List of South Fremantle Football Club coaches

There have been 43 coaches in the 116-year history of the South Fremantle Football Club, a West Australian Football League (WAFL) club.

The longest serving coach is Clive Lewington who coached the club for 11 seasons, winning the premiership four times. John Todd (one premiership), Mal Brown (one premiership), John Dimmer (two premierships) and Joe Coates (two premierships) each coached the team in eight seasons.

Coaches

Order	Coach	Seasons	Games	Comments
1	Leckie, JackJack Leckie	1911		Captain-coach, former captain of Perth[1]
2	Banks, BertBert Banks	1912		Previously captain in 1909[2]
3	Coates, JoeJoe Coates	1913-20		1916 & 1917 premiership coach, South Fremantle Hall of Fame member
4	Cain, TomTom Cain	1921, 27
5	Craig, BillyBilly Craig	1922
6	McGilvray, BillBill McGilvray	1923
7	Youlden, PercyPercy Youlden	1924		Part year
8	Bell, TomTom Bell	1924		Part year, previously played for Essendon
9	Sullivan, TomTom Sullivan	1925		Part year
10	Heinrichs, DolphDolph Heinrichs	1925		Part year,[3] numerous spellings of his surname exist
11	Sunderland, JerryJerry Sunderland	1926, 28		[4]
12	McIntosh, NormNorm McIntosh	1929, 33	38
13	Hebbard, PaddyPaddy Hebbard	1930-31	19	[5]
14	Doig, RonRon Doig	1932		Doig died from injuries sustained during the 1932 first semi-final, South Fremantle Hall of Fame member
15	Edgar, RonRon Edgar	1934-35		[6]
16	Jones, JackJack Jones	1936-37		Ron Cooper was appointed as playing coach,[7] but returned to the Eastern States before the season started.[8] Also played for East Fremantle and first class cricket for WA.[9]
17	Chandler, BertBert Chandler	1938-39
18	Shea, KeithKeith Shea	1940
19	Bowe, JohnJohn Bowe	1941
20	Poole, RoyRoy Poole	1942		Underage competition
21	Smith, DonDon Smith	1943		Underage competition
22	Davey, BillBill Davey[10]	1944		Underage competition, listed as A Davies in SFFC yearbook
23	Lewington, NeilNeil Lewington	1945-46		Capt-coach in 1945, non playing in 1946, resigned mid-year, South Fremantle Hall of Fame member[11]
24	Ditchburn, JimJim Ditchburn	1946		Appointed mid-year following Lewington's resignation[12]
25	Hutchinson, RossRoss Hutchinson	1947-49	62	1947, 1948 premiership coach, West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee
26	Lewington, CliveClive Lewington	1950-58	201	1950, 1952, 1953, 1954 premiership coach, South Fremantle and West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee
27	Todd, JohnJohn Todd	1959, 66-68, 95-98	172	1997 premiership coach, South Fremantle, West Australian and Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee
28	McDonnell, MartyMarty McDonnell	1960-63	86
29	Sorrell, RayRay Sorrell	1964-65	42	West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee
30	Mann, HassaHassa Mann	1969-71	65	1970 premiership coach, Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee
31	Atwell, MalMal Atwell	1972-73	42	West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee
32	Beard, ColinColin Beard	1974-76	70
33	Johnson, PercyPercy Johnson	1977	23	West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee
34	Brown, MalMal Brown	1978-84, 92	189	1980 premiership coach, West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee
35	Haddow, DonDon Haddow	1985-86	42
36	Magro, StanStan Magro	1987-90	89
37	Hargrave, SteveSteve Hargrave	1991	21
38	Watson, MarkMark Watson	1993-94	43
39	Micale, TonyTony Micale	1999	22
40	Sumich, PeterPeter Sumich	2000-01	39
41	Northey, JohnJohn Northey	2002-03	38
42	Dimmer, JohnJohn Dimmer	2004-11	151	2005, 2009 premiership coach
43	Hasleby, PaulPaul Hasleby	2012-14	60
44	Curley, ToddTodd Curley	2015-		Appointed in October 2014[13]
source: South Fremantle Football Club 2013 Yearbook, page 51; Games coached

References

1. Errington, Steve (2013). Southerners Forever More. p. 31.
2. Errington, Steve (2013). Southerners Forever More. p. 33.
3. "Next Saturday's Games". Western Mail. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 4 June 1925. p. 26. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
4. "South Fremantle". Westralian Worker. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 23 April 1926. p. 8. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
5. "Football Coach: Hebbard for South. Surprise Selection". Daily News. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 25 March 1930. p. 2. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
6. "Football. Edgar to Coach South Fremantle.". The West Australian. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 17 March 1934. p. 13. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
7. "South Fremantle Keen. Ron Cooper Takes Charge.". The West Australian. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 18 March 1936. p. 9. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
8. "South Fremantle Coach. J Jones Appointed". The West Australian. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 12 May 1936. p. 9. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
9. "Football Coach Marries". The Daily News. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 4 July 1936. p. 4 Edition: GOLDFIELDS EDITION. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
10. "Watersider As Football Coach". The Daily News. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 28 March 1944. p. 4 Edition: CITY FINAL. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
11. "Football. South Fremantle's Coach". The West Australian. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 5 February 1946. p. 8. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
12. "League Football. A New Coach". The West Australian. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 14 June 1946. p. 5. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
13. Hagdorn, Kim (20 August 2014). "Former Fremantle assistant Todd Curley set to take head coaching job at WAFL club South Fremantle". PerthNow.