Melbourne Victory Football Club, an Australian association football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, was founded in 2004. They became the only Victorian team in the inaugural seasons of the A-League, a professional football competition which commenced in 2005. The club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions, and all players who have played in one or more such match are listed below.
Leigh Broxham holds the record for the greatest number of appearances for Melbourne Victory. From 2005 to date, the Australian defender has played 375 times for the club. As of 2020, fourteen other players have made more than 100 appearances for Melbourne. The club's goalscoring record is held by Archie Thompson, who scored 97 goals in all competitions between 2005 and 2016.
GK | Goalkeeper |
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DF | Defender |
MF | Midfielder |
FW | Forward |
Player | Nationality | Position | Club career | Starts | Subs | Total | Goals | Ref |
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Danny Allsopp | Australia | FW | 2005–2009 2011–2012 | 131 | 18 | 149 | 50 | [1] |
Mark Byrnes | Australia | DF | 2005–2007 | 21 | 4 | 25 | 2 | [2] |
Ricky Diaco | Australia | FW | 2005–2006 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 1 | [3] |
Spase Dilevski | Australia | U | 2005 2012–2013 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 1 | [4] |
Adrian Leijer | Australia | DF | 2005–2007 2009–2015 | 202 | 3 | 205 | 8 | [5] |
Vince Lia | Australia | MF | 2005–2007 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 0 | [6] |
Steve Pantelidis | Australia | U | 2005–2008 | 58 | 13 | 71 | 0 | [7] |
Kristian Sarkies | Australia | MF | 2005–2007 | 28 | 16 | 44 | 3 | [8] |
Simon Storey | Australia | DF | 2005–2007 | 32 | 6 | 38 | 0 | [9] |
Chris Tadrosse | Australia | U | 2005–2006 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 0 | [10] |
Michael Theoklitos | Australia | GK | 2005–2009 | 89 | 0 | 89 | 0 | [11] |
Matthew Spiranovic | Australia | DF | 2005 2021- | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | [12] |
Leigh Broxham | Australia | U | 2005– | 318 | 62 | 380 | 7 | [13] |
Daniel Visevic | Australia | MF | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | [14] |
Geoffrey Claeys | Belgium | U | 2005–2006 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | [15] |
Michael Ferrante | Australia | MF | 2005–2007 | 24 | 7 | 31 | 1 | [16] |
Eugene Galekovic | Australia | GK | 2005–2007 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 | [17] |
Richard Kitzbichler | Austria | MF | 2005–2006 | 20 | 2 | 22 | 5 | [18] |
Daniel Piorkowski | Australia | DF | 2005–2007 | 38 | 2 | 40 | 0 | [19] |
Archie Thompson | Australia | FW | 2005–2016 | 226 | 36 | 262 | 97 | [20] |
Carl Recchia | Australia | U | 2005–2006 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 0 | [21] |
Kevin Muscat | Australia | DF | 2005–2011 | 151 | 0 | 151 | 35 | [22] |
Andrew Vlahos | Australia | U | 2005–2006 | 14 | 7 | 21 | 0 | [23] |
Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu | Australia | U | 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | [24] |
Grant Brebner | Scotland | MF | 2006–2012 | 109 | 26 | 135 | 6 | [25] |
Adrian Caceres | Australia | U | 2006–2008 | 33 | 22 | 55 | 6 | [26] |
Claudinho | Brazil | MF | 2006 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 1 | [27] |
Fred | Brazil | MF | 2006–2007 | 25 | 0 | 25 | 4 | [28] |
Rodrigo Vargas | Australia | DF | 2006–2012 | 166 | 1 | 167 | 8 | [29] |
Alessandro | Australia | U | 2006–2007 | 11 | 10 | 21 | 0 | [30] |
James Robinson | England | U | 2006–2007 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | [31] |
Antun Kovacic | Australia | DF | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | [32] |
Joe Keenan | England | U | 2007 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 1 | [33] |
Matthew Kemp | Australia | U | 2007–2012 | 88 | 8 | 96 | 2 | [34] |
