Timothy Sheens (born 30 October 1950) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player.

Sheens also set a new record for most games in Australian rugby league premiership history (which has since been broken by Wayne Bennett) and also coached the New South Wales Blues for the 1991 State of Origin series.

In June 2015 he accepted a role with Super League club the Salford Red Devils to become Director of Rugby leading to his eventual resignation as the coach of the Australian National Team in October later that year.

Salford Red Devils won the game but Sheens confirmed his decision to coach Hull Kingston Rovers in 2017,[4] in the Championship.

[7] In 1974 he was named as the Penrith Panthers' Player of the Year,[8] but had his jaw broken in the inaugural Amco Cup final against Western Division.

Although his first ever game as first-grade coach was a 24–12 loss to St. George, Sheens had a track-record of reforming under-performing teams to premiership victory.

As NRL Premiers Wests travelled to England to play against Super League champions Bradford Bulls in the 2006 World Club Challenge.

In Sheens first year at the club, he coached the Hull Kingston Rovers in their promotion back to Super League campaign of 2017.

After two years at Hull KR, Sheens was sacked due to poor league position, form and loss of 'the dressing room' (implying player support) on 5 June 2019.

[17] Sheens second coming as Wests Tigers head coach got off to bad start with the club losing their opening five matches.

Sheens returned to the NRL representative arena in 2006 when he succeeded Graham Murray as coach for City Origin, a post he retained in 2007 and 2008.

[25] In February 2009, Sheens was appointed coach of the Australian national rugby league team following the resignation of Ricky Stuart.

Sheens resigned as the Kangaroos head coach on 3 October 2015, to take up a full-time position as director of Super League club Salford Red Devils.