List of Fitzroy Football Club coaches
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The following is a list of coaches who have coached the Fitzroy Football Club
Fitzroy Football Club
The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...

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No. Coach P W L D W% Years
1 Geoff Moriarty
Geoff Moriarty
Geoff Moriarty was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy from the inaugural VFL season in 1897.The father of Fitzroy full-forward Jack Moriarty, Geoff played at the opposite end of the ground and was a premiership winning fullback with the Maroons...

36 20 16 0 55.56 1911–12
2 Percy Parratt
Percy Parratt
Percy Parratt was an Australian rules footballer. He played 195 games for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League from 1909 to 1923, kicking 202 goals.He started out at Rose of Northcote.After leaving the club he became coach...

91 62 26 3 69.78 1913–15, 1920–21
3 George Holden
George Holden
George Holden was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League ....

54 24 28 2 46.30 1916–19
4 Ted Melling
Ted Melling
Ted Melling was an Australian rules football coach who coached Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League .When the incumbent captain-coach, George Holden, injured his knee at the start of the 1919 VFL season, he was restricted to being an off-field coach and after seven games he was replaced by...

9 4 4 1 50.00 1919
5 Vic Belcher
Vic Belcher
Vic Belcher was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Belcher was a tireless ruckman for the South Melbourne Football Club who could also play in a key position...

93 49 42 2 53.76 1922–24, 1926–27
6 Chris Lethbridge
Chris Lethbridge
Chris Lethbridge was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL.Lethbridge was originally from New South Wales and played in defence for Fitzroy. He made his debut in 1913 and was a member of their premiership side that year...

17 12 5 0 70.59 1925
7 Gordon Rattray
Gordon Rattray
Gordon Kitchener Rattray was an Australian rules footballer who played with and coached Fitzroy in the VFL.The son of Bruce Rattray , Gordon Kitchener Rattray was born on born 19 October 1898 at Shepparton...

72 25 46 1 35.42 1928, 1937–39
8 Doug Ringrose
Doug Ringrose
Doug Ringrose was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League during the 1920s....

10 2 8 0 20.00 1929
9 Jimmy Freake
Jimmy Freake
James Henry "Jimmy" Freake was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League...

8 1 7 0 12.50 1929
10 Colin Niven
Colin Niven
Colin Niven was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League ....

36 11 25 0 30.56 1930–31
11 Frank Maher
Frank Maher (footballer)
Frank H. Maher , is a former Australian footballer, and coach in the Victorian Football League.He served in the army in World War I from 1916 to 1919, and was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry for his actions in France on 19 May 1918.He only began playing football when serving overseas with...

36 14 21 1 40.28 1932–33
12 Len Wigraft
Len Wigraft
Len Wigraft was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.Wigraft usually played as a follower and won a premiership with Fitzroy in 1922...

16 6 10 0 37.50 1934
13 Jack Cashman
Jack Cashman
Jack Cashman was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and Carlton in the Victorian Football League .Cashman was used during his career mostly as a ruckman and forward...

2 1 1 0 50.00 1934
14 Percy Rowe
Percy Rowe
Percy Rowe is a former player and coach in the Victorian Football League.Rowe was the coach of the Fitzroy Football Club in 1935 and the Carlton Football Club for only the 1937 season before he was replaced by captain-coach Brighton Diggins. He is the father of Des Rowe, who captained...

18 8 9 1 47.22 1935
15 Haydn Bunton, Sr 18 2 16 0 11.11 1936
16 Dan Minogue
Dan Minogue
Daniel 'Dan' Minogue was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Minogue was considered a courageous, or perhaps reckless, centre half-back as epitomised when he sustained a broken collarbone playing for Collingwood Football Club in the first minute of the 1911 Grand Final...

51 25 26 0 49.02 1940–42
17 Fred Hughson
Fred Hughson
Fred Hughson was an Australian rules footballer who played for, captained, and later coached Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League...

96 60 34 2 63.54 1943–47
18 Norm Hillard
Norm Hillard
Norm Hillard was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League ....

1 0 1 0 0.00 1945
19 Charlie Cameron 19 9 10 0 47.37 1948
20 Norm Smith
Norm Smith
Norman Walter "Norm" Smith was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League. After 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smith began a twenty year coaching career, including a fifteen year stint at Melbourne...