Ljubo Milicevic | Australia | U | 2007 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | [35] |
Kaz Patafta | Australia | U | 2007–2008 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 1 | [36] |
Carlos Hernández | Costa Rica | U | 2007–2012 | 125 | 16 | 141 | 39 | [37] |
Daniel Vasilevski | Australia | U | 2007–2008 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 0 | [38] |
Leandro Love | Brazil | FW | 2007–2008 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 0 | [39] |
Sebastian Ryall | Australia | DF | 2007–2009 | 26 | 8 | 34 | 0 | [40] |
Evan Berger | Australia | U | 2007–2011 | 31 | 24 | 55 | 0 | [41] |
Steven Pace | Australia | DF | 2007–2008 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 0 | [42] |
Nick Ward | Australia | MF | 2007–2010 | 46 | 16 | 62 | 5 | [43] |
Mitchell Langerak | Australia | GK | 2008–2010 | 26 | 3 | 29 | 0 | [44] |
Billy Celeski | Australia | MF | 2008–2013 | 85 | 16 | 101 | 2 | [45] |
Tom Pondeljak | Australia | MF | 2008–2011 | 70 | 20 | 90 | 10 | [46] |
Nathan Elasi | Australia | FW | 2008–2010 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0 | [47] |
Ney Fabiano | Australia | FW | 2008–2009 | 20 | 14 | 34 | 7 | [48] |
Michael Thwaite | Australia | U | 2008–2009 | 19 | 1 | 20 | 1 | [49] |
José Luis López | Costa Rica | MF | 2008–2009 | 13 | 8 | 21 | 0 | [50] |
Glen Moss | New Zealand | GK | 2009–2010 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 | [51] |
Surat Sukha | Thailand | U | 2009–2011 | 39 | 7 | 46 | 0 | [52] |
Matthew Foschini | Australia | U | 2009–2013 | 34 | 19 | 53 | 0 | [53] |
Robbie Kruse | Australia | U | 2009–2011 2019– | 53 | 7 | 60 | 19 | [54] |
Mate Dugandzic | Australia | U | 2009–2011 | 19 | 21 | 40 | 8 | [55] |
Sutee Suksomkit | Thailand | U | 2009 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 | [56] |
Luke Pilkington | Australia | U | 2009–2011 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | [57] |
Marvin Angulo | Costa Rica | U | 2010–2011 | 26 | 20 | 46 | 0 | [58] |
Aziz Behich | Australia | U | 2010 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | [59] |
Nik Mrdja | Australia | FW | 2010 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 | [60] |
Diogo Ferreira | Australia | U | 2010–2013 | 39 | 21 | 60 | 3 | [61] |
Michael Petkovic | Australia | GK | 2010–2011 | 33 | 0 | 33 | 0 | [62] |
Geoff Kellaway | England | MF | 2010 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 0 | [63] |
Ricardinho | Brazil | U | 2010–2011 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 2 | [64] |
Petar Franjic | Australia | DF | 2011–2012 | 26 | 4 | 30 | 0 | [65] |
Isaka Cernak | Australia | MF | 2011–2012 | 12 | 13 | 25 | 2 | [66] |
Tando Velaphi | Australia | GK | 2011–2012 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | [67] |
Ante Covic | Australia | GK | 2011–2012 | 24 | 0 | 24 | 0 | [68] |
Fabinho | Brazil | DF | 2011–2012 | 23 | 0 | 23 | 1 | [69] |
Harry Kewell | Australia | U | 2011–2012 | 25 | 0 | 25 | 8 | [70] |
Marco Rojas | New Zealand | FW | 2011–2013 2016–2017 2020– | 76 | 13 | 89 | 34 | [71] |
Jean Carlos Solórzano | Costa Rica | FW | 2011–2012 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 0 | [72] |
Lawrence Thomas | Australia | GK | 2011– | 149 | 2 | 151 | 0 | [73] |
James Jeggo | Australia | MF | 2011–2014 | 19 | 15 | 34 | 3 | [74] |
Mark Milligan | Australia | U | 2012–2015 2017–2018 | 93 | 4 | 97 | 20 | [75] |
Ubay Luzardo | Spain | DF | 2012 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | [76] |
Julius Davies | Australia | U | 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | [77] |
Jonathan Bru | Mauritius | MF | 2012–2013 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 0 | [78] |
Guilherme Finkler | Brazil | MF | 2012–2016 | 82 | 17 | 99 | 23 | [79] |
Marcos Flores | Argentina | U | 2012–2013 | 23 | 1 | 24 | 4 | [80] |
Adama Traoré | Ivory Coast | U | 2012–2014 2019– | 79 | 0 | 79 | 1 | [81] |
Theo Markelis | Australia | U | 2012 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | [82] |
