Hawthorn Football Club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Dingley Village that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawthorn, making it the youngest Victorian-based team in the AFL.

The Hawks are the only club to have won the VFL/AFL competition in every decade between 1960 and 2020, totalling 13 premierships. The team play in their traditional vertically striped brown-and-gold guernseys for Home fixtures, but may use different designs for special rounds such as Sir Doug Nicholls Round. For Away fixtures, the team alternates between guernseys that are either predominantly gold, white or brown.

The club's Latin motto is Spectemur agendo ("Let us be judged by our acts)". The Hawks are known for their strong competitive rivalry with certain AFL teams, most notably the Geelong Cats and Essendon Bombers.

Upon inception and until 1973, the Hawks played home matches at Glenferrie Oval in Hawthorn; they subsequently shifted home matches to Princes Park in 1974, lasting until 1991 when Hawthorn moved to Waverley Park. Later the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) became the home ground when Waverley was redeveloped. The club moved its training and administration facilities from Glenferrie to Waverley Park in 2006, which by that point was no longer hosting AFL matches, and continues to be based at the park, which is located in an area of the club's major supporter base in Melbourne's outer-eastern region. Since 2007, Hawthorn have played four games a year at their second home ground of York Park in Launceston, Tasmania, with most of the remaining home games usually played at the MCG and one usually played at Marvel Stadium.

Hawthorn fields a women's team in the AFLW competition. The AFLW team played their first game on 27 August 2022 at Marvel Stadium, with initial ticket allocations sold out within 24 hours.