2003 – Crows champion Mark Ricciuto became the Club’s first-ever winner of the Brownlow Medal in 2003. Ricciuto collected 22 votes to tie with Adam Goodes and Nathan Buckley. The Australian Football Hall of Famer polled more votes (23) the following season but finished seven votes behind Chris Judd
25 – Scott Thompson holds the record for most Brownlow Medal votes by a Crow in a single season. Thompson polled 25 in 11 games in 2012, one vote behind co-winners Trent Cotchin and Sam Mitchell. Essendon’s Jobe Watson polled 30 votes but was later ruled ineligible.
24 – Thommo holds a one-vote advantage over Rory Sloane, who polled 24 votes in 2016 to finish fourth in the count
1 – Andrew McLeod only polled one vote in 1997 in the same season he won his first Crows Club Champion award
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2 – McLeod (21 votes) was runner-up to Brisbane Lions star Jason Akermanis (23 votes) in the 2001 Brownlow Medal count. He finished third the year prior, four votes behind Melbourne midfielder Shane Woewodin
155 – Votes Thompson polled in his career – ranked 21st in VFL/AFL history and No.1 at Adelaide. Mark Ricciuto is Adelaide’s next-best Brownlow vote-getter with 146
1.4 – Just two players in VFL/AFL history average more than one vote a game. Fitzroy’s Haydn Bunton and Fremantle’s Nat Fyfe, both with 1.04 votes per game
93 – Votes earned by Crows players in 2006 – a Club record. Adelaide’s worst Brownlow showing was in 2011 when the Club received only 39 votes
2 – Thompson and Ricciuto are the kings of the ‘two votes’. The pair received two votes from the umpires 28 times each throughout their careers, ranked equal-fifth in VFL/AFL history. They’re tied on 28 alongside Sam Mitchell, Adam Goodes, Matt Priddis and Shane Crawford
3 – The majority of McLeod’s Brownlow votes were ‘threes’. McLeod was adjudged best-on-ground on 31 occasions compared to 18 ‘two votes’ and 13 single votes
2 – Of the current AFL clubs, only Port Adelaide and newcomers Greater Western Sydney are yet to produce a Brownlow Medallist
0 – No Crows players were awarded a vote in Adelaide’s one-point win over Hawthorn in Round 12, 1992. On only 11 occasions has a winning side failed to register a vote from the umpires in Brownlow Medal history
14 – The Sydney Swans (formerly South Melbourne) have won more Brownlow Medals than any other club. This includes three-time winner Skilton and dual Brownlow Medallist Goodes
9 – Two-time Brownlow Medallist Gary Ablett Jr holds the record for the most vote-polling games in succession. Ablett earned votes in nine straight matches for Geelong between Round 20, 2009 and Round Seven, 2010
