Mark Bickley

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Australian rules footballer, born 1969

title: "Mark Bickley" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["adelaide-football-club-players", "adelaide-football-club-premiership-players", "sportspeople-from-port-pirie", "australian-rules-footballers-from-south-australia", "south-adelaide-football-club-players", "south-australian-state-of-origin-players", "australian-football-hall-of-fame-inductees", "adelaide-football-club-coaches", "south-australian-football-hall-of-fame-inductees", "1969-births", "living-people", "australia-international-rules-football-team-players", "vfl/afl-premiership-players"] description: "Australian rules footballer, born 1969" topic_path: "sports" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bickley" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Australian rules footballer, born 1969 ::

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FieldValue
nameMark Bickley
fullnameMark Alan Bickley
birth_date
birth_placePort Pirie, South Australia
originalteamSolomontown Football Club
height178 cm
weight82 kg
statsend2003
coachstatsend2011
years11989–1991
club1South Adelaide (SANFL)
games_goals153 (43)
years21991–2003
club2
games_goals2272 (77)
games_goalstotal325 (120)
sooteam1South Australia
soogames_goals17 (?)
nationalyears12002–03
nationalteam1Australia
nationalgames_goals13 (?)
coachyears12011
coachclub1
coachgames_wins16 (3–3–0)
careerhighlightsClub
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Representative

Mark Alan Bickley (born 4 August 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Bickley was a player for the Crows from 1991 until 2003, captaining the team to both the 1997 and 1998 AFL premierships. He was a media commentator, most notably with Channel 9 in Adelaide as their sports presenter. In 2011 he had a brief coaching career as caretaker coach of the Crows after the retirement of Neil Craig.

Playing career

Adelaide Crows

Recruited from South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club South Adelaide, Bickley made his AFL debut in 1991 against at Windy Hill, as an inaugural member of the Adelaide Crows squad. In 1997 he was appointed captain of the Adelaide Football Club, and captained the 1997 and 1998 premiership sides.

After retiring from the AFL in 2003, he began presenting the weekend sports report on Nine News Adelaide alongside Georgina McGuinness, and in 2004 he became a panellist on the Nine Network's Sunday Footy Show.

Coaching career

In 2009, Bickley became an assistant coach at the Crows, thus ending his career on the Sunday Footy Show and Nine News.

Adelaide Crows

In the 2011 season, Bickley took over as caretaker senior coach at Adelaide after Neil Craig stepped down at the end of Round 18. His reign as Adelaide coach began with a convincing win over Port Adelaide in Showdown XXXI. It was just their fifth win of the season, and their second since the end of April. This was followed up with a narrow 5-point victory over the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba in Round 20, for the Crows' first win outside of Adelaide this season. Overall, Bickley coached Adelaide to three wins and three losses, the last of those a 96-point loss to . At the end of the 2011 season, Bickley was not retained as Adelaide Football Club senior coach with the appointment of Brenton Sanderson as the senior coach.

In November 2014, Mark Bickley joined the 5AA talk radio station as a co-host of the top rating weeknight sports show.

Bickley stepped away from full-time radio in 2021, and currently coaches the Immanuel College, Adelaide First XVIII football side.

In December 2022, Bickley joined radio station SEN SA as co-host of the breakfast show.

In February 2024, Bickley was appointed “Club Engagement Officer” at Adelaide Football Club.

Statistics

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|- |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1991 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 18 || 3 || 7 || 168 || 142 || 310 || 47 || 19 || 0.2 || 0.4 || 9.3 || 7.9 || 17.2 || 2.6 || 1.1 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1992 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 22 || 3 || 1 || 265 || 247 || 512 || 73 || 37 || 0.1 || 0.0 || 12.0 || 11.2 || 23.3 || 3.3 || 1.7 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1993 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 23 || 13 || 9 || 297 || 266 || 563 || 93 || 63 || 0.6 || 0.4 || 12.9 || 11.6 || 24.5 || 4.0 || 2.7 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1994 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 11 || 2 || 4 || 150 || 100 || 250 || 34 || 28 || 0.2 || 0.4 || 13.6 || 9.1 || 22.7 || 3.1 || 2.5 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1995 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 22 || 2 || 4 || 217 || 178 || 395 || 52 || 42 || 0.1 || 0.2 || 9.9 || 8.1 || 18.0 || 2.4 || 1.9 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1996 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 22 || 8 || 6 || 263 || 208 || 471 || 76 || 61 || 0.4 || 0.3 || 12.0 || 9.5 || 21.4 || 3.5 || 2.8 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1997 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 26 || 12 || 21 || 351 || 197 || 548 || 84 || 80 || 0.5 || 0.8 || 13.5 || 7.6 || 21.1 || 3.2 || 3.1 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1998 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 23 || 10 || 11 || 270 || 160 || 430 || 74 || 64 || 0.4 || 0.5 || 11.7 || 7.0 || 18.7 || 3.2 || 2.8 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1999 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 18 || 7 || 4 || 174 || 152 || 326 || 54 || 25 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 9.7 || 8.4 || 18.1 || 3.0 || 1.4 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2000 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 20 || 5 || 9 || 240 || 139 || 379 || 61 || 50 || 0.3 || 0.5 || 12.0 || 7.0 || 19.0 || 3.1 || 2.5 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2001 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 23 || 2 || 5 || 285 || 149 || 434 || 74 || 62 || 0.1 || 0.2 || 12.4 || 6.5 || 18.9 || 3.2 || 2.7 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2002 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 20 || 5 || 5 || 242 || 185 || 427 || 85 || 54 || 0.3 || 0.3 || 12.1 || 9.3 || 21.4 || 4.3 || 2.7 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2003 |style="text-align:center;"| | 26 || 24 || 5 || 4 || 241 || 191 || 432 || 79 || 73 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 10.0 || 8.0 || 18.0 || 3.3 || 3.0 |- class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3| Career ! 272 ! 77 ! 90 ! 3163 ! 2314 ! 5477 ! 886 ! 658 ! 0.3 ! 0.3 ! 11.6 ! 8.5 ! 20.1 ! 3.3 ! 2.4 |}

Head coaching record

::data[format=table] | Team | Year | Home and Away Season | Finals | Won | Lost | Drew | % | Position | Won | Lost | Win % | Result | ADE||2011 | Total||3||3||0|||| ||-||-||-|| | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | |3 | 3 | 0 | | 14th out of 17 | - | - | - | - | | | | | | | ::

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Explanatory notes

References

References

  1. {{Ref AFL Encyc. 5th. 52–53
  2. "Neil Craig stands down as Adelaide coach".
  3. (26 July 2011). "Neil Craig calls it quits".
  4. (July 30, 2011). "Crows need to step up: coach".
  5. [http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-premiership/adelaide-crows-begin-life-under-new-coach-mark-bickley-in-style-with-showdown-win-over-port-adelaide/story-e6frf3e3-1226105528729 Bickley opens with Showdown win. AFL. Fox Sports]
  6. (26 August 2011). "Bickley unsure on chasing Crows gig".
  7. (19 September 2011). "Sanderson bolts into Crows job". ABC News.
  8. [http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/M/Mark_Bickley.html Mark Bickley's player profile at AFL Tables]
  9. "Mark Bickley's coaching profile". AFL Tables.

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