List of Hawthorn defenders

Defenders who have played in at least one match for Hawthorn in a VFL/AFL premiership. This list may be incomplete due to incomplete match player position records (from which these general player positions are generated).

Player List

No. Player Season(s) Match(es) Position(s) Detail(s)
1 Mark Graham 1993-2004 223 Defender
2 Luke McCabe 1995-2004 138 Defender Back Pocket
3 Daniel Chick 1996-2002 149 Forward / Defender Half-Forward Flanker / Half-Back Flanker
4 Brad Scott 1997 22 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Half-Back Flanker
5 Jonathan Hay 1997-2005 149 Defender Key Defender
6 Trent Croad 1998-2008 184 Defender Key Defender
7 Michael Collica 1999-2000 30 Defender
8 Joel Smith 1999-2007 163 Defender
9 Glen Bowyer 1999-2001 35 Defender Back Pocket
10 Luke McPharlin 2000-2001 12 Defender Key Defender
11 Nathan Lonie 2001-2005 64 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Half-Back Flanker
12 Nick Stone 2002-2003 17 Defender Key Defender
13 Luke Hodge 2002-2017 305 Midfielder / Defender
14 Campbell Brown 2002-2010 159 Forward / Defender Forward Pocket / Defender
15 Rick Ladson 2003-2011 125 Defender Half-Back Flanker
16 Simon Beaumont 2004-2005 27 Defender
17 Danny Jacobs 2004-2007 45 Defender
18 Luke Brennan 2004-2006 19 Forward / Defender
19 Josh Thurgood 2005-2007 13 Defender
20 Zac Dawson 2005-2006 14 Defender Key Defender
21 Tom Murphy 2005-2012 95 Defender
22 Grant Birchall 2006-2019 248 Defender Half-Back Flanker
23 Brent Guerra 2006-2013 159 Defender Back Pocket
24 Beau Dowler 2006-2009 16 Defender
25 Stephen Gilham 2006-2012 98 Defender Key Defender
26 Xavier Ellis 2007-2013 86 Defender
27 Matt Suckling 2009-2015 102 Defender Half-Back Flanker
28 Beau Muston 2009-2010 13 Defender
29 Shane Savage 2009-2013 56 Defender
30 Josh Gibson 2010-2017 160 Defender Key Defender
31 Ben Stratton 2010-2020 202 Defender
32 Shaun Burgoyne 2010-2021 250 Defender
33 Kyle Cheney 2011-2014 27 Defender Key Defender
34 Jarrad Boumann 2012 2 Defender Key Defender
35 Taylor Duryea 2013-2018 118 Defender
36 Brian Lake 2013-2015 54 Defender Key Defender
37 Matt Spangher 2013-2016 24 Defender Key Defender
38 Angus Dewar 2014-2016 25 Defender Back Pocket
39 James Frawley 2015-2020 100 Defender Key Defender
40 James Sicily 2015-2022 115 Defender Key Defender
41 Kaiden Brand 2016-2019 43 Defender Key Defender
42 Blake Hardwick 2016-2022 124 Defender
43 Kurt Heatherley 2016-2017 5 Defender Key Defender
44 Ryan Burton 2016-2018 47 Defender Half-Back Flanker
45 Teia Miles 2017-2018 12 Defender
46 Jarman Impey 2018-2022 75 Defender
47 David Mirra 2018-2019 11 Defender
48 Jack Scrimshaw 2019-2022 63 Defender
49 Changkuoth Jiath 2019-2022 37 Defender
50 Sam Frost 2020-2022 50 Defender Key Defender
51 Will Day 2020-2022 33 Defender
52 Michael Hartley 2020-2021 5 Defender Key Defender
53 Damon Greaves 2020-2021 10 Defender
54 Kyle Hartigan 2021-2022 22 Defender Key Defender
55 Emerson Jeka 2021-2022 7 Forward / Defender
56 Lachlan Bramble 2021-2022 19 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Half-Back Flanker
57 Denver Grainger-Barras 2021-2022 21 Defender Back Pocket
58 James Blanck 2022 9 Defender Key Defender