Craig Starcevich is a former Australian rules footballer and current senior coach. Starcevich played for Collingwood and the Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) prior to 1990. He is the current senior coach of Brisbane in the AFL Women's (AFLW), having led the team since its inception. Starcevich is the only person in Australian rules football history to win both an AFL and an AFLW premiership, having won the latter as coach.
Starcevich holding the AFLW premiership cup in 2023
The Brisbane Bears Football Club was a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland.
Queenslander Michael Voss debuted in 1992 at age 17, becoming the youngest-ever player to play a senior game for the club. He went on to win two Best & Fairests between 1995 and 1996 and the only Bear to win a Brownlow, in the club's last year.
Nathan Buckley caused controversy when he rejected being zone-drafted by Brisbane, seeking instead to play with Collingwood
The recruitment of former Fitzroy full-back turned spearhead Alastair Lynch saw him became a poster boy for the new-look Bears. However, chronic fatigue saw him largely sidelined until 1996.
