1940 Hawthorn Football Club season

The 1940 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 16th season in the Victorian Football League and 39th overall.

Patriotic Premiership
The VFL between Rounds 14 and 15 played a one-day lightning carnival, Known as the Patriotic Premiership, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to raise money for the Patriotic Fund. The matches played were twenty minutes long with no time-on.