Johnathan Clemente arrives in Brisbane as the Head Coach of our Ninja A-League Women team on a two-year deal ahead of the 26/27 season.
With this appointment, Clemente becomes the youngest head coach in A-League history, at just 27 years of age. He now takes over a young and exciting women’s squad oozing with Queensland talent that finished fourth last season, reaching the semi-finals.
Clemente joins the Roar from Melbourne Victory, where he spent four seasons as assistant to Jeff Hopkins, the most successful coach in the history of the Australian women’s competition. During his time at Victory, Clemente also led the NPLW, Female Pathways and the Melbourne Victory Afghan Women’s Team programs.
Before Victory he was a head coach in his own right. He took over a recently relegated Essendon Royals women’s side at 19 years old and won promotion in his first season, which kickstarted the Royals rise towards the top of Victorian Football. At 20 years old, he became the youngest senior head coach in the NPL, taking charge at Heidelberg United, where over three seasons he delivered the club’s highest league finish in twelve years at the time and developed ten players into A-League squads, a tenure which elevated Heidelberg as one of the powerhouses in Victorian Football.
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