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
Updated to the end of the 2024 season.
# Name Seasons Stats Reference
GC W L D W%
1 Graham Cornes 19911994 89 43 45 1 48.31 [1][2]
2 Robert Shaw 19951996 44 17 27 0 38.64 [3][1]
3 Malcolm Blight 19971999 74 41 33 0 55.41 [1][4]
4 Gary Ayres 20002004 107 55 52 0 51.40 [1][5]
5 Neil Craig 20042011 166 92 74 0 55.42 [6][1]
6 Mark Bickley 2011 6 3 3 0 50.00
7 Brenton Sanderson 20122014 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 20162019 93 56 36 1 60.22 [10]
11 Matthew Nicks 2020–present 107 37 69 1 35.05

AFLW

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Updated to the end of the 2023 season.
# Name Seasons Stats Reference
GC W L D W%
1 Bec Goddard 20172018 15 9 5 1 60.00 [11]
2 Matthew Clarke 2019–present 64 48 16 0 75.00 [12]

Notes

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  1. ^ A running total of the number of Adelaide coaches in each league.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e AFL Statistics, Australian Football League, archived from the original on 13 September 2009, retrieved 7 February 2009
  2. ^ All the Stats • VFL/AFL Coaches - Graham Cornes, AlltheStats.com, retrieved 7 February 2009[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ All the Stats • VFL/AFL Coaches - Robert Shaw, AlltheStats.com, archived from the original on 3 July 2015, retrieved 7 February 2009
  4. ^ All the Stats • VFL/AFL Coaches - Malcolm Blight, AlltheStats.com, retrieved 7 February 2009[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ All the Stats • VFL/AFL Coaches - Gary Ayres, AlltheStats.com, retrieved 7 February 2009[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ All the Stats • VFL/AFL Coaches - Niel Craig, AlltheStats.com, archived from the original on 3 July 2015, retrieved 7 February 2009
  7. ^ Adelaide Crows Sack Coach Brenton Sanderson, The Age, 17 September 2014, retrieved 7 October 2014
  8. ^ Cross-town coach poach, Australian Football League, 7 October 2014, retrieved 7 October 2014
  9. ^ "Camporeale to coach, Worsfold joins nest". Adelaide Football Club. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  10. ^ "Pyke named new Crows coach". Adelaide Crows. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  11. ^ "Bec Goddard". Australian Football. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  12. ^ "Matthew Clarke". Australian Football. Retrieved 29 December 2023.