Steve Meehan

Stephen Meehan is an Australian professional rugby union coach, who is currently serving as the head coach of . With over 20 years of coaching experience, Meehan has coached in the Top 14 in France, Super Rugby in Australia, and the Top League in Japan. He led English club Bath to win the European Challenge Cup in 2008 and was the head coach of the Queensland Country team for the inaugural season of Australia's National Rugby Championship in 2014.

Early life Stephen Meehan grew up in Brisbane, the second youngest of six. He attended Marist College Ashgrove in the 1980s, along with brothers Bryan, Kevin and David. The college, which also produced John Eales and Matthew Hayden, was a hothouse of ideas on running rugby. The first team was coached by former Wallaby centre Barry Honan and his mantra – "running and passing as opposed to kicking" – was a major influence on Meehan's ideas about rugby.

Coaching After Meehan finished playing, he turned to coaching, first at age-grade rugby at his local club, before becoming the colts head coach at GPS Rugby in 1995. In later worked closely with the Queensland Reds as an Under 19 selector, head coach of the Brisbane representative team, Combined States Under 19 backs coach, and head coach of the Brisbane Cyclone team when they became the East Coast Series champions. before joining the Queensland Reds in the same role in 2014.

He remained in Queenslands for a further season, and after two poor seasons under Richard Graham, Meehan left his post at the Reds to return to France.

France Top-14 and Japan Top League Meehan joined Toulon as an assistant coach ahead of the 2015–16 Top 14 season, Kintetsu Liners were later relegated at the end of the 2017–18 Top League season, and despite finishing top during the 2018 Top Challenge League to contend for promotion, Kintetsu Liners failed to return to the top division after losing in the play-offs.

Meehan later left the Japanese side to return to Australia.

Global Rapid Rugby and QPR In March 2019, Meehan returned to the Western Force as Defence Coach ahead of the 2019 Global Rapid Rugby season, where the Force won all of their games.

By the end of 2019, Meehan returned to Queensland, firstly as Director of Rugby at Brisbane Boys' College, before later being appointed as Director of Rugby for Queensland Premier Rugby club side GPS.

In 2021, he helped the side to the final of the Premier Rugby league, but lost to University of Queensland 29–12.

Canada Meehan signed with MLR side, the Toronto Arrows, as Head Coach in October 2023, replacing Peter Smith. However, the team was disbanded due to financial reasons and did not compete in the 2024 season.

He was later appointed as Head Coach for the national team of in December 2024.