2018 Brownlow Medal

The 2018 Brownlow Medal was the 91st year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home-and-away season.^[1] Tom Mitchell of the Hawthorn Football Club won the medal with 28 votes.

2018 Brownlow Medal
2018 Brownlow Medalist, Tom Mitchell
Date	24 September
Location	Crown Palladium
Hosted by	Bruce McAvaney
Winner	Tom Mitchell (Hawthorn) (28 votes)
Television/radio coverage
Network	Seven Network Telstra
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Leading vote-getters

	Player	Votes
1st	Tom Mitchell (Hawthorn)	28
2nd	Steele Sidebottom (Collingwood)	24
3rd	Angus Brayshaw (Melbourne)	21
=4th	Patrick Cripps (Carlton)	20
	Max Gawn (Melbourne)
=6th	Rory Laird (Adelaide)	19
	Dustin Martin (Richmond)
=8th	Jack Steven (St Kilda)	18
	Dayne Beams (Brisbane Lions)
=10th	Brodie Grundy (Collingwood)	17
	Patrick Dangerfield (Geelong)

Voting procedure

The three field umpires (those umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match and award three votes, two votes, and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second-best and third-best in the match, respectively. The votes are kept secret until the awards night, and they are read and tallied on the evening.^[2]