List of Melbourne Football Club captains

This is a list of all captains of the Melbourne Football Club, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's.

VFL/AFL DatesCaptain(s) 1897–1898 Ned Sutton 1899 Eddie Sholl 1900 Dick Wardill 1901–1904 William C. McClelland 1905 Frank Langley 1906 Arthur Sowden 1907 Vin Coutie 1908 Hugh Purse 1909 Bernie Nolan 1910–1911 Vin Coutie 1912–1913 Alf George 1914 Len Incigneri 1915 Jack McKenzie 1919–1920 George Heinz 1921–1923 Percy Wilson 1924–1927 Albert Chadwick 1928–1931 Ivor Warne-Smith 1932–1933 Francis Vine 1934–1935 Colin Niven 1936–1941 Allan La Fontaine 1942–1944 Percy Beames 1945–1947 Norm Smith 1948–1949 Don Cordner 1950 Shane McGrath 1951–1953 Denis Cordner 1954 Geoff Collins 1955–1956 Noel McMahen 1957–1959 John Beckwith 1960–1964 Ron Barassi 1965–1969 Hassa Mann 1970 Robert Johnson 1971–1972 Frank Davis 1973–1976 Stan Alves 1977–1978 Greg Wells 1979–1980 Carl Ditterich 1981–1987 Robert Flower 1988–1990 Greg Healy 1991–1997 Garry Lyon 1998–1999 Todd Viney 2000–2008 David Neitz 2009–2010 James McDonald 2011 Brad Green 2012–2013 Jack Trengove/Jack Grimes 2014 Nathan Jones/Jack Grimes 2015–2016 Nathan Jones 2017–2019 Nathan Jones/Jack Viney 2020– Max Gawn

AFL Women's Dates Captain(s) 2017–2018 Daisy Pearce 2019 Elise O'Dea/Shelley Scott 2020–S7 (2022) Daisy Pearce 2023– Kate Hore

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