Cats players Patrick Dangerfield, Joel Selwood and Corey Enright have been nominated for the 2016 Leigh Matthews Trophy.

The award is run by the AFL Players' Association and is decided by each AFL-listed player voting for who they believe is the competition's most valuable player.

The voting is a two-stage process, beginning with each player voting for the three teammates he considers to have been the most valuable this season.

Each club’s votes are then tallied to form a nomination list comprising 54 players across the 18 teams.

In the second round of voting, all players vote for their MVP on a 3, 2, 1 basis from the nominees of the 17 other clubs.

The votes are tallied and the player with the highest score wins the honour of MVP.

Players cannot vote for their own teammates in stage two of the process.

Since the MVP award was first presented in 1982 there have been 26 different winners, with Gary Ablett (five times), Greg Williams, Wayne Carey, Michael Voss, Chris Judd and Nat Fyfe (twice) the only multiple winners.

Fyfe won his second Leigh Matthews Trophy in 2015, with Isaac Heeney named Best First Year Player, Luke Parker the Most Courageous Player and Bob Murphy awarded Best Captain.

This year's Geelong nominee for Best First Year player is Tom Ruggles, while the Cats' nominee for Most Couragous Player is Joel Selwood.

The AFL Players’ Association MVP Awards will be held on September 13 at Peninsula in Melbourne's Docklands and will be broadcast live on Fox Footy from 8.30pm.