Leader Local Footy ranks the top-70 clubs of 2024

After a stunning year of local footy we’ve ranked our top 70 clubs as the best in Melbourne. Did we get it right? See who we say is number one and lodge your own vote.

Every year, there is discussion around which team or club is the best in local footy.

Fans always want to believe their club is the best, both in their own league but also in comparison to those around them.

But which club really is the best in metropolitan Melbourne?

It may be an impossible question to answer given the great variance in quality of football played across the leagues. Debate has and will always surround which competition has the highest level of standard.

At the risk of being ridiculed, this masthead’s writers have put their brains together to try and answer that seemingly unanswerable question as we rank the top-70 performing clubs of the season.

For our ranking system, we’ve graded teams based on their records in their own competition rather than trying to compare them across other leagues.

Our criteria included the overall success of a club, not just a senior men’s team.