55 30 23 2 56.36 1949–51
21 Allan Ruthven
Allan Ruthven
Allan Ruthven was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. He played his entire 222 game career with Fitzroy. In 1950, Ruthven won the prestigious Brownlow medal.- Playing career :...

57 28 28 1 50.00 1952–54
22 Bill Stephen
Bill Stephen
Bill Stephen was a former Australian rules footballer with Fitzroy Football Club. He also coached Fitzroy and Essendon.- Fitzroy career :...

214 68 145 1 32.01 1955–57, 1965–70, 1979–80
23 Frank Curcio
Frank Curcio
Francis 'Frank' Eduardo Curcio was an Australian rules footballer who played his entire 249 game career for the Fitzroy Lions in the Victorian Football League...

1 0 1 0 0.00 1956
24 Len Smith
Len Smith (footballer)
Like his younger brother, the legendary Norm Smith, it is as a coach that Len is best remembered. During his first stint as a coach, of the Fitzroy Under 19s , he guided the side to the 1955 Premiership. His first senior coaching role was with Fitzroy, taking them to the finals in 1958 and 1960...

92 50 40 2 55.43 1958–62
25 Arthur Edwards
Arthur A. Edwards
Arthur Arthur "Titch" Edwards was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League ....

1 1 0 0 100.00 1961
26 Kevin Murray 34 0 34 0 0.00 1963–64
27 Wally Clark
Wally Clark (footballer)
Wally Clark was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League .Clark, who was at Fitzroy from underage level, played as a rover...

1 1 0 0 100.00 1963
28 Tommy Williams
Tommy Williams (Australian footballer)
Tommy Williams was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League ....

1 0 1 0 0.00 1964
29 Ray Slocum
Ray Slocum
Ray Slocum was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League .Recruited locally, Slocum developed into a wingman after being used initially as a rover and at half forward. After retiring he became coach of the Fitzroy reserves and filled in as senior coach...

1 0 1 0 0.00 1968
30 Graham Donaldson
Graham Donaldson
Graham Donaldson is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Donaldson made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in the Round 4 of the 1955 season. He announced his retirement from the game after the 1962 season.-External links:*, Blueseum*...

85 34 50 1 40.59 1971–74
31 Graham Campbell
Graham Campbell
Graham Campbell was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL during the late 1950 and early 1960s....

25 8 17 0 32.00 1974, 1978
32 Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose (Australian rules footballer)
Kevin Rose is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the VFL. He was one of four brothers who played for Collingwood with the most famous being his older brother Bob Rose....

66 22 44 0 33.33 1975–77
33 Robert Walls
Robert Walls
Robert Walls is a former Australian rules footballer and coach who now works primarily as a television commentator and newspaper columnist on the sport. On 22 June 2006 he was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.- Carlton :...

115 60 54 1 52.61 1981–85
34 David Parkin
David Parkin
David Parkin is a former Australian rules footballer and four-time premiership coach.- Pre-football career :He attended Melbourne High School and during his time there, was the school vice-captain and captain of football....

69 30 39 0 43.48 1986–88
35 Rod Austin
Rod Austin
Rod Austin is a former Australian rules footballer who played as a defender for the Carlton Blues from 1972 until 1985....

44 19 25 0 43.18 1989–90
36 Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw (footballer)
Robert Shaw is a former Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club and coach in the VFL/AFL with the Fitzroy and Adelaide Football Clubs...

86 28 58 0 32.56 1991–94
37 Bernie Quinlan
Bernie Quinlan
Bernie Quinlan , was a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who enjoyed a lengthy career with Footscray and Fitzroy in the VFL. He played 366 league games in total.- Playing career :...

19 2 17 0 10.53 1995
38 Alan McConnell
Alan McConnell
Alan McConnell is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the VFL during the early 1980s and later coached Fitzroy....

11 0 11 0 0.00 1995–96
39 Michael Nunan
Michael Nunan
Michael 'Mick' Nunan is a former Australian rules football player who played one match in the VFL for the Richmond Football Club in 1971. He was senior coach of the Fitzroy Football Club in 1996, their final year prior to merging with the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions.Nunan was best...

14 1 13 0 7.14 1996


Key:
P = Played
W = Won
L = Lost
D = Drew
W% = Win percentage

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