3 Coaching statistics correct as of round 8, 2024.
Career highlights
Playing
Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee 2017
2x AFL Premiership player (1997, 1998)
5x All-Australian team (2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2009)
Adelaide captain (2008–2010)
Malcolm Blight Medal (2000, 2005, 2006)
Michael Tuck Medal (2006)
AFLCA Champion Player of the Year (2006)
Australia international rules football team (2000, 2001)
Dream Team (Australian rules football) (2008)
Adelaide Team of the Decade - Interchange
Showdown Medal (2005, 2007)
Coaching
AFL premiership coach (2021)
AFLCA Coach of the year (2021)
All-Australian (2021)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
Simon Goodwin (born 26 December 1976) is an Australian rules football coach and former player. He has been the senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club of the Australian Football League (AFL) since 2017.
As a player, Goodwin tallied 275 AFL games, all as a midfielder for the Adelaide Football Club between 1996 and 2010. He won two premierships with the Crows in 1997 and 1998, was a five-time All-Australian, and captained Adelaide for his final three seasons. As coach of Melbourne, Goodwin led the Demons back into the finals in 2018, and in 2021 coached Melbourne to its first premiership victory in 57 years.[1]
Goodwin was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2017.[2][3]
^Twomey, Callum (25 September 2021). "It's a grand NEW flag: Demons finally exorcise 57 years of pain". AFL.com.au. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
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