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 |
# | 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 |
# | 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] |
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Mark Alan Bickley is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Bickley was a player for the Crows from 1991 until 2003, captaining the team to both the 1997 and 1998 AFL premierships. He was a media commentator, most notably with Channel 9 in Adelaide as their sports presenter. In 2011 he had a brief coaching career as caretaker coach of the Crows after the retirement of Neil Craig.
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