List of Geelong Football Club captains

This is a list of all captains of the Geelong Football Club, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League.

Geelong Football Club captains
#	Name^[1]	Years
1	G.A. Down	1877
2	A.A. Austin	1878
3	James Wilson	1879–1882
4	Charles "Chas" Brownlow	1883–1884
5	Harry Steedman	1884
6	Hugh McLean	1885
7	David Hickinbotham	1886, 1888–1889
8	R. Talbot	1887
9	J. Baker	1890
10	T. Parkin	1891
11	R. Houston	1892–1894
12	Jim McShane	1895
13	Peter Burns	1896

Geelong Football Club captains
#	Name^[1]	Years
1	Jack Conway	1897–1899
2	Peter Burns	1900
3	Henry Young	1901–1909
4	Bill Eason	1910–1913
5	Billy Orchard	1914–1915
Club recess due to World War I (1916)
6	Harry Marsham	1917
7	Jim Kearney	1918–1919
8	Alec Eason	1919–1920
9	Harold Craven	1921–1922
10	Bert Rankin	1923
11	Lloyd Hagger	1924
12	Cliff Rankin	1925–1927
13	Tom Fitzmaurice	1928
14	Arthur Coghlan	1929–1930
15	Ted Baker	1931
16	Reg Hickey	1932–1940
17	Tom Arklay	1941
Club recess due to World War II (1942–1943)
18	Jack Butcher	1944–1945
19	Lindsay White	1945, 1948, 1950
20	Jack Grant	1946
21	George Gniel	1947
22	Jim Fitzgerald	1949
23	Tom Morrow	1949
24	Bernie Smith	1950, 1954
25	Fred Flanagan	1951–1954
26	Bob Davis	1955–1958
27	Neil Trezise	1959
28	Ron Hovey	1960
29	Colin Rice	1960
30	John Yeates	1961–1962
31	Fred Wooller	1963–1964
32	Graham Farmer	1965–1967
33	Bill Goggin	1968–1971
34	Doug Wade	1972
35	Geoff Ainsworth	1973
36	John "Sam" Newman	1974–1975
37	Bruce Nankervis	1976–1977
38	Ian Nankervis	1978–1981, 1983
39	Brian Peake	1982
40	Michael Turner	1984–1986
41	Damian Bourke	1987–1989
42	Andrew Bews	1990–1991
43	Mark Bairstow	1992–1994
44	Gary Ablett Sr.	1995–1996
45	Ken Hinkley	1995
46	Garry Hocking	1995, 1999
47	Barry Stoneham	1995–1998
48	Leigh Colbert	1999
49	Ben Graham	2000–2002
50	Steven King	2003–2006
51	Tom Harley	2007–2009
52	Cameron Ling	2010–2011
53	Joel Selwood	2012–2022
54	Patrick Dangerfield	2023–

Dates	Captain(s)	Notes
2019–2020	Melissa Hickey	^[2]
2021–2025	Meghan McDonald	^[3]

v t e Geelong Football Club
Nickname: Cats History Draft and trade history Records Players (V/AFL) Players (AFLW) Captains Coaches Awards Carji Greeves Medal AFL Women's best and fairest Leading goalkickers AFL coach: Chris Scott AFL captain: Patrick Dangerfield AFLW coach: Mick Stinear AFLW captain: Vacant
VFL/AFL home grounds	Corio Oval (1897–1940) Kardinia Park (1941–)
AFLW home grounds	Kardinia Park (2019–)
VFA premierships (7)	1878 1879 1880 1882 1883 1884 1886
VFL/AFL premierships (10)	1925 1931 1937 1951 1952 1963 2007 2009 2011 2022
Runner-up (10)	1930 1953 1967 1989 1992 1994 1995 2008 2020 2025
Seasons (153) (club articles in bold)	1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Women's seasons (10) (club articles in bold)	2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 (S6) 2022 (S7) 2023 2024 2025
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Geelong did not participate in the 1916, 1942 and 1943 VFL seasons due to the World Wars (indicated in grey)

List of Geelong Football Club captains

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