Simon Goodwin (born 26 December 1976) is a retired Australian rules football player and coach, who played 275 games for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He went on to become the interim senior coach of the Essendon Football Club in 2013 and the senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club between 2017 and 2025, helping lead the club to its first premiership in 57 years in 2021.
Throughout his playing career, Goodwin was a high-achieving midfielder who earnt multiple All-Australian selections and best and fairests. He captained the club for three seasons before retiring at the end of the 2010 season. He won two premierships with the Crows in 1997 and 1998. As coach of Melbourne, Goodwin led the Demons back into the finals in 2018, before coaching the side to premiership success three years later. His tenure as coach ended in August 2025, three weeks out from the end of the season, following successive years in which the club failed to initially win and later qualify for finals.
Goodwin was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2017.
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Date: 26 December 1976
By JAMES P. STERBA Special to The New York Times
James STERBA
Comment on Rupert Murdock's San Antonio Express and News, sensational-type papers, which are in competition with San Antonio Light; Charles O Kilpatrick, editorial publisher of News and Express, and William B Bellamy, publisher of Light, comment; illus
Date: 27 December 1976
correction on Dec 26 photo caption accompanying article about Rupert Murdoch
Date: 26 December 1976
By JOHN F. BURNS Special to The New York Times
John BURNS
NY Times reporter John F Burns comments on incident in which he was detained by police while visiting Mozambique (S)
Date: 26 December 1976
comment on Egyptian and Syrian decision to form 'united pol leadership' (M)
Date: 26 December 1976
Moves from Woodside, NY, to Secaucus, NJ (S)
Date: 26 December 1976
Martin Hauptman, NYC Water Supply Bd chief engineer, says work will probably start first of yr on lining 2 mi of Third Water Tunnel (S)
Date: 27 December 1976
By PHILIP SHABECOFF Special to The New York Times
Philip Special
Pres Ford says 1 of most difficult tasks of his Presidency was achieving 2d Sinai agreement, int on ABC News to be telecast Jan 2 (S)
Date: 27 December 1976
Date: 27 December 1976
Date: 27 December 1976
lr lauds courageous reptg by Johannesburg World