List of Hawthorn Football Club captains

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

VFA/VFL/AFL

No.	Name	Season(s)	Awards and Notes
1	Alf Gough	1914
2	Joe Larkin	1915
3	Len Gibb	1919
4	Ted Alley	1920
5	Frank Rigaldi	1920	Replaced Ted Alley after he left the club
6	Jim Jackson	1921 1925
7	Arthur Rademacher	1922
8	Bill Walton	1923–1924
9	Paddy Burke	1926
10	Dan Minogue	1926
11	Clarrie Lethlean	1927
12	Bert Sutton	1928
13	Albert Chadwick	1929
14	John Harris	1930–1931
15	Bert Mills	1932 1934 1938 1940–1941
16	Fred Phillips	1933	Died pre-season from blood poisoning.
17	Bill Twomey Sr.	1933	Replaced Fred Phillips after he died before the season started.
18	Ivan McAlpine	1935–1937
19	Len Thomas	1939
20	Jack Carmody	1942
21	Bob Williams	1943
22	Jim Bohan	1944 1946
23	Keith Shea	1945
24	Alec Albiston	1947–1949
25	Kevin Curran	1950–1951
26	Peter O'Donohue	1952
27	Ted Fletcher	1953–1954	Best and fairest (1953)
28	John Kennedy, Sr.	1955–1959
29	Graham Arthur	1960–1968	VFL premiership (1961) Best and fairest (1962) Co-captain with John Peck in 1965. Most games played as captain (153)
30	John Peck	1965	Coleman Medal (1965) Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1965) Co-captain with Graham Arthur.
31	David Parkin	1969–1973	VFL premiership (1971)
32	Peter Crimmins	1974–1975
33	Don Scott	1976–1980	2× VFL premiership (1976, 1978)
34	Leigh Matthews	1981–1985	VFL premiership (1983) VFLPA MVP award (1982) Peter Crimmins Perpetual Memorial Medal (1982) 4× Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1981, 1982, 1983, 1984) 2× VFL Team of the Year (1982, 1983)
35	Michael Tuck	1986–1991	4× VFL/AFL premiership (1986, 1988, 1989, 1991) VFLPA best captain (1986) VFL Team of the year (1990)
36	Gary Ayres	1992–1993
37	Chris Langford	1994	All-Australian team (1994)
38	Jason Dunstall	1995–1998	3× Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1995, 1996, 1998)
39	Shane Crawford	1999–2004	Brownlow Medal (1999) AFLPA MVP (1999) 2× All-Australian team (1999, 2002) 3× Peter Crimmins Memorial Trophy (1999, 2002, 2003)
40	Richie Vandenberg	2005–2007
41	Sam Mitchell	2008–2010	AFL premiership (2008) Peter Crimmins Medal (2009)
42	Luke Hodge	2011–2016	3× AFL premiership (2013, 2014, 2015) Norm Smith Medal (2014) AFLPA best captain (2014)
43	Jarryd Roughead	2017–2018	Hawthorn leading goalkicker (2017)
44	Ben Stratton	2019–2020
45	Ben McEvoy	2021–2022
46	James Sicily	2023–	All-Australian team (2023)

AFL Women's

No.	Name	Season(s)	Awards and Notes
1	Tilly Lucas-Rodd	2022 (S7)–2023	Hawthorn best and fairest (2022 (S7)) Most games played as captain
2	Emily Bates	2024–

References

• Hawthorn Football Club Honour Board