\n The Geelong coach will join some of the game’s greatest coaches during his new contract, announced on Thursday night\n <\/p>\n
Chris Scott ahead of the 2025 Grand Final between Geelong and Brisbane. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
Geelong’s two-time premiership coach Chris Scott is poised to move into elite company after signing a three-year contract extension with the AFL club.<\/p>\n
The longest-serving coach in Cats history, Scott, who was already locked in for one more season, has extended his deal until the end of 2029.<\/p>\n
The new agreement was announced at the club’s AGM on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Scott, 49, has spent 15 seasons and 360 games in charge of Geelong, leading the club to four grand finals for two flags.<\/p>\n
Only three coaches have coached one club in more than 400 AFL\/VFL games: Collingwood legend Jock McHale (713), and Essendon pair Kevin Sheedy (634) and Dick Reynolds (415).<\/p>\n
Scott will join them and overtake Reynolds before the end of his new deal, by which time he will only be 53 years old.<\/p>\n
The former Brisbane Lions hard-man will also edge towards the top 10 for all-time games coached, behind record-holder Mick Malthouse, who led four clubs across a 718-game career.<\/p>\n
Scott boasts a remarkable 68 per cent winning record in charge of Geelong – the best ratio of anyone in the competition’s history with at least 100 games as coach.<\/p>\n
He has repeatedly defied the league’s equalisation measures to keep the Cats in premiership contention, missing the finals just twice during his tenure.<\/p>\n
Scott, a two-time All-Australian coach, will also lead Victoria in February’s State Of Origin game against Western Australia.<\/p>\n
Chris Scott after a media conference following his appointment as Victoria coach for the 2026 AAMI AFL Origin game. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Geelong coach will join some of the game’s greatest coaches during his new contract, announced on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-359737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}