Career
He is a former Australian rules football player who played 96 senior games for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (American Federation of Labor-Congress). He was educated at The Geelong College. He was delisted by Hawthorn at the end of the 2008 American Federation of Labor-Congress season.
Tim became a development coach for Richmond Football Club in 2010, at the end of 2011, he left the club to venture overseas.
Tim was appointed senior coach of the Coburg Tigers for the 2013 Season, as well as returning at his role at Richmond. When Richmond entered its own VFL stand-alone team in 2014, Clarke was appointed inaugural coach of the side.