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| Full name | Tuggeranong Hawks Football Club |
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| Founded | 1968 |
| Colours | Brown and Gold |
| Competition | North East Australian Football League |
| Coach | Glenn Gorman |
| Captain(s) | Alex Lawder |
| Ground(s) | Greenway Oval |
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| Official website | Tuggeranong Hawks official website |
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The Tuggeranong Hawks Football Club is a semi-professional, community based Australian Rules Football club based in Tuggeranong, Australian Capital Territory. They compete in the North East Australian Football League.
The club also fields teams in the AFL Canberra Reserve Competition, U/18 Competition, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade and Women's competitions.
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The club was actually formed as long ago as 1968 by a group of Department of Supply employees, recently transferred to Canberra from Melbourne. Adopting red and white as its colours, the team bore the name of Eastlake-Woden in recognition of the fact that it was sponsored by the Eastlake Football Club. Eastlake-Woden later became South Woden, and later still Sutherland. In 1976 Sutherland was admitted to the ACTAFL at under nineteen level before adding reserves and senior teams in 1977 and 1979 respectively.
Initially, the team found the going tough, but following a name change to Tuggeranong in 1983 fortunes began to improve. In 1986, under captain-coach Hans Heystraten, premiership success was finally achieved following a thrilling 1 point grand final defeat of one of Canberra's foremost perennial football forces in the shape of Queanbeyan.
In 1994 the club welcomed former St Kilda, Ainslie and Central District identity Kevin 'Cowboy' Neale as senior coach and immediately adopted the Cowboys emblem, which it retained until forging an alliance with AFL club Hawthorn in 2003, whereupon it became known as the Hawks.
The Club has seen disappointing results since then as 2002 was the last year the first grade team made the finals. Numerous times the club has finished fifth on the ladder, just missing out on finals as well as claiming the wooden spoon from 2008-2010.
The club has become a rich breeding ground for player talent, with the likes of Justin Blumfield (Essendon), Aaron Hamill (Carlton and St Kilda), Jacob Anstey (Carlton), Stephen Hall (Woodville-West Torrens), Brett Howman (Sturt), Dale Argall (East Fremantle), and James Meilkejohn (Sydney Swans and Port Adelaide Football Club) Ryan Power (Port Melbourne Football Club) and Ben Phibbs (Port Melbourne Football Club) and (Frankston Football Club) going on to enjoy greater success in higher level competitions.
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