Neil Craig

Neil Craig
Craig in March 2017
Personal information
Full name	Neil P. Craig
Date of birth	(1956-01-11) 11 January 1956 (age 61)
Draft	No. 2, 1981 interstate draft
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1973–1979	Norwood	126
1980–1986	Sturt	134
1987–1990	North Adelaide	61
Coaching career3
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2004–2011	Adelaide	166 (92–74–0)
2013	Melbourne	011 0(1–10–0)
Total		177 (93–84–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1990. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 2013.
Career highlights
South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee Norwood Football Club premiership player 1975/78

Neil Passmore Craig (born 11 January 1956) is the Director of Coaching at the Carlton Football Club, a former Australian rules footballer, fitness adviser, former coach of the Adelaide Football Club, a former caretaker coach of the Melbourne Football Club, as well as the former General Manager of Performance at the Essendon Football Club.

Craig played a total of 319 games (and kicked 220 goals) in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) as well as 11 State of Origin matches for South Australia.

He played 126 games for the Norwood Football Club, debuting as a 17-year-old in 1973. He was a part of their premiership sides in 1975 and 1978, before leaving the club after the 1979 season.

Craig played 134 games for Sturt (captaining the side in 1985 and 1986) between 1980 and 1986 and was also captain of South Australia in 1984.

He moved to North Adelaide, where he finished his career, playing 61 games between 1987 and 1990. At one stage of his career, Craig was pursued by Footscray, a Victorian team in the Victorian Football League (VFL), but declined the offer as he preferred to stay in South Australia. At that time there was a great rivalry between the VFL and SANFL and both competitions considered themselves the best in Australia.

In 1991, Craig became the coach of Norwood, a position he held until 1995. In 2002, he was inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame