Tom Hafey

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Tom Hafey MBE
Personal information
Full name	Thomas Stanley Raymond Hafey
Nickname(s)	Tommy, T-Shirt Tommy
Date of birth	(1931-08-05)5 August 1931
Place of birth	Richmond, Victoria
Date of death	12 May 2014(2014-05-12) (aged 82)
Original team(s)	East Malvern
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1953–1958	Richmond	67 (10)
Coaching career3
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1966–1976	Richmond	2480(173–73–2)
1977–1982	Collingwood	13800(89–47–2)
1983–1985	Geelong	06600(31–35–0)
1986–1988	Sydney	07000(43–27–0)
Total		522 (336–182–4)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1958. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1988.
Career highlights
Coaching Club 4× Jock McHale Medal: (1967, 1969, 1973, 1974) Richmond Team of the Century Richmond Hall of Fame – immortal status Australian Football Hall of Fame, inducted 1996 Richmond life member AFL life member AFLCA Coaching Legend Award: 2011 Representative National Football Carnival championship: 1980
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Thomas Stanley Raymond Hafey MBE (5 August 1931 – 12 May 2014) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He then became one of the VFL's longest-serving and most successful coaches, guiding Richmond to four VFL premierships before also having stints at Collingwood, Geelong and finally Sydney.
Hafey was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996, named coach of Richmond's team of the century in 1998, and given the AFL Coaches Association "Coaching Legend Award" in 2011. He was renowned for his fitness and toughness even in his elderly years when he would still run rings around his juniors. He would do over 700 push-ups and crunches a day every day since he started playing in the VFL.

He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1982 New Year Honours.^[1]