Lance Franklin has scored the most dramatic Coleman Medal win in AFL history.

Franklin is the first person in 62 years of the award to win after going into the final round of the home-and-away season trailing on the goal-kicking leaderboard.

The Sydney Swans champion was five goals behind West Coast’s Josh Kennedy and one behind Essendon’s Joe Daniher heading into Round 23 on the weekend.

He booted a sensational 10 goals against Carlton at the SCG on Saturday, and hung on in a dramatic finish on Sunday when Kennedy was held to one goal against Adelaide and Daniher managed only two goals against Fremantle.

Franklin made the most of his opportunities against the Blues, kicking 10.2, while Kennedy finished with 1.4 against the Crows and Daniher 2.3 against the Dockers.

So, the final Coleman leaderboard showed Franklin at the top with 69 from Kennedy (64), North Melbourne’s Ben Brown (63) and Daniher (62) after Brown kicked a career-best seven goals in his last outing of the season against Brisbane on Saturday.

Franklin, also a two-time Coleman Medallist at Hawthorn, collected his fourth Coleman and the Sydney Swans fourth with the second-biggest single-game haul of his 268-game 846-goal career.

His only better effort was 13 goals for Hawthorn against North Melbourne in Launceston in 2012.

Franklin’s 2017 Coleman completed a nicely symmetrical quadrella for the 199cm 30-year-old, who also won the Coleman in 2008 and 2011 at Hawthorn, and 2014 in his first season with the Swans.

His second Coleman Medal in red and white saw him join 1996-98 winner Tony Lockett as a multiple Swans winner of the award named after former Essendon goal-kicking champion John Coleman and presented since 1955 to the leading goal-kicker in the home-and-away season.

He joins Lockett, also a two-time winner at St Kilda, and Geelong’s Doug Wade as a four-time Coleman winner.

Essendon’s Matthew Lloyd, Geelong’s Gary Ablett Snr, and Hawthorn’s Jason Dunstall and John Peck are three-time Coleman winners.

Incredibly, in the last 11 years Franklin has finished top five in the Coleman 10 times, and top four nine times.

His year-by-year ranking since 2007 has been 3^rd-1^st-4^th-4^th-1^st-4^th-5^th-1^st-9^th-2^nd-1^st.

In 2015, when he finished 9^th, he played only 17 games.

Almost prophetically, the last person to top the home-and-away goal-kicking list after trailing going into the last round was Coleman himself in 1951. He was one behind Geelong’s George Goninon but kicked seven to Goninon’s two in Round 18.

South Melbourne players who topped the home-and-away goal-kicking list prior to the introduction of the Coleman Medal were Bob Pratt (1934-35) and Lindsay White (1942).

Franklin’s first 10-goal haul for the Swans was the 23^rd in club history and the first since Lockett’s 12 goals against Port Adelaide at the SCG in 1998.

It makes Franklin the eighth Swans player in the 10-Goal Club alongside Pratt (8 times), Lockett (7), White (3), Harold Robertson (1), Jack Graham (1), Warwick Capper (1) and Richard Osborne (1).

Details of all games in which Swans players have kicked 10 or more goals are:

16 – Tony Lockett – 1995 v Fitzroy (Whitten Oval)

15 – Bob Pratt – 1934 v Essendon (Lake Oval)

14 – Harold Robertson – 1919 v St.Kilda (Lake Oval)

12 – Bob Pratt – 1934 – Footscray (Lake Oval)
12 – Lindsay White – 1942 v North Melb (Princes Park)
12 – Tony Lockett – 1996 v Richmond (SCG)
12 -  Tony Lockett – 1998 v Port Adel (SCG)

11 – Bob Pratt – 1933 v Carlton (Lake Oval)
11 – Bob Pratt – 1934 v Carlton (Lake Oval)
11 – Bob Pratt – 1934 v Essendon (Windy Hill)
11 – Lindsay White – 1942 v Richmond (Princes Park)
11 – Tony Lockett – 1996 v Brisbane (SCG)
11 – Tony Lockett – 1998 v Hawthorn (SCG)

10 – Bob Pratt – 1933 v North Melb (Arden St)
10 – Bob Pratt – 1934 v Carlton (Princes Park)
10 – Bob Pratt – 1935 v Collingwood (Lake Oval)
10 – Lindsay White – 1942 v Melbourne (Princes Park)
10 – Jack Graham – 1948 v Geelong (Kardinia Park)
10 – Warwick Capper – 1986 v Richmond (SCG)
10 – Richard Osborne – 1993 v Melbourne (SCG)
10 – Tony Lockett – 1996 v North Melb (Princes Park)
10 – Tony Lockett – 1998 v Collingwood (MCG)
10 – Lance Franklin – 2017 v Carlton (SCG)