Warriors Coaches

Ivan Cleary

Ivan Cleary

Ivan was born on 1st March 1971 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Playing Career

He had a playing career that was over 12 seasons in the National Rugby League during that time Ivan played for 4 different clubs Sea Eagles, Bears, Roosters and Warriors. In 1998 Ivan was the competitions top points scorer with 284 points.

The last game that Ivan played was the 2002 National Rugby League Grand-final for the New Zealand Warriors, they lost the game to the Sydney City Roosters

Currently Ivan's holds the following records at the Warriors Most Goals ever for the Warriors (195), Most Goals in a game (12) and Most Points in game (28). These records look likely to remain Ivan's for sometime.

Playing Career
Years Team P T G FG Pt's
1992-93 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 15 8 50 0 132
1994-95 North Sydney Bears 37 15 5 0 70
1996-99 Sydney City Roosters 81 29 303 0 722
2000-02 New Zealand Warriors 53 11 195 1 439
Total 186 63 553 1 1363

Coaching Career

After finishing at the Warriors Ivan was going to go and play for the Huddersfield Giants in the UK Superleague but instead he retired from playing to take up a coaching position at the Sydney City Roosters. Ivan coached the Roosters NSWRL Premier league team in the 2003 and 2004 seasons, with the Roosters winning the premiership in Premier League in 2004.

In 2005 Ivan joined the Warriors coaching staff as assistant to Tony Kemp. Ivan took over as the head coach of the Warriors before the 2006 season after Tony Kemp was sacked from the position. Ivan has been the Warriors head coach since 2006 and will become the longest serving Warriors coach at the end of the 2010 season.

In 2008 the Warriors were within one game of making the Grand-Final again, but were defeated by the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 32-6 in the Preliminary Final, this has been the highlight of Ivan's coaching career so far.

Warriors Coaching Record
Year Played Won Lost Draw Win %
2006 24 12 12 0 50
2007 26 13 12 1 50
2008 27 15 12 0 56
2009 24 7 15 2 29
2010 25 14 11 0 56
2011 28 16 12 0 57
Total 154 77 74 3 50