Hawthorn Football Club facts for kids

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Hawthorn Hawks Jumper
Hawthorn F.C. jumper
Ball is in dispute in Hawthorn-Essendon AFL match
Hawthorn playing Essendon in an AFL match

Hawthorn Football Club, known as the "Hawks", is a team in the Australian Football League. In the 21st century, they have won four premierships in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Their home ground is the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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  • Alec Albiston

    Captain coach 1947–1949, Albiston was one of the characters of the club's most bitter internal fight

  • Kennedy hawthorn

    John Kennedy Sr. is the Hawks' first premiership coach. Hawthorn honoured him with a bronze statue in front of Waverley Park

  • Leigh matthews statue

    Statue of former Hawthorn player, Leigh Matthews, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

  • Championship of Australia 1971 Adelaide Oval Hawthorn North Adelaide

    Hawthorn playing North Adelaide in the 1971 Championship of Australia final.

  • Stoppage in an AFL game

    The Hawthorn-Essendon bitter rivalry started in the 1980s, when the two clubs met in three successive grand finals (2007)

  • Hawthorn banner

    Hawks players run through the banner in a 2007 Semi Final against the Kangaroos, led by then captain Richard Vandenberg in his final game.

  • Hawthorn Hawks supporters

    Supporters came out in numbers to show the Hawks on at the MCG

  • Luke Hodge 2008

    2008 and 2014 Norm Smith Medalist Luke Hodge

  • Glenferrieoval

    Glenferrie Oval is the spiritual home the Hawks. However, the last VFL/AFL match was played back in 1973

  • Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs - 31st May 2008 181

    York Park is Hawthorn's second home ground


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