The following list details all of the major goalkicking records relating specifically to
Essendon Football Club, including season highs, career highs, and game highs for both the
Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League) and
AFL Women's, as well as the club's pre-VFL/AFL records. The AFL's annual leading goalkicker award, the
Coleman Medal, is named after Essendon's
John Coleman. At the 2009
Essendon Best & Fairest awards night, outgoing CEO
Peter Jackson announced that the Essendon leading goalkicker medal would be named the Matthew Lloyd Medal in honour of the recently retired
Matthew Lloyd.[1] This is sometimes referred to as the Matthew Lloyd Leading Goalkicker Award.[2]
Leading goalkickers by season
The following is a list of Essendon leading goalkickers in each season.[3]
Matthew Lloyd is the club's career leading goalkicker. In addition to being the club's leading goalkicker a record 12 times, Lloyd has 926 career goals, also a club record.
Coleman, seen here taking a
spectacular mark over North Melbourne's full-back
Vic Lawrence in 1953,[4] retired with a record average of 5.48 goals per game (subsequently only beaten by Hawthorn's
Peter Hudson), and his 14 goals in a single game remains a club record.