Greg Champion

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Greg Champion is an Australian songwriter, guitarist, radio personality and polymath.

Born in Benalla, Victoria, Champion is most recognised for his work as part of the Coodabeen Champions as a songwriter. He is an avid Australian rules football fan, supporting the Adelaide Crows and since the 1980s has penned many tunes on the Australian game. Of these, the most famous is That's the Thing about Football, which has gone down as a classic Australian rules song, and has been used on Seven Network's AFL coverage. The song reached #31 in 1994 on the Australian ARIA Charts.

Champion's highest selling album is the 1996 released "Aussie Christmas with Bucko & Champs" with Australian country music star Colin Buchanan. Under the moniker Bucko & Champs, their duet "Aussie Jingle Bells" is a favourite at Christmas time. In 2006 a sequel to "Aussie Christmas with Bucko & Champs" was released featuring 25 Christmas-themed songs.

Today Champion appears on ABC Local Radio as part of the Coodabeens team, singing parodies of popular songs and relating them to Australian rules footballers.

Greg Champion grew up in Hectorville, which is a small but significant part of the City of Campbelltown, a suburb of the South Australian capital, Adelaide.

Champs (Greg Champion) has written hundreds of songs (many serious, many humorous) and is a multi-awarded country/folk singing, who after being discovered in the Catacombs (a legendary Adelaide night club of the 70’s), went on to form the band “Tidewater” before launching a successful solo career.