The
Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the
Hawks, is an
Australian rules footballAustralian football, also commonly referred to as Australian rules football, football, or Aussie rules, colloquially as footy, and historically as Australasian football or Victorian football, is a variant of football played between two teams of 18 players, plus four interchange players, outdoors on...
club playing in the
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(AFL). The club founded in 1902 is the youngest of the Victorian based teams in the
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. The club is the most successful club of the past 50 years having won 10 Premierships, a premiership in each of the last 5 decades, including the 2008 Premiership. They play in brown and gold vertically striped
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. The team's motto is '
spectemur agendo-Source:It comes originally from Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses where it is attributed to the hero Ajax:Denique spectemur agendo! which most literal translations render as...
' loosely translated as 'let us be judged by our acts'.
The Hawks' origins are in the inner eastern
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suburb of
HawthornHawthorn is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara...
and, also, at
Glenferrie OvalGlenferrie Oval is an Australian rules football stadium located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It is the historic home of and is synonymous with the Hawthorn Football Club, who played there from 1903 and as a VFL/AFL club from 1925-1973, and retained the ground as an...
which is the club's former administrative and training base and social club, however matches have not been played there since 1973. Since 2006 Hawthorn's training and administration has been located at
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- in the midst of the club's major supporter base in Melbourne's outer-eastern region and since 2007 Hawthorn have played four games a year at their second ground of
Aurora StadiumYork Park is a sports ground located in the Inveresk and York Park Precinct, Launceston, Australia. It holds 20,000 people, the most of any stadium in Tasmania. It has been known as Aurora Stadium under a six-year naming rights agreement with Aurora Energy since 2004...
in
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with the remaining games played at the
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, the club's current playing homeground.
Obscure and disputed origins
The origins of the Hawthorn Football club are obscure, very few records were kept and the early history is subject to interpretation, embellishment and
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.
The official club history books and many supporters strongly believe that the club's origins date back to its founding in 1873 at a meeting at the Hawthorne Hotel.
Although a Hawthorn Football Club did indeed form at this time and the region has since continuously been represented by a football team, it was not the Hawthorn which competes at AFL level today. It is more likely that today's club is actually the third club to carry the name "Hawthorn Football Club".
The Daily Telegraph Saturday May 12 1883:- "The Hawthorn Club having disbanded, all engagements for the ensuing season have been cancelled." In 1889 the Riversdale Football Club (formed in 1880) is reported to have changed its name to the Hawthorn Football Club. This club also ceased in 1890. No Hawthorn club existed in 1890 - 92.
A new representative club, called the "Hawthorn Football Club", was formed in 1893. It competed in the Victorian Junior Football Association until 1898. Without a ground to play on, however, the club was disbanded in 1899.
Modern club founded
In April 1902, Alf Kosky formed a club from the various district clubs under the banner of Hawthorn Football Club to compete in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association. The club merged with Boroondara in 1905, and in 1912, Hawthorn merged with successful junior club the Hawthorn Rovers to form the Hawthorn City Football Club to become part of a successful council push to have a club in the prestigious Victorian Football Association (VFA).
VFA years 1914-1924
The first task for the club was to decide on club colours, their jumper of Blue and Gold was taken by Williamstown so a change was required. At a Special General Meeting held in 17 February 1914 Mr J. Brain proposed Brown and Gold and the motion was carried.
The Mayblooms won 3 games and a draw in their first season in the VFA. The effect of World War I with players enlisting caused the club to finish last in 1915. The VFA then when into recess for the duration of the war.
When the competition resumed in 1919 the club was more competitive winning eight games and finishing sixth out of ten clubs.
Hawthorn dropped to eighth in 1920 and from then on won more games than they lost. 1921 they won 9 games and finished sixth.
In 1922 the club missed the finals by percentage and Hawthorn set a new record score in the VFA scoring 30.31.211 to Prahran 6.9.45.
1923 and the club made the finals finishing in fourth place and then losing to Port Melbourne in the First Semi Final.
1924 the club finished fifth, missing the finals by four points.
Entry to the VFL
Since 1919 the
VFLVFL can refer to:* Victorian Football League, an Australian rules football league formerly known as the Victorian Football Association prior to 1996....
had nine clubs which caused one team to be idle every Saturday, the VFL was keen to do away with a bye each week. In 1924 a group calling itself the Hawthorn Citizens' League Campaign Committee began gathering support for the football club admittance to the VFL. Other representations came from Brighton, Brunswick, Footscray, North Melbourne, Prahran, Camberwell and Caulfield.
On the night of January 9, 1925 a committee meeting of the VFL, chaired by Reg Hunt of
CarltonCarlton Football Club, nicknamed The Blues, is the third oldest club in the Australian Football League and one of the oldest Australian rules football clubs. They were the first premiers of the Victorian Football Association in 1877, and share the most premierships of any VFL/AFL club...
, decided to expand the competition from nine clubs to twelve. It was decided in the meeting to admit the "Hawthorn Football Club", along with Footscray and North Melbourne, all three coming from the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Hunt originally recommended Hawthorn, Footscray and Prahran but eventually North Melbourne was substituted for Prahran because of ground control matters.
The
Mayblooms, as they were known then became the perennial whipping boys of the competition. They had an almost casual attitude towards playing football and were not able to even pay their players the match payment then allowed by the Coulter Law. Despite the presence of a number players of true class such as
Bert HydeBert Hyde is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL.Hyde was a fullforward and was Hawthorn's premier target up forward during their first decade in the league. He topped their goalkicking from 1926-1930 with a best of 62 goals in 1928. He also represented...
,
Bert MillsAlbert Mills was an Australian rules footballer who played for and captained Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League .Mills usually played as a ruckman but was also used at centre half-back...
,
Stan SpinksStan Spinks is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1930s. He played as both a centreman and wingman in his career....
,
Alec AlbistonAlec Albiston is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL and with North Melbourne for his final season.A goalkicking rover, he was captain and coach of Hawthorn between 1947 and 1949...
and
Col AustenColin 'Col' Austen was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL from 1941 to 1943 and then again from 1946 to 1949. He then played for the Richmond Football Club from 1950 to 1952....
, Hawthorn in the first seventeen years never won more than seven games in a season.
1940s
Roy CazalyRoy Cazaly was an Australian rules football player famous for his high marks and ruck work, which gave rise to the phrase "Up There Cazaly".-Early life/career:...
was the non-playing coach of Hawthorn in 1942, he was reported to have given the club its nickname the
"Hawks". Cazaly thought that it was tougher than their original nickname the
"Mayblooms" and 1943 turned out to be the club's best season since joining the VFL in which the club missed the finals only by percentage. However, Hawthorn immediately returned to the bottom of the ladder, consistently competing with
St. KildaThe St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is an Australian Rules Football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club plays in the Australian Football League, the premier Australian Rules league....
for the wooden spoon. Between 1944 and 1953 the club finished last or second last in every year but one.
1950s
1950 started with the club in turmoil, The club appointed
Bob McCaskillRobert 'Bob' McCaskill was a Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the VFL during the 1920s and coached both North Melbourne and Hawthorn....
as coach and he wanted ruckman
Kevin CurranKevin Curran was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.Curran was recruited to Hawthorn from Traralgon and played his first game with them in 1940....
to be captain. Outgoing Captain-Coach
Alec AlbistonAlec Albiston is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL and with North Melbourne for his final season.A goalkicking rover, he was captain and coach of Hawthorn between 1947 and 1949...
was angry as he was told by a member of the board that he remain as captain. Brownlow Medallist
Col AustenColin 'Col' Austen was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL from 1941 to 1943 and then again from 1946 to 1949. He then played for the Richmond Football Club from 1950 to 1952....
sided with Albiston and a split occurred. The board sided with the coach and gave Albiston and Austen open clearances. Subsequently, the team did not win a match in 1950. Two positives were the arrival of
Roy SimmondsRoy Simmonds was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1950s.Simmonds was used all around the ground by Hawthorn, most often though on the half back flank. His finest season came in 1956 where he won Hawthorn's best and fairest and finished equal fourth in...
and John Kennedy . Over the next ten years, John Kennedy played 169 games for Hawthorn, serving as Captain from 1955 until his retirement, and winning the club's Best and Fairest award four times (in 1950, 51, 52 and 54). Simmonds would play 192 games and win the club's Best and Fairest award in 1955.
Failing health to
Bob McCaskillRobert 'Bob' McCaskill was a Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the VFL during the 1920s and coached both North Melbourne and Hawthorn....
meant that his assistant,
Jack HaleJack Hale is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL during the 1940s before becoming a coach....
took over as coach, it was the decisive step in the movement of Hawthorn away from the bottom of the ladder. He eliminated the casual attitude that prevailed at the club during its first thirty years in the VFL and made the club less accepting of defeat than before. Although Hawthorn finished last in 1953, from the following year improvement was steady.
Hawthorn had their first recruitment coup in 1954 by signing Clayton "Candles" Thompson from South Australia. Thompson was the glamour player from the 1953 National Football Championships, kicking ten goals against Western Australia. Fresh from school, teenagers John Peck , Alan Woodley, Noel Voigt and Brain Kann started at Hawthorn and the club won eight games. Gifted schoolboy from Sandhurst
Graham ArthurGraham Arthur is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL in the 1950s and 1960's.Arthur played primarily as a half forward, debuting while still only 18 years old....
arrived in 1955 and became the second player to win the club best and fairest in his first year, the other being John Kennedy.
Brendan EdwardsBrendan Edwards Brendan Edwards Brendan Edwards (Born 18 March 1936 is a former Australian rules football footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League VFL from 1956 to 1961 and again in the 1963 season. He won their best and fairest award in 1960 and represented Victoria at...
followed Arthur to Hawthorn in 1956 and although the seniors showed a slight decline to seven wins and a draw, the reserve grade side gave them their first finals appearance in any grade.
The following year the senior team broke through for their first finals appearance, defeating Carlton in the 1st Semi Final long remembered for the freak hailstorm after half time. They were outclassed by Melbourne in the Preliminary final in a year when
Cyril CollardCyril Collard played 13 games for Australian Rules Football club Hawthorn between 1957 and 1958, scoring 3 goals. He was the first indigenous Australian to play for Hawthorn being of the Noongar people of Western Australia...
became the first indigenous Australian to play for Hawthorn.
1960s
After three seasons in mid-table Hawthorn appointed John Kennedy as coach in 1960. Kennedy and 1960 Club Champion
Brendan EdwardsBrendan Edwards Brendan Edwards Brendan Edwards (Born 18 March 1936 is a former Australian rules football footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League VFL from 1956 to 1961 and again in the 1963 season. He won their best and fairest award in 1960 and represented Victoria at...
believed that footballers were not fit enough so a training regime was implemented.
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,
Phil HayPhil Hay is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1960s.Hay played in a variety of positions at the start of his career and was the 19th man in Hawthorn's 1961 premiership side, their first. When Les Kaine left the club at the end of the 1962 season Hay...
,
Malcolm HillMalcolm Hill is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1960s.Hill was a ruckman and started his career with Hawthorn in 1960. He played three seasons of VFL football and was a premiership player in 1961...
,
Morton BrowneMorton Browne is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1960s.Browne usually played on the half back or half forward flanks and debuted for Hawthorn in 1960. He was a member of Hawthorn's inaugural premiership side in 1961, kicking 3 goals in the Grand...
,
Ian MortIan Mort is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the early 1960s.Mort played as a half forward flanker and was a member of Hawthorn's 1961 premiership team....
and
Ian LawIan Law is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn throughout the 1960s.A rover, Law won the Hawthorn Best and fairest award in just his second year of VFL football and also finished 1961 third in the Brownlow Medal count...
made their debuts in 1960. Kennedy took the hawks further than ever before in 1961, winning their first premiership by defeating
FootscrayThe Western Bulldogs, officially the Footscray Football Club, is an Australian Football League club based at the Whitten Oval in West Footscray, an inner western suburb of Melbourne...
.
Brendan EdwardsBrendan Edwards Brendan Edwards Brendan Edwards (Born 18 March 1936 is a former Australian rules football footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League VFL from 1956 to 1961 and again in the 1963 season. He won their best and fairest award in 1960 and represented Victoria at...
was acknowledged as the star of this win.
However, Hawthorn fell right back in 1962 winning only five games and finishing in ninth position on the ladder. In 1963 the club finished on top of the ladder only to lose the Grand final to Geelong by 49 points. Kennedy accepted a position as Principal of Stawell High School so
Graham ArthurGraham Arthur is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL in the 1950s and 1960's.Arthur played primarily as a half forward, debuting while still only 18 years old....
became Captain-Coach in 1964. The Hawks lost the last game of the season and dropped to fifth, had they had won they would have finished on top of the ladder. They fell to be last in 1965 with only four wins. They rebuilt the team for the rest of the 1960s with
Peter HudsonPeter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
joining them in 1967 and immediately became the competition's best full-forward. In 1968 he kicked 125 goals the first centurion since John Coleman, and again in 1969 with 120 goals. Despite this, Hawthorn still failed to make the finals, but the acquisition of the powerful Mornington Peninsula
recruiting zoneIn Australian rules football, zoning refers to a system whereby a given area, either region or lower-level football league, is reserved exclusively for one club....
gave the club a huge boost in its quest for success and permitted the club a much more powerful list then ever before. 1969 saw the recruitment of two teenagers
Peter KnightsPeter Knights is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the finest centre half-backs to have played the game, despite suffering numerous injuries...
and
Leigh MatthewsLeigh Raymond "Lethal Leigh" Matthews AM is a former player and coach of Australian rules football. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League from 1969 to 1985, coached Collingwood from 1986-1995, and coached the Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008...
1970s
Hawthorn started the 1970s missing the finals even though
Peter HudsonPeter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
kicked a home-and-away record of 146 goals in 1970. The team's spine was strengthened with the arrival of full back Kelvin Moore and centre half forward
Alan MartelloAlan Martello is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1970 and 1980 for Hawthorn, and between 1981 and 1983 for Richmond. Martello was a tough Centre Half Forward and a prodigious kicker of the football. Youngest man ever to reach 200 games...
.
In 1971 the Hawks finished on top of the ladder, the first time since 1963,
Peter HudsonPeter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
equalled
Bob PrattBob Pratt was a former Australian rules footballer from Mitcham, Victoria.He played with South Melbourne Football Club in the VFL from 1930-1939 and again in 1946...
s record of 150 goals in a season and
Leigh MatthewsLeigh Raymond "Lethal Leigh" Matthews AM is a former player and coach of Australian rules football. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League from 1969 to 1985, coached Collingwood from 1986-1995, and coached the Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008...
gain notoriety by shirtfronting
Barry CableBarry Cable is an Indigenous Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable...
in an Interstate Game in Perth.
