Dalton Gooding

Who is Dalton Gooding?

Dalton Gooding is a Western Australian businessman, and from 2002 to 2007 he was the chairman of the West Coast Eagles Australian Football League club.

A former footballer himself, in the early 1970s Gooding moved from his hometown of Dumbleyung in rural Western Australia to take up a 3-year $1000 scholarship offered to him by WAFL club Claremont. He played nine seasons for the Tigers and represented Western Australia in a game at the 1975 Knockout Carnival.

In addition to his West Coast Eagles chairmanship, Gooding is a principal in the accounting firm Gooding Partners, as well as being a non executive chairman of Clinical Cell Culture and an executive director of Australian Wine Holdings and SIPA Resources. He is also a director of St John of God Health Care.