The
Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the
Hawks, is a professional
Australian rules football club in the
Australian Football League (AFL). The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the
Victorian-based teams in the AFL and has won thirteen VFL/AFL premierships; renowned as the only club having won premierships in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. The team play in brown and gold vertically striped
guernseys. The club's Latin motto is
spectemur agendo, the English translation being "By our deeds we shall be known".