The
1971 Grand FinalThe 1971 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and St Kilda Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 25 September 1971. It was the 75th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
was between Hawthorn (coached by Hawthorn legend John Kennedy) and
St KildaThe St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is an Australian Rules Football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club plays in the Australian Football League, the premier Australian Rules league....
coached by
Allan JeansAllan Jeans is an Australian rules football coach. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in its inception in 1996.-St Kilda:...
who would later move to Hawthorn and enjoy success as the Hawks coach in the 1980s. The match was played before 118,192 people at the
MCGJoseph McGinty Nichol , better known as McG, is an American director and producer of film and television, as well as a former record producer. He began his career in the music industry, directing music videos and producing various albums...
on a fine and sunny Melbourne day. Hawthorn went into the match without inspirational centre half back
Peter KnightsPeter Knights is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the finest centre half-backs to have played the game, despite suffering numerous injuries...
who had suffered a severe knee injury two weeks earlier. It was a hard and tough game was played out with the Saints leading the Hawks by 20 points going into the last quarter. Hawks (5.7.37) to the Saints (8.9.57). For the Saints however, as coach
Allan JeansAllan Jeans is an Australian rules football coach. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in its inception in 1996.-St Kilda:...
was to comment, "The season was just 25 minutes too long". "Kennedy's Commando's" (the term given to the team after the coach's tough physical training program and loudly proclaimed in the huge banners that swept around the
MCGJoseph McGinty Nichol , better known as McG, is an American director and producer of film and television, as well as a former record producer. He began his career in the music industry, directing music videos and producing various albums...
(now sadly replaced by advertising signs)) came into force. The Hawks moved
Peter HudsonPeter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
out to centre half forward and
Bob KeddieBob Keddie is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League and West Adelaide, South Adelaide and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League ....
into the goal square. The Hawks slammed on seven goals to three in that final quarter, with Keddie kicking four, to run out winners (12.10.82) to the Saints (11.9.75). The final term saw ten goals being scored.
A skinny lad from Berwick made his debut in 1972.
Michael TuckMichael Tuck is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL with the Hawthorn Football Club.Raised in Berwick, in Melbourne's outer south-eastern suburbs, Tuck joined Hawthorn in the early 1970s from the country zone club of the same name, and remained at the club for his entire career...
played the first of a record 426 games after Hawthorn lost champion full forward Peter Hudson to a knee injury in the first game of the year, who had kicked 8 goals before being injured before half time.
John HendrieJohn Hendrie is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1970s.A forward, Hendrie kicked a career best 52 goals in 1977. He finished equal third in the 1975 Brownlow Medal count and was a premiership player with Hawthorn in 1976 and 1978.-External links:...
whose grandfather played in Hawthorn's the first VFL game played the first of 197 games for the club.
During the 1970s a strong rivalry grew with North Melbourne and they met in three grand finals with the Hawks prevailing twice. The
1976 Grand FinalThe 1976 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 35 September 1976. It was the 80th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
team was inspired by the illness of former Captain
Peter CrimminsPeter Crimmins was a rover for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL, playing 176 games and kicking 231 goals from 1966 to 1975. He was an inspirational player and captain from 1974 who wore number 5. He was a member of the Hawks' 1971 premiership team.At the completion of the 1974 VFL season...
who died 3 days after the victory from cancer, and by the humiliating defeat of the
1975 Grand FinalThe 1975 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the North Melbourne Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 1975. It was the 79th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
loss to the North Melbourne Kangaroos. The Hawks greats such as the prolific goal-kicker
Michael MoncrieffMichael Moncrieff is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1970s and early 80s....
, rover
Leigh MatthewsLeigh Raymond "Lethal Leigh" Matthews AM is a former player and coach of Australian rules football. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League from 1969 to 1985, coached Collingwood from 1986-1995, and coached the Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008...
, ruck rover Michael Tuck, ruckman
Don ScottDon Scott is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Scott was a fearless ruckman and premiership captain for Hawthorn Football Club....
, full back
Kelvin MooreKelvin D. Moore is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Kelvin Moore was one of the best full-backs of his era and played in three Hawthorn Football Club premierships during his 300-game career from 1970-1984.In 2005 Moore was inducted into the Australian Football...
and centre half-back
Peter KnightsPeter Knights is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the finest centre half-backs to have played the game, despite suffering numerous injuries...
played through this era. The Hawthorn North Melbourne clash was a close encounter, but injuries to champions such as Keith Greig and Brent Crosswell made North's chances of winning difficult. However, when Hawthorn looked threatened, they replied quickly and kept their lead intact. The forward line won the day and as a result it was not surprising that
John HendrieJohn Hendrie is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1970s.A forward, Hendrie kicked a career best 52 goals in 1977. He finished equal third in the 1975 Brownlow Medal count and was a premiership player with Hawthorn in 1976 and 1978.-External links:...
was voted best on ground by radio and newspapers of the day.
After the disappointment of losing to North Melbourne in the 1977 Preliminary Final, the Hawks were back to play in the
1978 Grand FinalThe 1978 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1978. It was the 82nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
, again against North Melbourne. It was the third time in four seasons that these two sides were to meet in a Grand Final. North Melbourne were competing in their fifth successive Grand Final and were the reigning premiers. At half time North Melbourne led by four points but Hawthorn finished victors by three goals thanks largely to a strong third quarter which saw them kick 7.6. The turning point occurred when two North players spoiled each other in the goalsquare at the 6-minute mark, when a mark and a goal could have put them 17 points up. The Hawks went on to dominate play after this incident and never looked back. The finals scores were Hawthorn (18.13.121) defeated North Melbourne (15.13.103).
1980s
Their greatest era was undoubtedly the 1980s, where the team won four premierships and played in the Grand Final seven years in succession, including three in a row against arch enemy
EssendonEssendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club and is part of the Australian Football League. Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve, Windy Hill in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon,...
. The decade started poorly, with Hawthorn failing to finish within the eighth and seen by most critics as a spent force. However, the power of their recruiting zones made sure this was not a reality. 1982 would mark Hawthorn being in the finals for 13 years in a row.
Hawthorn returned to finals football in 1982, finishing second after the Home and Away season, Hawthorn fans saw Subiaco champion
Gary BuckenaraGary Buckenara played Australian rules football for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL during the 1980s.Buckenara first played senior football for Subiaco in the WAFL from 1979 to 1981. Subiaco agreed to lease him for three years for $210,000 and after a court case began his career at Hawthorn...
for the first time and also a cameo appearance of Gary Ablett in a Hawthorn jumper and Dermot Brereton who was a skinny kid from Frankston made his debut in the semi final against North Melbourne and kicked five goals. Hawthorn lost the Preliminary Final to Carlton by 31 points.
The first of four premiersihps for the decade was in the
1983 Grand FinalThe 1983 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1983. It was the 87th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
, with Hawthorn (20.20.140) defeating Essendon (8.9.57) This was at that time a record margin in a Grand Final; signifying the juggernaut that Hawthorn was to become during the 1980s. Hawthorn competed in the next two Grand Finals against rival Essendon, losing in
1984 Grand FinalThe 1984 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 1984. It was the 88th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
due to Essendon's famous final quarter charge, and losing again in
1985 Grand FinalThe 1985 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 28 September 1985. It was the 89th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
by a far greater margin; souring the final game of club legend Leigh Matthews. Playing along side him was young
Jason DunstallJason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
, from Coorparoo, Queensland, he was recruited after winning the QAFL goalkicking in 1984.
The 1985 Grand Final marked the end of Essendon's success during the 1980s, but did not for Hawthorn, with their second premiership coming the year after in the
1986 Grand FinalThe 1986 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 1986. It was the 90th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
, with Hawthorn (16.14.110) defeating Carlton (9.14.68) convincingly, with
Gary AyresGary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
winning his first of two Norm Smith Medals. 1987 saw Hawthorn finish second to a superior Carlton team. The fact that Hawthorn even made it to the Grand Final is still the centre of some controversy; with Garry Buckenara's after the siren kick in the 87' preliminary final breaking the hearts of tens of thousands of Melbourne supporters. Ill health to coach
Allan JeansAllan Jeans is an Australian rules football coach. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in its inception in 1996.-St Kilda:...
meant that Football Operations Manager
Alan JoyceAlan Joyce is a former Australian rules footballer who after playing 49 games for Hawthorn became a premiership winning coach for the club. Originally from Glen Iris, Joyce played in the ruck for Hawthorn and gained life membership in 1996.In 1988 when incumbent coach Allan Jeans became ill due to...
took the coaching position for 1988. The Hawks lost only 3 games for the year,
Jason DunstallJason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
kicked 132 goals and the team would win the
1988 premiershipThe 1988 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1988. It was the 92nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
(22.20.152) against Melbourne (6.20.56); a then record margin in a Grand Final of 96 points.
Gary AyresGary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
won his second Norm Smith Medal.
The 1989 season is today viewed as one of the most spectacular AFL/VFL seasons to date; with the emergence of Geelong great Gary Ablett Snr, the resurgence of
GeelongGeelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, are a professional Australian rules football club named after and based in the city of Greater Geelong....
and
the greatest Grand FinalThe 1989 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the Geelong Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1989. It was the the 93rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
of the modern era occurring in this year. The Hawks (21.18.144) defeated Geelong (21.12.138) in the 1989 Grand Final. The match is now legendary for its amazing toughness, physicality, skill, massive scoring and tension. The Hawks jumped out to an enormous lead as Geelong attempted to unsettle the Hawks through physical play. However the physical toll on the Hawks began to show as the match wore on; with John Platten being concussed, Robert DiPierdomenico puncturing his lung, Dermott Brereton breaking his ribs and Michael Tuck splitting the webbing on his hand. By midway through the final quarter the Cats were charging; with Hawthorn desperately trying to hold off the Cat's avalanche of goals while containing the brilliance of Ablett who ended the match with a record 9 goals. Hawthorn's experience and determination allowed them to hold off Geelong just long enough, scraping through to victory by one goal. The 1989 Grand Final victory over Geelong is widely regarded as one of the greatest and toughest Grand Finals in the history of the competition.
The fast-paced style of Hawthorn's play was copied by the
West Coast EaglesThe West Coast Eagles Football Club is an Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League....
who became the powerful club of the early 1990s. Other clubs have had success since but none have matched the dominance of the Hawks in this period; who ended the 1980s having played in a record seven successive Grand finals. Leading players of the 1980s included
Dermott BreretonDermott Hugh Brereton is a former champion Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League.In a 211 game career, Brereton kicked 464 goals and played in five premierships for...
,
Gary AyresGary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
,
Chris MewChris Mew is a former Australian rules footballer who was a permanent member of the Hawthorn Hawks side during the 1980s.A defender, Mew usually played at centre half back and was a premiership player in 1983, 86, 88, 89 and 1991....
,
Michael TuckMichael Tuck is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL with the Hawthorn Football Club.Raised in Berwick, in Melbourne's outer south-eastern suburbs, Tuck joined Hawthorn in the early 1970s from the country zone club of the same name, and remained at the club for his entire career...
,
Jason DunstallJason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
,
Gary BuckenaraGary Buckenara played Australian rules football for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL during the 1980s.Buckenara first played senior football for Subiaco in the WAFL from 1979 to 1981. Subiaco agreed to lease him for three years for $210,000 and after a court case began his career at Hawthorn...
,
John PlattenJohn Patrick "The Rat" Platten is a former Australian rules footballer. With his unruly tangle of curls he was a distinctive figure on the field with tremendous tenacity and the ability to accumulate possessions week after week.-Career:Platten began his career with the Central District Bulldogs...
and
Chris LangfordChris Langford is a former professional Australian rules footballer who is currently a game administrator.Langford is best known for his 303 game career for the Hawthorn Hawks between 1983 and 1997. He captained the club in the 1994 season and earned All-Australian selection. It was his second...
.
1990s
The Hawks ended their era of dominance which included eight grand final appearances in nine seasons (1983-1991). Injuries to key personnel hampered Hawthorns 1990 campaign.
Jason DunstallJason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
and
Dermott BreretonDermott Hugh Brereton is a former champion Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League.In a 211 game career, Brereton kicked 464 goals and played in five premierships for...
both missed many games, others like
Robert DiPierdomenicoRobert "Dipper" DiPierdomenico is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL of Italian descent and a member of the VFL/AFL Italian Team of the Century...
carried injuries into the finals. The Hawks bowed out in the Elimination Final to Melbourne. Alan Joyce replaced
Allan JeansAllan Jeans is an Australian rules football coach. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in its inception in 1996.-St Kilda:...
as coach and the Hawks won the pre-season cup. The club recruited skillful South Australian Darren Jarman and with improvement from young players Paul Hudson , Ben Allan and Stephen Lawrence the team made the 1991 Grand Final.
Grand Final day 1991 was an historic occasion. It was the only Grand Final played at Waverley Park and featured the first ever appearance by a non-Victorian team on the big day. West Coast had dominated the home and away season but Hawthorn, written off by many early in the season, had slowly gathered momentum and had stunned the Eagles by winning the first ever Final played outside Victoria. West Coast began the re-match kicking with the aid of a strong wind blowing down to the main scoreboard end and kicked the opening four goals. However, from that point the Hawks began to gain the ascendancy and, apart from inaccuracy in the second term, would have had a significant half time lead. Having maintained the half-time margin, against the wind, in the third term, the Hawks slammed on 8.4 to 1.3 to win a fifth Flag in nine seasons. A feature of the Hawks’ performance was that its two best players – Paul Dear and Stephen Lawrence - were from the team’s younger brigade. It was to prove to be Michael Tuck’s last game and he bowed out with the League record for games (426), finals (39), Grand Finals (11) and Premierships (7). At the end of 1991, Hawthorn selected a young
Shane CrawfordShane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
with pick 13 in the National Draft, who eventually became the only surviving link between this era of success and its next triumph 17 seasons later.
In 1992 they moved their home games to
Waverley ParkWaverley Park was an Australian rules football stadium in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. For most of its history, its purpose was as a neutral venue and used by all Victorian based Victorian Football League/Australian Football League clubs...
in
MulgraveMulgrave is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 22 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Monash. At the 2006 Census, Mulgrave had a population of 16,280....
in Melbourne's south-east after previously sharing Princes Park (stadium) with
CarltonCarlton Football Club, nicknamed The Blues, is the third oldest club in the Australian Football League and one of the oldest Australian rules football clubs. They were the first premiers of the Victorian Football Association in 1877, and share the most premierships of any VFL/AFL club...
. To further strengthen their links with the area a second social club was established nearby at the Waverley Gardens shopping centre. The club, which operates as a gaming venue, has also been a lucrative source of revenue for the club.
The end of the 1993 season saw the first cracks in the Family Club facade, coach Alan Joyce was replaced and club legends
Gary AyresGary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
and
Dermott BreretonDermott Hugh Brereton is a former champion Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League.In a 211 game career, Brereton kicked 464 goals and played in five premierships for...
departed.
