Andrew McFadden

{{short description|Australian RL coach and former rugby league footballer}}

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Andrew McFadden (born 20 January 1978) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He currently works as the Development & Pathways manager at the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL.

Early life

Born in Canberra, Australia. McFadden was educated at Hawker College, Canberra, where he represented 1995 Australian Schoolboys.

Playing career

McFadden played for the Canberra Raiders from 1997 to 2001, where he formed the "Mac-Attack" with Mark McLinden. He then played for the Parramatta Eels in 2002 and finally the Melbourne Storm from 2003 to 2004 before retiring.{{cite web|url=https://www.parraeels.com.au/about/official-player-numbers/|title=Official Player Numbers|website=Parramatta Eels}}

Coaching career

McFadden returned to the Canberra Raiders in 2005, becoming their Jersey Flegg coach before leading the NSWRL Premier League team in 2006.

He spent 2007 and 2008 as the assistant coach of the Catalans Dragons. In 2009 he returned to the Raiders, coaching the Toyota Cup (Under-20s) team. He was then promoted to assistant coach at the Raiders for three years.

In November 2012 he was appointed assistant coach for the New Zealand Warriors under head coach Matthew Elliott.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/rugby-league/7932673/Warriors-coaching-staff-complete-with-McFadden Warriors coaching staff complete with McFadden] stuff.co.nz, 10 November 2012

On 7 April 2014 McFadden was appointed acting head coach of the New Zealand Warriors until the end of the 2014 NRL season, following the departure of Matthew Elliott.

On 13 May 2014, after four games as acting head coach, the New Zealand Warriors under chief executive Wayne Scurrah contracted McFadden as head coach until the end of the 2017 NRL season.{{cite web|url=http://www.zerotackle.com/mcfadden-appointed-until-2017-13335/#JtUUUJsQBVOdmkLH.97|title=MCFADDEN APPOINTED UNTIL 2017|publisher=zerotackle.com|date=13 May 2014|accessdate=31 March 2016}}

On 12 September 2016, it was announced that McFadden had been replaced as head coach by Stephen Kearney. McFadden remained with the club and accepted an assistant coach position,{{cite news

| title = Kearney new Vodafone Warriors head coach

| publisher = warriors.kiwi

| date = 2016-09-13

| url = http://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2016/09/12/kearney_new_vodafone.html

| accessdate = 2016-09-13}}{{cite news

| title = Stephen Kearney backs David Kidwell to take over Kiwis coaching duties

| publisher = tvnz

| date = 2016-09-13

| url = https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/sport/league/stephen-kearney-backs-david-kidwell-take-over-kiwis-coaching-duties

| accessdate = 2016-09-13}} which he carried through for 2017 and 2018.

He re-joined the Canberra Raiders as Assistant Coach for the 2019 NRL season.{{cite news |url=https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/09/17/canberra-raiders-appoint-andrew-mcfadden-as-new-assistant-coach/ |title=Raiders appoint McFadden as new assistant coach |publisher=NRL.com |date=17 September 2018 |accessdate=10 April 2019}}

{{Succession box

| before = Matthew Elliott
2013-2014

| after = Stephen Kearney
2017-2020

| title = Coach
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New Zealand Warriors

| years = 2014-2016

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