List of Fitzroy Football Club coaches

Originally based at the Brunswick Street Oval, the club won its first VFA premiership in 1895, but quit the league two years later to join the newly formed Victorian Football League (VFL).

Rather, tactics and positioning were formulating by senior players, including club captains, and selectors.

Up until the end of the Second World War, the position of coach was almost always filled by the current captain or an ex-Fitzroy player.

Fitzroy were extremely unsuccessful at this point in time, and did not make the finals between 1924 and 1943, when captain Fred Hughson was appointed coach.

Fitzroy's last period of success came in the 1980s, with the club making the finals on five separate occasions between 1979 and 1986.