Chris MewChris Mew is a former Australian rules footballer who was a permanent member of the Hawthorn Hawks side during the 1980s.A defender, Mew usually played at centre half back and was a premiership player in 1983, 86, 88, 89 and 1991....
had injured his achilles tendon and retired. Loss of key players continued,
Ben AllanFor the Cinematographer see Ben Allan ACSBen Allan is a former Australian rules footballer. He was educated at Aquinas College, Perth- Hawthorn career :He played as a rover...
was offered the captaincy of the new Fremantle Dockers and left at the end of 1994, as did
Andrew GowersAndrew Gowers was appointed editor of the Financial Times in October 2001. He left this post in November 2005.-Gowers Review of Intellectual Property:...
, who went to Brisbane.
After a promising start in 1995 the Hawks lost their last seven games to finish 15th and missed the finals for the first time since 1981. Club Champion
Darren JarmanDarren Jarman is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League. An elite midfielder-cum-forward, Jarman amassed a total of 386 games of senior football at SANFL, AFL and Representative level. He was widely reocgnised as one of the most skillful players of his era...
told the club he wanted to return to Adelaide.
Proposed merger
- Falling on-field and off-field fortune saw the club almost merge with Melbourne
Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....
in 1996. The resulting club was to be known as the "Melbourne HawksThe Melbourne Hawks was a planned Australian Football League team that would have consisted of the merger between the Melbourne and Hawthorn Football Clubs at the end of the 1996 season...
" - a fusion with the Melbourne nickname of "Demons". A groundswell of support led by former champion Don ScottDon Scott is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Scott was a fearless ruckman and premiership captain for Hawthorn Football Club....
scuttled the proposal however with Hawthorn members voting strongly against it. Melbourne members supported the merger by a small margin. The failure of the merger led to the resignation of the board and its replacement by a team led by businessman Ian Dicker.
After fighting off the merger the new board launched "Proud, Passinate and Paid Up" campaign in a bid to get more members, 27,450 memberships were bought by supporters, more than doubling the memberships from the previous year. Even in the successful days of the 1980s the club struggled to get 10,000 members. The team won the 1999 preseason competition but missed out on the finals of the proper seson.
Schwab Era
Peter SchwabPeter Schwab is a former Australian rules footballer and coach in the VFL/AFL.-Playing career:Recruited from Bennettswood, he played with the Hawthorn Hawks from 1980-1991, going on to play 171 games and boot 38 goals...
was made coach of the Hawks for the 2000 season, the team played a more attacking style than the "accountable Football" discipline of
Ken JudgeKen Judge is a former Australian rules footballer and coach.- Playing career :He was recruited from East Fremantle Football Club to Hawthorn and made an immediate impact in his VFL debut in 1983, being part of a premiership side in his first season and winning the Hawks' Best First Year Player award...
. The Hawks reached the semi-final before losing to the reigning premiers the North Melbourne Kangaroos. The team made steady progress all over the field.
Daniel ChickDaniel Chick is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League. Chick is also well known for having a finger chopped off in 2002 so he could continue playing football.- Hawthorn career :Chick made his debut for...
and
Nick HollandNick Holland is a former Australian rules football player. He played 179 games for the Hawthorn Football Club between 1994 and 2005, serving as vice-captain between 1999 and 2003...
were the joint winners of the Peter Crimmins Medal.
Chance BatemanChance Bateman is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League.-2006 season:...
became the second indigenous Australian to play for Hawthorn.
In 2001 the Hawks again enjoyed a successful year, but it was to be their last for several seasons. The Hawks won 8 games straight at the start of the season and, despite faltering in the middle part of the year, had a heart stopping win in Semi Final against
Port AdelaideThe Port Adelaide Football Club, is an Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia. Since the club’s first game in 1870, the club has won 34 SANFL premierships including six in a row and achieved the honour of being Champions of Australia on four occasions...
and made it to the Preliminary Final, which they narrowly lost to
EssendonEssendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club and is part of the Australian Football League. Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve, Windy Hill in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon,...
. In the off-season, Hawthorn traded
Trent CroadTrent Eric Croad , is a professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Croad has achieved some of the Australian Football League's highest honours including an AFL premiership medallion, All-Australian selection and has also represented both Victoria and Australia on...
and
Luke McPharlinLuke McPharlin is an Australian rules football player for the Fremantle Football Club. He is 193 centimetres tall with a playing weight of 95 kilograms. McPharlin was educated at Christ Church Grammar School, graduating in 1999....
for the no.1 Draft Pick
Luke HodgeLuke Hodge is an Australian rules footballer. He currently plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . He made his debut in 2002....
, no.20 Daniel Elstone and no.36
Sam MitchellSamuel Mitchell is an Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Debut season:...
. In retrospect, the Hawks are seen to have won this trade.
Trent CroadTrent Eric Croad , is a professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Croad has achieved some of the Australian Football League's highest honours including an AFL premiership medallion, All-Australian selection and has also represented both Victoria and Australia on...
would, ironically, return to Hawthorn two years later.
The Hawks missed the finals altogether in 2002, finishing 10th, which was considered to be a very disappointing result for the club. Shane Crawford won the Peter Crimmins Medal after another stellar season. Players that made their debuts that year
Luke HodgeLuke Hodge is an Australian rules footballer. He currently plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . He made his debut in 2002....
,
Sam MitchellSamuel Mitchell is an Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Debut season:...
,
Campbell BrownCampbell Brown is an Australian rules footballer currently plays for Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.Brown wears the No. 30 guernsey and is noted for his overall aggression and toughness....
,
Robert CampbellRobert Campbell is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Hawks. At 200cm tall, he made his AFL debut in 2002...
and
Mark L. WilliamsMark L. Williams is an indigenous Australian rules footballer who currently plays with Essendon, he was recruited from Hawthorn in the 2009 Trade Week period. He is not to be confused with Mark M...
would all play in the 2008 premiership side. In the off-season, the Hawks again proved to be big players, and snared the services of St Kilda ruckman
Peter EverittPeter "Spida" Everitt is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda, Hawthorn Hawks and the Sydney Swans in the AFL. He made his debut for St. Kilda in 1993 and in 2003 began playing for Hawthorn. Everitt was traded to the Sydney Swans at the end of 2006. Following the club's...
.
After a poor start to the 2003 season, the Hawks went on to finish the second half of the year strongly and finished in 9th place, narrowly missing the finals.
Sam MitchellSamuel Mitchell is an Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Debut season:...
shone for the Hawks and won the Rising Star Award. This form had punters excited and the team were early favourites for a top 4 finish the next year.
Shane CrawfordShane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
once again won the Peter Crimmins Medal, with 'Crawf' also coming second in the
Brownlow medalThe Chas Brownlow Trophy — better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...
, by a single vote.
During the 2004 pre season Hawthorn coach Peter Schwab declared that the Hawks would "win the premiership" although this statement would be followed by a horrific season for Hawthorn as the Hawks managed just 4 wins and 18 losses. The club imploded, and by mid-season coach
Peter SchwabPeter Schwab is a former Australian rules footballer and coach in the VFL/AFL.-Playing career:Recruited from Bennettswood, he played with the Hawthorn Hawks from 1980-1991, going on to play 171 games and boot 38 goals...
was sacked, and Captain
Shane CrawfordShane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
broke his arm, and eventually relinquished the captaincy. Following the collapse of the club on the field, many players either left or were sacked from the club.
Nathan ThompsonNathan Thompson is a former Australian rules footballer, who previously played with the Hawthorn and North Melbourne Football Clubs in the Australian Football League.-Early career:...
left the club citing a fresh start following his admission that he suffered from depression.
Rayden TallisRayden Tallis is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the AFL.Tallis made his Hawthorn debut in 1994 and earned a Rising Star nomination late in the season. He usually played in the back pocket but was also used through the midfield...
,
Mark GrahamMark Graham is a former Australian rules football player who played with Hawthorn for over a decade before finishing his career at Richmond. He was a left footed defender and possessed a strong overhead mark. In 2001 he finished second in the Hawk's best and fairest....
,
Kris BarlowKris Barlow is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the AFL....
and
Lance PicioaneLance Picioane is an Australian rules footballer who played for Adelaide, Hawthorn and the Kangaroos during his time in the AFL....
were also released from the club. More than 700 games of experience left the club following the season.
Clarkson era
Alastair ClarksonAlastair Clarkson is a former Australian rules footballer and current coach of the Hawthorn Football Club.-North Melbourne:...
was appointed coach before the conclusion of the 2004 season and promptly delisted many players who were either underperforming or not fitting in with his youth policy which he embarked on to rebuild the club. The Hawks took
Jarryd RougheadJarryd Roughead was selected by Hawthorn in the 2004 Draft at no.2 as a key Centre Half Forward/Centre Half Back prospect. In his 4 years at Hawthorn he has shown he has strong hands and is good at reading play. Received a Rising Star nomination in his first year round 19. He was recruited from...
,
Lance FranklinLance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is an Indigenous Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . Franklin has played for the Hawthorn Football Club since his AFL debut in 2005.-Early life:...
,
Jordan LewisJordan Michael Lewis is an Australian rules footballer, currently playing for the Hawthorn Football Club of the Australian Football League. His nicknames are "Taz" and "Chief."Lewis was voted Hawthorn's best first-year player in 2005...
at picks 2, 5 and 7 respectively in the
AFL DraftThe AFL Draft is the annual draft of new unsigned players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.-History:...
. Former Hawk
Trent CroadTrent Eric Croad , is a professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Croad has achieved some of the Australian Football League's highest honours including an AFL premiership medallion, All-Australian selection and has also represented both Victoria and Australia on...
who had played for the
Fremantle DockersFremantle Football Club, unofficially nicknamed The Dockers and known informally as "Freo", is one of 16 teams in the Australian Football League . The club is based in the port city of Fremantle at the mouth of the Swan River in Western Australia...
for 2 years returned to his original side on exchange for draft selection No.10 Ryley Dunn before the 2004 season.
With Clarkson at the helm, the Hawks made solid progress, and instituted a culture of discipline at the club. The Hawks won only 5 games and played a widely criticised high-possession gameplan and finished in 14th position. Hawks fans still deemed it to be a somewhat successful season.
Lance FranklinLance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is an Indigenous Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . Franklin has played for the Hawthorn Football Club since his AFL debut in 2005.-Early life:...
,
Jarryd RougheadJarryd Roughead was selected by Hawthorn in the 2004 Draft at no.2 as a key Centre Half Forward/Centre Half Back prospect. In his 4 years at Hawthorn he has shown he has strong hands and is good at reading play. Received a Rising Star nomination in his first year round 19. He was recruited from...
and
Jordan LewisJordan Michael Lewis is an Australian rules footballer, currently playing for the Hawthorn Football Club of the Australian Football League. His nicknames are "Taz" and "Chief."Lewis was voted Hawthorn's best first-year player in 2005...
all won Rising Star Nominations.
Shane CrawfordShane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
also had a return to form after a terrible 2004 when he broke his arm, and finished 3rd in the
Peter Crimmins MedalThe Peter Crimmins Medal is an Australian rules football award given to the player from the Hawthorn Football Club deemed best and fairest for the season.Peter Crimmins was a rover for Hawthorn, playing 1966-1975...
. The Hawks received pick 3
Xavier EllisXavier Ellis is an Australian rules footballer playing for the AFL's Hawthorn Football Club. Drafted by Hawthorn with 3rd overall pick in the 2005 AFL Draft, he is a medium sized midfielder or defender, and has shown great footy smarts....
, pick 6
Beau DowlerBeau Dowler is an AFL footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club who was selected at no.6 in the 2005 AFL Draft as a key forward prospect for the Hawks.He was originally recruited from the TAC Cup side, Oakleigh Chargers in the U/18 competition...
from finishing 14th. List manager Chris Pelchen also traded the clubs 2001 All-Australian full-back Jonathan Hay to North Melbourne and Nathan Lonie to Port Adelaide. In return the club got pick 14
Grant BirchallGrant Birchall is an Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.Birchall had an exceptional first season in 2006 with the Hawthorn, playing 16 games out of a possible 22...
and pick 18
Max BaileyMax Bailey is an Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club of the Australian Football League.Drafted 18th overall by the Hawks in the 2005 AFL Draft, the ruckman from West Perth made his AFL debut in Round 18 of the 2006 season...
. The club had a record 5 picks inside 22 with
Beau MustonBeau Muston is an Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.Muston is an inside midfielder who during the TAC Cup in 2005, averaged 23 disposals and nine contested possessions which included six hardball-gets.A bad knee injury prevented him...
rounding out the 5 players. Ellis and Birchall went on to play an integral part in the clubs 10th premiership in 2008.
The success story of the year was former No.1 Draft Pick
Luke HodgeLuke Hodge is an Australian rules footballer. He currently plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . He made his debut in 2002....
, who became a super-star off half back, winning the
Peter Crimmins MedalThe Peter Crimmins Medal is an Australian rules football award given to the player from the Hawthorn Football Club deemed best and fairest for the season.Peter Crimmins was a rover for Hawthorn, playing 1966-1975...
, All-Australian jumper and coming equal 4th in the
Brownlow MedalThe Chas Brownlow Trophy — better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...
, collecting 15 votes.
Peter EverittPeter "Spida" Everitt is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda, Hawthorn Hawks and the Sydney Swans in the AFL. He made his debut for St. Kilda in 1993 and in 2003 began playing for Hawthorn. Everitt was traded to the Sydney Swans at the end of 2006. Following the club's...
and
Trent CroadTrent Eric Croad , is a professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Croad has achieved some of the Australian Football League's highest honours including an AFL premiership medallion, All-Australian selection and has also represented both Victoria and Australia on...
were also named in the All-Australian team.
After numerous years of planning, the club relocated its administrative headquarters from
Glenferrie OvalGlenferrie Oval is an Australian rules football stadium located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It is the historic home of and is synonymous with the Hawthorn Football Club, who played there from 1903 and as a VFL/AFL club from 1925-1973, and retained the ground as an...
to a state of the art redeveloped facility at
Waverley ParkWaverley Park was an Australian rules football stadium in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. For most of its history, its purpose was as a neutral venue and used by all Victorian based Victorian Football League/Australian Football League clubs...
in the early stages of 2006. Glenferrie Oval was to remain the spiritual home of the club.
In 2006, after a flyer start, being 4-1 Win/Loss ratio after the first 5 rounds, the Hawks faltered and fell to a 6 game losing streak before breaking the drought against
RichmondRichmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers , are an Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
in round 12, when
Lance FranklinLance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is an Indigenous Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . Franklin has played for the Hawthorn Football Club since his AFL debut in 2005.-Early life:...
booted 6 goals. A further 6 game losing streak ensued, before another 6 goal burst from "Buddy" in round 19 against
CarltonCarlton Football Club, nicknamed The Blues, is the third oldest club in the Australian Football League and one of the oldest Australian rules football clubs. They were the first premiers of the Victorian Football Association in 1877, and share the most premierships of any VFL/AFL club...
was the spark to a final 4 game winning streak, which helped the Hawks leap frog
Port AdelaideThe Port Adelaide Football Club, is an Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia. Since the club’s first game in 1870, the club has won 34 SANFL premierships including six in a row and achieved the honour of being Champions of Australia on four occasions...
