List of Fitzroy Football Club captains

The following is a list of players who captained the Fitzroy Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the VFL.

Dates	Captain(s)	Notes
1897	Bill Cleary
1898–1900	Alec Sloan	1898 Premiership Captain 1899 Premiership Captain
1901–1902	Bill McSpeerin
1903–1905	Gerald Brosnan	1904 Premiership Captain 1905 Premiership Captain
1906–1907	Ern Jenkins
1908–1910	Jim Sharp
1911	Harold McLennan
1912	Jack Cooper
1913	Bill J. Walker	1913 Premiership Captain
1914–1915	Percy Parratt
1916	Wally Johnson	1916 Premiership Captain
1917–1918	George Holden
1919	Wally Johnson
1920	Percy Parratt
1921	Percy Parratt Chris Lethbridge
1922	Chris Lethbridge	1922 Premiership Captain
1923	Gordon Rattray
1924–1925	Jim Atkinson
1926	Bill Adams
1927	Len Wigraft
1928	Gordon Rattray
1929	Charlie Chapman
1930–1931	Colin Niven
1932	Haydn Bunton, Sr. Jack Sexton
1933	Jack Sexton Jack Moriarty
1934	Jack Cashman Fred Davies
1935	Charles J. Cameron
1936–1937	Haydn Bunton, Sr.
1938–1941	Frank Curcio
1942	Maurie Hearn
1943–1947	Fred Hughson	1944 Premiership Captain
1948	Allan Ruthven
1949	Norm Smith
1950	Norm Smith Allan Ruthven
1951–1954	Allan Ruthven
1955–1957	Bill Stephen
1958–1961	Alan Gale
1962	Owen Abrahams
1963–1964	Kevin Murray
1965	Ralph Rogerson
1966	Ralph Rogerson John Hayes
1967–1972	Kevin Murray
1973–1977	John Murphy
1978	Harvey Merrigan
1979–1980	Ron Alexander
1981–1984	Garry Wilson
1985–1987	Matt Rendell
1988–1990	Paul Roos
1991	Richard Osborne
1992–1994	Paul Roos
1995–1996	Brad Boyd

References

Fitzroy Football Club

History • Records • Players • Captains • Coaches • Honour roll • Team of the Century • Leading Goalkickers

Home grounds	Brunswick Street Oval (1897–1966) • Princes Park (1967–69; 1987–93) • Junction Oval (1970–84) • Victoria Park (1985–86) • North Hobart Oval (1952; 1991–92) • Western Oval (1994–96) • Bruce Stadium (1995)

Premierships (8)	1898 • 1899 • 1904 • 1905 • 1913 • 1916 • 1922 • 1944

Seasons (100)	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

Related articles	Brisbane Lions

Fitzroy Football Club merged with the Brisbane Bears in 1996 to form the Brisbane Lions

Captains of the Fitzroy Football Club

1897: Cleary • 1898–1900: Sloan • 1901–1902: McSpeerin • 1903–1905: Brosnan • 1906–1907: Jenkins • 1908–1910: Sharp • 1911: McLennan • 1912: Cooper • 1913: Walker • 1914–1915: Parratt • 1916: Johnson • 1917–1918: Holden • 1919: Johnson • 1920: Parratt • 1921: Parratt/Lethbridge • 1922: Lethbridge • 1923: Rattray • 1924–1925: Atkinson • 1926: Adams • 1927: Wigraft • 1928: Rattray • 1929: Chapman • 1930–1931: Niven • 1932: Bunton/Sexton • 1933: Sexton/Moriarty • 1934: Cashman/Davies • 1935: Cameron • 1936–1937: Bunton • 1938–1941: Curcio • 1942: Hearn • 1943–1947: Hughson • 1948: Ruthven • 1949: Smith • 1950: Smith/Ruthven • 1951–1954: Ruthven • 1955–1957: Stephen • 1958–1961: Gale • 1962: Abrahams • 1963–1964: Murray • 1965: Rogerson • 1966: Rogerson/Hayes • 1967–1972: Murray • 1973–1977: Murphy • 1978: Merrigan • 1979–1980: Alexander • 1981–1984: Wilson • 1985–1987: Rendell • 1988–1990: Roos • 1991: Osborne • 1992–1994: Roos • 1995–1996: Boyd

VFL/AFL club captains

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