| John Natale | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Hartford Hawks |
| Current Conference: | America East Conference |
| Birth Place: | Wethersfield, Connecticut |
| Alma Mater: | Eastern Connecticut State University |
| Coach Years1: | 2000 |
| Coach Team1: | Hartford (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 2003 |
| Coach Team2: | Boston Breakers (assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 2004–present |
| Coach Team3: | Hartford |
| Coach Years4: | 2011–2012 |
| Coach Team4: | United States (women; scout/video analyst) |
| Overall Record: | 137-103-43 |
| Championships: | America East Tournament (2006) 5× America East regular season (2006, 2014-2016, 2018) |
| Awards: | Connecticut Soccer Hall of Fame (2015) |
John Natale is an American soccer coach, and current head coach for the Hartford Hawks women's soccer team. Before becoming the head coach at Hartford, Natale was an assistant for the Boston Breakers, and an assistant at Hartford in 2000.
Natale served as an assistant at Hartford during the 2000 season, where the team posted a 17–4 record, losing to Harvard in the second round of the NCAA tournament. In his third season at Hartford, Natale led the team to a 10–9–2 record and a berth in the NCAA tournament. At Hartford he has won one conference tournament and five regular season championships.[1] In 2015 Natale was inducted into the Connecticut Soccer coaches Hall of Fame.[2]
In 2011, Natale served as a scout for the United States women's national team under head coach Pia Sundhage at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. A year later, he again rejoined the staff as a video analysis coach for the team at the Olympic football tournament.[3]
†NCAA canceled 2020 collegiate activities due to the COVID-19 virus.