The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team from Perth, Western Australia. It was founded in 1986, and had its first season in the Victorian Football League (VFL) the following year. The VFL was renamed the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990 due to it being a national competition. Since entering the AFL, the West Coast Eagles have had seven senior coaches, as well as Jaymie Graham, who filled in for Adam Simpson for one game, and Jarrad Schofield, who was caretaker coach for the rest of the season (7 rounds) after Adam Simpson was sacked during the 2024 AFL season. As of the 30th of September 2024, Andrew McQualter is the new coach, making him the 7th official coach in the Club's history.
In 2019, the West Coast Eagles joined the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) for the first time. They were forced to withdraw from that league in 2020 due to the AFL creating a rule that AFL-listed players cannot play in any state-based leagues, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. West Coast have since rejoined the WAFL in 2021. West Coast's WAFL team has had two senior coaches.
In 2020, the West Coast Eagles joined the AFL Women's. West Coast's AFLW team has had four senior coaches, with the current coach Daisy Pearce.
To qualify for this list, a coach must have coached the club in any regular season match or finals match. Pre-season matches, exhibition matches and other types of matches are not included.
Key GCTotal games coached W Wins L Losses D Draws W% Winning percentage* Premiership coach
VFL/AFL Note: Statistics are correct as to the completion of the 2026 AFL season
#CoachSeasonsTotal gamesFinals gamesAchievements G W L D Win% G W L Win% Ron Alexander 1987 22 11 11 0 50.0 — — — — John Todd 1988—1989 45 20 25 0 44.4 1 0 1 0.00 Mick Malthouse 1990—199924315685264.225121250.00 1991 minor premiership 1991 runners-up 1992 premiership 1994 minor premiership 1994 premiership Ken Judge 2000—2001441231127.3———— John Worsfold 2002—2013281149130253.01771041.18 2005 runners-up 2005 WA Coach of the Year 2006 minor premiership 2006 premiership 2006 AFL Coach of the Year 2011 AFL Coach of the Year 6 Adam Simpson 2014—2024242122119150.6127558.33 2015 runners-up 2018 premiership 2018 WA Coach of the Year7Andrew McQualter2025—41541010.9————
Acting/caretaker coaches #CoachSeasonsTotal gamesFinals games G W L D Win% G W L Win% Jaymie Graham 2018 1 1 0 0 100 — — — —2Jarrad Schofield2024725028.6————
WAFL Note: Statistics are correct as to the completion of the 2025 WAFL season
#NameYearsAll gamesFinalsAchievements 2019 20 10 10 0 50.0 2 1 1 50.00 2021–2023 54 5 48 1 9.3 3Kyal Horsley2024–551639029.1
AFL Women's Note: Statistics are correct as to Round 3 of the 2026 AFLW season
#NameYearsAll gamesFinalsAchievementsRef 2020 6 1 5 0 16.7 2021 9 2 7 0 22.2 3 2022–202328523017.9 4 2024-311317041.9110.00
Acting/caretaker coaches #NameYearsAll gamesFinalsAchievementsRef 1 Rohan McHugh 2023 2 0 2 0 0.0
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