List of Adelaide Football Club coaches explained

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[1]
GCGames coached
WWins
LLosses
DDraws
Win%Winning percentage

AFL

Updated to the end of the 2023 season.

NameSeasonsStatsReference
GC W L D W%
119911994894345148.31
219951996441727038.64
319971999744133055.41
4200020041075552051.40
5200420111669274055.42
62011633050.00
720122014693930056.52
820151275058.33
920151174063.64[2]
1020162019935636160.22[3]
112020–present842955034.52

AFLW

Updated to the end of the 2023 season.

NameSeasonsStatsReference
GC W L D W%
1201720181595160.00[4]
22019–present644816075.00[5]

Notes

  1. A running total of the number of Adelaide coaches in each league.
  2. Web site: Camporeale to coach, Worsfold joins nest. Adelaide Football Club. 6 July 2015. 3 April 2019.
  3. Web site: Pyke named new Crows coach. 9 October 2015. Adelaide Crows. 3 April 2019.
  4. Web site: Bec Goddard. Australian Football. 29 December 2023.
  5. Web site: Matthew Clarke. Australian Football. 29 December 2023.