, the Kangaroos, and
BrisbaneBrisbane Lions Australian Football Club is an Australian Football League club based in Brisbane, Queensland...
to finish the year in 11th place.
Hawthorn's progress up the ladder, developing youth, and attacking style of play saw coach
Alastair ClarksonAlastair Clarkson is a former Australian rules footballer and current coach of the Hawthorn Football Club.-North Melbourne:...
rewarded with a new 2 year contract after the mid-season break.
At the end of the 2006 season, the Hawks increased their commitment to Tasmanian market - where they have developed a large support base - with 4 games to be played at
Aurora StadiumYork Park is a sports ground located in the Inveresk and York Park Precinct, Launceston, Australia. It holds 20,000 people, the most of any stadium in Tasmania. It has been known as Aurora Stadium under a six-year naming rights agreement with Aurora Energy since 2004...
in Launceston, involving the Tasmanian government becoming an official sponsor of the club, in one of the biggest sponsorship deals in Australian sporting history worth $15–20 million dollars.
In 2007 the club spent most of the time in the top three during the home and away, but late season loses to Port Adelaide and Sydney saw the Hawks finish in 5th position. A come from behind win against Adelaide in the Elimination Final in which Lance Franklin kicked his seventh goal seconds from the final siren overshadowed a disappointing loss the following week against the North Melbourne Football Club.
The club recorded its 11th consecutive year-end profit at the close of the 2007 season, a record $3.6m dollars.
2008
- Hawthorn won their first premiership since 1991, defeating Geelong
Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, are a professional Australian rules football club named after and based in the city of Greater Geelong....
18.7-115 to 11.23-89 in the AFL Grand Final. This took place on Saturday the 27th of September, 2008 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCGJoseph McGinty Nichol , better known as McG, is an American director and producer of film and television, as well as a former record producer. He began his career in the music industry, directing music videos and producing various albums...
). During the second quarter Trent Croad suffered a serious foot injury and was on crutches the rest of the game. Luke Hodge won the Norm Smith Medal, overcoming a serious rib injury inflicted upon him during the Preliminary Final match versus St. Kilda. Mark Williams was the top goalkicker on the day with 3 goals.
2009
- Hawthorn had a bad season with injuries to several top players, who missed considerable number of games through out the season. The club did not make the finals, however the club's chances of final were not extinguished until the last few matches with a late season charge fading in the last couple of games.
Logo and crest
The Hawthorn FC has had four VFL/AFL endorsed logos in its entirety. The first (1977), a flying Hawk, was an adaptation of a pre-existing unofficial logo that appeared on the club's official documentation throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
| Logo |
| In 1982, however, on the back of large scale marketing drive, ‘the new force of the 80s’, the club adopted the famous ‘Hawk Head’ created by a Swinburne Institute student. It is still closely linked to the club 10 years after being replaced. The ‘Hawk Head’ was a popular choice amongst Hawthorn FC supporters as the club had 5 premierships, 8 grand finals and 14 finals appearances during its 15 years at the club |
On the back of the failed 1996 proposed merger of Hawthorn with the Melbourne Football ClubMelbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....
, Hawthorn – under Ian Dicker - looked to a new banner for a change of fortunes in 1997. The ‘New Hawks’ adopted a modernistic version of the pre-existing ‘Flying Hawk’ and was launched with the infamous ‘Proud, Passionate and Paid Up’ membership drive in 1997. The new logo was successful in drumming up support for the Hawks, as the club went from one of the lowest supported clubs to being the first club in Victoria to attract more than 30,000 members in the space of only two years. Since then the club has successfully retained a consistent level of support despite struggles on the field. |
| On Saturday, 6 October 2007, the club president, Jeff Kennett, launched the club's fourth logo in 30 years at a lavish function at Crown Casino. The new logo, which has striking similarities to the ‘Hawk Head’ of the 80s and 90s was a project of Cato Purnell Partners. In describing the logo, Cato has made reference to the eye and beak of the Hawk representing the ‘determination, pride, and focus’ of Hawthorn. |
Club jumper
The Hawthorn colours are Brown and Gold vertical stripes. Hawthorn has worn these colours since 1950. The current major sponsors of the team are Events
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. The standard home guernsey is used in all home and away games in Victoria, Sydney and Tasmania while the away guernsey is used in all away games in Adelaide, Perth, and Brisbane.
| Home Guernsey | Away Guernsey |
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Club song
We're a happy team at Hawthorn.
We're the mighty fighting hawks.
We love our club and we play to win.
Riding the bumps with a grin at Hawthorn.
Come what may you'll find us striving.
Team work is the thing that talks.
One for all and all for one.
Is the way we play at Hawthorn.
We are the mighty fighting hawks.
It is sung to the tune of
The Yankee Doodle Boy"The Yankee Doodle Boy", also well-known as " Yankee Doodle Dandy" is a patriotic song from the Broadway musical Little Johnny Jones written by George M. Cohan...
.
VFLThe Victorian Football League, formerly known as the Victorian Football Association is the premier league in Victoria...
teams the
Northern BullantsThe Northern Bullants Football Club is a long-established Australian rules football club based in Preston and currently playing in the Victorian Football League representing the central and outer areas of Melbourne...
, the
Sandringham ZebrasSandringham Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that was formed in 1929 and plays in the Victorian Football League . The Zebras have a 5 year alignment agreement with AFL club St Kilda Football Club of which the first season was 2009...
and the
Box Hill HawksThe Box Hill Hawks Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the Victorian Football League. It has an alliance with the Hawthorn Football Club which plays in the Australian Football League....
and the
Central District (Centrals)The Central District Bulldogs is an Australian rules football club based in the city of Elizabeth about 35km to the north of Adelaide, South Australia.-Origins and Background:...
and
West Adelaide (Westies)West Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club in the South Australian National Football League . Nicknamed The Bloods and Westies, their home base is City Mazda Stadium located in Richmond, an inner-western suburb of Adelaide.-Club history:West Adelaide was formed in 1892...
from the
SANFLThe South Australian National Football League is the premier league and governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in the state of South Australia....
have similar club songs, with the same tune and several familiar lyrics. Previously the club used a song titled "We all come from Hawthorn Way" to the tune of the folk song "Camptown Ladies".
Club mascot
The Hawks's Mascot Manor representative and club mascot is
Hudson 'Hawka' Knights, a caricature of a hawk dressed the same way as the Hawthorn players.
Support
Hawthorn boasts a large support base throughout Australia, particularly in Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and South East Queensland. Most of this widespread support can be accredited to the club's success in the 1970s and 1980s as the club successfully nurtured talent in its home ‘zones’ – primarily in the South and East of Victoria, as well as recruiting interstate talent from all over Australia. As a result the club has a very widespread membership with 7,000 Tasmanian members, 3,000 WA members and 3,000 QLD and NSW members complementing the clubs 35,000 Victorian members. In 2007 Hawthorn stated its ambitions were to grow their membership to beyond 50,000 by 2011 (a feat achieved in 2009)
As of May 2009, the Hawthorn Football Club boasts the largest membership in the AFL, becoming the first club to break the 51,000 barrier for membership
According to club research, the club has well over 400,000 supporters across Australia. Notable supporters include club president
Jeff KennettHon Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC , a former Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999. He is currently the President of the Hawthorn Football Club. He was the founding Chairman, and now a Director, of beyondblue, a National Depression Initiative.- Early life :Kennett was...
, cricketers
Ian HealyIan Andrew Healy is a former cricketer who played for Queensland and Australia. A specialist wicketkeeper and useful right-hand middle-order batsman, he made an unheralded entry to international cricket in 1988, after only six first-class games...
,
Mark TaylorMark Anthony Taylor, AO was an Australian cricket player and Test opening batsman from 1988–1999, as well as captain from 1994–1999, succeeding Allan Border...
,
Terry AldermanTerence Michael Alderman is a former Australian cricketer.He began his first-class career in 1974 with Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield and came to international prominence when he was chosen for the Australian national team to tour England in 1981...
,
Damien FlemingDamien William Fleming is a former Australian cricketer who played in 20 Tests and 88 ODIs from 1994 to 2001....
, Wimbledon champion
Pat CashPatrick Hart "Pat" Cash is a retired Australian professional tennis player who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1987.-Early career:...
, Australian Olympic Rower James Tomkins and media personality Stephen Quartermain
In accordance with a recent survey appearing in the 9/7/2008 addition of the Herald Sun, 11% of Victorians 'barrack' for Hawthorn, behind only
CollingwoodCollingwood Football Club, officially nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League....
(14%),
EssendonEssendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club and is part of the Australian Football League. Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve, Windy Hill in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon,...
(12%) and
CarltonCarlton Football Club, nicknamed The Blues, is the third oldest club in the Australian Football League and one of the oldest Australian rules football clubs. They were the first premiers of the Victorian Football Association in 1877, and share the most premierships of any VFL/AFL club...
(12%)
In 2008 the Hawthorn Football Club drew 1,164,396 to all 25 completed games, a club record and 7th largest aggregate attendance for any club, of all time.
Membership base and home crowds
Below is a table containing club membership numbers from 1996.
| Year | Members | Total Attendance | Average Attendance | Finishing position² |
|---|
| 1996 |
12,300 |
588,819 |
25,573 |
8th |
| 1997 |
27,450 |
710,654 |
32,380 |
15th |
| 1998 |
27,649 |
686,470 |
31,200 |
14th |
| 1999 |
32,120 |
733,485 |
33,340 |
9th |
| 2000 |
27,879 |
829,893 |
34,578 |
6th |
| 2001 |
30,140 |
909,950 |
36,398 |
4th |
| 2002 |
33,319 |
776,517 |
35,329 |
10th |
| 2003 |
31,500 |
685,693 |
31,181 |
9th |
| 2004 |
31,255 |
624,343 |
28,379 |
15th |
| 2005 |
29,261 |
729,754 |
31,511 |
14th |
| 2006 |
28,003 |
691,924 |
31,541 |
11th |
| 2007 |
31,065 |
881,144 |
36,714 |
6th |
| 2008 |
41,686 |
1,164,396 |
46,575 |
|1st |
| 2009 |
52,929¹ |
N/A |
N/A |
|9th |
¹ as at 31 August 2009
² following finals matches
²Target: 50,000 members
Premierships
| Premiership Record |
Premiership Record |
| Competition |
Level |
Wins |
Year Won |
VFL/AFLThe Australian Football League is the major professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian football and is arguably Australia's biggest sporting competition in terms of membership, corporate sponsorship and attendances .The league comprises 16 teams which play 22 home and...
|
Seniors |
10 |
1961 The 1961 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Footscray Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 23 September 1961. It was the 65th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
, 1971The 1971 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and St Kilda Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 25 September 1971. It was the 75th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
, 1976The 1976 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 35 September 1976. It was the 80th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
, 1978The 1978 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1978. It was the 82nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
, 1983The 1983 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1983. It was the 87th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
, 1986The 1986 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 1986. It was the 90th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
, 1988The 1988 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1988. It was the 92nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
, 1989The 1989 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the Geelong Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1989. It was the the 93rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
, 1991The 1991 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and West Coast Eagles, held at Waverley Park in Melbourne on 28 September 1991. It was the 95th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League, staged to...
, 2008The 2008 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and the Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 2008...
|
VFL/AFLThe Australian Football League is the major professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian football and is arguably Australia's biggest sporting competition in terms of membership, corporate sponsorship and attendances .The league comprises 16 teams which play 22 home and...
|
Runners Up |
5 |
|1963 The 1963 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 5 October 1963. It was the 67th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the...
, 1975The 1975 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the North Melbourne Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 1975. It was the 79th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...
, 1984The 1984 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 1984. It was the 88th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
, 1985The 1985 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 28 September 1985. It was the 89th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
, 1987The 1987 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1987. It was the 91st annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...
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VFL/AFLThe Australian Football League is the major professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian football and is arguably Australia's biggest sporting competition in terms of membership, corporate sponsorship and attendances .The league comprises 16 teams which play 22 home and...
|
Night/Pre-Season Premierships |
9 |
1968, 1969, 1977, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1999 |
VFL/AFLThe Australian Football League is the major professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian football and is arguably Australia's biggest sporting competition in terms of membership, corporate sponsorship and attendances .The league comprises 16 teams which play 22 home and...
|
Reserves |
4 |
1957, 1958, 1972, 1985 |
VFL/AFLThe Australian Football League is the major professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian football and is arguably Australia's biggest sporting competition in terms of membership, corporate sponsorship and attendances .The league comprises 16 teams which play 22 home and...
|
Under 19s |
1 |
1972 |
VFL/AFLThe Australian Football League is the major professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian football and is arguably Australia's biggest sporting competition in terms of membership, corporate sponsorship and attendances .The league comprises 16 teams which play 22 home and...
|
McClelland Trophy The McClelland Trophy is an Australian Football trophy awarded to the Minor Premiers in the Australian Football League each year. The Minor Premiers are the team that qualifies for the AFL Finals Series in first position at the end of the home-and-away season....
|
6 |
1961, 1971, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 |
VFL/AFLThe Australian Football League is the major professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian football and is arguably Australia's biggest sporting competition in terms of membership, corporate sponsorship and attendances .The league comprises 16 teams which play 22 home and...
|
Minor Premiers |
9 |
1961, 1963, 1971, 1975, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989 |
VFL/AFLThe Australian Football League is the major professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian football and is arguably Australia's biggest sporting competition in terms of membership, corporate sponsorship and attendances .The league comprises 16 teams which play 22 home and...
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Wooden Spoons A wooden spoon is a mock or real award, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events...
|
11 |
1925, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1965 |
- Hawthorn has won the 3rd most trophies of any club in VFL/AFL competition
- Hawthorn is the most successful VFL/AFL club post World War II
- Hawthorn is the only club in the VFL/AFL to have won Senior Premierships in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
- Hawthorn has won the most Night/Pre-Season Premierships
Finishing positions (1925-2009)
| Finishing Position | Year (Finals in Bold) | Tally |
|---|
| 1st |
1961, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2008 |
10 |
| 2nd |
1963, 1975, 1984, 1985, 1987 |
6 |
| 3rd |
1957, 1974, 1977, 1982, |
4 |
| 4th |
2001 |
1 |
| 5th |
1943, 1960, 1964, 1969, 1990, 1992, 2007 |
7 |
| 6th |
1958, 1968, 1972, 1981, 1993, 1994, 2000 |
7 |
| 7th |
1956, 1959, 1973, 1979 |
4 |
| 8th |
1937, 1955, 1970, 1980, 1996 |
5 |
| 9th |
1936, 1940, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1967, 1999, 2003, 2009 |
9 |
| 10th |
1929, 1930, 1935, 1939, 1945, 2002 |
6 |
| 11th |
1926, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1944, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1952, 2006 |
11 |
| 12th |
1925, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1965 |
11 |
| 13th |
1998 |
1 |
| 14th |
2005 |
1 |
| 15th |
1995, 1997, 2004 |
3 |
| 16th |
nil |
0 |
Seasonwise listing
Includes the
Peter Crimmins Medal, the award given to the player(s) deemed
best and fairestBest and Fairest is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.In the...
for the season.
