Welcome to Zero Hanger's top 50 player rankings for 2025 - a list based primarily on a player's 2025 production in addition to their career pedigree and future projections.

The bar is as high as ever to impact as an AFL footballer consistently, let alone to a star level. All-Australian discussions are in constant debate as several guns often find themselves snubbed from proper recognition.

Here is the final edition (10-1) of our top 50 AFL players of 2025...

READ: PART 1 (50-41)
READ: PART 2 (40-31)
READ: PART 3 (30-21)
READ: PART 4 (20-11)

2nd - Nick Daicos

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 09: Nick Daicos of the Magpies is tackled by Ed Langdon of the Demons during the round 13 AFL match between Melbourne Demons and Collingwood Magpies at Melbourne Cricket Ground, on June 09, 2025, in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 09: Nick Daicos of the Magpies is tackled by Ed Langdon of the Demons during the round 13 AFL match between Melbourne Demons and Collingwood Magpies at Melbourne Cricket Ground, on June 09, 2025, in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

2024 rank: 4

Albeit a year which ended in disappointment for Nick Daicos, both in an individual and team sense, the 22-year-old is unsurprisingly on track to become one of the game's greatest ever.

2025 was Daicos' third consecutive year averaging 30 disposals per game, making him the fifth player since 2011 to accomplish such a feat, joining Darcy Parish (2021-2023), Clayton Oliver (2021-2023), Matt Crouch (2017-2019), Gary Ablett Jnr (2009-2014) and Dane Swan (2009-2013).

Daicos' scoreboard impact continues to accelerate too, averaging a career-high 7.8 score involvements per game - seeing him involved in almost a third of all Collingwood scores (32.4%).

Considering his poise in big moments, Daicos remains one of the more enthralling players in the league to watch and is undoubtedly within reach of a first Brownlow Medal in the near future.

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