List of Melbourne Football Club captains
This is a list of all captains of the Melbourne Football Club, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's.
VFL/AFL
Dates | Captain(s) |
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1897–1898 | Ned Sutton |
1899 | Eddie Sholl |
1900 | Dick Wardill |
1901–1904 | William C. McClelland |
1905 | Frank Langley |
1906 | Arthur Sowden |
1907 | Vin Coutie |
1908 | Hugh Purse |
1909 | Bernie Nolan |
1910–1911 | Vin Coutie |
1912–1913 | Alf George |
1914 | Len Incigneri |
1915 | Jack McKenzie |
1919–1920 | George Heinz |
1921–1923 | Percy Wilson |
1924–1927 | Albert Chadwick |
1928–1931 | Ivor Warne-Smith |
1932–1933 | Francis Vine[1] |
1934–1935 | Colin Niven |
1936–1941 | Allan La Fontaine |
1942–1944 | Percy Beames |
1945–1947 | Norm Smith |
1948–1949 | Don Cordner |
1950 | Shane McGrath |
1951–1953 | Denis Cordner |
1954 | Geoff Collins |
1955–1956 | Noel McMahen |
1957–1959 | John Beckwith |
1960–1964 | Ron Barassi |
1965–1969 | Hassa Mann |
1970 | Robert Johnson |
1971–1972 | Frank Davis |
1973–1976 | Stan Alves |
1977–1978 | Greg Wells |
1979–1980 | Carl Ditterich |
1981–1987 | Robert Flower |
1988–1990 | Greg Healy |
1991–1997 | Garry Lyon |
1998–1999 | Todd Viney |
2000–2008 | David Neitz |
2009–2010 | James McDonald |
2011 | Brad Green |
2012–2013 | Jack Trengove/Jack Grimes |
2014 | Nathan Jones/Jack Grimes |
2015–2016 | Nathan Jones |
2017–2019 | Nathan Jones/Jack Viney |
2020– | Max Gawn |
AFL Women's
Dates | Captain(s) |
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2017–2018 | Daisy Pearce |
2019 | Elise O'Dea/Shelley Scott |
2020–S7 (2022) | Daisy Pearce |
2023– | Kate Hore |
References
- ^ Lovett, Michael (2004). AFL 2004 - The Official Statistical History Of The AFL. AFL Publishing. ISBN 0-9580300-5-7.
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Melbourne Football Club
- Nickname: Demons
- History
- Club honours
- Current squad
- Players
- Coaches
- Captains
- Honour board
- Awards
- Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy
- Daisy Pearce Trophy
- Leading goalkickers
- AFL coach: Simon Goodwin
- AFL captain: Max Gawn
- AFLW coach: Mick Stinear
- AFLW captain: Kate Hore
- Melbourne Cricket Ground (1897–1941; 1946–)
- Punt Road Oval (1942–45)
- Casey Fields (2017–)
(non-club articles in italics)
- 1870
- 1871
- 1872
- 1873
- 1874
- 1875
- 1876
- 1877
- 1878
- 1879
- 1880
- 1881
- 1882
- 1883
- 1884
- 1885
- 1886
- 1887
- 1888
- 1889
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- 1894
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- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
Melbourne did not field a team from 1916–1918 due to the First World War