Peter CrimminsPeter Crimmins was a rover for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL, playing 176 games and kicking 231 goals from 1966 to 1975. He was an inspirational player and captain from 1974 who wore number 5. He was a member of the Hawks' 1971 premiership team.At the completion of the 1974 VFL season...
was a rover for Hawthorn, playing 1966-1975. He died of cancer just days after the club's 1976 premiership win.
| Year | Finishing position | Coach | Captain | Best and Fairest | Leading Goalkicker |
|---|
| 1925 |
12th |
Alex Hall Alex 'Joker' Hall was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the VFA in 1891 to 1896 then in the VFL from 1898 to 1900 and again in 1902. In 1906, his first year of coaching in the VFL, he played his only game for the St Kilda Football Club...
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Jim Jackson James 'Jim' Jackson was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda, Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL.Jackson was a wingman and had a long career with 17 years between his first and last season. He started his career at St Kilda in 1909 but after managing just one game crossed to...
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- |
Leslie Woodford (35) |
| 1926 |
11th |
Dan Minogue Daniel 'Dan' Minogue was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Minogue was a courageous centre half-back as epitomised when he sustained a broken collarbone playing for Collingwood Football Club in the first minute of the 1911 Grand Final and then playing out the entire...
|
Dan Minogue |
- |
Bert Hyde Bert Hyde is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL.Hyde was a fullforward and was Hawthorn's premier target up forward during their first decade in the league. He topped their goalkicking from 1926-1930 with a best of 62 goals in 1928. He also represented...
(27) |
| 1927 |
12th |
Dan Minogue |
Pat Burke |
Ern Utting Ernest 'Ern' Utting was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL. He was also commonly referred to as Tich Utting....
|
Bert Hyde (41) |
| 1928 |
12th |
Bert Sutton Herbert 'Bert' Sutton was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1920s.Sutton, who came to South Melbourne from Williamstown, was used mostly as the flanks...
|
Bert Sutton |
- |
Bert Hyde (62) |
| 1929 |
10th |
Bert Chadwick |
Bert Chadwick |
- |
Bert Hyde (47) |
| 1930 |
10th |
John Harris |
John Harris |
Ern Utting Ernest 'Ern' Utting was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL. He was also commonly referred to as Tich Utting....
|
Bert Hyde (52) |
| 1931 |
11th |
John Harris |
John Harris |
Jack Sharpley Jack Sharpley was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL.A full back, Sharpley started his league career in 1926 with Footscray and played with them for a season and a half before moving to Hawthorn where he played with his brother Keith...
|
Jack Ryan (39) |
| 1932 |
12th |
Jim Jackson |
Bert Mills Albert Mills was an Australian rules footballer who played for and captained Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League .Mills usually played as a ruckman but was also used at centre half-back...
|
Stan Spinks Stan Spinks is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1930s. He played as both a centreman and wingman in his career....
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Jack Ryan (37) |
| 1933 |
11th |
Bill Twomey, Sr. William 'Bill' Patrick Twomey was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL. His sons Mick, Pat and Bill all played league football with Collingwood....
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Bill Twomey, Sr. William 'Bill' Patrick Twomey was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL. His sons Mick, Pat and Bill all played league football with Collingwood....
|
Bert Mills |
Ted Pool Ted Pool is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL.Pool was a rover and by playing 200 games of VFL football he became the first ever West Australian born player to reach the milestone....
(27) |
| 1934 |
11th |
Bill Twomey |
Bert Mills |
Ernie Loveless Ernie Loveless was an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda and Hawthorn in the VFL....
|
Jack Green (80) |
| 1935 |
10th |
Ivan McAlpine Ivan McAlpine was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Hawthorn in the VFL.McAlpine was wingman and regularly represented Victoria in interstate football. He won the inaugural Footscray Best and Fairest award in 1927 and won the award again in 1930 and 1932...
|
Ivan McAlpine |
Bert Mills |
Jack Green (63) |
| 1936 |
9th |
Ivan McAlpine |
Ivan McAlpine |
Leo Murphy Leo Murphy was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1930s. He was the father of Fitzroy great John Murphy....
|
Norm Hillard Norm Hillard was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League ....
(26) |
| 1937 |
8th |
Ivan McAlpine |
Ivan McAlpine |
Leo Murphy |
Norm Hillard (31) |
| 1938 |
11th |
Ivan McAlpine |
Bert Mills |
Stan Spinks |
Alby Naismith (30) |
| 1939 |
10th |
Len Thomas Len Thomas was an Australian rules footballer who played 187 games with South Melbourne in the VFL during the 1930s, before finishing his career as captain-coach at both Hawthorn and North Melbourne...
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Len Thomas Len Thomas was an Australian rules footballer who played 187 games with South Melbourne in the VFL during the 1930s, before finishing his career as captain-coach at both Hawthorn and North Melbourne...
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Bert Mills |
Alec Albiston Alec Albiston is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL and with North Melbourne for his final season.A goalkicking rover, he was captain and coach of Hawthorn between 1947 and 1949...
(37) |
| 1940 |
9th |
Bert Mills |
Bert Mills |
Andy Angwin Andrew "Andy" Angwin was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL.A wingman, Angwin played with Port Melbourne in the VFA before joining Hawthorn. He won Hawthorn's best and fairest award in 1940 and finished runner up in the following two seasons. Angwin did well in the...
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Alby Naismith (25) |
| 1941 |
12th |
Bert Mills |
Bert Mills |
Alec Albiston |
Alec Albiston (57) |
| 1942 |
11th |
Roy Cazaly |
Jack Carmody Jack Carmody was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL....
|
Jack Barker |
Alec Albiston (32) |
| 1943 |
5th |
Roy Cazaly |
Bob Williams |
Jim Bohan Jim Bohan is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL. He played in the centre or at centre half forward....
|
Wally Culpitt Wally Culpitt was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.Culpitt was a key position player and started his career in defence. The 1943 season saw him pushed to fullforward and he topped Hawthorn's goalkicking with 43 goals, and again the following season...
(43) |
| 1944 |
11th |
Tommy Lahiff Thomas 'Tommy' Lahiff was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon, South Melbourne and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League before becoming a successful coach and radio commentator....
|
Jim Bohan |
Jack Blackman Jack Blackman was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.Blackman was a centre half back and first played for Hawthorn in 1939. He didn't play between 1940 and 1944 due to his war service in the Navy. When he returned in 1944 he did not miss a game all...
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Wally Culpitt (57) |
| 1945 |
10th |
Keith Shea |
Keith Shea Keith Shea was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL during the 1930s.Shea was a half forward and played with Carlton from 1932 to 1937. He polled well in the Brownlow Medal, the closest he came to winning was in 1934 where he fell 2 votes short with an equal 3rd placing...
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Jim Bohan Jim Bohan is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL. He played in the centre or at centre half forward....
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Alec Albiston (66) |
| 1946 |
12th |
Keith Shea |
Jim Bohan |
Alec Albiston |
Albert Prior Albert Prior is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.A fullforward, he topped Hawthorn's goalkicking in every season from 1946-1949 with a best of 67 goals in 1947....
(52) |
| 1947 |
11th |
Alec Albiston |
Alec Albiston |
Wally Culpitt |
Albert Prior (67) |
| 1948 |
11th |
Alec Albiston |
Alec Albiston |
Kevin Curran Kevin Curran was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.Curran was recruited to Hawthorn from Traralgon and played his first game with them in 1940....
|
Albert Prior (47) |
| 1949 |
12th |
Alec Albiston |
Alec Albiston |
Col Austen |
Albert Prior (48) |
| 1950 |
12th |
Bob McCaskill Robert 'Bob' McCaskill was a Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the VFL during the 1920s and coached both North Melbourne and Hawthorn....
|
Peter O'Donohue,
Kevin Curran |
John Kennedy |
Gordon Anderson (21) |
| 1951 |
11th |
Bob McCaskill |
Peter O'Donohue,
Kevin Curran |
John Kennedy |
Pat Cash (26) |
| 1952 |
11th |
Jack Hale Jack Hale is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL during the 1940s before becoming a coach....
,
Bob McCaskill |
Peter O'Donohue |
John Kennedy |
John McDonald (25) |
| 1953 |
12th |
Jack Hale |
Ted Fletcher |
Ted Fletcher Edward 'Ted' Fletcher is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL.Fletcher was used in a variety of positions during his career including the ruck and in defence. In 1953 he was appointed club captain and won the Hawthorn 'Best and Fairest' award...
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Kevin Coghlan (19) |
| 1954 |
9th |
Jack Hale |
Ted Fletcher |
John Kennedy |
Kevin Coghlan (27) |
| 1955 |
8th |
Jack Hale |
John Kennedy |
Graham Arthur Graham Arthur is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL in the 1950s and 1960's.Arthur played primarily as a half forward, debuting while still only 18 years old....
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Kevin Coghlan (28) |
| 1956 |
7th |
Jack Hale |
John Kennedy |
Roy Simmonds Roy Simmonds was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1950s.Simmonds was used all around the ground by Hawthorn, most often though on the half back flank. His finest season came in 1956 where he won Hawthorn's best and fairest and finished equal fourth in...
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John Peck (31) |
| 1957 |
3rd |
Jack Hale |
John Kennedy |
Alf Hughes Alfred 'Alf' Hughes was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1950s.Hughes was recruited from East Brunswick and played mainly in the back pockets for Hawthorn. In 1957 he won Hawthorn's best and fairest award and finished equal 7th in the Brownlow Medal...
|
Terry Ingersoll (33) |
| 1958 |
6th |
Jack Hale |
John Kennedy |
Graham Arthur |
John Peck (27) |
| 1959 |
7th |
Jack Hale |
John Kennedy |
Allan Woodley Allan Woodley was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1950s. A follower, he was also known by his nickname 'The Colonel'....
|
Gary Young Gary Young was the first drummer of the 90s seminal alternative band Pavement.-Early life:Gary Young was born in Mamaroneck, New York. His father worked in the plastics business.-Work with Pavement:...
(35) |
| 1960 |
5th |
John Kennedy |
Graham Arthur |
Brendan Edwards Brendan Edwards Brendan Edwards Brendan Edwards (Born 18 March 1936 is a former Australian rules football footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League VFL from 1956 to 1961 and again in the 1963 season. He won their best and fairest award in 1960 and represented Victoria at...
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Gary Young (36) |
| 1961 |
Premiers |
John Kennedy |
Graham Arthur |
Ian Law Ian Law is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn throughout the 1960s.A rover, Law won the Hawthorn Best and fairest award in just his second year of VFL football and also finished 1961 third in the Brownlow Medal count...
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John Peck (49) |
| 1962 |
9th |
John Kennedy |
Graham Arthur |
Graham Arthur |
John Peck (38) |
| 1963 |
Grand Finalist |
John Kennedy |
Graham Arthur |
Ian Law |
John Peck (75*) |
| 1964 |
5th |
Graham Arthur |
Graham Arthur |
Ian Law |
John Peck (68*) |
| 1965 |
12th |
Graham Arthur |
Graham Arthur,
John Peck |
David Parkin |
John Peck (56*) |
| 1966 |
9th |
Peter O'Donohue |
Graham Arthur |
Ray Wilson |
John Peck (32) |
| 1967 |
10th |
John Kennedy |
Graham Arthur |
Bob Keddie Bob Keddie is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League and West Adelaide, South Adelaide and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League ....
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Peter Hudson Peter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
(57) |
| 1968 |
6th |
John Kennedy |
Graham Arthur |
Peter Hudson |
Peter Hudson (125*) |
| 1969 |
5th |
John Kennedy |
David Parkin |
Bob Keddie |
Peter Hudson (120) |
| 1970 |
8th |
John Kennedy |
David Parkin |
Peter Hudson Peter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
|
Peter Hudson (146*) |
| 1971 |
Premiers |
John Kennedy |
David Parkin |
Leigh Matthews Leigh Raymond "Lethal Leigh" Matthews AM is a former player and coach of Australian rules football. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League from 1969 to 1985, coached Collingwood from 1986-1995, and coached the Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008...
|
Peter Hudson (150*) |
| 1972 |
6th |
John Kennedy |
David Parkin |
Leigh Matthews |
Peter Knights Peter Knights is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the finest centre half-backs to have played the game, despite suffering numerous injuries...
(46) |
| 1973 |
7th |
John Kennedy |
David Parkin |
Don Scott Don Scott is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Scott was a fearless ruckman and premiership captain for Hawthorn Football Club....
|
Leigh Matthews (51) |
| 1974 |
3rd |
John Kennedy |
Peter Crimmins Peter Crimmins was a rover for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL, playing 176 games and kicking 231 goals from 1966 to 1975. He was an inspirational player and captain from 1974 who wore number 5. He was a member of the Hawks' 1971 premiership team.At the completion of the 1974 VFL season...
|
Leigh Matthews |
Michael Moncrieff Michael Moncrieff is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1970s and early 80s....
