Zane Kirkwood has become one of only 11 players to win two Magarey Medals after polling 24 votes in Tuesday night's South Australian National Football League [SANFL] count.
The 25-year-old midfielder finished five votes ahead of Nick O'Brien from Woodville-West Torrens.
James Boyd and Jared Petrenko, also from the Eagles, and Port Adelaide's Kane Mitchell polled 18 votes.
Boyd and Mitchell were ineligible for the award after they were reprimanded by the SANFL tribunal.
One of the pre-count favourites, Adelaide's Cam Ellis-Yolmen, received 12 votes.
Kirkwood also won the Magarey Medal in 2014 and said he was not expecting another win.
"[It's] a bit odd, it's really a big honour, I'm very humbled and I still haven't properly dealt with the first one," he said.
"This one, it's a bit surreal ... to be honest with you."
The Sturt captain and former Port Adelaide SANFL player is the 14th Sturt player to win the medal.
"I've been lucky that I've had some really good midfielders around me," he said.
"I feel like they have carried me as well, just the whole group has been unreal this year."
Hall of Fame inductees
Norwood's John Wynne, former North Adelaide player and Sturt coach Brenton Phillips, Port Adelaide's Stephen Williams and Roger James, and former Crows club doctor Dr Brian Sando were inducted into the league's Hall of Fame at the event at Adelaide Oval.
The Magarey Medal has been awarded nearly every year of the SANFL competition since 1898 and is named in honour of the league's first chairman, William Ashley Magarey.
Field umpires award points to the three best performing players of each match throughout the premiership season.
