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Bruce Greenhill (26 July 1946 – 6 February 2014) was a former
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played with Footscray in the
Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL). Greenhill became an established footballer in the
Tasmanian Football League The Tasmanian State League (TSL), colloquially known as the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), was the highest-level Australian rules football competition in the state of Tasmania. It disbanded following the end of the 2024 TSL season, 2024 season ...
with Sandy Bay and Hobart during the 1970s and early 1980s, playing in numerous premierships with both clubs before retiring as a player following the 1981 season and becoming senior coach of
Hobart Football Club Hobart Football Club (nicknamed The Tigers) is an Australian rules football club based in Hobart, Tasmania. The club play their home fixtures at the TCA Ground on the Queens Domain, in Hobart and is a member of the Southern Football League. ...
in 1982 and 1983. Following his retirement as coach, Greenhill became a radio and television commentator for ABC-Television and Radio's TFL match broadcasts which he did until the end of the 1997 season. Greenhill later became head of
AFL Tasmania AFL Tasmania is the Australian Football League (AFL) subsidiary in Tasmania and its Sport governing body, governing body for Australian rules football in Tasmania. The organisation is responsible for AFL-linked Australian rules football developme ...
for a brief time in the late 1990s before retiring to Queensland in the early 2000s where he remained until he died from brain cancer in 2014.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenhill, Bruce 1946 births 2014 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Western Bulldogs players Sandy Bay Football Club players Hobart Football Club players Hobart Football Club coaches