Andrew Nabbout | Australia | U | 2012–2015 2019–2020 | 39 | 34 | 73 | 16 | [83] |
Nathan Coe | Australia | GK | 2012–2015 | 80 | 0 | 80 | 0 | [84] |
Christopher Cristaldo | Australia | MF | 2012–2014 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | [85] |
Sam Gallagher | Australia | DF | 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | [86] |
Nick Ansell | Australia | DF | 2012–2018 | 78 | 16 | 94 | 3 | [87] |
Luke O'Dea | Australia | MF | 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | [88] |
Francesco Stella | Australia | MF | 2013 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | [89] |
Scott Galloway | Australia | U | 2013–2016 | 51 | 14 | 65 | 1 | [90] |
Connor Pain | Australia | U | 2013–2016 | 23 | 44 | 67 | 5 | [91] |
Jesse Makarounas | Australia | FW | 2013–2016 | 15 | 39 | 54 | 3 | [92] |
Daniel Mullen | Australia | DF | 2013 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | [93] |
Dylan Murnane | Australia | DF | 2013–2016 | 26 | 6 | 32 | 0 | [94] |
Jason Geria | Australia | DF | 2013–2018 | 121 | 13 | 134 | 1 | [95] |
Pablo Contreras | Chile | DF | 2013–2014 | 24 | 0 | 24 | 1 | [96] |
Rashid Mahazi | Australia | MF | 2013–2017 | 45 | 46 | 91 | 0 | [97] |
Mitch Nichols | Australia | U | 2013–2014 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 3 | [98] |
James Troisi | Australia | MF | 2013–2014 2016–2019 | 118 | 8 | 126 | 32 | [99] |
Kosta Barbarouses | New Zealand | U | 2013–2016 2017–2019 | 150 | 11 | 161 | 51 | [100] |
Jordan Brown | Australia | MF | 2014 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | [101] |
Tom Rogic | Australia | U | 2014 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 0 | [102] |
Besart Berisha | Kosovo | FW | 2014–2018 | 137 | 0 | 137 | 86 | [103] |
Matthieu Delpierre | France | DF | 2014–2016 | 55 | 1 | 56 | 2 | [104] |
Carl Valeri | Australia | MF | 2014–2019 | 127 | 9 | 136 | 2 | [105] |
Daniel Georgievski | Macedonia | DF | 2014–2017 | 67 | 16 | 83 | 4 | [106] |
Fahid Ben Khalfallah | Tunisia | U | 2014–2017 | 77 | 9 | 86 | 14 | [107] |
Kieran Dover | Australia | DF | 2014–2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | [108] |
George Howard | Australia | FW | 2015–2017 | 3 | 16 | 19 | 3 | [109] |
Thomas Deng | Australia | DF | 2015–2019 | 78 | 9 | 87 | 2 | [110] |
Danny Vukovic | Australia | GK | 2015–2016 | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0 | [111] |
Joey Katebian | Australia | FW | 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | [112] |
Oliver Bozanic | Australia | MF | 2015–2017 | 56 | 7 | 63 | 7 | [113] |
Giancarlo Gallifuoco | Australia | U | 2015–2016 2020– | 9 | 3 | 12 | 0 | [114] |
Jai Ingham | New Zealand | MF | 2016–2019 | 23 | 44 | 67 | 4 | [115] |
Stefan Nigro | Australia | MF | 2016–2018 | 21 | 10 | 31 | 0 | [116] |
Mitch Austin | Australia | U | 2016–2017 | 17 | 12 | 29 | 5 | [117] |
Alan Baró | Spain | U | 2016–2017 | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0 | [118] |
Sebastian Pasquali | Australia | MF | 2016 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | [119] |
James Donachie | Australia | DF | 2016–2018 2019–2020 | 81 | 10 | 91 | 1 | [120] |
Maximilian Beister | Germany | FW | 2016–2017 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 1 | [121] |
Matt Acton | Australia | GK | 2016– | 18 | 2 | 20 | 0 | [122] |
Cameron McGilp | Australia | DF | 2017–2018 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | [123] |
Christian Theoharous | Australia | FW | 2017–2018 | 3 | 22 | 25 | 1 | [124] |
Rhys Williams | Australia | DF | 2017–2018 | 32 | 0 | 32 | 2 | [125] |
Josh Hope | Australia | MF | 2017– | 13 | 27 | 40 | 2 | [126] |
Leroy George | Netherlands | U | 2017–2018 | 32 | 2 | 34 | 12 | [127] |
Matías Sánchez | Argentina | MF | 2017–2018 | 14 | 11 | 25 | 0 | [128] |
Kenny Athiu | South Sudan | FW | 2017– | 18 | 33 | 51 | 4 | [129] |
Dino Djulbic | Australia | DF | 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | [130] |
Terry Antonis | Australia | MF | 2018–2019 | 48 | 5 | 53 | 5 | [131] |
