List of Geelong Football Club captains
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This is a list of all captains of the Geelong Football Club, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League.
VFA (1879–1896)
Geelong Football Club captains | ||
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# | Name[1] | Years |
1 | James Wilson | 1879–1882 |
2 | Charles "Chas" Brownlow | 1883 |
3 | F H Steedman | 1884 |
4 | H McLean | 1885 |
5 | David Hickinbotham | 1886, 1888–1889 |
6 | R Talbot | 1887 |
7 | J Baker | 1890 |
8 | T Parkin | 1891 |
9 | R Houston | 1892–1894 |
10 | Jim McShane | 1895 |
11 | Peter Burns | 1896 |
VFL/AFL (1897–present)
Geelong Football Club captains | ||
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# | Name[1] | Years |
1 | Jack Conway | 1897–1899 |
2 | Peter Burns | 1900 |
3 | Henry Young | 1901–1909 |
4 | Bill Eason | 1910–1913 |
5 | Billy Orchard | 1914–1915 |
Club recess due to World War I (1916) | ||
6 | Harry Marsham | 1917 |
7 | Jim Kearney | 1918–1919 |
8 | Alec Eason | 1919–1920 |
9 | Harold Craven | 1921–1922 |
10 | Bert Rankin | 1923 |
11 | Lloyd Hagger | 1924 |
12 | Cliff Rankin | 1925–1927 |
13 | Tom Fitzmaurice | 1928 |
14 | Arthur Coghlan | 1929–1930 |
15 | Ted Baker | 1931 |
16 | Reg Hickey | 1932–1940 |
17 | Tom Arklay | 1941 |
Club recess due to World War II (1942–1943) | ||
18 | Jack Butcher | 1944–1945 |
19 | Lindsay White | 1945, 1948, 1950 |
20 | Jack Grant | 1946 |
21 | George Gniel | 1947 |
22 | Jim Fitzgerald | 1949 |
23 | Tom Morrow | 1949 |
24 | Bernie Smith | 1950, 1954 |
25 | Fred Flanagan | 1951–1954 |
26 | Bob Davis | 1955–1958 |
27 | Neil Trezise | 1959 |
28 | Ron Hovey | 1960 |
29 | Colin Rice | 1960 |
30 | John Yeates | 1961–1962 |
31 | Fred Wooller | 1963–1964 |
32 | Graham Farmer | 1965–1967 |
33 | Bill Goggin | 1968–1971 |
34 | Doug Wade | 1972 |
35 | Geoff Ainsworth | 1973 |
36 | John "Sam" Newman | 1974–1975 |
37 | Bruce Nankervis | 1976–1977 |
38 | Ian Nankervis | 1978–1981, 1983 |
39 | Brian Peake | 1982 |
40 | Michael Turner | 1984–1986 |
41 | Damian Bourke | 1987–1989 |
42 | Andrew Bews | 1990–1991 |
43 | Mark Bairstow | 1992–1994 |
44 | Gary Ablett Sr. | 1995–1996 |
45 | Ken Hinkley | 1995 |
46 | Garry Hocking | 1995, 1999 |
47 | Barry Stoneham | 1995–1998 |
48 | Leigh Colbert | 1999 |
49 | Ben Graham | 2000–2002 |
50 | Steven King | 2003–2006 |
51 | Tom Harley | 2007–2009 |
52 | Cameron Ling | 2010–2011 |
53 | Joel Selwood | 2012–2022 |
54 | Patrick Dangerfield | 2023– |
55 | Tom Stewart | 2023 |
AFL Women's
Dates | Captain(s) | Notes |
---|---|---|
2019–2020 | Melissa Hickey | [2] |
2021– | Meghan McDonald | [3] |
References
- ^ a b Geelong Football Club honour roll Archived 23 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ Collings, Tom (13 December 2018). "Hickey named Geelong's inaugural AFLW Captain". Geelong. Telstra Media.
- ^ "Meghan McDonald Named Geelong AFLW Captain". Geelong. Telstra Media. 23 December 2020.
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