(67) |
| 1975 |
Grand Finalist |
John Kennedy |
Peter Crimmins |
Peter Knights |
Leigh Matthews (68*) |
| 1976 |
Premiers |
John Kennedy |
Don Scott |
Leigh Matthews |
Michael Moncrieff (97) |
| 1977 |
3rd |
David Parkin |
Don Scott |
Leigh Matthews |
Peter Hudson Peter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
(110*) |
| 1978 |
Premiers |
David Parkin |
Don Scott |
Leigh Matthews |
Michael Moncrieff (90) |
| 1979 |
7th |
David Parkin |
Don Scott |
Kelvin Moore Kelvin D. Moore is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Kelvin Moore was one of the best full-backs of his era and played in three Hawthorn Football Club premierships during his 300-game career from 1970-1984.In 2005 Moore was inducted into the Australian Football...
|
Michael Moncrieff (45) |
| 1980 |
8th |
David Parkin |
Don Scott |
Leigh Matthews |
Michael Moncrieff (86) |
| 1981 |
6th |
Allan Jeans Allan Jeans is an Australian rules football coach. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in its inception in 1996.-St Kilda:...
|
Leigh Matthews |
Terry Wallace Terry Wallace is a former professional Australian rules football player and coach.As a player, his career spanned three VFL/AFL clubs; most notably Hawthorn where he played in three premierships as well as achieving All-Australian selection, and two Best and Fairests with the Footscray Football...
|
Leigh Matthews (48) |
| 1982 |
3rd |
Allan Jeans |
Leigh Matthews |
Leigh Matthews |
Leigh Matthews (74) |
| 1983 |
Premiers |
Allan Jeans |
Leigh Matthews |
Terry Wallace |
Leigh Matthews (43) |
| 1984 |
Grand Finalist |
Allan Jeans |
Leigh Matthews |
Russell Greene |
Leigh Matthews (77) |
| 1985 |
Grand Finalist |
Allan Jeans |
Leigh Matthews |
Dermott BreretonDermott Hugh Brereton is a former champion Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League.In a 211 game career, Brereton kicked 464 goals and played in five premierships for...
|
Dermott Brereton (58) |
| 1986 |
Premiers |
Allan Jeans |
Michael Tuck Michael Tuck is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL with the Hawthorn Football Club.Raised in Berwick, in Melbourne's outer south-eastern suburbs, Tuck joined Hawthorn in the early 1970s from the country zone club of the same name, and remained at the club for his entire career...
|
Gary Ayres Gary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
|
Jason Dunstall Jason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
(77) |
| 1987 |
Grand Finalist |
Allan Jeans |
Michael Tuck |
John Platten John Patrick "The Rat" Platten is a former Australian rules footballer. With his unruly tangle of curls he was a distinctive figure on the field with tremendous tenacity and the ability to accumulate possessions week after week.-Career:Platten began his career with the Central District Bulldogs...
|
Jason Dunstall (94) |
| 1988 |
Premiers |
Alan Joyce Alan Joyce is a former Australian rules footballer who after playing 49 games for Hawthorn became a premiership winning coach for the club. Originally from Glen Iris, Joyce played in the ruck for Hawthorn and gained life membership in 1996.In 1988 when incumbent coach Allan Jeans became ill due to...
|
Michael Tuck |
Jason Dunstall |
Jason Dunstall (132*) |
| 1989 |
Premiers |
Allan Jeans |
Michael Tuck |
Jason Dunstall |
Jason Dunstall (138*) |
| 1990 |
5th |
Allan Jeans |
Michael Tuck |
Andrew Collins |
Jason Dunstall (83) |
| 1991 |
Premiers |
Alan Joyce |
Michael Tuck |
Ben Allan |
Jason Dunstall (82) |
| 1992 |
6th |
Alan Joyce |
Gary Ayres |
Jason Dunstall |
Jason Dunstall (145*) |
| 1993 |
6th |
Alan Joyce |
Gary Ayres |
Jason Dunstall |
Jason Dunstall (123) |
| 1994 |
7th |
Peter Knights Peter Knights is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the finest centre half-backs to have played the game, despite suffering numerous injuries...
|
Chris Langford |
John Platten |
Jason Dunstall (101) |
| 1995 |
15th |
Peter Knights Peter Knights is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the finest centre half-backs to have played the game, despite suffering numerous injuries...
|
Jason Dunstall |
Darren Jarman Darren Jarman is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League. An elite midfielder-cum-forward, Jarman amassed a total of 386 games of senior football at SANFL, AFL and Representative level. He was widely reocgnised as one of the most skillful players of his era...
|
Jason Dunstall (66) |
| 1996 |
8th |
Ken Judge Ken Judge is a former Australian rules footballer and coach.- Playing career :He was recruited from East Fremantle Football Club to Hawthorn and made an immediate impact in his VFL debut in 1983, being part of a premiership side in his first season and winning the Hawks' Best First Year Player award...
|
Jason Dunstall |
Paul Salmon Paul Salmon is a former Australian rules footballer. Recruited from North Ringwood, the 206cm Salmon was, at the time, along with Carlton's Justin Madden, the tallest man to play AFL football...
|
Jason Dunstall (102) |
| 1997 |
15th |
Ken Judge |
Jason Dunstall |
Paul Salmon |
Nick Holland Nick Holland is a former Australian rules football player. He played 179 games for the Hawthorn Football Club between 1994 and 2005, serving as vice-captain between 1999 and 2003...
(29) |
| 1998 |
13th |
Ken Judge |
Jason Dunstall |
Shane Crawford Shane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
|
Jason Dunstall (54) |
| 1999 |
9th |
Ken Judge |
Shane Crawford |
Shane Crawford |
Aaron Lord Aaron Lord is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong and Hawthorn in the AFL.A forward pocket specialist, Lord made his league debut in 1994 with Geelong...
(42) |
| 2000 |
6th |
Peter Schwab Peter Schwab is a former Australian rules footballer and coach in the VFL/AFL.-Playing career:Recruited from Bennettswood, he played with the Hawthorn Hawks from 1980-1991, going on to play 171 games and boot 38 goals...
|
Shane Crawford |
Nick Holland,
Daniel ChickDaniel Chick is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League. Chick is also well known for having a finger chopped off in 2002 so he could continue playing football.- Hawthorn career :Chick made his debut for...
|
Nick Holland (51) |
| 2001 |
4th |
Peter Schwab |
Shane Crawford |
Joel Smith Joel Smith , is an Australian rules footballer.Beginning his career in 1995 as a bright young prospect for St Kilda, Smith was touted as the future of the club...
|
John Barker John Barker is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.-Early life:John Barker was born on 19 February 1975. Barker played junior football for Pascoe Vale in the Essendon District Football League. Here Barker played in the 1991 Under 16 premiership winning team...
(41) |
| 2002 |
10th |
Peter Schwab |
Shane Crawford |
Shane Crawford |
Daniel Chick (31) |
| 2003 |
9th |
Peter Schwab |
Shane Crawford |
Shane Crawford |
Nathan Thompson Nathan Thompson is a former Australian rules footballer, who previously played with the Hawthorn and North Melbourne Football Clubs in the Australian Football League.-Early career:...
(38) |
| 2004 |
15th |
Peter Schwab |
Shane Crawford |
Peter Everitt Peter "Spida" Everitt is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda, Hawthorn Hawks and the Sydney Swans in the AFL. He made his debut for St. Kilda in 1993 and in 2003 began playing for Hawthorn. Everitt was traded to the Sydney Swans at the end of 2006. Following the club's...
|
Nathan Thompson (36) |
| 2005 |
14th |
Alastair Clarkson Alastair Clarkson is a former Australian rules footballer and current coach of the Hawthorn Football Club.-North Melbourne:...
|
Richard Vandenberg |
Luke Hodge Luke Hodge is an Australian rules footballer. He currently plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . He made his debut in 2002....
|
Mark Williams (63) |
| 2006 |
11th |
Alastair Clarkson |
Richard Vandenberg |
Sam Mitchell Samuel Mitchell is an Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Debut season:...
|
Mark Williams Mark L. Williams is an indigenous Australian rules footballer who currently plays with Essendon, he was recruited from Hawthorn in the 2009 Trade Week period. He is not to be confused with Mark M...
(60) |
| 2007 |
6th |
Alastair Clarkson |
Richard Vandenberg |
Brad Sewell Brad Sewell is an Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . He was selected with pick six in the rookie draft in 2003...
|
Lance Franklin Lance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is an Indigenous Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . Franklin has played for the Hawthorn Football Club since his AFL debut in 2005.-Early life:...
(73) |
| 2008 |
Premiers |
Alastair Clarkson Alastair Clarkson is a former Australian rules footballer and current coach of the Hawthorn Football Club.-North Melbourne:...
|
Sam Mitchell |
Lance Franklin |
Lance Franklin (113*) |
| 2009 |
9th |
Alastair Clarkson Alastair Clarkson is a former Australian rules footballer and current coach of the Hawthorn Football Club.-North Melbourne:...
|
Sam Mitchell |
Sam Mitchell |
Lance Franklin (67) |
(*) Competition Leading Goal-Kicker.
Team of the Century
Current issues
The closure of
Waverley ParkWaverley Park was an Australian rules football stadium in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. For most of its history, its purpose was as a neutral venue and used by all Victorian based Victorian Football League/Australian Football League clubs...
in 1999 was a setback as Hawthorn could no longer play home games in the south-east region where they have developed a large support base. Home games were moved to the
Melbourne Cricket GroundThe Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park in inner Melbourne, home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the largest stadium in Australia, and holds the world record for the highest light towers at any sporting venue. The MCG is within walking distance of...
. Their relationship with the south-east was rekindled in 2006, when the Hawks returned to Waverley as a training and administration centre. The oval and a section of the Sir Kenneth Luke stand have been retained by developer Mirvac as part of their redevelopment of the Waverley site as a housing estate, largely as a result of a
Victorian governmentThe Government of Victoria, under the Constitution of Australia, ceded certain legislative and judicial powers to the Commonwealth, but retained complete independence in all other areas...
commitment to keep football there. Mirvac leases the facility to Hawthorn for a peppercorn rent, until the club takes ownership of the facility within the next 20 years. Hawthorn will maintain their association with Glenferrie, by housing several coteries and conducting social activities at the clubs spiritual home.
On September 30, 2008, the Hawthorn Football Club relationship with Glenferrie Oval was rekindled when the club hosted a Supporters Day at the clubs spiritual home celebrating the clubs 10th premiership, attended by an estimated 20,000 fans.
In August 2005, former Victorian State Premier
Jeff KennettHon Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC , a former Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999. He is currently the President of the Hawthorn Football Club. He was the founding Chairman, and now a Director, of beyondblue, a National Depression Initiative.- Early life :Kennett was...
, a long time Hawthorn supporter and former number one membership ticket holder, was appointed to the board of the club with the intention of standing for president at the next coming
Annual General MeetingAn annual general meeting is a meeting that official bodies, and associations involving the public , are often required by law to hold...
. His rise to presidency was confirmed when on December 14 2005, he was ushered in as president of the Hawthorn Football Club unopposed to the audience of a packed Hawthorn Town Hall.
At their 2007 Annual General Meeting, Hawthorn embarked on a five year business plan titled "five2fifty", the core idea being that in next
five years the club will win
2 premierships and have
fifty thousand members. As part of the plan, the football club wants to be seen as the most professional club in the AFL, and places great emphasis on the welfare of the people associated with the club.
Reserves
Hawthorn no longer fields a standalone reserves team, however it did field teams until the AFL restructured the competition. The club had won reserves premierships in 1957, 1958, 1972 & 1985. It has formed a number of grassroots alliances, including a major alliance with the Box Hill Hawks Football Club that plays in the
Victorian Football LeagueThe Victorian Football League, formerly known as the Victorian Football Association is the premier league in Victoria...
.
Captains
The following is liat of captains of the Hawthorn Football Club senior team in chronological order.
| Captain | Years |
|---|
| Jack Harris John 'Jiggy' Harris was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL.Recruited from Brighton, Harris started his career at Collingwood where he played as both a wingman and half forward flanker. He was a member of Collingwood premiership sides in 1927 and 1928...
|
1931 |
| Bert Mills Albert Mills was an Australian rules footballer who played for and captained Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League .Mills usually played as a ruckman but was also used at centre half-back...
|
1932-1934 |
| Ivan McAlpine Ivan McAlpine was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Hawthorn in the VFL.McAlpine was wingman and regularly represented Victoria in interstate football. He won the inaugural Footscray Best and Fairest award in 1927 and won the award again in 1930 and 1932...
|
1935-1937 |
| Bert Mills Albert Mills was an Australian rules footballer who played for and captained Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League .Mills usually played as a ruckman but was also used at centre half-back...
|
1938 |
| Len Thomas Len Thomas was an Australian rules footballer who played 187 games with South Melbourne in the VFL during the 1930s, before finishing his career as captain-coach at both Hawthorn and North Melbourne...
|
1939 |
| Bert Mills Albert Mills was an Australian rules footballer who played for and captained Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League .Mills usually played as a ruckman but was also used at centre half-back...
|
1940-1941 |
| Jack Carmody Jack Carmody was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL....
|
1942 |
| Bob Williams |
1943 |
| Jim Bohan Jim Bohan is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL. He played in the centre or at centre half forward....
|
1944 |
| Keith Shea Keith Shea was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL during the 1930s.Shea was a half forward and played with Carlton from 1932 to 1937. He polled well in the Brownlow Medal, the closest he came to winning was in 1934 where he fell 2 votes short with an equal 3rd placing...
|
1945 |
| Jim Bohan Jim Bohan is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL. He played in the centre or at centre half forward....
|
1946 |
| Alec Albiston Alec Albiston is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL and with North Melbourne for his final season.A goalkicking rover, he was captain and coach of Hawthorn between 1947 and 1949...
|
1947-1949 |
| Peter O'Donohue Peter O'Donohue is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.O'Donohue usually played in defence or in the centre and played 109 games with Hawthorn. He was made captain during the 1950 season and kept that position until the end of 1952...
/Kevin CurranKevin Curran was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.Curran was recruited to Hawthorn from Traralgon and played his first game with them in 1940....
(co-captains) |
1950 |
| Peter O'Donohue Peter O'Donohue is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.O'Donohue usually played in defence or in the centre and played 109 games with Hawthorn. He was made captain during the 1950 season and kept that position until the end of 1952...
|
1951-1952 |
| Ted Fletcher Edward 'Ted' Fletcher is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL.Fletcher was used in a variety of positions during his career including the ruck and in defence. In 1953 he was appointed club captain and won the Hawthorn 'Best and Fairest' award...
|
1953-1954 |
| John Kennedy |
1955-59 |
| Graham Arthur Graham Arthur is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL in the 1950s and 1960's.Arthur played primarily as a half forward, debuting while still only 18 years old....
|
1960-1968 |
| David Parkin David Parkin is a former Australian rules footballer and four-time premiership coach. He attended Melbourne High School.- Playing career :...
|
1969-1973 |
| Peter Crimmins Peter Crimmins was a rover for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL, playing 176 games and kicking 231 goals from 1966 to 1975. He was an inspirational player and captain from 1974 who wore number 5. He was a member of the Hawks' 1971 premiership team.At the completion of the 1974 VFL season...
|
1974-1975 |
| Don Scott Don Scott is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Scott was a fearless ruckman and premiership captain for Hawthorn Football Club....
|
1976-1980 |
| Leigh Matthews Leigh Raymond "Lethal Leigh" Matthews AM is a former player and coach of Australian rules football. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League from 1969 to 1985, coached Collingwood from 1986-1995, and coached the Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008...
|
1981-1985 |
| Michael Tuck Michael Tuck is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL with the Hawthorn Football Club.Raised in Berwick, in Melbourne's outer south-eastern suburbs, Tuck joined Hawthorn in the early 1970s from the country zone club of the same name, and remained at the club for his entire career...
|
1986-1991 |
| Gary Ayres Gary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
|
1992-1993 |
| Chris Langford Chris Langford is a former professional Australian rules footballer who is currently a game administrator.Langford is best known for his 303 game career for the Hawthorn Hawks between 1983 and 1997. He captained the club in the 1994 season and earned All-Australian selection. It was his second...
|
1994 |
| Jason Dunstall Jason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
|
1995-1998 |
| Shane Crawford Shane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
|
1999-2004 |
| Richie Vandenberg |
2005-2007 |
| Sam Mitchell Samuel Mitchell is an Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Debut season:...
|
2008-Present |
Coaches
The following is a list of coaches who have coached the Hawthorn Football Club.
