Matt Priddis is a former AFL player for the West Coast Eagles.
Before his retirement in 2017, Matt Priddis played 235 games with the Eagles since making his debut in 2006, winning a club best and fairest in 2013 and the Brownlow Medal the next season, before finishing runner-up the following year. Matt Priddis was named in the All Australian team in 2015 as he helped the Eagles qualify for the grand final, only for the WA side to suffer a 46-point drubbing at the hands of Hawthorn.
Matt is one of only two players to win both the Brownlow and the WAFL’s Sandover Medal, which he took out in 2006. In 2016, Matt led the league in tackles and was named in the 40-man All Australian squad.
Matt Priddis also won two Ross Glendinning Medals as the player judged best afield in a western derby and two Geoff Christian Medals, awarded by ABC Perth to the best West Coast or Fremantle player each season.
- rownlow Medal (AFL Best & Fairest): 2014.
- Sandover Medal (WAFL Best & Fairest): 2006 (with Subiaco). He is one of only two players to win both a Brownlow and a Sandover Medal.
- John Worsfold Medal (West Coast Club Champion): 2013. He also finished as runner-up on four other occasions.
- All-Australian: 2015.
- AFL Records: He retired in 2017 as the AFL’s all-time leader in career tackles (over 1,500) and holds the club record for career handballs and tackles.
- Team Success: He won two WAFL premierships with the Subiaco Football Club (2004, 2006) and was part of the Eagles’ 2015 Grand Final team.