| 2016 season | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| President | Glen Bartlett (3rd season) | ||
| Coach | Paul Roos (3rd season) | ||
| Captain(s) | Nathan Jones (3rd season) | ||
| Home ground | MCG (100,024 capacity) | ||
| Pre-season | 3 wins, 0 losses | ||
| AFL season | 11th | ||
| Finals series | DNQ | ||
| Best and fairest | Jack Viney | ||
| Leading goalkicker | Jesse Hogan (41 goals) | ||
| Highest home attendance | 60,158 (round 12 vs. Collingwood) | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 5,146 (round 10 vs. Port Adelaide) | ||
| Average home attendance | 31,326 | ||
| Club membership | 39,146 (  3,193 / 8.88%) | ||
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The 2016 Melbourne Football Club season was the club's 117th year in the VFL/AFL since it began in 1897. In Paul Roos' final season as senior coach before succession coach, Simon Goodwin took over, the club won ten matches out of twenty-two to finish eleventh on the ladder out of eighteen teams and finished on 97.6 percent. It was the club's best season on the field since the 2011 season in which the club finished with eight wins, thirteen losses and a draw, to finish with a percentage of 85.3.