Paul Hood is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He was the inaugural senior coach of the

Geelong Football Club The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition, and are the 2022 ...

in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Hood played for the Geelong Falcons in the TAC Cup as a junior. He won the 1995

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as the

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player in the competition, receiving 26 votes. Hood went on to represent North Ballarat Football Club and Geelong in the

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(VFL), and

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in the Geelong Football League. He returned to the Falcons in 2010 as their coach and became Geelong's VFL coach for 2015. In 2016, he became the club's player development manager and visited Elcho Island to

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potential players. Hood was named coach of Geelong's new

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side for 2017 and oversaw the team through their transfer to the AFLW competition in 2019. In May 2021, after winning only one match in the

2021 AFL Women's season The 2021 AFL Women's season was the fifth season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured fourteen clubs, ran from 28 January until 17 April, and comprised ...

, Hood resigned from his position as head coach of Geelong.

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* Living people Geelong Falcons players North Ballarat Football Club players St Joseph's Football Club players AFL Women's coaches Year of birth missing (living people) {{Sports-official-bio-stub