4× North Melbourne leading goalkicker: (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982)
VFL Team of the Year: 1982
Magarey Medallist: (1972)
Ken Farmer Medal: (1985)
2× Woodville Best & Fairest: (1972, 1985)
Championship of Australia Championship: 1975
Woodville captain-coach 1983–85
Representative
National Football Carnival Championship: 1975
Captain of Victoria
Captain of South Australia
2× All-Australian team 1972, 1985
Coaching
2× AFL Premiership coach: (1997, 1998)
Adelaide Team of the Decade
McClelland Trophy (1992)
Honours
Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee (1996)
Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend (2017)
SANFL Team of the Century (forward pocket)
South Australian Football Hall of Fame (2002)
Woodville Football Club Life Member
Woodville-West Torrens: Life Member
Woodville-West Torrens: Life Governor
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
Malcolm Jack Blight AM (born 16 February 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also coached the Geelong Football Club, Adelaide Football Club and St Kilda Football Club.
Blight is to date the only player to have kicked 100 goals in a season in both the VFL and the SANFL. He is also one of three players to have won the Brownlow Medal and the Magarey Medal. He was an inaugural inductee Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and was elevated to Legend status in 2017.[3] In addition, he has captained the state representative sides of both Victoria and South Australia.
In spite of his "failure" as a playing coach of North Melbourne, Blight would cement his reputation as one of the greatest coaches during his stints with Geelong and Adelaide, before finishing up in an acrimonious circumstances at St Kilda. The name Blight is of Cornish origin.[4] In 2012, Blight was appointed director of coaching at the Gold Coast Football Club.
^These totals refer to premiership matches (home-and-away and finals matches) only.
^"Malcolm Blight (Player Bio)". Australian Football. 1 January 2017.
^"Australian Football Hall of Fame: Malcolm Blight becomes a legend while Simon Goodwin, Barry Hall honoured". ABC News. 19 June 2017.
^"Cornish Family Names". Archived from the original on 20 August 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
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