The Melbourne Hawks Football Club, nicknamed The Hawks, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL) based in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded after the merging of two clubs; the Melbourne Demons and the Hawthorn Hawks, the club has been relatively succesful in its first decade (1997-2007) playing in five grand finals (2000, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007) but only winning two (2003 and 2007).