TONIGHT is the VFLW Awards Night, where another stellar season of the competition will be celebrated with the handing out of many league awards.

The main prize of the night is the Lambert-Pearce Medal, which the competition’s Best and Fairest Award.

Last year it was Essendon skipper Georgia Nanscawen who took out the award, but will she go back to back, or will someone else take the award this year? Will one of her fellow premiership Bombers take the win, or will someone completely different take the win?

However, the Lambert-Pearce Medal is not the only award up for grabs tonight.

The Coaches MVP and the Debbie Lee Medal are also announced tonight.

The Coaches MVP is similar to the Lambert-Pearce Medal, but instead of the umpires voting it is the fellow VFLW coaches doing the voting.

Now these votes have been made public for much of the season, but the league stopped releasing them from round 12 onwards.

After Round 11, it was Nanscawen who was leading the tally by one vote from Southern Saint Hannah Stuart, with Cat Laura Gardiner in third.

The Debbie Lee Medal is the VFLW’s Rising Star award, and last year it was Dee Eliza West who won the award, so who will succeed her?

The VFLW Team of the Year will also get announced tonight, with the initial squad of 30 released a few days ago.

There are 19 players who are on AFLW lists for AFLW season 7 that could make the VFLW Team of the Year, and every VFLW club has at least one player in the squad.

The squad of 30 is as follows:  

• Olivia Barton (Port Melbourne)
• Gabrielle Biedenweg-Webster (Williamstown)
• Victoria Blackwood (Darebin)
• Jorja Borg (Carlton)
• Grace Buchan (Southern Saints)
• Nicole Callinan (Darebin)
• Mia-Rae Clifford (Essendon)
• Tahlia Fellows (Casey)
• Federica Frew (Essendon)
• Laura Gardiner (Geelong)
• Lily Goss (Carlton)
• Samantha Johnson (Casey)
• Tayla Kearns (Southern Saints)
• Winnie Laing (Southern Saints)
• Katelyn Lee (Collingwood)
• Tamara Luke (Hawthorn)
• Elizabeth McGrath (North Melbourne)
• Jordan Mifsud (Hawthorn)
• Georgia Nanscawen (Essendon)
• Kaitlyn O’Keefe (Port Melbourne)
• Amelia Radford (Essendon)
• Jenna Richardson (Hawthorn)
• Annabel Scott (North Melbourne)
• Paige Sheppard (Geelong)
• Tamara Smith (Geelong)
• Hannah Stuart (Southern Saints)
• Renee Tierney (Essendon)
• Eliza Vale (Western Bulldogs)
• Lucy Wales (Casey)
• Matilda Zander (Collingwood)

We do know who will win one of the awards already, with Federica Frew’s stellar season in front of the sticks set to be rewarded with the Rohenna Young Medal for the competition’s Leading Goalkicker.

It is also the VFLM Awards night tonight, so awards such as the Fothergill-Round-Mitchell Medal, the Jim ‘Frosty’ Miller Medal and the J.J. Liston Trophy will also all be awarded tonight.  

The 2022 VFLM/VFLW Awards Night will take place tonight at Palladium at Crown. Fans can watch along via a live stream on the AFL’s site, with proceedings set to get underway at 7pm.