Matt O'Connor (born 29 January 1971) is an Australian professional rugby union coach and a former international player.
O'Connor joined the Leicester Tigers as the backline coach under Heyneke Meyer, replacing another Australian former centre, Pat Howard.
Cockerill was promoted to the position of director of rugby and O'Connor was appointed head coach of Leicester in July 2010,[4] and he was extremely influential in the Tigers Premiership win of 2013.
[8] The following season, when the team missed out on a play-off spot in the Pro12 and lost at the semi-final stage of the Champions Cup,[9][10] O'Connor was sacked by Leinster after completing two years of a three-year contract.
After Richard Graham was sacked two games into the season, O'Connor was appointed as co-interim head coach of the team alongside Nick Stiles.