1976 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Graham Moss Essendon 48 12 4 4
2nd Peter Knights Hawthorn 45 11 6 0
3rd Francis Bourke Richmond 36 6 6 6
4th Barry Cable North Melbourne 28 7 1 5
Gary Dempsey Footscray 28 5 6 1
Greg Wells Melbourne 28 5 3 7
7th Ron Alexander Fitzroy 26 8 1 0
Bruce Nankervis Geelong 26 4 5 4
9th Garry Wilson Fitzroy 24 ? ? ?
10th Leigh Matthews Hawthorn 23 6 2 1
Robert Neal Geelong 23 4 5 1

*: Player was ineligible to receive the medal this season.

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Carlton 152 Rod Ashman (21)
2nd Melbourne 147 Greg Wells (28)
3rd Hawthorn 146 Peter Knights (45)
4th Geelong 134 Bruce Nankervis (26)
5th North Melbourne 127 Barry Cable (28)
6th Essendon 123 Graham Moss (48)
Fitzroy 123 Ron Alexander (26)
8th Footscray 122 Gary Dempsey (28)
9th St Kilda 121 Trevor Barker (21)
10th Richmond 107 Francis Bourke (36)
11th Collingwood 106 Bill Picken, Len Thompson (14)
12th South Melbourne 103 Barry Round (17)
* undesignated 1

*: Undesignated votes for players who played with more than one team during the home-and-away season (due to incomplete match-level records pre-1984).