List of Adelaide Football Club coaches
Appearance
The Adelaide Football Club is an AFL club based in Adelaide, South Australia. It has been in the AFL since 1991, and (as of 2019) has had 10 different coaches.
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 |
Coaches
- Note: As of Round 1, 2020.
# | Name | Seasons | Stats | Reference | ||||
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GC | W | L | D | W% | ||||
1 | Graham Cornes | 1991–1994 | 89 | 43 | 45 | 1 | 49.42 | [1][2] |
2 | Robert Shaw | 1995–1996 | 44 | 17 | 27 | 0 | 38.64 | [3][1] |
3 | Malcolm Blight | 1997–1999 | 74 | 41 | 33 | 0 | 55.40 | [1][4] |
4 | Gary Ayres | 2000–2004 | 107 | 55 | 52 | 0 | 52.48 | [1][5] |
5 | Neil Craig | 2004–2011 | 166 | 92 | 74 | 0 | 55.42 | [6][1] |
6 | Mark Bickley (interim coach) | 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 | 58.00% | [8] |
9 | Scott Camporeale (interim coach) | 2015 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.63% | [9] |
10 | Don Pyke | 2016–2019 | 89 | 55 | 33 | 1 | 61.80% | [10] |
11 | Matthew Nicks | 2020–present | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0% |
Notes
- ^ A running total of the number of Adelaide coaches.
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, retrieved 7 February 2009[permanent dead link]
- ^ 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, retrieved 7 February 2009[permanent dead link]
- ^ Adelaide Crows Sack Coach Brenton Sanderson, The Age, retrieved 7 October 2014
- ^ Cross-town coach poach, Australian Football League, 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.