List of Sydney Swans captains explained

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

VFL/AFL Men

List of Sydney Swans captains (men)
Years	Captain(s)	Notes	Ref.
1897–1898	Bill Fraser	Inaugural captain
1899	Dave Adamson
1900	George Davidson Bill Windley
1901	Albert Trim
1902	Bill Windley
1903	Tom Fogarty
1904–1905	Billy McGee
1906	Herb Howson
1907–1908	Bill Dolphin
1909	Charlie Ricketts	1909 premiership captain
1910–1911	William Thomas
1912	Charlie Ricketts
1913	Harvey Kelly
1914–1915; 1917	Vic Belcher
1918–1919	Jim Caldwell	1918 premiership captain
1920	Vic Belcher
1921	Carl Willis
1922	Mark Tandy
1923–1925	Paddy Scanlan
1926–1927	Charlie Pannam
1928	Joe Scanlan
1929	Charlie Stanbridge
1930–1931	Joe Scanlan
1932	Johnny Leonard
1933–1936	Jack Bisset	1933 premiership captain
1937	Laurie Nash
1938–1945	Herbie Matthews
1946–1948	Jack Graham
1949	Bert Lucas
1950–1952	Gordon Lane
1953–1954	Ron Clegg
1955	Bill Gunn
1956	Ian Gillett
1957–1960	Ron Clegg
1961–1971	Bob Skilton
1972	John Rantall
1973–1976	Peter Bedford
1977–1979	Ricky Quade
1980–1983	Barry Round
1984	Barry Round Mark Browning
1985	Mark Browning
1986–1992	Dennis Carroll
1993–2002	Paul Kelly
2003–2005	Stuart Maxfield
2005–2007	Barry Hall Brett Kirk Leo Barry	Barry Hall 2005 premiership captain
2008	Barry Hall Leo Barry Craig Bolton
2009–2010	Craig Bolton Adam Goodes Brett Kirk
2011–2012	Adam Goodes Jarrad McVeigh	Jarrad McVeigh 2012 premiership captain
2013–2016	Kieren Jack Jarrad McVeigh
2017–2018			^[1]
2019–2021	Josh Kennedy Dane Rampe Luke Parker
2022–2023	Callum Mills Dane Rampe Luke Parker
2024–	Callum Mills		^[2]