List of Geelong Football Club coaches

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Current coach Chris Scott has held the senior coaching position since the 2011 AFL season.

Since becoming a foundation club of the Victorian Football League (VFL)—which is now known as the

interstate matches or international rules football
matches. The list is arranged in the order in which each coach first coached a game for Geelong in a senior VFL/AFL match.

Key

# Number of coaches
G Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
D Draws
Win% Winning percentage
GF Number of VFL/AFL Grand Final appearances
P Number of
VFL/AFL Premierships
achieved by the coach
* Player-coach
† Caretaker coach
^
Premiership coach
*^
Premiership coach

Coaches

Figures correct as of end of 2023 season.
# Name Seasons G W L D Win% G W L D Win% GF P Awards
All games Finals
1 David Hickinbotham 1910–1911 36 18 16 2 52.78 — — — — — — —
2 Bill Eason* 1912–1913 37 21 16 0 56.76 1 0 1 0 0 — —
3 Billy Orchard 1914 19 11 7 1 60.53 1 0 1 0 0 — —
4 Bert Taylor 1923 17 9 8 0 52.94 1 0 1 0 0 — —
5 Lloyd Hagger 1924 16 8 8 0 50 — — — — — — —
6 Cliff Rankin*^ 1925–1927 57 45 12 0 78.95 1 3 0 4 25 1 1
1925
)
7 Tom Fitzmaurice* 1928 26 6 20 0 23.08 — — — — — — —
8 Arthur Coghlan 1929–1930, 1933–1934 80 49 30 1 61.88 7 3 4 0 42.86 1 0 VFL runners-up (
1930
)
9 Charlie Clymo^ 1931 21 17 4 0 80.95 3 2 1 0 66.67 1 1
1931
)
10 Reg Hickey^ 1932, 1936–1940, 1949–1959 304 183 118 3 60.69 18 9 9 0 50 4 3
1953)
McClelland Trophy (1952, 1954
)
11 Percy Parratt 1935 18 6 11 1 36.11 — — — — — — —
12 Charlie Dibbs* 1936 7 3 4 0 42.82 — — — — — — —
13 Allan Everett 1940 12 7 5 0 58.33 1 0 1 0 0 — —
14 Les Laver† 1940 2 1 1 0 50 — — — — — — —
15 Len Metherell 1941 18 3 15 0 16.67 — — — — — — —
16 Tom Arklay 1944 18 1 17 0 5.56 — — — — — — —
17 Jack Williams 1945 20 2 18 0 10 — — — — — — —
18 Tommy Quinn 1946–1948 57 22 35 0 38.60 — — — — — — —
19 Bob Davis^ 1956–1965 116 72 39 5 64.22 8 3 4 1 43.75 1 1
VFL Night Series Cup (1961
)
20 Neil Trezise† 1963 1 0 1 0 0 — — — — — — —
21 Peter Pianto 1966–1970 105 70 34 1 67.14 7 3 4 0 42.86 1 0 VFL runners-up (
1967
)
22 Bill McMaster 1971–1972 44 12 32 0 27.27 — — — — — — —
23
Graham Farmer
 		1973–1975 66 24 42 0 36.36 — — — — — — —
24 Rodney Olsson 1976–1979 91 45 46 0 49.45 3 1 2 0 33.33 — —
25 Bill Goggin 1980–1982 71 41 30 0 57.75 5 1 4 0 20 — — McClelland Trophy (1980, 1981)
26 Tom Hafey 1983–1985 66 31 35 0 46.97 — — — — — — —
27 John Devine 1986–1988 66 28 37 1 43.18 — — — — — — —
28 Malcolm Blight 1989–1994 145 89 56 0 61.38 15 8 7 0 53.33 3 0
1989, 1992, 1994
)
29 Gary Ayres 1995–1999 116 65 50 1 56.47 6 2 4 0 33.33 1 0 AFL runners-up (1995)
30 Mark Thompson^ 2000–2010 260 161 96 3 62.50 18 11 7 0 61.11 3 2
Pre-season Cup (2006, 2009
)
31 Chris Scott^ 2011–present 309 210 96 3 68.45 28 13 15 0 46.43 3 2
Jock McHale Medal (2011, 2022)
McClelland Trophy (2019, 2022)
AFL runners-up (2020
)

AFL Women's Coaches

Figures correct as of end of 2022 (S7) season.
# Name Seasons G W L D Win% G W L D Win% GF P Awards
All games Finals
1 Paul Hood 2019–2021 23 6 17 0 26.09 1 0 1 0 0.00 — —
2 Daniel Lowther
2022
– 		21 9 12 0 42.86 1 0 1 0 0.00 — —

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