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Matthew Richard Primus (born 12 January 1975) is an Australian rules football coach and former player. He has served as the head coach of the Southport Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) since 2025.
Primus previously played for, captained and later coached the Port Adelaide Football Club. He was also an assistant coach at the Gold Coast Suns from 2013 until 2018.
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1996 | | 12 || 20 || 5 || 7 || 163 || 137 || 300 || 61 || 41 || 339 || 0.3 || 0.4 || 8.2 || 6.9 || 15.0 || 3.1 || 2.1 || 17.0 || 2 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1997 | | 2 || 22 || 6 || 1 || 179 || 89 || 268 || 74 || 38 || 255 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 8.1 || 4.0 || 12.2 || 3.4 || 1.7 || 11.6 || 9 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1998 | | 2 || 18 || 4 || 2 || 105 || 128 || 233 || 55 || 34 || 289 || 0.2 || 0.1 || 5.8 || 7.1 || 12.9 || 3.1 || 1.9 || 16.1 || 4 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1999 | | 2 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 9 || 5 || 14 || 4 || 1 || 28 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 4.5 || 2.5 || 7.0 || 2.0 || 0.5 || 14.0 || 0 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2000 | | 2 || 21 || 12 || 8 || 124 || 163 || 287 || 79 || 45 || 315 || 0.6 || 0.4 || 5.9 || 7.8 || 13.7 || 3.8 || 2.1 || 15.0 || 5 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2001 | | 1 || 22 || 9 || 5 || 137 || 156 || 293 || 85 || 60 || 488 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 6.2 || 7.1 || 13.3 || 3.9 || 2.7 || 22.2 || 10 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2002 | | 1 || 24 || 23 || 8 || 140 || 180 || 320 || 91 || 75 || 490 || 1.0 || 0.3 || 5.8 || 7.5 || 13.3 || 3.8 || 3.1 || 20.4 || 9 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2003 | | 1 || 9 || 5 || 1 || 34 || 27 || 61 || 22 || 15 || 111 || 0.6 || 0.1 || 3.8 || 3.0 || 6.8 || 2.4 || 1.7 || 12.3 || 0 |- style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2004 | | 1 || 1 || 4 || 1 || 7 || 5 || 12 || 5 || 5 || 11 || 4.0 || 1.0 || 7.0 || 5.0 || 12.0 || 5.0 || 5.0 || 11.0 || 0 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2005 | | 1 || 18 || 12 || 10 || 87 || 87 || 174 || 50 || 35 || 289 || 0.7 || 0.6 || 4.8 || 4.8 || 9.7 || 2.8 || 1.9 || 16.1 || 2 |- class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3| Career ! 157 ! 81 ! 43 ! 985 ! 977 ! 1962 ! 526 ! 349 ! 2615 ! 0.5 ! 0.3 ! 6.3 ! 6.2 ! 12.5 ! 3.4 ! 2.2 ! 16.7 ! 41 |}
Just over midway through the 2010 season, with the Power’s record getting worse week by week, Williams stepped down as senior coach after Round 15, and Primus was appointed the caretaker senior coach for the remainder of the 2010 season. As caretaker senior coach, Primus won five of his seven games in charge, with two of them against in-form teams and , and earned numerous praises from players, staff and supporters for the job in 2011. The club administration had started the search for a new coach and it was believed that the Power would appoint someone who had never been associated with the club before. Nevertheless, Primus was appointed as the senior coach of the club for three years.
In the 2011 season in Primus' first full season as the full-time Port Adelaide senior coach, the side won only three games, finishing second-last, narrowly avoiding the wooden spoon with a win in the final round of the season against , at the expense of in their inaugural season. He finished the 2011 season with a 3-19 win–loss record. In the 2012 season, he coached the team to a 5–13 record after nineteen rounds, but after the team's 34-point loss to struggling expansion team in Round 19, Primus was informed that his contract would be terminated one year early at the end of the season; he opted to step down as senior coach immediately, on 6 August 2012, rather than coach out the remaining four matches, and he was replaced by Port Adelaide assistant coach Garry Hocking as caretaker senior coach for the remainder of the 2012 season. He left Port Adelaide with a winning percentage of just 27.7%.
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