Mal Meninga

Mal Meninga
AM

Personal information
Full name	Malcolm Norman Meninga
Born	(1960-07-08) 8 July 1960 (age 64) Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	107 kg (16 st 12 lb)
Playing information
Position	Centre
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1979–85 Southern Suburbs 109 78 314 0 894 1984–85 St Helens 31 28 8 0 128 1986–94 Canberra Raiders 166 74 283 2 864 Total 306 180 605 2 1886 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1979–85 Brisbane 23 8 52 0 130 1981 South Queensland 1 5 9 0 33 1979–94 Queensland 32 6 69 0 161 1982–94 Australia 46 21 96 0 272 1988 President's XIII 1 1 2 0 8
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 1997–01 Canberra Raiders 125 66 2 57 53 Representative Years Team Gms W D L W% 2005–12 Prime Minister's XIII 8 7 1 0 88 2006–15 Queensland 30 20 0 10 67 2014–15 Papua New Guinea 2 1 0 1 50 2015 PNG PM's XIII 1 0 0 1 0 2016– Australia 28 25 0 3 89 2016–23 Prime Minister's XIII 6 6 0 0 100 2017 World All Stars 1 0 0 1 0
Source: [1][2][3][4][5][6] As of 18 October 2024

Malcolm Norman Meninga AM (/məˈnɪŋɡə/; born 8 July 1960) is an Australian professional rugby league coach and a former professional rugby league footballer. Meninga is widely regarded as one of the finest players in the game's history. He enjoyed a long career in both Australia and England, playing mainly as a goal-kicking centre. After retiring, Meninga has enjoyed success as a coach, and is currently the head coach of Australian national team.^[7]

Meninga broke numerous rugby league records during his playing career. He retired with the most appearances in the history of the Australian national team, and became the top-point scorer ever in State of Origin football. He has since been honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia, has been inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and has also been named in both Queensland's and Australia's teams of the century.

Meninga is the only player in history to be selected for four Kangaroo Tours. He toured with the Kangaroos in 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1994, appearing in every test match against Great Britain and France on all four tours. He is also the only player to captain two Kangaroo Tours, in 1990 and 1994. Additionally he is one of five players, along with Wally Lewis, Peter Sterling, Brett Kenny and Gene Miles, who were members of the undefeated 1982 and 1986 tours, known as 'the Invincibles' and 'the Unbeatables' respectively. .

As a coach, he began with the Canberra Raiders, before coaching Queensland to nine State of Origin titles between 2006 and 2015. He became coach of Australia in 2016 and led the Kangaroos to win the 2017 World Cup and the 2021 World Cup. Meninga was inducted as the 13th Immortal in 2018.