Hawthorn Coach Alastair Clarkson will move into equal-fifth place for most games coached at one VFL/AFL club when he takes a seat in the coaches box this Sunday.
Clarkson will draw even with Allan Jeans who coached St Kilda for 333 games between 1961 and 1976.
Collingwood coaching great Jock McHale leads the list by some margin, leading the Pies into 714 games across his 38 years at the helm, with Kevin Sheedy (635 games with Essendon), Dick Reynolds (415 games, Essendon) and David Parkin (355 games, Carlton) filling the next three places.
Following apprenticeships at St Kilda and at Port Adelaide as well as various state league jobs, Clarkson was appointed Hawthorn senior coach in 2005.
In his initial years, the former North Melbourne and Melbourne player worked hard to rebuild a Hawthorn list which had missed finals in each of the three previous seasons.
In 2007, the Hawks finished fifth as Clarkson led his first side into a finals campaign.
The following year Hawthorn broke a 17-year premiership drought by upsetting the all-powerful Geelong in a classic grand final.
The Hawks have missed just two finals series since 2007, saluting in 2008 before achieving a historical premiership threepeat in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Clarkson is one of just 12 coaches in the history of the game to have won at least four premierships.
At the end of the 2018 season, the coach signed a contract extension at the Hawks that will secure his services until at least the end of 2022.
