Patrick Dangerfield (pictured here in 2019) is the current captain of Geelong.
Patrick Dangerfield (pictured here in 2019) is the current captain of Geelong

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
# 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
# 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–

AFL Women's

Dates Captain(s) Notes
2019–2020 Melissa Hickey [2]
2021– Meghan McDonald [3]

References

  1. ^ a b Geelong Football Club honour roll Archived 23 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
  2. ^ Collings, Tom (13 December 2018). "Hickey named Geelong's inaugural AFLW Captain". Geelong. Telstra Media.
  3. ^ "Meghan McDonald Named Geelong AFLW Captain". Geelong. Telstra Media. 23 December 2020.
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