Pierce Waring | Australia | FW | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | [132] |
Birkan Kirdar | Australia | MF | 2018– | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0 | [133] |
Corey Brown | Australia | DF | 2018–2019 | 31 | 6 | 37 | 1 | [134] |
Storm Roux | New Zealand | DF | 2018– | 50 | 9 | 59 | 3 | [135] |
Raúl Baena | Spain | MF | 2018–2019 | 18 | 6 | 24 | 1 | [136] |
Keisuke Honda | Japan | MF | 2018–2019 | 22 | 2 | 24 | 8 | [137] |
Georg Niedermeier | Germany | DF | 2018–2019 | 16 | 3 | 19 | 2 | [138] |
Ola Toivonen | Sweden | FW | 2018– | 43 | 6 | 49 | 29 | [139] |
Rahmat Akbari | Australia | MF | 2018–2019 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 0 | [140] |
Elvis Kamsoba | Burundi | MF | 2019– | 16 | 33 | 49 | 2 | [141] |
Anthony Lesiotis | AustraliaF | MF | 2019– | 15 | 16 | 31 | 0 | [142] |
Jack Palazzolo | Australia | FW | 2019– | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | [143] |
Benjamin Carrigan | Australia | DF | 2019– | 9 | 4 | 13 | 0 | [144] |
Aaron Anderson | Australia | DF | 2019– | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | [145] |
Brandon Lauton | Australia | DF | 2019– | 7 | 9 | 16 | 0 | [146] |
Jakob Poulsen | Denmark | MF | 2019–2020 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 0 | [147] |
Kristijan Dobras | Austria | MF | 2019–2020 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 2 | [148] |
Migjen Basha | Albania | MF | 2019– | 24 | 5 | 29 | 2 | [149] |
Tim Hoogland | Germany | MF | 2019– | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | [150] |
Jay Barnett | Australia | MF | 2019– | 6 | 6 | 12 | 0 | [151] |
So Nishikawa | Australia | DF | 2020– | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | [152] |
Luis Lawrie-Lattanzio | Australia | MF | 2020– | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | [153] |
Lleyton Brooks | Australia | FW | 2020– | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | [154] |
Joshua Varga | Australia | MF | 2020– | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | [155] |
Players that represented their national team while contracted to Melbourne Victory.
Name | National team | Notes |
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Adrian Leijer | Australia | |
Archie Thompson | Australia | |
Billy Celeski | Australia | |
Carlos Hernandez | Costa Rica | |
Connor Pain | Australia | Made his Socceroos debut whilst playing for Melbourne |
Daniel Allsopp | Australia | |
Elvis Kamsoba | Burundi | |
Harry Kewell | Australia | |
José Luis López | Costa Rica | |
Kevin Muscat | Australia | |
Leigh Broxham | Australia | |
Marco Rojas | New Zealand | |
Mark Milligan | Australia | |
Marvin Angulo | Costa Rica | |
Matthew Kemp | Australia | |
Mitch Nichols | Australia | |
Robbie Kruse | Australia | |
Rodrigo Vargas | Australia | |
Surat Sukha | Thailand | |
Sutee Suksomkit | Thailand | |
Tom Pondeljak | Australia |
Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory entered the competition in the inaugural season as the only Victorian-based club in the newly revamped domestic Australian league.
The A-League Men is an Australian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Australian soccer league system, it is the country's primary soccer competition and is contested by 12 clubs. The competition was formed in April 2004, following a number of issues including financial problems in the National Soccer League. Those records and statistics of the A-League Men are listed below. All updated as of 31 December 2023.
Leigh Michael Broxham is an Australian professional soccer player, currently play for semi-professional club Bentleigh Greens in Victoria Premier League 1.
The Original Rivalry is a rivalry between South Australian-based club Adelaide United and Victorian-based club Melbourne Victory. It is also referred to as 'The Original Derby'.
The Melbourne Victory Player of the Season, also known as the Victory Medal, is an award presented to the Melbourne Victory coaching staff's player of the season.