Personal information | ||||||
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Born |
Auburn, New South Wales, Australia |
4 March 1967 |||||
Playing information | ||||||
Position | Lock, five-eighth | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1986–87 | Easts (Sydney) | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
1988–95 | Brisbane Broncos | 156 | 29 | 314 | 0 | 744 |
1995–98 | London Broncos | 74 | 23 | 116 | 6 | 330 |
Total | 240 | 52 | 431 | 6 | 1076 | |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1989 | New South Wales | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Coaching information | ||||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
2005–11 | Castleford Tigers | 148 | 58 | 4 | 86 | 39 |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
2013–14 | USA | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 50 |
Source: NRL Stats, |
Terry Matterson (born 4 March 1967) is an Australian rugby league football coach and former player. He worked as a head coach in Super League for English team, Castleford Tigers from 2005 to 2011. Matterson played in Australia's premiership for Eastern Suburbs Roosters and Brisbane Broncos clubs, and was also selected to play in the State of Origin for New South Wales once in 1989. He was a goal-kicking lock forward and was he played the majority of his club football for the Broncos, with whom he won the 1992 and 1993 premierships, in addition to stints with the Eastern Suburbs Roosters and London Broncos clubs. From October 2013 Matterson was the head coach of the United States national rugby league team .
Matterson was born in Auburn, New South Wales.
After playing at five-eighth for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters, Matterson moved to Brisbane to be part of the Broncos' inaugural 1988 team. Playing at lock and being the team's goal-kicker, Matterson scored 24 points in the Broncos' first ever match in the opening round of 1988 against the previous year's premiers, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. This would stand as the record for most individual points in a Broncos game for over fourteen years. In 1989 Matterson represented New South Wales in the State of Origin, playing against many of his Broncos' teammates. He was also named player of the series for the 1989 Panasonic Cup tournament.