Hawthorn Football Club
Hawthorn Football Club, known as the "Hawks", is a team in the Australian Football League. They won four premierships in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Their home ground is the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The coach Alastair Clarkson, is a former student at Ballarat and Clarendon College.
Club song
We're a happy team at Hawthorn
We're the Mighty Fighting Hawks.
We love our club and we play to win,
Riding the bumps with a grin at Hawthorn.
Come what may, you'll find us striving
Team work is the thing that talks,
One for all and all for one
Is the way we play at Hawthorn.
We are the Mighty Fighting Hawks.
Hawthorn Football Club Media
Captain coach 1947–1949, Albiston was one of the characters of the club's most bitter internal fight
John Kennedy Sr. is the Hawks' first premiership coach. Hawthorn honoured him with a bronze statue in front of Waverley Park
Hawthorn playing North Adelaide in the 1971 Championship of Australia final.
The bitter Hawthorn-Essendon rivalry started in the 1980s, when the two clubs met in three successive grand finals (2007)
Hawks players run through the banner in a 2007 semi-final against the Kangaroos, led by then-captain Richard Vandenberg in his final game.
2005–2011 and 2017–2022 President of the Hawks, former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett
The Hawks ran out onto the MCG on Grand Final Day in 2008, with the banner saying: Endurance, Mateship, Courage, Sacrifice
