1980 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Kelvin Templeton Footscray 23 5 3 2
2nd Merv Neagle Essendon 20 4 4 0
3rd Rod Blake Geelong 19 5 1 2
4th Peter Moore Collingwood 18 2 4 4
5th Tim Watson Essendon 17 4 2 1
6th Mark Lee Richmond 16 5 0 1
Leigh Matthews Hawthorn 16 3 2 3
Chris Smith Fitzroy 16 4 2 0
9th Gary Dempsey North Melbourne 15 4 1 1
Keith Greig North Melbourne 15 4 0 3

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st North Melbourne 88 Gary Dempsey, Keith Greig (15)
2nd Geelong 80 Rod Blake (19)
3rd Richmond 76 Mark Lee (16)
4th Essendon 75 Merv Neagle (20)
5th Collingwood 74 Peter Moore (18)
6th Carlton 71 Val Perovic (12)
7th South Melbourne 70 Neville Fields, Peter Morrison (9)
8th Hawthorn 61 Leigh Matthews (16)
9th Fitzroy 53 Chris Smith (16)
10th Footscray 47 Kelvin Templeton (23)
11th Melbourne 44 Robert Flower (14)
12th St Kilda 38 Bruce Duperouzel (11)
* undesignated 15

*: 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).