Luke Beveridge (born 23 August 1970) is an

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coach and former player who played for

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, Footscray and St Kilda in the

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(AFL) during the 1990s. He is head coach of the Western Bulldogs.Dogs set to announce new coach
AFL.com.au official website, 14 November 2014

Playing career

Small in stature, he mainly played as a rover and a forward. He is the grandson of premiership player

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Melbourne

Beveridge played for

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from 1989 until 1992, playing a total of 42 games and kicked a total of 41 goals. Beveridge won the first year player award in 1989 and played his most games with the club in 1991.

Footscray

He was traded to Footscray for pick 122 in the

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. He was seen as a depth player for the club's playing list. He managed 31 games in three seasons from 1993 until 1995 for Footscray Football Club.

St Kilda

At the end of 1995, Beveridge was traded to for pick 52 in the 1995 AFL Draft. His father was a recruitment officer for the club. Beveridge played 45 games for the Saints in four seasons from 1996 until 1999. Beveridge played in St Kilda's 1996 pre-season cup winning side. He played in 7 of 22 matches in the 1997 home and away rounds. St Kilda qualified in first position for the 1997 finals series. He retired at the end of the 1999 season.

AFL Greek Team of the Century

In 2002, Beveridge was elected in the AFL Greek Team of the Century for players having full or partial Greek heritage. His maternal grandfather originates from the island of

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Coaching career

He began his coaching career in the

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competition where he coached St Bedes/Mentone Tigers to the C, B and A Grade premierships in consecutive seasons. The C Grade premiership team of 2006 contained both of the Western Bulldogs’ only two living premiership coaches: Beveridge (2016 AFL premiership coach) in his final VAFA game as playing coach and Paul Groves (2018 AFLW premiership coach). Other notable members of the successful group include young firebrand Tim McColl, a future captain of industry at The Co. Accountants and Business Advisors, and Tim Lamb, a former battling local player who found his niche as Assistant Coach during this period. Lamb’s undeniable eye for talent led him to eventually land the role of Melbourne Football Club List Manager, where he masterminded the build of the Demons’ premiership-winning team of 2021. These and many others attribute their success in part to the guiding hand of Beveridge.

Collingwood Football Club assistant coach (2009-2010)

Beveridge had two years in an assistant coaching position as head of player development manager at from 2009 to 2010, where he had an input to the club's 2010 premiership.

Hawthorn Football Club assistant coach (2012-2014)

After having a year off, Beveridge joined in 2012 as an assistant coach under senior coach Alastair Clarkson specialising in working with the club's defence.

Western Bulldogs senior coach (2015-present)

Beveridge left Hawthorn after the 2014 season and was originally going to become director of coaching at . On 14 November 2014, however, it was instead announced that he would become the senior coach of the Western Bulldogs, succeeding

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, captain

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, former

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list

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and over 700 games of experience at the end of

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, as well as losing reigning

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to a knee injury during the

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that would ultimately sideline him for the entire 2015 season, Beveridge led an impressive resurgence by the Western Bulldogs, which finished in sixth place on the ladder at the end of the 2015 season, and hence qualified for their first finals series since 2010, before losing to the Adelaide Crows in an elimination final at the

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. For his efforts, Beveridge was named the AFL Coaches Association coach of the year. The following year in the 2016 season, Beveridge led the Western Bulldogs to a victory premiership win in the

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, when they defeated the

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by a score of 13.11 (89) to 10.7 (67), by margin of 22 points. This was the club's second premiership since

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despite them suffering long-term injuries throughout the season, notably captain

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. The Bulldogs had finished 7th in the minor premiership. They played in three consecutive elimination finals, two of them interstate. On the path to the grand final, they beat the West Coast Eagles at Domain Stadium, Hawthorn at the MCG and Greater Western Sydney at Spotless Stadium. In an emotional display which, according to ''

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'', "will undoubtedly go down as one of the great moments in Australian sporting history",Lerner, Ronny (4 October 2016)
"Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge to receive 'Spirit of Sport' award"
, ''The Age''. Retrieved 22 October 2016. Beveridge handed his coach's premiership medal to Murphy, saying, "This is yours, mate. You deserve it more than anyone." Murphy, though thankful, returned the medal the following day. It has since been placed in the Western Bulldogs museum. Later that month, Beveridge won the Spirit of Sport award at the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards for his gesture to Murphy. He was also named the AFL Coaches Association coach of the year for the second year running. In the 2021 season, Beveridge coached the Western Bulldogs to the

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, but fell short and lost to

by a margin of 74 points with the final score Melbourne 21.14 (140) to Western Bulldogs 10.6 (66).

