Lambert–Pearce Medal
Georgia Nanscawen, 2021 and 2022 winner
Awarded for	Thebest and fairest player in theVFL Women's
Country	Australia
Presented by	VFL Women's
First award	2016
Currently held by	Dominique Carbone (Western Bulldogs)
Most wins	Georgia Nanscawen (2)
Website	https://www.afl.com.au/vfl

TheLambert–Pearce Medal is awarded to thebest and fairest player in theVFL Women's (VFLW) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the officiatingfield umpires after each game. It is the most prestigious award for individual players in the VFLW.

Essendon'sGeorgia Nanscawen is the only multiple winner of the award, winning consecutive awards in 2021 and 2022.^[1]

The VFL Women's best and fairest award was named the Lambert–Pearce Medal in 2018 to honourVictorian Women's Football League (VWFL) founding committee member and former president Helen Lambert (the namesake of the Helen Lambert Medal, the VWFL best and fairest award) andDaisy Pearce, who won the inaugural VFL Women's best and fairest award in 2016 after having previously won six Helen Lambert Medals in the VWFL.^[2]

To determine thebest player, the three field umpires (not the goal umpires or boundary umpires) confer after each home-and-away 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. On the awards night, the votes from each match are tallied, and the player or players with the highest number of votes is awarded the trophy (subject to eligibility – see below).

The current voting system, which is the same as that of similar awards such as theAustralian Football League (AFL)'sBrownlow Medal or theAFL Women's best and fairest, has been used since the award's inception. If two or more eligible players score the equal highest number of votes, each wins a trophy.

Thefairest component of the trophy is achieved by making ineligible any player who is suspended by the VFL Tribunal during the home-and-away season. An ineligible player cannot win the award, regardless of the number of votes she has received.

A player remains eligible for the award under the following circumstances:

• she is suspended during the finals or pre-season;
• she serves a suspension in the current season which carried on from, or was earned for an offence committed in, the previous season;
• she receives any sort of club-imposed suspension which is not recognised by the VFL Tribunal;
• she is found guilty by the VFL Tribunal of an offence which attracts only a financial penalty.

Umpires cast their votes for each game independent of eligibility criteria of the players;i.e. umpires can cast votes for players who have already been suspended during that season if they perceive them to be amongst the best on the ground.

Winners who also won a premiership in the same season

• Daisy Pearce (Darebin, 2016)
• Katie Brennan (Darebin, 2017)
• Georgia Nanscawen (Essendon, 2022)

Winners who also led the league goalkicking in the same season

• Katie Brennan (Darebin, 2017)

Winners who also won the league rising star award in the same season

• Charlotte Simpson (Geelong Cats, 2023)

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