Ivan Cleary

Ivan Cleary

Personal information
Born	(1971-03-01) 1 March 1971 (age 53) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height	182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	89 kg (14 st 0 lb)
Playing information
Position	Fullback, Centre
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1992–93 Manly Sea Eagles 15 8 50 0 132 1994–95 North Sydney 37 15 5 0 70 1996–99 Sydney City Roosters 81 29 303 0 722 2000–02 New Zealand Warriors 53 12 195 1 439 Total 186 64 553 1 1363
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 2006–11 New Zealand Warriors 154 77 3 74 50 2012–15 Penrith Panthers 98 44 0 54 45 2017–18 Wests Tigers 43 18 0 25 42 2019– Penrith Panthers 148 111 1 36 75 Total 443 250 4 189 56 Representative Years Team Gms W D L W% 2015 Prime Minister's XIII 1 1 0 0 100 2017 Lebanon 1 1 0 0 100
Source: [1][2] As of 6 April 2024

Ivan Cleary (born 1 March 1971) is an Australian professional rugby league coach who is the head coach of the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League (NRL) and a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a fullback and centre in the 1990s and 2000s.

He is a former head coach of the Wests Tigers and New Zealand Warriors, as well as the three time NRL Premiership winning head coach of the Penrith Panthers, who led the Panthers to three straight premierships in 2021, 2022 and 2023, becoming the first coach to do so in the NRL era. As a player, Cleary was a goal-kicking fullback who played club football in Australia and New Zealand, setting a new record for most points scored in a season during the 1998 NRL Premiership. He is the father of Panthers' co-captain Nathan Cleary.