| Coach |
P |
W |
D |
L |
W% |
Years |
| Alex Hall Alex 'Joker' Hall was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the VFA in 1891 to 1896 then in the VFL from 1898 to 1900 and again in 1902. In 1906, his first year of coaching in the VFL, he played his only game for the St Kilda Football Club...
|
17 |
3 |
0 |
14 |
17.65 |
1925 |
| Dan Minogue Daniel 'Dan' Minogue was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Minogue was a courageous centre half-back as epitomised when he sustained a broken collarbone playing for Collingwood Football Club in the first minute of the 1911 Grand Final and then playing out the entire...
|
36 |
4 |
1 |
31 |
12.50 |
1926-27 |
| Bert Sutton Herbert 'Bert' Sutton was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1920s.Sutton, who came to South Melbourne from Williamstown, was used mostly as the flanks...
|
18 |
0 |
0 |
18 |
0.00 |
1928 |
| Albert Chadwick Sir Albert "Bert" Chadwick was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.A tough centre half-back who ran hard and straight, he played the majority of his career with Melbourne Football Club and one season for Hawthorn Football Club...
|
18 |
4 |
0 |
14 |
22.22 |
1929 |
| John Harris John 'Jiggy' Harris was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL.Recruited from Brighton, Harris started his career at Collingwood where he played as both a wingman and half forward flanker. He was a member of Collingwood premiership sides in 1927 and 1928...
|
36 |
9 |
0 |
27 |
25.00 |
1930-31 |
| Jim Jackson James 'Jim' Jackson was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda, Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL.Jackson was a wingman and had a long career with 17 years between his first and last season. He started his career at St Kilda in 1909 but after managing just one game crossed to...
|
18 |
3 |
0 |
15 |
16.67 |
1932 |
| Arthur Rademacher Arthur Rademacher was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League .Rademacher, originally from Leopold, was a half back flanker in South Melbourne's 1918 premiership team...
|
4 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
25.00 |
1933 |
| Bill Twomey, Sr. William 'Bill' Patrick Twomey was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL. His sons Mick, Pat and Bill all played league football with Collingwood....
|
32 |
5 |
0 |
27 |
15.63 |
1933-34 |
| Ivan McAlpine Ivan McAlpine was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Hawthorn in the VFL.McAlpine was wingman and regularly represented Victoria in interstate football. He won the inaugural Footscray Best and Fairest award in 1927 and won the award again in 1930 and 1932...
|
72 |
22 |
0 |
50 |
30.56 |
1935-38 |
| Len Thomas Len Thomas was an Australian rules footballer who played 187 games with South Melbourne in the VFL during the 1930s, before finishing his career as captain-coach at both Hawthorn and North Melbourne...
|
18 |
5 |
1 |
12 |
30.56 |
1939 |
| Bert Mills Albert Mills was an Australian rules footballer who played for and captained Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League .Mills usually played as a ruckman but was also used at centre half-back...
|
36 |
10 |
0 |
26 |
27.78 |
1940-41 |
Roy CazalyRoy Cazaly was an Australian rules football player famous for his high marks and ruck work, which gave rise to the phrase "Up There Cazaly".-Early life/career:...
|
30 |
10 |
0 |
20 |
33.33 |
1942-43 |
| Tommy Lahiff Thomas 'Tommy' Lahiff was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon, South Melbourne and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League before becoming a successful coach and radio commentator....
|
18 |
2 |
1 |
15 |
13.89 |
1944 |
| Keith Shea Keith Shea was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL during the 1930s.Shea was a half forward and played with Carlton from 1932 to 1937. He polled well in the Brownlow Medal, the closest he came to winning was in 1934 where he fell 2 votes short with an equal 3rd placing...
|
39 |
9 |
0 |
30 |
23.08 |
1945-46 |
| Alec Albiston Alec Albiston is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL and with North Melbourne for his final season.A goalkicking rover, he was captain and coach of Hawthorn between 1947 and 1949...
|
57 |
12 |
0 |
45 |
21.05 |
1947-49 |
| Bob McCaskill Robert 'Bob' McCaskill was a Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the VFL during the 1920s and coached both North Melbourne and Hawthorn....
|
36 |
4 |
0 |
32 |
11.11 |
1950-51 |
| Jack Hale Jack Hale is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL during the 1940s before becoming a coach....
|
147 |
61 |
1 |
85 |
41.84 |
1952-59 |
| John Kennedy, Sr. |
298 |
181 |
2 |
115 |
61.07 |
1960-63, 1967-76 |
| Graham Arthur Graham Arthur is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL in the 1950s and 1960's.Arthur played primarily as a half forward, debuting while still only 18 years old....
|
36 |
17 |
0 |
19 |
47.22 |
1964-65 |
| Peter O'Donohue Peter O'Donohue is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1940s.O'Donohue usually played in defence or in the centre and played 109 games with Hawthorn. He was made captain during the 1950 season and kept that position until the end of 1952...
|
18 |
5 |
0 |
13 |
27.78 |
1966 |
| Roy Simmonds Roy Simmonds was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1950s.Simmonds was used all around the ground by Hawthorn, most often though on the half back flank. His finest season came in 1956 where he won Hawthorn's best and fairest and finished equal fourth in...
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0.00 |
1973 |
| David Parkin David Parkin is a former Australian rules footballer and four-time premiership coach. He attended Melbourne High School.- Playing career :...
|
94 |
57 |
0 |
37 |
60.64 |
1977-80 |
| Allan Jeans Allan Jeans is an Australian rules football coach. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in its inception in 1996.-St Kilda:...
|
221 |
159 |
1 |
61 |
72.17 |
1981-87, 1989-90 |
| Alan Joyce Alan Joyce is a former Australian rules footballer who after playing 49 games for Hawthorn became a premiership winning coach for the club. Originally from Glen Iris, Joyce played in the ruck for Hawthorn and gained life membership in 1996.In 1988 when incumbent coach Allan Jeans became ill due to...
|
93 |
67 |
0 |
26 |
72.04 |
1988, 1991-93 |
| Peter Knights Peter Knights is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the finest centre half-backs to have played the game, despite suffering numerous injuries...
|
45 |
20 |
0 |
25 |
44.44 |
1994-95 |
| Ken Judge Ken Judge is a former Australian rules footballer and coach.- Playing career :He was recruited from East Fremantle Football Club to Hawthorn and made an immediate impact in his VFL debut in 1983, being part of a premiership side in his first season and winning the Hawks' Best First Year Player award...
|
89 |
37 |
2 |
50 |
42.70 |
1996-99 |
| Peter Schwab Peter Schwab is a former Australian rules footballer and coach in the VFL/AFL.-Playing career:Recruited from Bennettswood, he played with the Hawthorn Hawks from 1980-1991, going on to play 171 games and boot 38 goals...
|
109 |
52 |
0 |
57 |
47.71 |
2000-04 |
Chris ConnollyChris Connolly is the former coach of Australian rules football Fremantle Football Club.- Playing career :During a playing career with the Melbourne Football Club, he played 84 games and kicked 38 goals as a mid-fielder...
|
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
100.00 |
2001 |
| Donald McDonald Donald McDonald is a former Australian rules footballer and coach.-Playing career:Recruited from St. Brendan's, McDonald debuted with the North Melbourne Football Club in the VFL in 1982. He was a tall player who could play key position or in the ruck, and in 1984 won the Kangaroos' leading...
|
5 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
40.00 |
2004 |
| Alastair Clarkson Alastair Clarkson is a former Australian rules footballer and current coach of the Hawthorn Football Club.-North Melbourne:...
|
101 |
52 |
0 |
49 |
51.50 |
2005- |
- Statistics are correct as of the end of round 8, 2009
Legend:
- P = Played
- W = Won
- D = Drew
- L = Lost
- W% = Win percentage
Presidents
The following is a list of presidents of the Hawthorn Football Club.
| President | Years |
|---|
| J W Kennon |
1925-31 |
| Dr J Jona J.P |
1932-1949 |
| D A Prentice |
1950-52 |
| Dr A S Ferguson |
1953-67 |
| Phil Ryan Phillip R. "Phil" Ryan is a former Texas Ranger and the three term Sheriff of Wise County, Texas. He entered law enforcement in 1966 at age 21, initially serving as a police officer in Pasadena, Texas. He later joined the Texas Department of Public Safety as a highway patrolman assigned to...
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1968-1979 |
| Ron Cook Ron Cook is a British actor who has been active in the theatre, film and television since the 1970s. He is from South Shields, Co Durham, United Kingdom and is a graduate of Rose Bruford College.- Stage appearances :...
|
1980-1987 |
| Trevor Coote |
1988-1993 |
Geoff LordGeoff Lord is an Geoff Lord is an Geoff Lord is an [[Australia]n businessman and the current chairman of the [[Australia]]n [[football ]] club, the [[Melbourne Victory]] in the [[A-League]]. A well known corporate identity in Melbourne and former chairman of [[Hawthorn Football Club]] , he founded...
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1994-1995 |
| Brian Coleman Brian Coleman FRSA is a Conservative Party politician and member of the London Assembly for Barnet and Camden, England. He is a Councillor in the London Borough of Barnet, and Mayor for 2009-2010....
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1996 |
| Ian Dicker |
1997-2005 |
| Jeff Kennett Hon Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC , a former Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999. He is currently the President of the Hawthorn Football Club. He was the founding Chairman, and now a Director, of beyondblue, a National Depression Initiative.- Early life :Kennett was...
|
2006-Present |
Most Games
- 426 Michael Tuck
Michael Tuck is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL with the Hawthorn Football Club.Raised in Berwick, in Melbourne's outer south-eastern suburbs, Tuck joined Hawthorn in the early 1970s from the country zone club of the same name, and remained at the club for his entire career...
- 332 Leigh Matthews
Leigh Raymond "Lethal Leigh" Matthews AM is a former player and coach of Australian rules football. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League from 1969 to 1985, coached Collingwood from 1986-1995, and coached the Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008...
- 305 Shane Crawford
Shane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
- 303 Chris Langford
Chris Langford is a former professional Australian rules footballer who is currently a game administrator.Langford is best known for his 303 game career for the Hawthorn Hawks between 1983 and 1997. He captained the club in the 1994 season and earned All-Australian selection. It was his second...
- 302 Don Scott
Don Scott is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Scott was a fearless ruckman and premiership captain for Hawthorn Football Club....
- 300 Kelvin Moore
Kelvin D. Moore is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Kelvin Moore was one of the best full-backs of his era and played in three Hawthorn Football Club premierships during his 300-game career from 1970-1984.In 2005 Moore was inducted into the Australian Football...
- 269 Gary Ayres
Gary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
- 269 Jason Dunstall
Jason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
- 264 Peter Knights
Peter Knights is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the finest centre half-backs to have played the game, despite suffering numerous injuries...
- 258 John Platten
John Patrick "The Rat" Platten is a former Australian rules footballer. With his unruly tangle of curls he was a distinctive figure on the field with tremendous tenacity and the ability to accumulate possessions week after week.-Career:Platten began his career with the Central District Bulldogs...
Australian Football Hall of Fame players
- Leigh Matthews
Leigh Raymond "Lethal Leigh" Matthews AM is a former player and coach of Australian rules football. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League from 1969 to 1985, coached Collingwood from 1986-1995, and coached the Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008...
- Peter Hudson
Peter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
- Jason Dunstall
Jason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
- Michael Tuck
Michael Tuck is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL with the Hawthorn Football Club.Raised in Berwick, in Melbourne's outer south-eastern suburbs, Tuck joined Hawthorn in the early 1970s from the country zone club of the same name, and remained at the club for his entire career...
- Robert Dipierdomenico
Robert "Dipper" DiPierdomenico is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL of Italian descent and a member of the VFL/AFL Italian Team of the Century...
- Darren Jarman
Darren Jarman is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League. An elite midfielder-cum-forward, Jarman amassed a total of 386 games of senior football at SANFL, AFL and Representative level. He was widely reocgnised as one of the most skillful players of his era...
- Gary Ayres
Gary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
- Dermott Brereton
Dermott Hugh Brereton is a former champion Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League.In a 211 game career, Brereton kicked 464 goals and played in five premierships for...
- Chris Langford
Chris Langford is a former professional Australian rules footballer who is currently a game administrator.Langford is best known for his 303 game career for the Hawthorn Hawks between 1983 and 1997. He captained the club in the 1994 season and earned All-Australian selection. It was his second...
- John Platten
John Patrick "The Rat" Platten is a former Australian rules footballer. With his unruly tangle of curls he was a distinctive figure on the field with tremendous tenacity and the ability to accumulate possessions week after week.-Career:Platten began his career with the Central District Bulldogs...
- Graham Arthur
Graham Arthur is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL in the 1950s and 1960's.Arthur played primarily as a half forward, debuting while still only 18 years old....
- Peter Knights
Peter Knights is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the finest centre half-backs to have played the game, despite suffering numerous injuries...
- Paul Salmon
Paul Salmon is a former Australian rules footballer. Recruited from North Ringwood, the 206cm Salmon was, at the time, along with Carlton's Justin Madden, the tallest man to play AFL football...
Brownlow Medal winners
- Col Austen
Colin 'Col' Austen was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL from 1941 to 1943 and then again from 1946 to 1949. He then played for the Richmond Football Club from 1950 to 1952....
(1949 - tied with Ron CleggRon "Smokey" Clegg was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.A brilliant key position player at either centre half-forward or centre half-back, he was awarded the Brownlow Medal in 1949 while playing with the then South Melbourne Football Club...
, South MelbourneThe Sydney Swans are an Australian Football League club based in Sydney, New South Wales.The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney Swans...
)
- Robert DiPierdomenico
Robert "Dipper" DiPierdomenico is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL of Italian descent and a member of the VFL/AFL Italian Team of the Century...
(1986 - tied with Greg Williams, Sydney SwansThe Sydney Swans are an Australian Football League club based in Sydney, New South Wales.The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney Swans...
)
- John Platten
John Patrick "The Rat" Platten is a former Australian rules footballer. With his unruly tangle of curls he was a distinctive figure on the field with tremendous tenacity and the ability to accumulate possessions week after week.-Career:Platten began his career with the Central District Bulldogs...
(1987 - tied with Tony LockettAnthony Howard "Plugger" Lockett is a former Australian rules football player. Lockett is the highest goal scorer in the history of the VFL/AFL with 1,360 goals in a career of 281 games, that commenced in 1983 with the St Kilda Football Club, and finished in 2002 with the Sydney Swans...
, St. KildaThe St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is an Australian Rules Football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club plays in the Australian Football League, the premier Australian Rules league....
)
- Shane Crawford
Shane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
(1999)
Leigh Matthews Trophy winners
- Leigh Matthews
Leigh Raymond "Lethal Leigh" Matthews AM is a former player and coach of Australian rules football. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League from 1969 to 1985, coached Collingwood from 1986-1995, and coached the Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008...
