Since 1992, the Michael Tuck Medal has been awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the AFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 Pre-season Cup Final. It is named after Michael Tuck

Michael Tuck

Michael Tuck is a seven time premiership winning player, Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League / Australian Football League , where he is the games record holder....

, the current AFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 games record holder who played 426 senior matches for the Hawthorn Hawks between 1972 and 1991.

Recipients

Year	Player	Team
1992 1992 Foster's Cup The 1992 AFL Foster's Cup was the Australian Football League Pre-season Cup competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 1992 Premiership Season began. It culminated the Final in March 1992....	Paul Hudson Paul Hudson (Australian rules footballer) Paul Hudson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn, the Western Bulldogs and Richmond.-Playing career:...	Hawthorn Hawthorn Football Club The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
1993 1993 Foster's Cup The 1993 AFL Foster's Cup was the Australian Football League Pre-season Cup competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 1993 Premiership Season began. It culminated the Final in March 1993....	Gavin Wanganeen Gavin Wanganeen Gavin Adrian Wanganeen is a retired Australian rules footballer, playing in two Australian Football League premierships with Essendon and Port Adelaide. Wanganeen is a Brownlow Medallist and is considered one of the finest indigenous players ever...	Essendon Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
1994 1994 Foster's Cup The 1994 AFL Foster's Cup was the Australian Football League Pre-season Cup competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 1994 Premiership Season began. It culminated the Final in March 1994....	Gary O'Donnell	Essendon Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
1995 1995 Ansett Australia Cup The 1995 AFL Ansett Australia Cup was the Australian Football League Pre-season Cup competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 1995 Premiership Season began. It culminated the Final in March 1995....	Mick Martyn	North Melbourne North Melbourne Football Club The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...
1996 1996 Ansett Australia Cup - Scorecard :-St Kilda Football Club:-Carlton Football Club:- Final Placings :1. St. Kilda 2. Carlton 3. West Coast 4. North Melbourne 5. Collingwood 6. Brisbane 7. Footscray 8. Adelaide 9. Sydney 10. Fremantle 11. Fitzroy 12. Richmond...	Nicky Winmar Nicky Winmar Neil Elvis "Nicky" Winmar is a former Australian Footballer of an indigenous background who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League.- AFL career :...	St Kilda
1997 1997 Ansett Australia Cup The 1997 AFL Ansett Australia Cup was the Australian Football League Pre-season Cup competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 1997 Premiership Season began. It culminated the Final in March 1997.- Final Placings :1. Carlton...	Craig Bradley Craig Bradley Craig Edwin "Braddles" Bradley is a former South Australian Australian rules footballer and first class cricketer. He is currently a part-time assistant coach at the Carlton Football Club, the club he represented 375 times in the VFL/AFL....	Carlton Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
1998 1998 Ansett Australia Cup - Scorecard :- Final Placings :1. North Melbourne 2. St. Kilda 3. Melbourne 4. Brisbane 5. Western Bulldogs 6. Essendon 7. Adelaide 8. West Coast 9. Richmond 10. Sydney 11. Port Adelaide 12. Fremantle 13. Carlton 14. Geelong 15. Hawthorn...	Wayne Carey Wayne Carey Wayne Carey is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne and Adelaide Football Clubs in the Australian Football League ....	North Melbourne North Melbourne Football Club The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...
1999 1999 Ansett Australia Cup The 1999 AFL Ansett Australia Cup was the Australian Football League Pre-season Cup competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 1999 Premiership Season began. It culminated the Final in March 1999.- Final Placings :...	Paul Salmon Paul Salmon Paul Salmon is a former Australian rules footballer. Recruited from North Ringwood, the 206 cm Salmon was, at the time, along with Carlton's Justin Madden, the tallest man to play AFL football...	Hawthorn Hawthorn Football Club The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
2000 2000 Ansett Australia Cup The 2000 AFL Ansett Australia Cup was the Australian Football League Pre-season Cup competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 2000 Premiership Season began....	Mark Mercuri Mark Mercuri Mark Mercuri was a professional Australian rules football player for Essendon. He played in the 1993 Grand final winning team which defeated Carlton...	Essendon Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
2001 2001 Ansett Australia Cup -Knockout Chart:-See also:*List of Australian Football League night premiers*2001 AFL season***...	Adam Kingsley Adam Kingsley Adam Kingsley is a former Australian rules footballer who played for in the Australian Football League . He is currently an assistant coach at the St Kilda Football Club.-Early career:...	Port Adelaide Port Adelaide Football Club The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League and the South Australian National Football League...
2002 2002 Wizard Home Loans Cup The 2002 Wizard Home Loans Cup was the Australian Football League competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 2002 Premiership Season began. The AFL National Cup is also sometimes referred to as the pre-season cup because it is played in its entirety before the...	Nick Stevens Nick Stevens Nick Stevens is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Originally from St Marys in the VMFL, Stevens was recruited in the 1997 AFL Draft to the Port Adelaide Football Club where he became a very prominent outside midfielder...	Port Adelaide Port Adelaide Football Club The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League and the South Australian National Football League...
2003 2003 Wizard Home Loans Cup The 2003 Wizard Home Loans Cup was the Australian Football League competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 2003 Premiership Season began. The AFL National Cup is also sometimes referred to as the pre-season cup because it is played in its entirety before the...	Andrew McLeod Andrew McLeod Andrew Luke McLeod is a former Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club. He is the games record holder for Adelaide, having played 340 games....	Adelaide
2004 2004 Wizard Home Loans Cup The 2004 Wizard Home Loans Cup was the Australian Football League competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 2004 Premiership Season began...	Robert Harvey Robert Harvey (footballer) Robert Jeffrey Harvey is a former Australian rules football player for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League...	St Kilda
2005 2005 Wizard Home Loans Cup The 2005 Wizard Home Loans Cup was the name of the AFL pre-season competition for 2005. The attendance for all matches was 317,761, with an average attendance of 21,184 per game. The Michael Tuck medal was awarded to Brendan Fevola of the Carlton Football Club...	Brendan Fevola Brendan Fevola Brendan Fevola is a professional Australian rules footballer. He played with the Carlton and Brisbane Lions football clubs in the Australian Football League....	Carlton Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
2006 2006 NAB Cup The 2006 NAB Cup was held across Australia between 24 February and 18 March. The NAB Cup was won by Geelong who defeated Adelaide in the Grand Final of the knock-out pre-season competition.- Prize money :...	Simon Goodwin Simon Goodwin Simon Goodwin is a former Australian rules footballer, who is a dual premiership player with the Adelaide Football Club and is now an assistant coach at the Essendon Football Club.-Early career :...	Adelaide
2007 2007 NAB Cup -Knock-Out Chart:- Final Placings :1. Carlton 2. Brisbane 3. Geelong 4. North Melbourne 5. Port Adelaide 6. Hawthorn 7. Fremantle 8. Western Bulldogs 9. Adelaide 10. Essendon 11. St. Kilda 12. Melbourne 13. Sydney 14. Richmond 15. West Coast...	Nick Stevens Nick Stevens Nick Stevens is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Originally from St Marys in the VMFL, Stevens was recruited in the 1997 AFL Draft to the Port Adelaide Football Club where he became a very prominent outside midfielder...	Carlton Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
2008 2008 NAB Cup The 2008 NAB Cup was the Australian Football League pre-season competition played in its entirety before the Australian Football League's 2008 Premiership season began...	Jason Gram Jason Gram Jason Gram is an Australian rules footballer for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League .-AFL career:...	St Kilda
2009 2009 NAB Cup The 2009 NAB Cup is the Australian Football League pre-season competition that was played before the Australian Football League's 2009 Premiership season begins. It culminated with the Final on 13 March 2009 played between Geelong and Collingwood and was won by Geelong...	Joel Selwood Joel Selwood Joel Anthony Selwood is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League...	Geelong Geelong Football Club The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...
2010 2010 NAB Cup The 2010 NAB Cup was the Australian Football League pre-season competition that was played before the 2010 home and away season. The games were played between 12 February and 13 March, with the first match being between and at Subiaco Oval...	Barry Hall Barry Hall Barry Hall is a former Australian rules footballer. Hall is considered to be one of the best forwards of the modern era, being named All-Australian, leading his club's goalkicking on nine occasions and captaining the Sydney Swans to their 2005 AFL Grand Final victory...	Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs The Western Bulldogs are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based at the Whitten Oval in West Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne...
2011 2011 NAB Cup -Quarter-finals:-Semi-finals:-Grand Final:-NAB Challenge:Teams that are eliminated from the NAB Cup are scheduled to play against each other, mostly at regional venues, to provide all teams warm-up games for the main season and expose regional audiences to AFL level football.On 16 December 2010,...	Heath Shaw Heath Shaw Heath Shaw is an Australian rules footballer playing for Collingwood in the Australian Football League-AFL career:...	Collingwood Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

