List of Sydney Swans captains

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This is a list of all captains of the Sydney Swans, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League.

Sydney Swans Australian rules football club

The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). Established in Melbourne as the South Melbourne Football Club in 1874, the Swans relocated to Sydney in 1982, thus making it the first club in the competition to be based outside Victoria.

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.

Australian Football League Australian rules football competition

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. The league was founded as the Victorian Football League (VFL) as a breakaway from the previous Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing in 1897. Originally comprising only teams based in the Australian state of Victoria, the competition's name was changed to the Australian Football League for the 1990 season, after expanding to other states throughout the 1980s.

Contents

DatesCaptain(s)Notes
1897–1898 Bill Fraser
1899 Dave Adamson
1900 George Davidson
Bill Windley
1901 Albert Trim
1902 Bill Windley
1903 Tom Fogarty
1904–1905 Billy McGee
1906 Herb Howson
1907–1908 Bill Dolphin
1909 Charlie Ricketts 1909 Premiership Captain
1910–1911 William Thomas
1912 Charlie Ricketts
1913 Harvey Kelly
1914–1915; 1917 Vic Belcher
1918–1919 Jim Caldwell 1918 Premiership Captain
1920 Vic Belcher
1921 Carl Willis
1922 Mark Tandy
1923–1925 Paddy Scanlan
1926–1927 Charlie Pannam
1928 Joe Scanlan
1929 Charlie Stanbridge
1930–1931 Joe Scanlan
1932 Johnny Leonard
1933–1936 Jack Bisset 1933 Premiership Captain
1937 Laurie Nash
1938–1945 Herbie Matthews
1946–1948 Jack Graham
1949 Bert Lucas
1950–1952 Gordon Lane
1953–1954 Ron Clegg
1955 Bill Gunn
1956 Ian Gillett
1957–1960 Ron Clegg
1961–1971 Bob Skilton
1972 John Rantall
1973–1976 Peter Bedford
1977–1979 Ricky Quade
1980–1983 Barry Round
1984 Barry Round
Mark Browning
1985 Mark Browning
1986–1992 Dennis Carroll
1993–2002 Paul Kelly
2003–2005 Stuart Maxfield
2005–2007 Barry Hall
Brett Kirk
Leo Barry
Barry Hall 2005 premiership captain
2008 Barry Hall
Leo Barry
Craig Bolton
2009–2010 Craig Bolton
Adam Goodes
Brett Kirk
2011–2012 Adam Goodes
Jarrad McVeigh
Jarrad McVeigh 2012 premiership captain
2013–2016 Kieren Jack
Jarrad McVeigh
2017–2018 Josh Kennedy [1]
2019- Josh Kennedy
Dane Rampe
Luke Parker

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References

  1. Buckley, James (9 December 2016). "Sydney Swans name Josh Kennedy new captain in place of Jack and McVeigh". The Sydney Morning Herald .