List of Fremantle Football Club coaches

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Since becoming a member of the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1995, there have been six permanent senior coaches of the Fremantle Football Club men's team, and three of the women's team. There have also been three caretaker coaches, who coached for short periods after the permanent coach was sacked or unavailable.

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The Fremantle Women's football team has played in the AFL Women's league since its inauguration in 2017. Michelle Cowan was the inaugural coach, before her resignation in April 2017. Trent Cooper coached the team from the 2019 AFL Women's season [1] until he was replaced by former player Lisa Webb in 2023.

AFL

Statistics current to completion of the 2025 AFL season [2]

Men's team
#CoachSeasonsTotal gamesFinals gamesAchievements
GWLDWin%GWLWin%
1 Gerard Neesham 19951998 883256036.4
2 Damian Drum 19992001 [a] 531340024.5
3 Chris Connolly 20022007 [b] 1296762051.941325.0
4 Mark Harvey 2007 [b] 2011 [c] 973958040.221150.0
5 Ross Lyon 20122019 [d] 1849687152.494544.4
  • 2013 Runners-up
  • 2015 Minor Premiers
6 Justin Longmuir 20201316960245.831233.3

Acting/Acting/Caretaker coaches

#CoachSeasonsTotal gamesFinals games
GWLDWin%GWLWin%
1 Ben Allan 2001 [a] 13211018.2
2 David Hale 2019 [d] 10100.0
3 Jaymie Graham 2022 [e] 2200100.0

AFLW

Statistics current to round 4 of the 2025 AFLW season

Women's team
#CoachSeasonsTotal gamesFinals gamesAchievements
GWLDWin%GWLWin%
1 Michelle Cowan 20172018 1449132.1
2 Trent Cooper 20192022 (S7) 473016164.952340.0
3 Lisa Webb 2023271413051.921150.0

Key

#Number of coaches
GGames coached
WWins
LLosses
DDraws
Win% Winning percentage
Caretaker coach

Notes

References

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Specific
  1. "AFLW: Trent Cooper named as Michelle Cowan's successor at Fremantle". www.foxsports.com.au. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  2. "Fremantle Coaches Win–loss records".
  3. "The Main Players". Football Record (Round 14): 28. 2001.
  4. "Fremantle coach Connolly resigns". AFL BigPond Network. 19 July 2007. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  5. "Harvey named as Fremantle coach". foxsports.com.au. 17 September 2007. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  6. Porter, Barney (16 September 2011). "A tale of two coaches". The World Today.
  7. "Hale Freo's seventh senior coach". PerthNow. 20 August 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  8. "Dockers coach to MISS crunch derby with ex-Eagles boss to step in". Fox Sports. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.