List of Adelaide Football Club coaches
The Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia, which fields teams in the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW). It has been in the AFL since 1991 and AFLW since 2017, and (as of 2023) has had 11 AFL coaches and two AFLW coaches.
In the AFL, two of these (Mark Bickley and Scott Camporeale) were interim coaches. Bickley coached the remainder of 2011 after the resignation of Neil Craig, and Camporeale coached the remainder of 2015 after the death of Phil Walsh. Craig was also an interim coach, after Gary Ayres resigned in 2004, but then secured the full-time role the next year.
| # | Number of coaches[N 1] |
| GC | Games coached |
| W | Wins |
| L | Losses |
| D | Draws |
| Win% | Winning percentage |
AFL
- Updated to the end of the 2023 season.
| # | Name | Seasons | Stats | Reference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GC | W | L | D | W% | ||||
| 1 | Graham Cornes | 1991–1994 | 89 | 43 | 45 | 1 | 48.31 | [1][2] |
| 2 | Robert Shaw | 1995–1996 | 44 | 17 | 27 | 0 | 38.64 | [3][1] |
| 3 | Malcolm Blight | 1997–1999 | 74 | 41 | 33 | 0 | 55.41 | [1][4] |
| 4 | Gary Ayres | 2000–2004 | 107 | 55 | 52 | 0 | 51.40 | [1][5] |
| 5 | Neil Craig | 2004–2011 | 166 | 92 | 74 | 0 | 55.42 | [6][1] |
| 6 | Mark Bickley | 2011 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| 7 | Brenton Sanderson | 2012–2014 | 69 | 39 | 30 | 0 | 56.52 | [7] |
| 8 | Phil Walsh | 2015 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.33 | [8] |
| 9 | Scott Camporeale | 2015 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.64 | [9] |
| 10 | Don Pyke | 2016–2019 | 93 | 56 | 36 | 1 | 60.22 | [10] |
| 11 | Matthew Nicks | 2020–present | 84 | 29 | 55 | 0 | 34.52 | |
AFLW
- Updated to the end of the 2023 season.
| # | Name | Seasons | Stats | Reference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GC | W | L | D | W% | ||||
| 1 | Bec Goddard | 2017–2018 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 60.00 | [11] |
| 2 | Matthew Clarke | 2019–present | 64 | 48 | 16 | 0 | 75.00 | [12] |
Notes
- ^ A running total of the number of Adelaide coaches in each league.
References
- ^ a b c d e AFL Statistics, Australian Football League, archived from the original on 13 September 2009, retrieved 7 February 2009
- ^ All the Stats • VFL/AFL Coaches - Graham Cornes, AlltheStats.com, retrieved 7 February 2009[permanent dead link]
- ^ All the Stats • VFL/AFL Coaches - Robert Shaw, AlltheStats.com, archived from the original on 3 July 2015, retrieved 7 February 2009
- ^ All the Stats • VFL/AFL Coaches - Malcolm Blight, AlltheStats.com, retrieved 7 February 2009[permanent dead link]
- ^ All the Stats • VFL/AFL Coaches - Gary Ayres, AlltheStats.com, retrieved 7 February 2009[permanent dead link]
- ^ All the Stats • VFL/AFL Coaches - Niel Craig, AlltheStats.com, archived from the original on 3 July 2015, retrieved 7 February 2009
- ^ Adelaide Crows Sack Coach Brenton Sanderson, The Age, 17 September 2014, retrieved 7 October 2014
- ^ Cross-town coach poach, Australian Football League, 7 October 2014, retrieved 7 October 2014
- ^ "Camporeale to coach, Worsfold joins nest". Adelaide Football Club. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ "Pyke named new Crows coach". Adelaide Crows. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ "Bec Goddard". Australian Football. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Matthew Clarke". Australian Football. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
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Adelaide Football Club
- Nickname: Crows
- History
- Premierships and records
- Players
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- Malcolm Blight Medal
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- AFL coach: Matthew Nicks
- AFL captain: Jordan Dawson
- AFL Women's coach: Matthew Clarke
- AFL Women's captain: Chelsea Randall
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- Thebarton Oval (2017)
- Norwood Oval (2018–)
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