They will be granted the honour at the League's annual general meeting on the eve of the home and away season.
Pavlich, Lyon, Hardwick, McKenna and Scarlett all qualified for life membership automatically by playing or coaching in a total of 300 games. Each reached the milestone during the 2012 season.
Former Richmond star Michael Green, ex-Collingwood player and club president Kevin Rose and West Coast chief executive Trevor Nisbett will also be awarded life membership under the provision of 'Special Service to the Game'.
Green played 146 games for Richmond between 1966-71 and 1973-75, including the premierships of 1967, 1969, 1973 and 1974, and was named in the back pocket in the club's team of the century.
After his retirement as a player, he served on the Richmond board and match committee and spent time as the club's reserves coach and as a senior assistant coach.
Since 1995 he has been a director of AFL SportsReady and a member of the AFL Tribunal (1995-98) and the AFL Appeals Board (1998-present).
Kevin Rose played 159 games for Collingwood between 1958-67, including the 1958 premiership, and was president of the club between 1996-98, as well as serving as a board member for a decade.
A life member of the Magpies, he also served as Fitzroy senior coach and was a dual premiership coach with Prahran in the then-VFA.
Nisbett played in the WAFL with East Perth before becoming the club's football manager, then general manager of the club.
After a successful stint at Subiaco he joined West Coast as its football manager in 1989, filling the role for a decade before taking his current role as club chief executive in 1999.
The AFL will present its Jack Titus Award for conspicuous service to the game to Port Adelaide's Alf Trebilcock, who will begin his 45th successive season at the club in 2013.
