\n Zak Butters claims his third club champion medal after another outstanding season at Port Adelaide\n <\/p>\n
Zak Butters celebrates with teammate Ollie Wines during the match between Greater Western Sydney and Port Adelaide at Manuka Oval in round 13, 2025. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n
ZAK Butters has claimed his third successive John Cahill Medal as Port Adelaide’s best and fairest, well clear of key forward Mitch Georgiades and captain Connor Rozee.<\/p>\n
Butters polled 134 votes, 16 votes clear of Georgiades (118), who booted 58 goals in a career-best season. Rozee (117) was just one vote behind Georgiades, with small forward Joe Richards and defender Aliir Aliir rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n
Butters, 24, averaged 28 disposals, 13 contested possessions and five tackles per game in a season, earning him a place among the 44-man All-Australian squad along with teammate Georgiades.<\/p>\n
First-year midfielder Christian Moraes was recognised with the Gavin Wanganeen Medal for the best player aged under 21, while defender Esava Ratugolea won the Coaches’ Award for the most improved player.<\/p>\n
Mitch Georgiades during the round 24 match between Port Adelaide and Gold Coast at Adelaide Oval, August 22, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
Hard-nosed midfielder Willem Drew claimed a hat-trick of his own, winning the Fos Williams Medal as the Power’s best team man for the third successive season.<\/p>\n
Willie Rioli was awarded the John McCarthy Medal for his work in the community, including his support of Power Community Ltd. and broader initiatives supporting First Nations communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
John Cahill Medal<\/p>\n
1.\u202fZak Butters – 134
2. Mitch Georgiades – 118
3.\u202fConnor Rozee – 117
4. Joe Richards – 84\u00a0
5. Aliir Aliir – 73 \u00a0
6. Miles Bergman – 67
7. Darcy Byrne-Jones – 64
8. Lachie Jones – 58
9. Esava Ratugolea – 57
=10. Jason Horne-Francis – 56
=10. Ollie Wines – 56<\/p>\n
Award winners\u00a0<\/p>\n
John Cahill Medal (best & fairest)\u00a0
Zak Butters\u00a0<\/p>\n
John Cahill Medal runner-up\u00a0
Mitch Georgiades\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bruce Weber Memorial Award (third place best & fairest)\u00a0
Connor Rozee\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fos Williams Medal (best team man, voted by the players)\u00a0\u00a0
Willem Drew\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leading goalkicker
Mitch Georgiades (58 goals)<\/p>\n
Gavin Wanganeen Award (best player under 21)\u202f\u00a0
Christian Moraes\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Coaches\u2019 Award (most improved)\u202f\u00a0
Esava Ratugolea\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
John McCarthy Award (for community service)\u202f\u00a0
Willie Rioli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zak Butters claims his third club champion medal after another outstanding season at Port Adelaide Zak Butters celebrates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-113310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}