Joshua Carr (born 29 April 1980) is 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 for the

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and

Fremantle Football Club The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers or colloquially Freo, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represen ...

in the

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(AFL). He was drafted by the

in the 1998 AFL Draft and made his debut for the club in 2000. After playing in the Power's 2004 premiership side, he returned to Western Australia in 2005 to play for the

, where he played alongside his elder brother Matthew Carr for four seasons. He returned to Port Adelaide in 2009 and played a further two seasons before retiring at the end of the 2010 season. After his retirement, Carr continued on with the Power as an assistant coach between 2011 and 2015. He then coached SANFL club from 2016 to 2019, leading the club to the SANFL premiership in

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. In October 2019, he re-joined Fremantle as an assistant coach for the 2020 season. Carr returned to Port Adelaide as the assistant coach for the 2023 season.

AFL career

Port Adelaide career (1999–2004)

In his first season, he did not play a game due to injury. In 2000, he became a regular player in the first team, and in 2001 he became one of Port's key players, winning the best team man award. In 2002, Carr was said to be a key instigator of the famous Ramsgate fight between Crows and Port players after Showdown XI. By 2004 his leadership abilities had seem him appointed Vice Captain underneath

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. He played in the 2004 Port Adelaide premiership team before announcing he wanted to join Fremantle in 2005 to play alongside brother Matthew Carr.

Fremantle career (2005–2008)

Port eventually traded him and he returned to Western Australia at the beginning of the 2005 season. Carr was named as Fremantle's vice-captain for the 2007 & 2008 seasons. He won the Ross Glendinning medal in the second

Western Derby The Western Derby () is the name given to the Australian rules football matches between the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Dockers, who both participate in the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW). As both teams are ba ...

of 2007, gathering 26 possessions and kicking three goals as Fremantle notched up their eighth win over West Coast. During the 2008 he began to question his career at Fremantle due to his brothers retirement. At the end of the 2008 season, Carr told the club that he wanted to be traded back to Port Adelaide for personal reasons. He played 83 games for Fremantle in four seasons.

Return to Port Adelaide (2009–2010)

He was drafted at number 2 by the Power in the 2008 Pre-Season Draft and played his 200th AFL game against Carlton in round 20, 2009. On 19 July 2010, Carr announced he would retire following Showdown XXIX at

AAMI Stadium Football Park, known commercially as AAMI Stadium, was an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, the state capital of South Australia, Australia. It was built in 1973 by the South Australian Na ...

. He ended his career with a 19-point win, marking an impressive 10–0 record in Showdowns.

Coaching career

Port Adelaide assistant coach (2011–2015)

Between 2011 and 2015, Carr served as an assistant coach for

Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide city centre, Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is t ...

under senior coaches

Matthew Primus Matthew Richard Primus (born 12 January 1975) is an Australian rules football coach and former player. He has served as the head coach of the Southport Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) since 2025. Primus previously played ...

and

Ken Hinkley Ken Hinkley (born 30 September 1966) is the senior coach of the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and a former player with the Geelong Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club. Hinkley currently holds the VFL/ ...

North Adelaide Football Club senior coach (SANFL) (2016–2019)

Between 2016 and 2019, he served as senior coach of the

North Adelaide Roosters The North Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Roosters, is an Australian rules football club affiliated with the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and SANFL Women's League (SANFLW). The club plays its home games at Prospect Ov ...

in the

SANFL The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's sports governing body, governing body for the sport. ...

, guiding the club to the premiership in

Fremantle Football Club assistant coach (2019–2021)

In October 2019, Carr was appointed by

Fremantle Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australi ...

as an assistant coach for the 2020 season under senior coach Justin Longmuir. On July 30, 2021, the club announced that Carr had stood down for an unstated period after he was fined by police for breaching WA quarantine restrictions.

Port Adelaide assistant coach (2023–25)

Carr returned to

as senior assistant coach under senior coach

for the 2023 season.

Port Adelaide senior coach (2026 onwards)

In February 2025, Port Adelaide president

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announced that Carr would assume the position of senior coach of the club ahead of the 2026 season, at the conclusion of Ken Hinkley's last contracted year. Carr has been signed to a three-year contract, taking him through to the end of the 2028 season.

Playing statistics

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carr, Josh 1980 births Living people Fremantle Football Club players Port Adelaide Football Club players Port Adelaide Football Club premiership players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) East Fremantle Football Club players People educated at Corpus Christi College, Perth Australian rules footballers from Western Australia People from Goomalling, Western Australia VFL/AFL premiership players