Italics - denotes winner from losing team of that Grand Final.

Trivia

• Adelaide's Simon Goodwin became the first player to win the medal despite playing in the losing side when they were defeated by Geelong in 2006.

• Nick Stevens became the first player to win two Michael Tuck medals when Carlton defeated the Brisbane Lions in 2007, after previously winning it whilst playing for Port Adelaide in 2002.

• Tuck committed an amusing faux pas in 2005, when he himself accidentally referred to the medal as the Norm Smith Medal
  Norm Smith Medal
  The Norm Smith Medal is the award given in the AFL Grand Final to the player adjudged by an independent panel of experts to have been the best player in the match.-History:The Norm Smith Medal is named after former Melbourne player and coach, Norm Smith...
  
   while presenting it (the Norm Smith Medal is awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the premiership season grand final). He has alluded to this mistake prior to awarding the medal in future seasons by emphasising his name; in 2009 his words were "my name is Michael Tuck, and the winner of the Michael Tuck Medal is Joel Selwood."

• There is yet to be a player to win both the Michael Tuck and Norm Smith Medal
  Norm Smith Medal
  The Norm Smith Medal is the award given in the AFL Grand Final to the player adjudged by an independent panel of experts to have been the best player in the match.-History:The Norm Smith Medal is named after former Melbourne player and coach, Norm Smith...
  
  s in the same year.