Hawthorn



The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club founded in 1902 is the youngest of the Victorian based teams in the AFL. The club is the most successful club of the past 50 years having won 10 Premierships, a premiership in each of the last 5 decades, including the 2008 Premiership. They play in brown and gold vertically striped guernseys. The team's motto is 'spectemur agendo' loosely translated as 'let us be judged by our acts'. The Hawks' origins are in the inner eastern Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn and, also, at Glenferrie Oval which is the club's former administrative and training base and social club, however matches have not been played there since 1973. Since 2006 Hawthorn's training and administration has been located at Waverley Park - in the midst of the club's major supporter base in Melbourne's outer-eastern region and since 2007 Hawthorn have played four games a year at their second ground of Aurora Stadium in Launceston, Tasmania with the remaining games played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the club's current playing homeground.