.

Top Ten:
1. Patrick Cripps 204 votes
2. Nic Newman 148
3. Sam Walsh 147
4. Jacob Weitering 144
5. George Hewett 141
6. Blake Acres 122]
7. Tom De Koning 121
8. Harry McKay 117
9. Charlie Curnow 116
10. Matthew Kennedy 110

Other Awards:

  • Best Clubman: Matt Kennedy
  • Best Young Player: Elijah Hollands
  • Coaches Award: George Hewett
  • Spirit of Carlton Award: Tom De Koning
  • Best Finals Player: Patrick Cripps
  • Players' Award: Patrick Cripps
  • Carltonians Williams A. Cook Award: Patrick Cripps
  • Bill Lanyon Inner Blue Ruthless Award: Patrick Cripps
  • Interstate Coterie Award: Nic Newman
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