1983 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Ross Glendinning North Melbourne 24 4 5 2
2nd Maurice Rioli Richmond 23 4 5 1
3rd Simon Madden Essendon 22 5 3 1
4th Gary Dempsey North Melbourne 17 2 5 1
5th Mark Lee Richmond 16 3 2 3
6th Terry Daniher^ Essendon 15 2 4 1
Terry Wallace Hawthorn 15 1 5 2
8th Val Perovic Carlton 14 4 1 0
9th Jim Edmond Footscray 13 2 3 1
Stephen Icke Melbourne 13 4 0 1
Andrew Purser Footscray 13 2 3 1

*: Player was ineligible to receive the medal this season.
^: Player received the Leigh Matthews Trophy this season.

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st North Melbourne 93 Ross Glendinning (24)
2nd Essendon 86 Simon Madden (22)
3rd Hawthorn 84 Terry Wallace (15)
4th Fitzroy 76 Laurie Serafini (9)
5th Richmond 65 Maurice Rioli (23)
6th Carlton 63 Val Perovic (14)
7th Collingwood 62 David Cloke (10)
Footscray 62 Jim Edmond, Andrew Purser (13)
9th Melbourne 55 Stephen Icke (13)
10th St Kilda 52 Robert Elphinstone (11)
11th Geelong 50 John Mossop (11)
12th Sydney 42 David Ackerly (6)
* undesignated 2

*: 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).