List of Hawthorn Football Club captains

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

Season(s)	Name	Honours
1914	Alf Gough
1915	Joe Larkin
1919	Len Gibb
1920	Ted Alley
1920	Frank Rigaldi
1921	Jim Jackson
1922	Arthur Rademacher
1923–1924	Bill Walton

VFL/AFL

Season(s)	Name	Honours
1925	Jim Jackson
1926	Dan Minogue
1926	Paddy Burke
1927	Clarrie Lethlean
1928	Bert Sutton
1929	Albert Chadwick
1930–1931	John Harris
1932	Bert Mills
1933	Fred Phillips
1933	Bill Twomey Sr.
1934	Bert Mills
1935–1937	Ivan McAlpine
1938	Bert Mills
1939	Len Thomas
1940–1941	Bert Mills
1942	Jack Carmody
1943	Bob Williams
1944	Jim Bohan
1945	Keith Shea
1946	Jim Bohan
1947–1949	Alec Albiston
1950–1951	Kevin Curran
1952	Peter O'Donohue
1953–1954	Ted Fletcher	Best and fairest (1953)
1955–1959	John Kennedy, Sr.
1960–1964	Graham Arthur	VFL premiership (1961) Best and fairest (1962)
1965	Graham Arthur
	John Peck	Coleman Medal (1965) Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1965)
1966–1968	Graham Arthur
1969–1973	David Parkin	VFL premiership (1971)
1974–1975	Peter Crimmins
1976–1980	Don Scott	2× VFL premiership (1976, 1978)
1981–1985	Leigh Matthews	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)
1986–1991	Michael Tuck	4× VFL/AFL premiership (1986, 1988, 1989, 1991) VFLPA best captain (1986) VFL Team of the year (1990)
1992–1993	Gary Ayres
1994	Chris Langford	All-Australian team (1994)
1995–1998	Jason Dunstall	3× Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1995, 1996, 1998)
1999–2004	Shane Crawford	Brownlow Medal (1999) AFLPA MVP (1999) 2× All-Australian team (1999, 2002) 3× Peter Crimmins Memorial Trophy (1999, 2002, 2003)
2005–2007	Richie Vandenberg
2008–2010	Sam Mitchell	AFL premiership (2008) Peter Crimmins Medal (2009)
2011–2016	Luke Hodge	3× AFL premiership (2013, 2014, 2015) Norm Smith Medal (2014) AFLPA best captain (2014)
2017–2018	Jarryd Roughead	Hawthorn leading goalkicker (2017)
2019–2020	Ben Stratton
2021–2022	Ben McEvoy
2023–	James Sicily	All-Australian team (2023)

AFL Women's

Seasons(s)	Names	Honours
2022 S7–2023	Tilly Lucas-Rodd	Hawthorn best and fairest (2022 S7)
2024–	Emily Bates

References

• Hawthorn Football Club Honour Board