The Jock McHale Medal is an award given to the coach of the winning premiership team in the Australian Football League. It is named in honour of coaching games record-holder Jock McHale. It was first awarded in 2001, and medals were retrospectively awarded to back to 1950 (the first season following McHale's retirement from coaching).
| Year | Winner | Team |
| 2012 | John Longmire | Sydney |
| 2011 | Chris Scott | Geelong |
| 2010 | Michael Malthouse | Collingwood |
| 2009 | Mark Thompson | Geelong |
| 2008 | Alastair Clarkson | Hawthorn |
| 2007 | Mark Thompson | Geelong |
| 2006 | John Worsfold | West Coast |
| 2005 | Paul Roos | Sydney |
| 2004 | Mark Williams | Port Adelaide |
| 2003 | Leigh Matthews | Brisbane |
| 2002 | Leigh Matthews | Brisbane |
| 2001 | Leigh Matthews | Brisbane |
| 2000 | Kevin Sheedy | Essendon |
| 1999 | Denis Pagan | North Melbourne |
| 1998 | Malcolm Blight | Adelaide |
| 1997 | Malcolm Blight | Adelaide |
| 1996 | Denis Pagan | North Melbourne |
| 1995 | David Parkin | Carlton |
| 1994 | Michael Malthouse | West Coast |
| 1993 | Kevin Sheedy | Essendon |
| 1992 | Michael Malthouse | West Coast |
| 1991 | Alan Joyce | Hawthorn |
| 1990 | Leigh Matthews | Collingwood |
| 1989 | Allan Jeans | Hawthorn |
| 1988 | Alan Joyce | Hawthorn |
| 1987 | Robert Walls | Carlton |
| 1986 | Allan Jeans | Hawthorn |
| 1985 | Kevin Sheedy | Essendon |
| 1984 | Kevin Sheedy | Essendon |
| 1983 | Allan Jeans | Hawthorn |
| 1982 | David Parkin | Carlton |
| 1981 | David Parkin | Carlton |
| 1980 | Tony Jewell | Richmond |
| 1979 | Alex Jesaulenko | Carlton |
| 1978 | David Parkin | Hawthorn |
| 1977 | Ron D. Barassi | North Melbourne |
| 1976 | John Kennedy, Sr. | Hawthorn |
| 1975 | Ron D. Barassi | North Melbourne |
| 1974 | Tom Hafey | Richmond |
| 1973 | Tom Hafey | Richmond |
| 1972 | John Nicholls | Carlton |
| 1971 | John Kennedy, Sr. | Hawthorn |
| 1970 | Ron D. Barassi | Carlton |
| 1969 | Tom Hafey | Richmond |
| 1968 | Ron D. Barassi | Carlton |
| 1967 | Tom Hafey | Richmond |
| 1966 | Allan Jeans | St Kilda |
| 1965 | John Coleman | Essendon |
| 1964 | Norm Smith | Melbourne |
| 1963 | Bob Davis | Geelong |
| 1962 | John Coleman | Essendon |
| 1961 | John Kennedy, Sr. | Hawthorn |
| 1960 | Norm Smith | Melbourne |
| 1959 | Norm Smith | Melbourne |
| 1958 | Phonse Kyne | Collingwood |
| 1957 | Norm Smith | Melbourne |
| 1956 | Norm Smith | Melbourne |
| 1955 | Norm Smith | Melbourne |
| 1954 | Charlie Sutton | Footscray |
| 1953 | Phonse Kyne | Collingwood |
| 1952 | Reg Hickey | Geelong |
| 1951 | Reg Hickey | Geelong |
| 1950 | Dick Reynolds | Essendon |
Famous quotes containing the word hale:
“It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,—let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.”
—Sarah Josepha Buell Hale 1788–1879, U.S. novelist, poet and women’s magazine editor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 36-40 (December 1828)