| Hawthorn Football Club | ||||
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| Names | ||||
| Full name | Hawthorn Football Club Limited[1] | |||
| Nickname(s) | Hawks[2][3][4] | |||
| Motto | Spectemur Agendo (Let us be judged by our acts.) | |||
| 2024 season | ||||
| After finals | 6th | |||
| Home-and-away season | 7th | |||
| Leading goalkicker | Mabior Chol (37 goals) | |||
| Peter Crimmins Medal | Jai Newcombe | |||
| Club details | ||||
| Founded | 1902 (entered the VFL in 1925) | |||
| Colours | Brown Gold | |||
| Competition | AFL: Senior men AFLW: Senior women VBFL: Blind (mixed)[5] VWFL: Wheelchair (mixed) CWFL: Wheelchair (mixed)[6] | |||
| President | Andrew Gowers[7] | |||
| CEO | Ash Klein | |||
| Coach | Sam Mitchell | |||
| Captain(s) | James Sicily | |||
| Premierships | VFL/AFL (13) Reserves/VFL (7)VFLW (1) Championship of Australia (1) | |||
| Ground(s) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (capacity: 100,024 1) | |||
| University of Tasmania Stadium (capacity: 19,000) | ||||
| Former ground(s) | Glenferrie Oval (1906–1973) | |||
| Princes Park (1974–1991) | ||||
| Waverley Park (1990–1999) | ||||
| Training ground(s) | Waverley Park (until 2025) Kennedy Community Centre (from 2025) | |||
| Uniforms | ||||
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| Other information | ||||
| Official website | hawthornfc.com.au | |||
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawthorn, making it the youngest Victorian-based team in the AFL.
Hawthorn is the only club to have won premierships in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. In total, it has won 13 senior VFL/AFL premierships. The team play in brown-and-gold vertically striped guernseys. The club's Latin motto is spectemur agendo, the English translation being "Let us be judged by our acts." Hawthorn have competitive rivalries with a handful of teams, but their two fiercest and longest-standing are with Geelong and Essendon.
Upon inception and until 1973, the Hawks played home matches at Glenferrie Oval in Hawthorn; they subsequently shifted home matches to Princes Park in 1974, lasting until 1991 when Hawthorn moved to Waverley Park. Later the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) became the home ground when Waverley was redeveloped. The club moved its training and administration facilities from Glenferrie to Waverley Park in 2006, which by that point was no longer hosting AFL matches, and continues to be based at the park, which is located in an area of the club's major supporter base in Melbourne's outer-eastern region. Since 2007, Hawthorn have played four games a year at their second home ground of York Park in Launceston, Tasmania, with most of the remaining home games usually played at the MCG and one usually played at Marvel Stadium.
Hawthorn also fields a women's team in the AFL Women's competition. It joined the league for its seventh season and played its first game on the 27th of August 2022 at Marvel Stadium. Initial ticket allocations sold out within 24 hours.[8]
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- ^ "Andy Gowers". 16 August 2023.
- ^ "Move it to Marvel: Essendon v Hawthorn AFLW showdown will be moved to Marvel Stadium". AFLW. Retrieved 21 August 2022.