List of Adelaide Football Club coaches

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The Adelaide Football Club is an AFL club based in Adelaide, South Australia. It has been in the AFL since 1991, and (as of 2021) has had 11 different coaches.

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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]
GCGames coached
WWins
LLosses
DDraws
Win% Winning percentage

Coaches

Note: As of Round 1, 2022.
#NameSeasonsStatsReference
GCWLDW%
1 Graham Cornes 1991 – 1994 894345149.42 [1] [2]
2 Robert Shaw 1995 – 1996 441727038.64 [3] [1]
3 Malcolm Blight 1997 – 1999 744133055.40 [1] [4]
4 Gary Ayres 2000 – 2004 1075552052.48 [1] [5]
5 Neil Craig 2004–2011 1669274055.42 [6] [1]
6 Mark Bickley 2011 633050.00
7 Brenton Sanderson 2012–2014 693930056.52 [7]
8 Phil Walsh 2015 1275058.00% [8]
9 Scott Camporeale 2015 1174063.63% [9]
10 Don Pyke 2016–2019895533161.80% [10]
11 Matthew Nicks 2020–present391029025.64%

Notes

  1. ↑ A running total of the number of Adelaide coaches.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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 , 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.
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