Year |
Winner |
Team |
Description |
Video
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2023 |
Will Ashcroft |
Brisbane Lions |
Round 7 goal against Fremantle at the Gabba. From the pocket and under pressure, Ashcroft collected the ball in mid-air and brought it down onto his boot in one smooth motion all before landing back on the ground, kicking an incredible goal from the outside of the boot on a tight angle. |
[2]
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2022 |
Sam Draper |
Essendon |
Round 18 goal against Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium. Ruckman Draper gathered the ball directly from the centre bounce, sprinted towards the 50m arc, executed a one–two handpass with Matt Guelfi, side-stepped Suns defender Charlie Ballard before successfully slotting a banana kick from 25 metres out on a slight angle. |
[3]
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2021 |
Caleb Serong |
Fremantle |
Round 22 goal against West Coast Eagles at Optus Stadium. Ball was kept in by Adam Cerra, who gave to Mitch Crowden, who broke a tackle before handpassing to Serong, who was knocked to the ground by Dom Sheed before getting up again and kicking the checkside goal from deep in the right forward pocket. Anthony Hudson's call of "Serong, so right" immortalised the goal. |
[4]
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2020 |
Josh Daicos |
Collingwood |
Round 10 goal against Sydney at the Gabba. Daicos was on the boundary line under pressure, handballs it in front of himself and the Sydney defender, then picking it up again and kicking a right foot banana 30 metres out on the boundary. A kick reminiscent of one his father Peter would frequently kick. |
[5]
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2019 |
Eddie Betts |
Adelaide |
Round 5 goal against Gold Coast at Adelaide Oval. In his 300th game, Betts kicked a classic left-footed banana from about 30 metres out on the boundary line of the same left hand pocket as his 2015 and 2016 Goal of the Year winners. |
[6]
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2018 |
Jack Higgins |
Richmond |
Round 19 goal against Collingwood at the MCG; under pressure and standing behind the goal line but keeping the ball in play, Higgins dropped the ball around the goal post and kicked it backwards over his head |
[7]
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2017 |
Daniel Rioli |
Richmond |
Round 3 goal against West Coast at the MCG, Rioli successfully kept the ball in bounds up against the boundary line and kicked a right foot banana on the run 35m out from goal. |
[8]
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2016 |
Eddie Betts |
Adelaide |
Round 10 goal against Greater Western Sydney at Adelaide Oval. Betts successfully trapped and gathered the ball on the boundary line 50m out from goal after a spoiled marking contest. Betts then evades two GWS players before kicking a goal with a right foot snap from 35m out.
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2015 |
Eddie Betts |
Adelaide |
Round 9 goal against Fremantle at Adelaide Oval. Kicked inside-out with his left foot from the left-hand boundary from nearly 50 metres out on the boundary line. The ball was expertly swung in the air to bounce through an unguarded goal square.
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[10]
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2014 |
Matt White |
Port Adelaide |
Round 17 goal against Richmond at Etihad Stadium. White gathered the ball at half-back, ran full tilt up the wing with three bounces, burning off a chasing Steven Morris in the process, before unloading from 50m to goal.
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[11]
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2013 |
Lance Franklin |
Hawthorn |
Round 3 goal against Collingwood at the MCG. Received a handball from Ben Stratton in the centre square, jumped over a tackled Stratton and went on to kick the goal from 75 metres out.
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[12]
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2012 |
Chris Yarran |
Carlton |
Round 1 goal against Richmond at the MCG. Received a handball from Chris Judd between left wing and half-forward flank. Ran along the boundary past Richmond opponents Dustin Martin, Ivan Maric and Steven Morris, Yarran broke tackles from Maric and Morris before slotting the game-changing goal from 40 metres out.
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2011 |
Hayden Ballantyne |
Fremantle |
Round 2 goal against Geelong at Subiaco Oval. Ballantyne ran through the centre of the ground before kicking the ball inside 50. He received a follow-up handball from Matthew Pavlich and slotted the goal from 40 metres out in a team-lifting effort.
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2010 |
Lance Franklin |
Hawthorn |
Round 13 goal against Essendon at the MCG, where Franklin outsprinted Cale Hooker from the wing to boot truly from around 50 metres out from near the left boundary line (Franklin is left-footed, making the angle even more acute)[15]
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[16]
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2009 |
Cyril Rioli |
Hawthorn |
In the Round 7 match against Essendon, Rioli managed to evade numerous defenders to weave his way into a position to handball to teammate Chance Bateman before receiving the ball back and kicking a goal from 40 metres out.[1]
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2008 |
Leon Davis |
Collingwood |
In the final home-and-away Friday night match, Leon Davis tackled Fremantle player Des Headland in Fremantle's defensive 50 and knocked the ball out of the scruffle; as he picked the ball up, he broke a tackle and then ran 10 metres before kicking an amazing drop punt from 50 m out on the boundary. Dennis Cometti adding the words "of the season" after Bruce McAvaney called out "goal". |
[18]
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2007 |
Matthew Lloyd |
Essendon |
Matthew Lloyd back-heeled the goal through a pack of players from 5 metres out in an innovative unorthodox drop kick in a moment of quick thinking. |
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2006 |
Eddie Betts |
Carlton |
Smothered Tarkyn Lockyer's handball, gathered the ball and, with two opposition players surrounding him, kicked a freakish banana from the boundary and kicked truly.[20] |
[21]
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2005 |
Chris Judd |
West Coast Eagles |
Burst from a boundary throw in on the half forward flank, spun out of a tackle and kicked truly from about 40 metres out at Subiaco oval.[22] |
[23]
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2004 |
Daniel Wells |
Kangaroos |
Described as "Jackie Chan in mid-air", Wells leapt into the air, grabbed the ball out of the ruck and kicked in one motion in the goal square at Subiaco, giving North Melbourne a narrow victory over Fremantle.[24] |
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2003 |
Daniel Kerr |
West Coast Eagles |
Received the football at half-back, before taking 5 bounces and finishing from 48 m out, late in a famous Derby against Fremantle. |
[26]
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2002 |
Jason Akermanis |
Brisbane Lions |
A snap shot from 45 metres out on his non-preferred left boot, along the boundary line while turning around to the left of the goals against Carlton at the Gabba in Round 14. |
[27]
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2001 |
Mark Merenda |
West Coast Eagles |
Paddled the ball from outside 50 along the boundary line towards goal and snapped it through from the pocket against St. Kilda at the Telstra Dome. |
[28]
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