List of Melbourne Football Club captains

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This is a list of all captains of the Melbourne Football Club, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's.

Contents

VFL/AFL

DatesCaptain(s)
1897–1898 Ned Sutton
1899 Eddie Sholl
1900 Dick Wardill
1901–1904 William C. McClelland
1905 Frank Langley
1906 Arthur Sowden
1907 Vin Coutie
1908 Hugh Purse
1909 Bernie Nolan
1910–1911 Vin Coutie
1912–1913 Alf George
1914 Len Incigneri
1915 Jack McKenzie
1919–1920 George Heinz
1921–1923 Percy Wilson
1924–1927 Albert Chadwick
1928–1931 Ivor Warne-Smith
1932–1933 Francis Vine [1]
1934–1935 Colin Niven
1936–1941 Allan La Fontaine
1942–1944 Percy Beames
1945–1947 Norm Smith
1948–1949 Don Cordner
1950 Shane McGrath
1951–1953 Denis Cordner
1954 Geoff Collins
1955–1956 Noel McMahen
1957–1959 John Beckwith
1960–1964 Ron Barassi
1965–1969 Hassa Mann
1970 Robert Johnson
1971–1972 Frank Davis
1973–1976 Stan Alves
1977–1978 Greg Wells
1979–1980 Carl Ditterich
1981–1987 Robert Flower
1988–1990 Greg Healy
1991–1997 Garry Lyon
1998–1999 Todd Viney
2000–2008 David Neitz
2009–2010 James McDonald
2011 Brad Green
2012–2013 Jack Trengove/Jack Grimes
2014 Nathan Jones/Jack Grimes
2015–2016 Nathan Jones
2017–2019 Nathan Jones/Jack Viney
2020– Max Gawn

AFL Women's

DatesCaptain(s)
2017–2018 Daisy Pearce
2019 Elise O'Dea/Shelley Scott
2020–S7 (2022) Daisy Pearce
2023– Kate Hore

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References

  1. Lovett, Michael (2004). AFL 2004 - The Official Statistical History Of The AFL. AFL Publishing. ISBN   0-9580300-5-7.