Statistics

Playing statistics

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1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 48 , , 12 , , 7 , , 4 , , 77 , , 47 , , 124 , , 16 , , 9 , , 0.6 , , 0.3 , , 6.4 , , 3.9 , , 10.3 , , 1.3 , , 0.8 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 24 , , 3 , , 1 , , 0 , , 14 , , 4 , , 18 , , 4 , , 1 , , 0.3 , , 0.0 , , 4.7 , , 1.3 , , 6.0 , , 1.3 , , 0.3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 24 , , 21 , , 27 , , 8 , , 250 , , 90 , , 340 , , 40 , , 23 , , 1.3 , , 0.4 , , 11.9 , , 4.3 , , 16.2 , , 1.9 , , 1.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 24 , , 6 , , 6 , , 2 , , 73 , , 33 , , 106 , , 18 , , 7 , , 1.0 , , 0.3 , , 12.2 , , 5.5 , , 17.7 , , 3.0 , , 1.2 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 19 , , 8 , , 8 , , 5 , , 95 , , 40 , , 135 , , 18 , , 19 , , 1.0 , , 0.6 , , 11.9 , , 5.0 , , 16.9 , , 2.3 , , 2.4 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 19 , , 12 , , 14 , , 13 , , 117 , , 34 , , 151 , , 29 , , 23 , , 1.2 , , 1.1 , , 9.8 , , 2.8 , , 12.6 , , 2.4 , , 1.9 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 19 , , 11 , , 7 , , 7 , , 69 , , 33 , , 102 , , 16 , , 13 , , 0.6 , , 0.6 , , 6.3 , , 3.0 , , 9.3 , , 1.5 , , 1.2 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 27 , , 16 , , 16 , , 9 , , 153 , , 78 , , 231 , , 46 , , 31 , , 1.0 , , 0.6 , , 9.6 , , 4.9 , , 14.4 , , 2.9 , , 1.9 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 27 , , 7 , , 4 , , 3 , , 25 , , 9 , , 34 , , 7 , , 5 , , 0.6 , , 0.4 , , 3.6 , , 1.3 , , 4.9 , , 1.0 , , 0.7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 27 , , 18 , , 13 , , 5 , , 111 , , 62 , , 173 , , 42 , , 23 , , 0.7 , , 0.3 , , 6.2 , , 3.4 , , 9.6 , , 2.3 , , 1.3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 27 , , 4 , , 4 , , 0 , , 41 , , 35 , , 76 , , 16 , , 4 , , 1.0 , , 0.0 , , 10.3 , , 8.8 , , 19.0 , , 4.0 , , 1.0 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 118 ! 107 ! 56 ! 1025 ! 465 ! 1490 ! 252 ! 158 ! 0.9 ! 0.5 ! 8.7 ! 3.9 ! 12.6 ! 2.1 ! 1.3

Coaching statistics

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2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

, , 23 , , 14 , , 9 , , 0 , , 60.9% , , 6 (elimination finals) , , 18 , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal",

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

, , 26 , , 19 , , 7 , , 0 , , 73.1% , , 7 (premiership) , , 18 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal",

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

, , 22 , , 11 , , 11 , , 0 , , 50% , , 10 , , 18 , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal",

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

, , 22 , , 8 , , 14 , , 0 , , 36.4% , , 13 , , 18 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal",

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

, , 23 , , 12 , , 11 , , 0 , , 52.2% , , 7 (elimination finals), , 18 , - ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal",

2020 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 events, COVID- ...

, , 18 , , 9 , , 9 , , 0 , , 55.6% , , 7 (elimination final), , 18 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal",

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

, , 23 , , 18 , , 8 , , 0 , , 69.6% , , 5 (grand final) , , 18 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=2, Career totals ! 157 ! 91 ! 67 ! 0 ! 57.32% ! colspan=2, Notes

Honours and achievements

Playing honours

*Individual **

Harold Ball Memorial Trophy The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria, and plays its home ...

Coaching honours

*Team ** AFL premiership coach:

*Individual **

Jock McHale Medal Jock may refer to: Common meanings * Jock (stereotype), a North American term for a stereotypical male athlete * Jock, a derogatory term for Scottish people mostly used by the English * Short for jockstrap, an item of male protective undergarmen ...

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**2× AFL CA Coach of the year:

**Spirit of Sport Award: 2016

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beveridge, Luke 1970 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Melbourne Football Club players St Kilda Football Club players Western Bulldogs players Western Bulldogs coaches Western Bulldogs Premiership coaches Australian people of Greek descent All-Australian coaches One-time VFL/AFL Premiership coaches