List of Essendon Football Club coaches

The following is a list of coaches who have coached the Essendon Football Club at a game of Australian rules football in the Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the VFL.[1] Key:

C = Coached
W = Won
L = Lost
D = Drew
* = Caretaker coach

Statistics current to the end of round 11, 2024.

No. Coach C W L D Career Span
1 Dave Smith 39 26 13 0 1908–1909
2 Allan Belcher 19 12 7 0 1910
3 Jack Worrall 243 156 85 2 1911–1915, 1918–1920
4 Percy Ogden 20 3 15 2 1920–1921
5 Sid Barker 43 31 11 1 1922–1924
6 Sam Gravenall 12 7 4 1 1922
7 Frank Maher 56 32 23 1 1925–1927
8 Charlie Hardy 54 30 23 1 1928–1930
9 Garnet Campbell 54 22 32 0 1931–1933
10 Charlie May 36 12 24 0 1934–1935
11 Jack Baggott 60 22 38 0 1936–1939
12 Dick Reynolds 415 275 134 6 1939–1960
13 Harry Hunter 2 2 0 0 1939
14 Les Griggs* 1 0 1 0 1941
15 Elton Plummer* 7 4 2 1 1944
16 Cec Ruddell* 2 0 2 0 1945–1946
17 Alan Thaw* 1 1 0 0 1959
18 John Coleman 133 90 40 3 1961–1967
19 Greg Sewell* 1 1 0 0 1965
20 Jack Clarke 65 33 30 2 1968–1970
21 John Birt 22 4 17 1 1971
22 Des Tuddenham 90 47 43 0 1972–1975
23 Bill Stephen 44 16 27 1 1976–1977
24 Barry Davis 67 30 36 1 1978–1980
25 Kevin Sheedy 634 386 242 4 1981–2007
26 Gary O'Donnell* 1 0 0 1 2006
27 Matthew Knights 67 25 41 1 2008–2010
28 James Hird 85 41 43 1 2011–2013; 2015
29 Simon Goodwin* 1 0 1 0 2013
30 Mark Thompson 23 12 10 1 2014
31 Matthew Egan* 3 1 2 0 2015
32 John Worsfold 107 45 61 1 2016–2020
33 Ben Rutten 44 17 27 0 2021–2022
34 Brad Scott 34 19 14 1 2023-Present

References

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  1. ^ "AFL Tables – Essendon – Coaches". AFL Tables. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
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