Hawthorn
Hawthorn's greatest players, ranked by an era-fair rating built from real career stats, Brownlow votes and honours — plus the club's complete premiership history.
all-time VFL/AFL record · 1925–2026
Biggest win: 165 pts v Port Adelaide (2011).
premiership years
2015 · 2014 · 2013 · 2008 · 1991 · 1989 · 1988 · 1986 · 1983 · 1978 · 1976 · 1971 · 1961
Hawthorn — club history & record
Hawthorn have won 13 VFL/AFL premierships between 1961 and 2015, the most recent in 2015. The club has also finished runner-up 6 times, losing the Grand Final in 2012, 1987, 1985 and 1984 and others.
Across 1925–2026, Hawthorn have played 2,152 senior matches in the data here for a record of 1055–1083–14 — a 49.3% win rate, with a scoring percentage of 101.3. Their biggest recorded victory is a 165-point win over Port Adelaide in 2011.
By our era-fair rating, the greatest Hawthorn players are led by Peter Hudson (100), John Platten (100), Lance Franklin (100), Jason Dunstall (98) and Leigh Matthews (97). In all, 983 players who pulled on the Hawthorn jumper are rated here, ranked below by how they measured against their own contemporaries.
Greatest Hawthorn players
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