List of Adelaide Football Club coaches

Neil Craig coached a record 166 games for the Crows.

Don Pyke coached the Crows to a Grand Final.

Matthew Nicks has been Adelaide's coach since 2020.

Matthew Clarke has won two premierships with Adelaide's women's team.

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. In 2022, coach Matthew Nicks missed a match due to COVID-19, and Scott Burns replaced Nicks for the match.

#	Number of coaches [N 1]
GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
D	Draws
Win%	Winning percentage

AFL

Updated to the end of the 2024 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	107	37	69	1	35.05
12	Scott Burns	2022	1	0	1	0	0.00	[11]

AFLW

Updated to the end of the 2024 season.

#	Name	Seasons	Stats					Reference
			GC	W	L	D	W%
1	Bec Goddard	2017–2018	15	9	5	1	60.00	[12]
2	Matthew Clarke	2019–present	78	57	21	0	73.08	[13]

Notes

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

References

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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
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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. "Crows coach Nicks to miss Blues clash, Burns takes hot seat". afl.com.au. 5 May 2022.
12. "Bec Goddard". Australian Football. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
13. "Matthew Clarke". Australian Football. Retrieved 30 December 2024.