This is a list of people who coached the Fitzroy Football Club in a senior Australian Football League (AFL) game. Playing the sport of Australian rules football, the Fitzroy Football Club was formed in September 1883, and began playing in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) the following season. Originally based at the Brunswick Street Oval, the club won its first VFA premiership in 1895, but quit the league two years later to join the newly formed Victorian Football League (VFL). Fitzroy won consecutive VFL premierships between 1898 and 1899 and between 1904 and 1905. Prior to the 1911 season, there was no official position of coach. Rather, tactics and positioning were formulating by senior players, including club captains, and selectors. Former player Geoff Moriarty was appointed the club's inaugural coach in 1911, but was replaced by Percy Parratt in 1913, who acted as playing coach. Further premierships were won under Parratt in 1913 and George Holden in 1916, with Vic Belcher captain-coaching the club to the 1922 premiership. Up until the end of the Second World War, the position of coach was almost always filled by the current captain or an ex-Fitzroy player. Frank Maher, an ex- player, coached the club in 1932 and 1933, but was followed by several one-season coaches. Fitzroy were extremely unsuccessful at this point in time, and did not make the finals between 1924 and 1943, when captain Fred Hughson was appointed coach. The club's eighth and last VFL premiership came in 1944, under Hughson. A gradual movement towards non-playing coaches came after the Second World War. Bill Stephen, Fitzroy's longest-serving coach, coached the club on three occasions – from 1955 to 1957, 1965 to 1970, and 1979 to 1980 – for a total of 212 games. Fitzroy's last period of success came in the 1980s, with the club making the finals on five occasions between 1979 and 1986. The club merged with the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions at the conclusion of the 1996 season, having gone through three coaches in its final two seasons, finishing last in each.

Coaches # Coach Seasons G W D L W% FG FW FD FL FW% GF P Ref 1911–1912 36 20 0 16 55.56 0 0 Geoff Moriarty coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. * 1913–1915 52 39 1 12 75.96 6 3 0 3 50.00 1 1 Percy Parratt coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. * 1916–1919 54 24 2 28 46.30 6 5 0 1 83.33 2 1 George Holden coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. † 1919 1 50.00 0 0 Ted Melling coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 1920–1921 32 20 2 10 65.63 1 0 0 1 0.00 0 0 * 1922–1927 93 49 2 42 53.76 9 6 0 3 66.67 2 1 Vic Belcher coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 1925 17 12 0 70.59 0 0 Chris Lethbridge coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 1928 18 7 0 11 38.89 0 0 Gordon Rattray coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 1929 0 12.50 0 0 Jimmy Freake coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. † 1929 10 0 20.00 0 0 Doug Ringrose coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 10 1930–1931 36 25 0 11 30.56 0 0 Colin Niven coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 11 1932–1933 36 14 1 21 40.28 0 0 12 1934 0 50.00 0 0 Jack Cashman coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 13 † 1934 16 0 10 37.50 0 0 Len Wigraft coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 14 1935 18 1 47.22 0 0 Percy Rowe coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 15 1936 18 2 0 16 11.11 0 0 Haydn Bunton coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 1937–1939 54 18 1 35 34.26 0 0 16 1940–1942 51 25 0 26 49.02 0 0 Dan Minogue coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 17 * 1943–1947 96 60 2 34 63.54 6 4 0 2 66.67 1 1 Fred Hughson coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 18 † 1945 0 0 0.00 0 0 Norm Hilard coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 19 1948 19 0 10 47.37 0 0 Charles Cameron coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 20 1949–1951 55 30 2 23 56.36 0 0 Norm Smith coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 21 1952–1954 57 28 1 28 50.00 2 1 0 1 50.00 0 0 Alan Ruthven coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 22 1955–1957 19 0 35.85 0 0 Bill Stephen coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 23 † 1956 0 0 0.00 0 0 Frank Curcio coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 24 1958–1962 92 50 2 40 55.43 3 0 0 3 0.00 0 0 Len Smith coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 25 † 1961 0 0 0 0 Arthur Edwards coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 26 1963–1964 34 0 0 34 0.00 0 0 Kevin Murray coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 27 † 1963 0 0 0 0 Wally Clark coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 28 † 1964 0 0 0.00 0 0 Tommy Williams coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 1965–1970 29 0 25.22 0 0 29 † 1968 0 0 0.00 0 0 Ray Slocum coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 30 1971–1974 85 34 1 50 40.59 0 0 Graham Donaldson coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 31 † 1974 3 0 3 00.00 0 0 Graham Campbell coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 32 1975–1977 66 22 0 44 33.33 0 0 Kevin Rose coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 1978 22 0 14 36.36 0 0 1979–1980 19 1 44.32 2 1 0 1 50.00 0 0 33 1981–1985 60 1 54 52.61 5 1 0 4 20.00 0 0 Robert Walls coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 34 1986–1988 69 30 0 39 43.48 3 2 0 1 66.67 0 0 David Parkin coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 35 1989–1990 44 19 0 25 43.18 0 0 Rod Austin coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 36 1991–1994 86 28 0 58 32.56 0 0 Robert Shaw coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 37 1995 19 0 17 10.53 0 0 Bernie Quinlan coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 38 † 1995 3 0 0 3 0.00 0 0 Alan McConnell coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. 39 1996 14 0 13 0 0 Michael Nunan coaching statistics – AFLTables. Retrieved 23 April 2012. † 1996 8 0 0 8 0.00 0 0

Key #NumberGTotal games coachedFGFinals games coachedWTotal winsFWFinals winsLTotal lossesFLFinals lossesDTotal drawsFDFinals drawsW%Overall winning percentageFW%Finals winning percentageGFGrand Final appearancesPPremierships† Caretaker coach* Premiership coach

See also List of Brisbane Bears coaches

List of Brisbane Lions coaches

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