Jock McHale Medal

The Jock McHale Medal is awarded to each year's premiership coach. The medal honours legendary Collingwood coach James 'Jock' McHale, who guided the Magpies in an astonishing 714 matches for 467 wins, 237 losses, and 10 draws. McHale's Collingwood teams won eight premierships, including a never-equalled four in a row between 1927 and 1930 inclusive.

The medal was instituted in 2001 and was retrospectively awarded to all premiership coaches from 1950 onwards, the year after McHale's retirement from Collingwood, while all premiership coaches up to 1949 were retrospectively awarded the Premiership Coach's Medal.

McHale was named as a Legend of the Game in 2005.