Luke Parker will become just the seventh person to captain the Swans 100 times on Friday night, and the 76^th 100-game captain in AFL history.

It is an achievement that puts him in ultra elite company, ranking him alongside just 0.0048% of Swans players all-time and 0.0058% of all AFL players.

And the Parker century will be extra special – he has not missed a game since he and Dane Rampe were elevated to the Swans captaincy in 2019 with 2017-18 standalone captain Josh Kennedy.

Set to lead the club solo against Carlton at the SCG in his milestone game in the absence of injured co-captains Rampe and Callum Mills, Parker will join Ron Clegg, Bob Skilton, Dennis Carroll, Paul Kelly, Brett Kirk and Jarrad McVeigh as 100-game Swans captains.

Kelly holds the club captaincy record at 182 games from Skilton (165), McVeigh (140), Carroll (131), Kirk (123) and Clegg (106).

In his 13^th season, Parker played under three captaincy groups through his first eight years. He had two years under the shared captaincy of Adam Goodes and McVeigh (2011-12), four years under the partnership of McVeigh and Kieren Jack (2013-16), and two years under Kennedy (2017-18).

Appointed a vice-captain to Kennedy with Rampe and Dan Hannebery in 2017, Parker had served as acting captain in two matches that year when Kennedy was injured.

So, in addition to Friday night’s clash with Carlton being his 100^th as captain it will be in his 99^th game in a row, having not missed since Round 23, 2018.

Set to play his 271^st game overall, 32-year-old Parker will be easily the most experienced Swans player to this mark and the second oldest behind Kirk as he joins a list of Swans greats.

Clegg, the 1949 Brownlow Medallist and Swans Team of the Century centre half-back, was the club’s first 100-game captain. Having had a taste of captaincy as a fill-in for 1949 skipper Bert Lucas, Clegg was South Melbourne captain in his own right in 1953-54 and 1957-60 after splitting with the club in 1955 to captain-coach at North Wagga.

Similarly, Skilton deputised for Clegg in 1959 before taking over the job full-time in 1960 at 22. The Swans Team of the Century captain and AFL Hall of Fame legend won his second and third Brownlow Medals as captain in 1963 and 1968 and after missing the entire 1969 season through injury, held the job until 1971.

Carroll skippered the Swans from 1986-92 after taking over from Barry Round and Mark Browning, who had led the club in its early years in Sydney, and Kelly replaced Carroll in 1993, serving until his retirement in 2002.

Kirk had his first taste of the job in 2005 after Stuart Maxfield stepped down at Round 6 for family reasons. Kirk was the first of six players to sample the job that year under coach Paul Roos, and was followed by Leo Barry, Jude Bolton, Adam Goodes, Ben Mathews and Barry Hall, who was the nominated skipper in the 2005 grand final win.

Kirk, Barry and Hall made up a three-man captaincy team in 2006-07 before Barry, Kirk and Craig Bolton shared the job in 2008 ahead of a Kirk-Goodes-Craig Bolton partnership in 2009-10 and the Goodes-McVeigh pairing of 2011-12.

Kelly, the longest-serving Swans captain at 182 games, ranks 12^th on an all-time AFL list headed by Geelong’s Joel Selwood (245), Carlton’s Stephen Kernahan (226) and Essendon great Dick Reynolds (224). Others beyond 200 games at the helm are Western Bulldogs’ Ted Whitten (212), Brisbane’s Michael Voss (210) and Collingwood’s Scott Pendlebury (206).

Parker will be the eighth current player to have captained his club 100 times, joining Pendlebury, Richmond’s Trent Cotchin, GWS’ Callan Ward and Phil Davis, Port Adelaide’s Travis Boak, North Melbourne’s Jack Ziebell and Adelaide’s Taylor Walker. He is the only active captain in this group.