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The AFL Awards are set to be handed out on Wednesday evening in Melbourne. You can follow all the action live on Zero Hanger below with our blog throughout the night.

The awards ceremony will kick-off at 7pm (AEST), with the All Australian team announcement to headline the evening.

9:37pm (AEST)

Thanks for joining Zero Hanger tonight for our coverage of the AFL awards.

Here is the full list of awards.

Rising Star: Nick Daicos (Collingwood Magpies)
AFL Coaches Association Best Young Player Award: Jai Newcombe (Hawthorn Hawks)
AFL Coaches Association Champion Player: Clayton Oliver (Melbourne Demons) and Touk Miller (Gold Coast Suns)
AFLPA Best First Year Player: Nick Daicos (Collingwood Magpies)
AFLPA Most Courageous Award: Liam Baker (Richmond Tigers)
AFLPA Best Captain Award: Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood Magpies)
AFLPA MVP Award: Andrew Brayshaw (Fremantle Dockers)

FULL 2022 ALL AUSTRALIAN TEAM

B: Tom Stewart (Geelong), Steven May (Melbourne), Brayden Maynard (Collingwood)

HB: Jack Sinclair (St Kilda), Sam Taylor (GWS Giants), Adam Saad (Carlton)

C: Touk Miller (Gold Coast), Clayton Oliver (Melbourne), Callum Mills (Sydney)

HF: Christian Petracca (Melbourne), Jeremy Cameron (Geelong), Shai Bolton (Richmond)

F: Charlie Curnow (Carlton), Tom Hawkins (Geelong), Tyson Stengle (Geelong)

FOLL: Max Gawn (Melbourne), Patrick Cripps (Carlton), Lachie Neale (Brisbane)

INTERCHANGE: Mark Blicavs (Geelong), Andrew Brayshaw (Fremantle), Isaac Heeney (Sydney), Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide)

9:33pm (AEST)

The captain of the 2022 All Australian team is Geelong's Tom Hawkins, with Patrick Cripps (Carlton) as the vice-captain.

9:23pm (AEST)

The All Australian interchange bench has been announced.

Mark Blicavs (Geelong), Andrew Brayshaw (Fremantle), Isaac Heeney (Sydney) and Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide) have been selected.

9:14pm (AEST)

Time for the forward line!

At half forward, we have Christian Petracca (Melbourne), Jeremy Cameron (Geelong) and Shai Bolton (Richmond).

In the full forward line, Charlie Curnow (Carlton) and Tom Hawkins (Geelong) have been selected with Tyson Stengle (Geelong) in the other forward pocket.

9:07pm (AEST)

Next up is the 2022 All Australian midfield!

Callum Mills (Sydney), Clayton Oliver (Melbourne) and Touk Miller (Gold Coast) have been selected across the centre.

With Max Gawn (Melbourne), Patrick Cripps (Carlton) and Lachie Neale (Brisbane) in the middle.

9:01pm (AEST)

The All Australian defenders have been announced.

The 2022 All Australian full backline are Tom Stewart (Geelong), Steven May (Melbourne) and Brayden Maynard (Collingwood).

The 2022 halfbacks are Adam Saad (Carlton), Jack Sinclair (St Kilda) and Sam Taylor (GWS Giants).

9:00pm (AEST)

The announcement of the All Australian team is set to get underway shortly.

8:46pm (AEST)

Patrick Dangerfield and Leigh Matthews are on stage running through the nominees for the AFLPA MVP award. The full list of nominees can be found further down in the blog.

Andrew Brayshaw has been announced as the 2022 AFLPA MVP, a just reward for a stellar season from the Docker.

Brayshaw is accepting the award on stage, thanking his peers for the acknowledgement.

8:38pm (AEST)

It's time for the AFLPA Best Captain Award, presented by Marcus Bontempelli.

Collingwood's Scott Pendlebury has won, now on stage accepting the award.

8:34pm (AEST)

Dylan Grimes is on stage presenting the AFLPA Most Courageous Award, won by Richmond's Liam Baker.

8:30pm (AEST)

It's time for the AFLPA Best First Year Player to be announced, with Nick Daicos taking out the award alongside his earlier Rising Star Award win.

8:26pm (AEST)

We're back! AFLPA president Patrick Dangerfield is on stage introducing the Player's Association awards.

7:43pm (AEST)

We are off for AFL 360 now. Zero Hanger understands that the awards are expected to kick-off again from 8:15pm (AEST) - so just over half an hour from now.

Full list of awards

7:38pm (AEST)

The Coleman Medal will now be presented by Eddie Betts to Charlie Curnow from Carlton.

7:33pm (AEST)

It's time for the Rising Star to be announced.

In third place is Jai Newcombe from Hawthorn. Second place is Sam De Koning from Geelong.

And the winner of the 2022 Rising Star is Nick Daicos from Collingwood.

The full leaderboard is as follows:

1. Nick Daicos - 60
2. Sam De Koning - 48
3. Jai Newcombe - 35
4. Jack Ginnivan - 21
5. Nic Martin - 12
6. Jake Bowey - 2
7. Heath Chapman - 1

7:25pm (AEST)

Sam De Koning has been interviewed after the video package for the Rising Star nominees between Round 9 and 16.

The final nominees are up now.

7:20pm (AEST)

Jason Horne-Francis is now being interviewed after the Rising Star nominees for the first eight rounds were ran through in a video package.

The full list of nominees can be found by scrolling down in this blog.

Horne-Francis revealed he has already talked to new North Melbourne Kangaroos coach Alastair Clarkson and hinted at a possible position switch in 2023.

7:14pm (AEST)

A tie has been announced in the AFL Coaches Association Best Young Player Award with Clayton Oliver of the Melbourne Demons and Touk Miller of the Gold Coast Suns being confirmed to have split the award.

Lachie Neale was the third-place getter.