Marcel Bellefeuille officially became the 20th head coach in Hamilton Tiger-Cats history on October 27, 2008 after taking over the team on an interim basis in September.  In his first full season as head coach, Bellefeuille led the Ticats to a 9-9 record, second place in the East Division and their first home playoff game since 2001.

Bellefeuille originally joined the Ticats as Offensive Coordinator in December of 2007 after running the Montreal Alouettes’ offence the previous season.

He was hired by the Alouettes in 2006 as the team’s Running Backs and Receivers coach after a five-year tenure with the Saskatchewan Roughriders – the latter three as the Riders’ Offensive Coordinator.

Bellefeuille’s offences routinely established themselves among the league’s premier running attacks.  Under Bellefeuille’s tutelage, Als running back Robert Edwards led all CFL players with 17 touchdowns in 2006 while Montreal was the only team to boast two 1,000-yard receivers in Kerry Watkins and Ben Cahoon.

In three seasons at the helm of Saskatchewan’s offence, Bellefeuille helped the Riders gain over 7,000 rushing yards and lead the league in rushing for three consecutive years (2003-05).  He has held CFL coaching jobs overseeing each individual offensive position.

Before joining the Roughriders, Bellefeuille enjoyed a very successful three-year tenure as Head Coach at the University of Ottawa. The Gee-Gees captured the 2000 Vanier Cup, one year after he was named the 1999 OQIFC Coach of the Year. Before becoming the Head Coach, Bellefeuille was an assistant with the Gee-Gees for three seasons from 1995 through 1997.

Bellefeuille made the jump to the university level after two different high school coaching stints in Ottawa from 1991 through 1995. He also led the Ottawa Sooners to a championship game and served as Head Coach for the Crawley Raiders of Europe’s NFL Budweiser League in 1989.  Bellefeuile also has guest coaching experience with the NFL’s Washington Redskins, Atlanta Falcons and Buffalo Bills.

Bellefeuille, originally an Ottawa native, is married to his wife, Julie.  They have four children; daughters Ymilie and Alexandra as well as sons Mathïas and Cédrik.