List of Hawthorn Football Club captains

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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.

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VFA/VFL/AFL

No.NameSeason(s)Awards and Notes
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 19231924
9 Paddy Burke 1926
10 Dan Minogue 1926
11 Clarrie Lethlean 1927
12 Bert Sutton 1928
13 Albert Chadwick 1929
14 John Harris 19301931
15 Bert Mills 1932
1934
1938
19401941
16 Fred Phillips 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 19351937
19 Len Thomas 1939
20 Jack Carmody 1942
21 Bob Williams 1943
22 Jim Bohan 1944
1946
23 Keith Shea 1945
24 Alec Albiston 19471949
25 Kevin Curran 19501951
26 Peter O'Donohue 1952
27 Ted Fletcher 19531954 Best and fairest (1953)
28 John Kennedy, Sr. 19551959
29 Graham Arthur 19601968 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 19691973 VFL premiership (1971)
32 Peter Crimmins 19741975
33 Don Scott 19761980 VFL premiership (1976, 1978)
34 Leigh Matthews 19811985 VFL premiership (1983)
VFLPA MVP award (1982)
Peter Crimmins Perpetual Memorial Medal (1982)
Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1981, 1982, 1983, 1984)
2× VFL Team of the Year (1982, 1983)
35 Michael Tuck 19861991 VFL/AFL premiership (1986, 1988, 1989, 1991)
VFLPA best captain (1986)
VFL Team of the year (1990)
36 Gary Ayres 19921993
37 Chris Langford 1994 All-Australian team (1994)
38 Jason Dunstall 19951998 Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1995, 1996, 1998)
39 Shane Crawford 19992004 Brownlow Medal (1999)
AFLPA MVP (1999)
All-Australian team (1999, 2002)
Peter Crimmins Memorial Trophy (1999, 2002, 2003)
40 Richie Vandenberg 20052007
41 Sam Mitchell 20082010 AFL premiership (2008)
Peter Crimmins Medal (2009)
42 Luke Hodge 20112016 AFL premiership (2013, 2014, 2015)
Norm Smith Medal (2014)
AFLPA best captain (2014)
43 Jarryd Roughead 20172018 Hawthorn leading goalkicker (2017)
44 Ben Stratton 20192020
45 Ben McEvoy 20212022
46 James Sicily 2023 All-Australian team (2023)

AFL Women's

No.NameSeason(s)Awards and Notes
1 Tilly Lucas-Rodd 2022 (S7)Most games played as captain

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