Scott Gooch (born 4 July 1975) is an Australian sports administrator and 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 ...

player. Gooch is currently General Manager for Commercial Partners at the

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 ...

AFL career

Gooch played for

West Australian Football League The West Australian Football League (WAFL "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting f ...

club Subiaco before being selected by the

as a Foundation Selection in 1994. Gooch was delisted and redrafted in the 1997 AFL Rookie draft before finally being delisted after the

1997 AFL season The 1997 AFL season was the 101st season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season ran from 27 ...

without playing an

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match. Gooch played 42 WAFL matches for Subiaco.

Work and career

West Coast Eagles

In 2000 Gooch joined

club

West Coast Eagles The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and first competed in 1987 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known ...

, eventually becoming Relationship Marketing Manager.

Perth Glory

In March 2007 Gooch was appointed

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...

A-League A-League Men, also known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional soccer league in Australia and New Zealand and the highest level of the Australian soccer league system. Established in 2004 as the A-League by the ...

team

Perth Glory Perth Glory Football Club is an Australian professional Association football, soccer club based in Perth, Perth, Western Australia. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under Professional sports league organi ...

shortly after a change of ownership at the club. The new owners, Tony Sage, Brett McKeon and John Spence, unveiled Gooch as CEO at the same time as announcing a new major sponsorship deal. This led to a flurry of media interest in a club which had fallen into hard times.

Fremantle

Gooch rejoined Fremantle in April 2009 as General Manager - Commercial Partners.

PlayBook X

In 2021 Scott Gooch started a sports and marketing business called Playbook X based in perth WA.

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* Businesspeople from Western Australia Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Australian sports executives and administrators Association football executives Fremantle Football Club administrators Perth Glory FC Subiaco Football Club players West Coast Eagles administrators Living people 1975 births 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1970s-stub