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Stephen Symonds is an
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 ...
coach who is the former head coach of the
Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. ...
in the
AFL Women's AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football competition for women's Australian rules football, female players. The 2017 AFL Women's season, first season of the l ...
competition (AFLW).


Coaching career


Norwood

Symonds was recruited by Norwood in October 2016 to establish its inaugural women’s program. He oversaw one of the leading female football programs in
South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...
, leading the team to two grand finals and a premiership in 2017. He received South Australia’s Team Coach of the Year award in 2017.


AFL Women's

Symonds was appointed coach by Collingwood in the AFLW in June 2019. Symonds was chosen from a strong field of candidates that was believed to include former Adelaide AFLW coach
Bec Goddard Rebecca Goddard (born 1978) is a former Australian rules football coach who most recently served as the head coach of the Hawthorn Football Club (AFL Women's), Hawthorn Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Goddard also previous ...
and former Richmond AFL coach
Danny Frawley Daniel Patrick "Spud" Frawley (8 September 1963 – 9 September 2019) was an Australian rules football player, coach, administrator, commentator and media personality. He played 240 games for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football ...
. Symonds coached the team for 51 games over 5 seasons, and mutually parted ways with the club in November 2023.


Coaching statistics

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2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...
, , 7 , , 4 , , 3 , , 0 , , 57.14% , , 4th
(conf. B) , , 14
(7 per conf.) , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal",
2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
, , 11 , , 8 , , 3 , , 0 , , 72.73% , , 3rd , , 14 , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal", 2022 (S6) , , 11 , , 6 , , 5 , , 0 , , 54.55% , , 6th , , 14 , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal", 2022 (S7) , , 12 , , 8 , , 4 , , 0 , , 66.67% , , 6th , , 18 , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal",
2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...
, , 10 , , 5 , , 5 , , 0 , , 50.00% , , 11th , , 18 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=2, Career totals ! 51 ! 31 ! 20 ! 0 ! 60.78% ! colspan=2,


References

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