Matthew Nicks is a former professional Australian Football League player and currently the senior coach of the Adelaide Football Club.
Matthew Nicks Wife
Matthew Nicks is married to Courtney Nicks. The couple are happily married with children.
Matthew Nicks Biography
Matthew Nicks was born on 13 May 1975 in Adelaide, Australia. He is 48 years old.
There’s no doubt football has been the sporting love of his life, but it all started with soccer.
“As a kid, everything revolved around sport for me – it didn’t matter what sport,” Nicks told AFC Media.
“I played soccer for most of my junior life – right the way through primary school and most of high school.”
He was sixteen before he first played Australian Rules Football, but his love for the game started well before then
Matthew stands at an appealing height of 1.78m and has a good body weight which suits his personality.
As a kid, Nicks grew up in Belair in the Adelaide Hills with his parents and older brother Paul.
His dad, Denis, had played football at Edwardstown but Nicks began playing soccer soon after starting school as a five-year-old at Blackwood.
Nicks couldn’t even take his children Ethan, 6, Isla, 5, and Harry, 2, to the playground.
Matthew Nicks’s net worth is estimated at around $5 million. His main source of income is from his primary work as an AFL coach. Matthew Nicks’s salary per month and other career earnings are over $350,000 dollars annually.
His remarkable achievements have earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. He is one of the richest and influential AFL coaches in Australia.
He was recruited from the West Adelaide Football Club to the Sydney Swans with the 21st selection in the 1994 AFL Draft.
He made his Australian Football League debut in 1996 for the Sydney Swans and played a total of 175 games over the next 10 seasons. He retired from AFL football in 2005 after prolonged struggles with injury and illness, including a broken leg in 1995, pneumonia in 2000, a broken finger in 2001 and a stress fracture in his leg in 2005.
His second last game was the round 10, 2005 match against St Kilda at Marvel Stadium in which the Swans came under severe scrutiny from the AFL, in particular from then-CEO Andrew Demetriou and Network 10 commentators Stephen Quartermain, Tim Lane and Robert Walls, over their performance.
He joined the Port Adelaide Football Club in 2011 as a club development coach in an assistant coaching position under senior coach Matthew Primus until the end of 2012 season, during which time the Power struggled towards the bottom part of the ladder, finishing 16th and 14th in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
From 2013 to 2015, he served as the club’s backline coach under senior coach Ken Hinkley and in 2016, he served as the forwards coach under senior coach Hinkley. In 2017, Nicks was named as Port Adelaide’s senior assistant coach under senior coach Hinkley. Nicks left the Port Adelaide Football Club at the end of the 2018 season.
Matthew Nicks joined the GWS Giants as a senior assistant coach under senior coach Leon Cameron for the 2019 season. In October 2019, Nicks was appointed senior coach of the Adelaide Football Club, shortly after previous senior coach Don Pyke announced his departure.
Due to a variety of reasons, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the club entering a rebuild at his arrival, and the lack of experienced assistant coaches at Adelaide, the Crows under Nicks slumped to a 0-13 start to the 2020 season, leading to Nicks being called “the least supported coach” in Adelaide’s history.
He won his first game as Adelaide Football Club senior coach when the Crows defeated Hawthorn by 35 points in round 15, 2020.
