Warren Moon (born 27 May 1982) is an Australian

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manager and former player who is the current manager of

A-League A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...

club

Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland and has won the domestic title on three occasions, as well as holding the longest unbeaten record of 36 league matches without defeat. Brisba ...

Biography

Moon completed his schooling at

Marist College Rosalie , motto_translation = Whatever you do, do wholeheartedly and well , established = 1929 , closed = 2008 , type = Independent, Roman Catholic, single-sex, secondary , grades = 8–12 , colors = Cerise and blue , city = Paddington, Brisb ...

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...

and joined the Brisbane Strikers from 2003 in the

National Soccer League The National Soccer League (NSL) was the top-level soccer league in Australia, run by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association. The NSL, the A-League's predecessor, spanned 28 seasons from its inception in 1977 until its d ...

(NSL). He played in the 2003 and 2004 seasons before the NSL was superseded by the Australian

. Moon was signed by

Queensland Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is an Australian professional association football, soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland and has won the domestic title on three occasions, as well as holding the longest unbeaten record ...

for the 2005 inaugural

season. He played with the

, where he made 14 appearances and scored 2 goals. At the end of the 2005 season, Moon travelled to

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to trial with Hibernian. When Moon was not offered a contract with Hibernian, he signed with Queen of the South on 31 August 2006. Moon then returned to

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after struggling with injury and signed as a coach/player for Brisbane Premier League First Division team

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in 2008. Moon took charge of Eastern Suburbs in the Brisbane Premier League Division 1 for 2008. In his first full year of coaching he took the club from 10th the previous year to champions, on the way making it to the Premier Cup Grand Final where they were beaten on penalties by Peninsula Power. 2009 Moon signed for the Brisbane Strikers in the Queensland state league. After securing the 2009 QSL champions medal, Moon signed for the 2009 Brisbane Premier League champions Peninsula Power. In 2012 Moon was appointed head coach along with longtime friend and player Scott Macnicol. At the end of the 2014 season he was offered head coach of Queensland Lions, where he once trained with the Queensland Roar. Moon also coached the

Anglican Church Grammar School The Anglican Church Grammar School (ACGS), formerly the Church of England Grammar School and commonly referred to as Churchie, is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in East Brisbane, an inner suburb of Brisbane, ...

First XI, with his last season at the school being in 2019. Warren Moon was head coach of the First XI at Anglican Church Grammar School. In 2019, he coached the school to their first

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Football premiership.

Brisbane Roar

Moon left the school after accepting an offer to become the new General Manager of the Brisbane Roar Academy in 2019. On 16 July 2020 the Roar appointed Moon to the A-League head coaching role replacing interim coach Darren Davies after winning just 3 games in his 18 match spell.

Managerial statistics

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moon, Warren 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Gravesend, Kent Australian soccer players Australian expatriate soccer players A-League Men players National Soccer League (Australia) players Scottish Football League players Brisbane Strikers FC players Queen of the South F.C. players Brisbane Roar FC players Association football midfielders A-League Men managers Brisbane Roar FC managers