(1982)
- Russell Greene
Russell Greene is a former Australian rules footballer and member of the prestigious 300 game club.He was just sixteen when he made his VFL debut in 1974 for St Kilda. In 1980 he joined Hawthorn and was a key player during a successful decade for the club...
(1984)
- Jason Dunstall
Jason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
(1992)
- Shane Crawford
Shane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
(1999)
Note: Before 2002, this was the
VFL/AFL Players AssociationThe , or AFLPA is the representative body for all current and past professional Australian Football League players. The AFLPA is entrusted to enhance and secure the personal development of past, present and future AFL footballers....
Most Valuable Player award. In 2005, all winners of this honour prior to 2002 were retrospectively awarded the Leigh Matthews Trophy.
Coleman Medal winners
- John Peck (1963, 1964, 1965)
- Peter Hudson
Peter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
(1968, 1970, 1971, 1977)
- Leigh Matthews
Leigh Raymond "Lethal Leigh" Matthews AM is a former player and coach of Australian rules football. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League from 1969 to 1985, coached Collingwood from 1986-1995, and coached the Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008...
(1975)
- Jason Dunstall
Jason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
(1988, 1989, 1992)
- Lance Franklin
Lance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is an Indigenous Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . Franklin has played for the Hawthorn Football Club since his AFL debut in 2005.-Early life:...
(2008)
Norm Smith Medal winners
- Colin Robertson
Colin Robertson is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL from 1980 until 1986.A hard running player, Robertson was a versatile footballer who could play across half back, on wing or on the ball...
(1983)
- Gary Ayres
Gary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
(1986, 1988)
- Paul Dear
Paul Dear is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn.A half forward flanker, Dear made his debut in the 1987 season and played in that year's Grand Final...
(1991)
- Luke Hodge
Luke Hodge is an Australian rules footballer. He currently plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . He made his debut in 2002....
(2008)
Michael Tuck Medal winners
- Paul Hudson
Paul Hudson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Hawks, Western Bulldogs and Richmond Tigers....
(1992)
- Paul Salmon
Paul Salmon is a former Australian rules footballer. Recruited from North Ringwood, the 206cm Salmon was, at the time, along with Carlton's Justin Madden, the tallest man to play AFL football...
(1999)
All Australian representatives (AFL only)
- Campbell Brown
Campbell Brown is an Australian rules footballer currently plays for Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.Brown wears the No. 30 guernsey and is noted for his overall aggression and toughness....
(2007)
- Luke Hodge
Luke Hodge is an Australian rules footballer. He currently plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . He made his debut in 2002....
(2005, 2008)
- Trent Croad
Trent Eric Croad , is a professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Croad has achieved some of the Australian Football League's highest honours including an AFL premiership medallion, All-Australian selection and has also represented both Victoria and Australia on...
(2005)
- Peter Everitt
Peter "Spida" Everitt is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda, Hawthorn Hawks and the Sydney Swans in the AFL. He made his debut for St. Kilda in 1993 and in 2003 began playing for Hawthorn. Everitt was traded to the Sydney Swans at the end of 2006. Following the club's...
(2005)
- Joel Smith
Joel Smith , is an Australian rules footballer.Beginning his career in 1995 as a bright young prospect for St Kilda, Smith was touted as the future of the club...
(2001, 2003)
- Shane Crawford
Shane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
(1996, 1998, 1999, 2002)
- Jonathan Hay
Jonathan Hay is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Hay began his football career at Kalgoorlie Catholic Primary School and John Paul College before moving to Perth, Western Australia in 1991...
(2001)
- Paul Salmon
Paul Salmon is a former Australian rules footballer. Recruited from North Ringwood, the 206cm Salmon was, at the time, along with Carlton's Justin Madden, the tallest man to play AFL football...
(1997)
- Darren Jarman
Darren Jarman is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League. An elite midfielder-cum-forward, Jarman amassed a total of 386 games of senior football at SANFL, AFL and Representative level. He was widely reocgnised as one of the most skillful players of his era...
(1992, 1995)
- Chris Langford
Chris Langford is a former professional Australian rules footballer who is currently a game administrator.Langford is best known for his 303 game career for the Hawthorn Hawks between 1983 and 1997. He captained the club in the 1994 season and earned All-Australian selection. It was his second...
(1994)
- Jason Dunstall
Jason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
(1992, 1994)
- Ben Allan
For the Cinematographer see Ben Allan ACSBen Allan is a former Australian rules footballer. He was educated at Aquinas College, Perth- Hawthorn career :He played as a rover...
(1993, 1994)
- John Platten
John Patrick "The Rat" Platten is a former Australian rules footballer. With his unruly tangle of curls he was a distinctive figure on the field with tremendous tenacity and the ability to accumulate possessions week after week.-Career:Platten began his career with the Central District Bulldogs...
(1992)
- Lance Franklin
Lance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is an Indigenous Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . Franklin has played for the Hawthorn Football Club since his AFL debut in 2005.-Early life:...
(2008)
National team representatives (since 2005)
- Luke Hodge
Luke Hodge is an Australian rules footballer. He currently plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . He made his debut in 2002....
(2005, 2008)
- Trent Croad
Trent Eric Croad , is a professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Croad has achieved some of the Australian Football League's highest honours including an AFL premiership medallion, All-Australian selection and has also represented both Victoria and Australia on...
(2005)
- Chance Bateman
Chance Bateman is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League.-2006 season:...
(2006)
- Campbell Brown
Campbell Brown is an Australian rules footballer currently plays for Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.Brown wears the No. 30 guernsey and is noted for his overall aggression and toughness....
(2007)
- Lance Franklin
Lance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is an Indigenous Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . Franklin has played for the Hawthorn Football Club since his AFL debut in 2005.-Early life:...
(2008)
Records set by players
- Most matches: Michael Tuck
Michael Tuck is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL with the Hawthorn Football Club.Raised in Berwick, in Melbourne's outer south-eastern suburbs, Tuck joined Hawthorn in the early 1970s from the country zone club of the same name, and remained at the club for his entire career...
- 426 (AFL Record)
- Most consecutive matches:Andrew Collins - 189
- Most goals kicked in a match:Jason Dunstall
Jason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
- 17 goals 5 behinds (R7, 1992, P)
- Most goals in a season: Peter Hudson
Peter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
- 150 (1971) (= AFL Record)
- Most 100 goals seasons: 12 :Jason Dunstall
Jason Hadfield Dunstall , is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He is the third greatest goalkicker in the history of the VFL/AFL...
6 - 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, Peter HudsonPeter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history....
5 - 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1977, Lance FranklinLance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is an Indigenous Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . Franklin has played for the Hawthorn Football Club since his AFL debut in 2005.-Early life:...
1 - 2008
Notable club records
- Least Behinds/Best Accuracy 0, R12, 1949 (GO) - Hawthorn 7.0 (42) v Essendon
Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club and is part of the Australian Football League. Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve, Windy Hill in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon,...
16.16 (112)
- Most Scoring Shots 66 Shots, R6, 1977 (OO) - Hawthorn 25.41 (191) v St Kilda 16.7 (103)
- Most scores over 200 points - Hawthorn 5, Geelong 5
Stadiums
Across the history of the Hawthorn Football Club, the club has had 4 mainstay home grounds (Glenferrie Oval, Princes Park, Waverley Park and the Melbourne Cricket Ground) Prior to adopting Glenferrie Oval as the clubs traditional home, the Hawthorn club had a nomatic history playing home games at the Richmond Cricket Ground (Punt Road) and then the East Melbourne Cricket Ground.
| Stadium | Years | Played | Wins | Losses | Draw | Win Percentage |
|---|
Glenferrie OvalGlenferrie Oval is an Australian rules football stadium located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It is the historic home of and is synonymous with the Hawthorn Football Club, who played there from 1903 and as a VFL/AFL club from 1925-1973, and retained the ground as an...
|
1906-1973 |
443 |
184 |
255 |
4 |
42% |
| Princes Park |
1974-1991 |
153 |
114 |
39 |
- |
74% |
Waverley ParkWaverley Park was an Australian rules football stadium in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. For most of its history, its purpose was as a neutral venue and used by all Victorian based Victorian Football League/Australian Football League clubs...
|
1992-1999 |
137 |
69 |
38 |
- |
51% |
Melbourne Cricket GroundThe Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park in inner Melbourne, home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the largest stadium in Australia, and holds the world record for the highest light towers at any sporting venue. The MCG is within walking distance of...
|
2000- |
70 |
39 |
31 |
- |
55% |
Aurora StadiumYork Park is a sports ground located in the Inveresk and York Park Precinct, Launceston, Australia. It holds 20,000 people, the most of any stadium in Tasmania. It has been known as Aurora Stadium under a six-year naming rights agreement with Aurora Energy since 2004...
|
2001-2011 |
20 |
13 |
7 |
- |
65% |
Glenferrie Oval (1906-1973)
Between 1906 and 1973, home games were played at the clubs traditional home, Glenferrie Oval, in the heart of the affluent suburb. The state of Glenferrie Oval and its location, located off the Hawthorn train station on the Melbourne East route, was a central reason why the VFL accepted Hawthorn into the VFL in 1925. Known universally for its famous art-deco Grandstand, built in 1937 and later named the Michael Tuck stand after the club great, Glenferrie Oval was regarded as one of the better and picturesque suburban grounds, loved by opposition fans and Hawthorn fans alike. Whilst the ground was relatively small by VFL standards, the intimate nature of the ground (with the grandstands and train line surrounding the ground) made for a terridic atmosphere with the constant 'buzz' engulfing the Hawthorn suburb as the club rose from celler dwellers to league power during the franatic 1960s and 1970s, coinciding with the 1961 and 1971 pennants.
Whilst the club was forced to leave the ground in 1973 to cater for the clubs growing crowds and demands of VFL football, Glenferrie Oval still holds a special place in the hearts of all Hawthorn supporters. From 1974-2006 the club used the ground as a home and administration base, conducting training sessions and running a social club, across on Linda Crecent before the club made the move to Waverley Park to service the clubs growing supporter base in Melbourne's outer Eastern suburbs.
In the aftermath of Hawthorn's 2008 Premiership, Hawthorn took the premiership to Glenferrie Oval to celebrate with their adoring fans on the Sunday. The event was attended by an estimated 20,000+ supporters, packing the rust bucket venue and stretching across the road to Linda Crescent and along the Linda Crescent street, such was the turnout, the club had to close the gates to the ground hours before the team arrived at the ground. The massive turnout justified the longheld view that although the club has moved on from the halycon days at Glenferrie, the ground and suburb is still the club's spiritual home, after 35 years playing games away from the suburb of Hawthorn, the Hawthorn Football Club and suburb of Hawthorn share a unique bond.
Princes Park (1974-1991)
The decision to move away from Glenferrie Oval and subsequent move to Princes Park was a difficult transition, alienating many supporters. Prior to moving to Princes Park, the club pushed to build a stadium in Box Hill and mooted a move to the MCG (1964) both were rejected. The move to Princes Park - the traditional home of the Carlton Football Club, coincided with the clubs golden era, hoisting the '76, '78, '83, '86, '88, '89 and '91 premiership flags at the ground. Combined with Carlton's '79, '81, '82 and '87 flags, Princes Park became a hub of success throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Whilst the club had immense success at the ground, the ground wasn't a favourite with the majority of the Hawthorn membership. Located in Melbourne's Northern suburbs, the traditional home of the Carlton Football Club - one of the traditional powerhouses of the VFL, the move away from the clubs heartland caused many Hawks supporters to turn their back on the club.
Recognising this, as early as the mid 1980s the Hawthorn administration pushed to relocate from Princes Park to Waverley Park, however due to the nature of long term terms of tenancy at Princes Park and ruthlessness of the Carlton Football Club for Hawthorn to abide by this contract, a move away from Princes Park before the end of the long term agreement would result in financial ruin for the club.
Waverley Park (1992-1999)
In 1990, with the backing of the AFL, Hawthorn set the wheels in motion for a move to VFL Park, playing a series of home games at Waverley Park - located 20 km East of the Melbourne CBD and location of Hawthorn's 1991 Premiership success. Whilst the move to Waverley was meet with a drop in on field success, symbolising the birth of the barren period for the club on the field leading up until 2008, the club successfully harboured large increases in attendances and membership at the ground.
As a result of the AFL closing the venue and subsequently selling the property to Mirvac to finance the Docklands stadia, the club had the opportunity to move home games to either the lavish new Docklands precent (alongside Essendon, St Kilda, W Bulldogs and North) or join traditional tenants Melbourne and Richmond as well as Collingwood at the MCG. Highlighting the potential to push attendances and membership beyond 50,000 the club decided to push for a relocation to the MCG in line with the 'Family Club' mantra.
In January 2006, in the clubs centenary year at Glenferrie Oval, the clubs administration, museum and player base relocated to Waverley Park.
Melbourne Cricket Ground (2000-present)
On the 13th of March 2000, Hawthorn played its first home game, as an MCG tenant, against Collingwood at the MCG, becoming one of four tenants to play at the ground. Up until 2008, the shift from to the MCG has been met with a barren period on the field for the Hawks, having played in 5/9 losing seasons at the ground. Unquestionably the lowest point as a tenant at the ground occurred in round 16 2004, where anchored to the bottom of the ladder Hawthorn drew just 11,682 to a game against Port Adelaide, drawing widespread ridicule.
Since 2000, Hawthorn has played between 7-9 home games at the MCG, with secondary home games being played at Docklands and York Park, in Tasmania. In 2008, Hawthorn played 7 home games at the MCG, drawing 369,614 (52,802) to 7 games, and a total of 773,089 (59,468) to 13 games at the venue for the year.
Aurora Stadium (2001-2011*)
Since 2001, Hawthorn's has played 'secondary' home games at Aurora Stadium in Tasmania. Since 2006, Hawthorn has an agreement with the Tourism component of the Tasmania Government, whereby they are contracted to play 4 games in the State. Since 2001, Hawthorn has successively cultivated a following in Tasmania, having increased membership from 1,000 to 2,000 and now 4,000 since the club began playing games in the State.
The Hawks have a very successful record at the stadium, with many in the media dubbing the venue 'Fortress Aurora' for opposition sides. As a result of the agreement with the Tasmanian Government, thousands of Melbourne based Hawthorn supporters have travelled to Tasmania to watch the Hawks play, increasing activity within the local Launceston economy. By the same token, Hawthorn has successfully increased its following in the state, with an estimated 1/4 young Tasmanian supporters now barracking for their 'local' team.
See also
- Melbourne Hawks
The Melbourne Hawks was a planned Australian Football League team that would have consisted of the merger between the Melbourne and Hawthorn Football Clubs at the end of the 1996 season...
- The Hard Way, The Story of the Hawthorn Football Club 1990 by Harry Gordon ISBN 0949853429
- One for All, The Story of the Hawthorn Football Club 2009 by Harry and Michael Gordon ISBN 9781921332838 a.k.a. "Son of Hard Way"
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