Hawthorn Football Club

Hawthorn Football Club
Names
Full name	Hawthorn Football Club Limited[1]
Nickname(s)	Hawks, The Family Club, The Hokz[2][3][4]
Motto	Spectemur Agendo (Let us be judged by our acts.)
2023 season
Home-and-away season	16th
Leading goalkicker	Luke Breust (47 goals)
Peter Crimmins Medal	Will Day
Club details
Founded	1902; 122 years ago (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) 1961 1971 1976 1978 1983 1986 1988 1989 1991 2008 2013 2014 2015 Reserves (4) 1958 1959 1972 1985 VFLW (1) 2018 Championship of Australia (1) 1971
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
Uniforms
Home Away Legends
Other information
Official website	hawthornfc.com.au
Current season

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]