Hawthorn Football Club
| Hawthorn Football Club | |||
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| Names | |||
| Full name | Hawthorn Football Club | ||
| Nickname(s) | Hawks The Family Club |
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| Motto | Spectemur Agendo | ||
| 2016 season | |||
| After finals | 5th | ||
| Home-and-away season | 3rd | ||
| Leading goalkicker | Jack Gunston (51) | ||
| Peter Crimmins Medal | Sam Mitchell | ||
| Club details | |||
| Founded | 1902 (entered 1925) | ||
| Colours | Brown Gold | ||
| Competition | Australian Football League | ||
| President | Richard Garvey | ||
| Coach | Alastair Clarkson | ||
| Captain(s) | Jarryd Roughead | ||
| Premierships |
VFL/AFL (13): 1961, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015 Championship of Australia (1): 1971 NFL Championship (1): 1976 |
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| Ground(s) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (capacity: 100,024) | ||
| The University of Tasmania Stadium (capacity: 23,000) | |||
| Former ground(s) | Glenferrie Oval (1925–1973) | ||
| Princes Park (1974–1991) | |||
| Waverley Park (1974–1991) | |||
| Training ground(s) | Ricoh Centre | ||
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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 in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL and has won thirteen VFL/AFL premierships. It is renowned as the only club having won premierships in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. The team play in brown and gold vertically striped guernseys. The club's Latin motto is spectemur agendo, the English translation being "By our deeds let us be known".
The Hawks' origins are in the inner-eastern Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn and also at Glenferrie Oval, the club's former administrative and training base and social club. Matches, however, have not been played there since 1973. In 2006, Hawthorn's training and administration facilities were relocated to Waverley Park in the middle 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 ground of York Park in Launceston, Tasmania, with the remaining games played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the club's current playing home ground. Hawthorn's current Victorian Football League (VFL) affiliate team is the Box Hill Hawks Football Club.
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 likely that today’s club is actually the third club to carry the name ‘Hawthorn Football Club’. In The Daily Telegraph of 12 May 1883 it is stated that “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 from 1890 to 1892. 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.
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