The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team from Perth, Western Australia. It was founded in 1986, and had its first season in the Victorian Football League (VFL) the following year. The VFL was renamed the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990 due to it being a national competition. [1] [2] Since entering the AFL, the West Coast Eagles have had six senior coaches, as well as Jaymie Graham, who filled in for Adam Simpson for one game. [3] [4]
In 2019, the West Coast Eagles joined the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) for the first time. They were forced to withdraw from that league in 2020 due to the AFL creating a rule that AFL-listed players cannot play in any state-based leagues, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] West Coast have since rejoined the WAFL in 2021. [6] West Coast's WAFL team has had two senior coaches.
In 2020, the West Coast Eagles joined the AFL Women's. [7] West Coast's AFLW team has had three senior coaches.
To qualify for this list, a coach must have coached the club in any regular season match or finals match. Pre-season matches, exhibition matches and other types of matches are not included.
GC | Total games coached | ||
W | Wins | ||
L | Losses | ||
D | Draws | ||
W% | Winning percentage | ||
† | Acting/caretaker coach | ||
* | Premiership coach |
# | Name | Years | All games | Finals | Achievements | ||||||||
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GC | W | L | D | W% | GC | W | L | D | W% | ||||
1 | Ron Alexander | 1987 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 50.00 | — | — | — | — | — | |
2 | John Todd | 1988– 1989 | 45 | 20 | 25 | 0 | 44.44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | |
3 | Mick Malthouse* | 1990– 1999 | 243 | 156 | 85 | 2 | 64.20 | 25 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 50.00 |
1991 minor premiers
1991 runners up |
4 | Ken Judge | 2000– 2001 | 44 | 12 | 31 | 1 | 27.27 | — | — | — | — | — | |
5 | John Worsfold* | 2002– 2013 | 281 | 149 | 130 | 2 | 53.02 | 17 | 7 | 10 | — | 41.18 |
2005 runners up 2006 minor premiers |
6 | Adam Simpson* | 2014– | 231 | 120 | 110 | 1 | 52.16 | 12 | 7 | 5 | — | 58.33 |
2015 runners up 2018 premiers |
† | Jaymie Graham† | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | — | — | — | — | — |
# | Name | Years | All games | Finals | Achievements | |||||||
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GC | W | L | D | W% | GC | W | L | W% | ||||
1 | Luke Webster | 2019 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 50.00 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.00 | |
2 | Daniel Pratt | 2021– 2023 | 54 | 5 | 48 | 1 | 9.26 | — | — | — | — | |
3 | Kyal Horsley | 2024 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33 | — | — | — | — |
# | Name | Years | All games | Finals | Achievements | Ref | |||||||
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GC | W | L | D | W% | GC | W | L | W% | |||||
1 | Luke Dwyer | 2020 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 16.67 | — | — | — | — | [8] | |
2 | Daniel Pratt | 2021 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.22 | — | — | — | — | [9] | |
3 | Michael Prior | 2022– 2023 | 28 | 5 | 23 | 0 | 17.86 | — | — | — | — | [10] | |
4 | Rohan McHugh | 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | — | — | — | — | ||
5 | Daisy Pearce | 2024 – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |