The Coleman Medal

The AFL Coleman Medal
The Coleman Medal is the AFL award given each year to the player who kicks the most goals in each AFL season. Only goals kicked during regular season matches count towards the tally for this award.

Coleman Medal 2008 – AFL leading goal scorer for the 2008 AFL Season.
Who were the front runners for the Coleman Medal in season 2008? Buddy Franklin has led the AFL for most of the season and the final round saw Buddy and Brendan Fevola go head to head in both the race to kick 100 goals for the season, and to see who would win the Coleman Medfal. But after round 22 Buddy has finished the season on top of this list and wins the 2008 Coleman Medal.

2008 Coleman Medal Leaderboard
Name	Team	Total Goals
Lance Buddy Franklin	Hawthorn	102
Brendan Fevola	Carlton	99
Daniel Bradshaw	Brisbane	75
Jonathan Brown	Brisbane	70
Matthew Pavlich	Fremantle	67

Coleman Medal - The Man
The Coleman Medal is named after John Coleman, a former player for Essendon who kicked 537 goals in his career (that was only 98 games long!) Coleman was the league’s leading goal scorer for five seasons in a row between 1949 and 1953, a remarkable achievement.

Coleman Medal History
As the official award for the leading goal scorer, the AFL named the Coleman Medal in 1981 and awarded it retrospectively back to 1955. Prior to that the league awarded the “Leading Goal Kicker Medal”, with records dating back to 1857. View the list of past Coleman Medal winners and the previous leading goal kickers.

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