3 Coaching statistics correct as of round 5, 2024.
Career highlights
Playing
2× AFL premiership player: 2000, 2004
W. S. Crichton Medal: 1998
All-Australian team: 2000
Coaching
AFLCA Coach of the Year: 2017
3× AFL premiership coach: 2017, 2019, 2020
3× All-Australian Team: 2017, 2019, 2020
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
Damien Patrick Hardwick (born 18 August 1972) is a current Australian rules football coach and former player who is the head coach of the Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League.[1] He is the former senior coach of the Richmond Football Club, serving in the role between 2010 and mid-2023 inclusive and winning three premierships.[2]
Hardwick played 207 AFL games as a defender, comprising 153 games for Essendon (1993–2001) and 54 games for Port Adelaide (2002–2004). He won premierships with each club, in 2000 and 2004 respectively.
Hardwick was appointed head coach of Richmond at the end of the 2009 season, in which the club had placed second-last. In 2013, Hardwick's fourth season in charge, Richmond returned to the finals after an eleven-year absence, and in 2017 they defeated Adelaide in the Grand Final to claim their first premiership since 1980. Hardwick also coached Richmond to the 2019 and 2020 premierships and is the longest-tenured coach in the club's history.
^SUNS Media (21 August 2023). "Damien Hardwick joins the Gold Coast SUNS". Gold Coast Suns. Australian Football League. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
^"Staff Members". Richmond Football Club. 2014. Archived from the original on 7 May 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
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telecast. Richardson also presented the trophy to Trent Cotchin and DamienHardwick during the on-field award ceremony. Richmond's Connor Menadue won the...
first ever coach. Hafey also presented the trophy to Trent Cotchin and DamienHardwick during the on-field award ceremony. The opening term of the grand final...
as the caretaker senior coach at the Richmond Football Club, since DamienHardwick stepped down in May 2023. McQualter was raised in Traralgon, Victoria...
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from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017. "DamienHardwick wins Coach of the Season". The Indian Sun. 27 September 2017. Archived...
to be returned to the match. Riewoldt earned criticism from coach DamienHardwick in April, told he needed to change his on-field demeanour after being...
won the pre-game coin toss. Cotchin was defended publicly by coach DamienHardwick despite Port Adelaide kicking seven goals in the first seventeen minutes...
under his wing this season has been really special.” In April, coach DamienHardwick said a midfield role lay in Rioli's future, once the young forward...
2014, Rutten became an assistant coach at Richmond under senior coach DamienHardwick, serving as the club's defence coach. Rutten was also part of the coaching...
one percenters and earned particular praise from Richmond head coach DamienHardwick who labelled Grimes "an incredible player". At the end of the home...
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incredible story. Hard to believe it happened, really. Richmond coach DamienHardwick speaking to Australian Story about Pickett's goal on debut in the 2019...
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