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{{Short description|Australian rules footballer (born 1941)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=December 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Bill Goggin
| image = 
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|1|4|df=yes}}
| birth_place = 
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| originalteam = [[North Geelong Football Club|North Geelong]]
| height = 175&nbsp;cm
| weight = 70&nbsp;kg
| position = 
| statsend = 1971
| coachstatsend = 1982
| years1 = 1958–1971
| club1 = {{AFL Gee}}
| games_goals1 = 248 (279)
| sooteam1 = [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| soogames_goals1 = 14 (22)
| coachyears1 = 1976–1978
| coachclub1 = {{AFL Foo}}
| coachgames_wins1 = {{0}}46 (21–23–2)
| coachyears2 = 1980–1982
| coachclub2 = {{AFL Gee}}
| coachgames_wins2 = {{0}}71 (41–30–0)
| coachgames_winstotal = 117 (62–53–2)
| careerhighlights = * [[List of VFL/AFL premiers|VFL Premiership player]]: ([[1963 VFL Grand Final|1963]])
* 2× [[Carji Greeves Medal]]: (1967, 1970)
*[[List of Geelong Football Club captains|Geelong captain]]: (1968-1971)
*[[Geelong Football Club|Geelong]] Team of the Century
*[[Australian Football Hall of Fame]], inducted 2000
| fullname = 
}}

'''William Goggin''' (born 4 January 1941) is a former [[Australian rules football]]er who played for the [[Geelong Football Club]] in the [[VFL/AFL|Victorian Football League]] (VFL). He later coached Geelong and also the [[Western Bulldogs|Footscray Football Club]].

==Family==
His brother [[Matt Goggin|Matt]] also played for Geelong, and other brother [[Charlie Goggin|Charlie]] is a racehorse trainer in Tasmania.  Charlie's son [[Mathew Goggin]], is a [[golf]]er on the [[PGA Tour]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/now-america-is-agog-with-cats-and-afl/2007/12/04/1196530680023.html|title=Now America is agog with Cats and AFL|first=Geoff |last=McClure|date=5 December 2007|location=Melbourne|work=The Age}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/golf/goggin-takes-step-back-from-the-big-show-to-share-in-his-mothersglory/2008/11/11/1226318651456.html|title=Goggin takes step back from the big show to share in his mother's glory|date=12 November 2008}}</ref>

==Football==
A member of the [[Australian Football Hall of Fame]], Goggin was one of the VFL's finest rovers during his era, forming a memorable combination with legendary ruckman [[Polly Farmer]] and [[full forward]] [[Doug Wade]]. He was also a regular Big V representative, both as a player and coach.

On 6 July 1963 he was a member of the Geelong team that were comprehensively and unexpectedly beaten [[1963 VFL season#Round 10|by Fitzroy, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31)]] in the [[1963 Miracle Match]].

==Coach==
After retiring from the VFL, Goggin coached [[Geelong West Football Club|Geelong West]] in the [[Victorian Football Association]] from 1972 until 1975. He led the club to the [[1972 VFA season|1972]] Division 2 premiership, a season in which the club was undefeated, and then to its first and only Division 1 premiership in [[1975 VFA season|1975]]. He also played with the club in its 1972 premiership, and coached the club again to a Grand Final in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roosters.org.au/about/club-greats/|title=Geelong West St Peters Football Club greats|access-date=19 April 2014|publisher=Geelong West St Peters Football Club|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031124404/http://www.roosters.org.au/about/club-greats/|archive-date=31 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was also the coach of Victoria in State of Origin games on more than several occasions.

Goggin coached Geelong to successive Preliminary final appearances in 1980 and 1981, losing on both occasions to Collingwood in tight games. After Geelong only won seven games and crashed to ninth in 1982, Goggin contacted the club shortly after the end of the home-and-away rounds to say he would not seek reappointment as coach for the following season.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116468810 |title=AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL Goggin quits – Hafey talks to Cats' president |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=57 |issue=17,147 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=8 September 1982 |accessdate=26 June 2021 |page=43 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He subsequently took up a board position at the club.

==Australian Football Hall of Fame==
He was inducted into the [[Australian Football Hall of Fame]] in 2000.  His citation read "Famous for roving to [[Graham Farmer|Graham "Polly" Farmer]] and pinpointing [[Doug Wade]] up forward."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/event-news/hall-of-fame/players|title=Hall of Fame players}}</ref>

==Athletics==
Goggin was also an accomplished sprinter, competing on the professional running circuit in the mid-1960s. He won the 1964 [[Ballarat Gift]].

==See also==
* [[1963 Miracle Match]]

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist}}

==References==
* [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QAYRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7027%2C292390 "New Boys" join the 200 club, ''The Age'', (Tuesday, 3 December 1968), p. 25.]

==External links==
*{{AFL Tables}}
*{{AFL Tables coach ID}}
*{{AustralianFootball}}
*[https://www.afl.com.au/hall-of-fame/players AFL Hall of Fame – Players]

{{1963 Geelong premiership players}}
{{Geelong Football Club captains}}
{{Western Bulldogs coaches}}
{{Geelong Football Club coaches}}
{{Carji Greeves Medal}}
{{Geelong Team of the Century}}
{{1989 Victoria State of Origin players}}
{{1992 Victoria State of Origin players}}
{{1993 Victoria State of Origin players}}

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[[Category:Carji Greeves Medal winners]]
[[Category:Geelong Football Club players]]
[[Category:Geelong Football Club premiership players]]
[[Category:Geelong Football Club captains]]
[[Category:Geelong Football Club coaches]]
[[Category:Western Bulldogs coaches]]
[[Category:Geelong West Football Club players]]
[[Category:Geelong West Football Club coaches]]
[[Category:North Geelong Football Club players]]
[[Category:1941 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Australian rules footballers from Geelong]]
[[Category:VFL/AFL premiership players]]


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