List of Hawthorn Football Club captains explained
This is a list of all captains of the Hawthorn Football Club, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League Men's and AFL Women's.
VFA/VFL/AFL
No. | Name | Season(s) | Awards and Notes |
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1 | Alf Gough | 1914 | |
2 | Joe Larkin | 1915 | |
3 | Len Gibb | 1919 | |
4 | Ted Alley | 1920 | |
5 | Frank Rigaldi | 1920 | Replaced Ted Alley after he left the club |
6 | Jim Jackson | 1921 1925 | |
7 | Arthur Rademacher | 1922 | |
8 | Bill Walton | 1923–1924 | |
9 | Paddy Burke | 1926 | |
10 | Dan Minogue | 1926 | |
11 | Clarrie Lethlean | 1927 | |
12 | Bert Sutton | 1928 | |
13 | Albert Chadwick | 1929 | |
14 | John Harris | 1930–1931 | |
15 | Bert Mills | 1932 1934 1938 1940–1941 | |
16 | | 1933 | Died pre-season from blood poisoning. |
17 | Bill Twomey Sr. | 1933 | Replaced Fred Phillips after he died before the season started. |
18 | Ivan McAlpine | 1935–1937 | |
19 | Len Thomas | 1939 | |
20 | Jack Carmody | 1942 | |
21 | Bob Williams | 1943 | |
22 | Jim Bohan | 1944 1946 | |
23 | Keith Shea | 1945 | |
24 | Alec Albiston | 1947–1949 | |
25 | Kevin Curran | 1950–1951 | |
26 | Peter O'Donohue | 1952 | |
27 | Ted Fletcher | 1953–1954 | Best and fairest (1953) |
28 | John Kennedy, Sr. | 1955–1959 | |
29 | Graham Arthur | 1960–1968 | VFL premiership (1961) Best and fairest (1962) Co-captain with John Peck in 1965. Most games played as captain (153) |
30 | John Peck | 1965 | Coleman Medal (1965) Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1965) Co-captain with Graham Arthur. |
31 | David Parkin | 1969–1973 | VFL premiership (1971) |
32 | Peter Crimmins | 1974–1975 | |
33 | Don Scott | 1976–1980 | 2× VFL premiership (1976, 1978) |
34 | Leigh Matthews | 1981–1985 | VFL premiership (1983) VFLPA MVP award (1982) Peter Crimmins Perpetual Memorial Medal (1982) 4× Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1981, 1982, 1983, 1984) 2× VFL Team of the Year (1982, 1983) |
35 | Michael Tuck | 1986–1991 | 4× VFL/AFL premiership (1986, 1988, 1989, 1991) VFLPA best captain (1986) VFL Team of the year (1990) |
36 | Gary Ayres | 1992–1993 | |
37 | Chris Langford | 1994 | All-Australian team (1994) |
38 | Jason Dunstall | 1995–1998 | 3× Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1995, 1996, 1998) |
39 | Shane Crawford | 1999–2004 | Brownlow Medal (1999) AFLPA MVP (1999) 2× All-Australian team (1999, 2002) 3× Peter Crimmins Memorial Trophy (1999, 2002, 2003) |
40 | Richie Vandenberg | 2005–2007 | |
41 | Sam Mitchell | 2008–2010 | AFL premiership (2008) Peter Crimmins Medal (2009) |
42 | Luke Hodge | 2011–2016 | 3× AFL premiership (2013, 2014, 2015) Norm Smith Medal (2014) AFLPA best captain (2014) |
43 | Jarryd Roughead | 2017–2018 | Hawthorn leading goalkicker (2017) |
44 | Ben Stratton | 2019–2020 | |
45 | Ben McEvoy | 2021–2022 | |
46 | James Sicily | 2023– | All-Australian team (2023) | |
AFL Women's
References