Andrew Webster (rugby league)

Andrew Webster (born 17 January 1982) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is currently an assistant coach at the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League. He is the younger brother of former Wakefield Trinity and Hull Kingston Rovers head coach James Webster.

Webster played his junior rugby league for Carlingford, the Dundas Shamrocks and Five Dock RSL before joining the Balmain Tigers in 1998, playing four seasons for their SG Ball and Jersey Flegg Cup sides. In 2002, he joined the Parramatta Eels, playing for their lower grades sides before joining the Ryde-Eastwood Hawks in the Jim Beam Cup in 2003. In 2004, he played a season with the Eastwood Rugby Club.

In 2005, Webster joined American National Rugby League side, the Connecticut Wildcats as a player-coach. He led the side to the Grand Final, where they were defeated by the Aston Bulls.

In 2006, Webster joined the Hull Kingston Rovers as an assistant and academy coach. In 2008, he returned to Australia, spending a season with the Parramatta Eels on work experience. He returned to Hull KR in 2009 as an assistant coach, spending three more years with the club.

In 2012, he once again returned to Australia, this time as head coach of the Balmain Tigers SG Ball Cup side and assistant to the Wests Tigers NYC side. That year, Balmain won the SG Ball Cup for the first time in 30 years and would go onto win the Under-18 National Final over the Townsville Stingers.