Tim Jerks is an Australian football coach. Jerks was active as coaching development manager at the

New South Wales Institute of Sport The New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) is a high-performance-sports training institute in New South Wales, Australia. The New South Wales government agency provides coaching, performance support, and daily training environments to help t ...

, before he was appointed in May 2003 as the coach of the Tuvalu national football team. The 3–2 win against

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was celebrated as a major achievement for Tuvaluan football as Kiribati is recognised as one of the leading teams in the competition. In the years 2004/05 and 2007/08, Jerks was the chief coach of the

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for the FIFA World Cup-qualification. In the 2007 South Pacific Games Cook Islands defeated Tuvalu 4–1. In 2010, he was a coach of the Cook Islands, before being replaced from the New Zealander Shane Rufer.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jerks, Tim Australian soccer managers Australian expatriate soccer managers Living people New South Wales Institute of Sport alumni Expatriate football managers in Tuvalu Tuvalu national football team managers Expatriate football managers in the Cook Islands Cook Islands national football team managers Year of birth missing (living people)