2023 Brownlow Medal

The 2023 Brownlow Medal was the 96th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the best and fairest player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home-and-away season. It was won by Lachie Neale for the second time, with 31 votes; Neale had previously won the medal in 2020.^[1] The count took place on Monday 25 September, five days before the grand final.^[2][3]

2023 Brownlow Medal
2023 Brownlow Medallist, Lachie Neale
Date	Monday, 25 September 2023
Location	Crown Palladium
Hosted by	Hamish McLachlan and Rebecca Maddern
Winner	Lachie Neale (Brisbane Lions)
Television/radio coverage
Network	Seven Network Telstra
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Leading vote-getters

	Player	Votes
1st	Lachie Neale (Brisbane Lions)	31
2nd	Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs)	29
3rd	Nick Daicos (Collingwood)	28
=4th	Errol Gulden (Sydney)	27
	Zak Butters (Port Adelaide)
6th	Christian Petracca (Melbourne)	26
7th	Jack Viney (Melbourne)	24
	Caleb Serong (Fremantle)	24*
=8th	Patrick Cripps (Carlton)	22
	Noah Anderson (Gold Coast)
=10th	Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide)	21
	Jack Sinclair (St Kilda)

* The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the AFL Tribunal during the year.

Voting procedure

The four 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.^[4]