Perth Glory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club played its first competitive match in October 1996, in the first round of the 1996–97 National Soccer League. They have played at their current home ground, Perth Oval, since their foundation in 1995. Perth is one of the three A-League clubs to survive the demise of the National Soccer League, the previous top division in Australian soccer. The club was implemented into the inaugural A-League season in 2005, and has since participated in every A-League Men season.
Since the inception of the club in 1995, Perth have had 15 different managers (including two caretaker managers). The current manager is Alen Stajcic, who took over from Kenny Lowe on 3 August 2023. Glory's most successful manager is Mich d'Avray, who won two premierships and two championships during his three-season tenure. [1] [2]
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Image | Name | Nationality | From | To | M | W | D | L | GF | GA | Win % | Honours | Notes |
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Gary Marocchi | Australia | 1 July 1996 | 30 June 1998 | 52 | 21 | 11 | 20 | 83 | 81 | 40.38 | |||
Bernd Stange | Germany | 1 July 1998 | 30 June 2001 | 99 | 54 | 23 | 22 | 200 | 121 | 54.55 | 1 National Soccer League premiership | [2] | |
Mich d'Avray | England | 1 July 2001 | 30 June 2004 | 89 | 61 | 12 | 16 | 195 | 84 | 68.54 | 2 National Soccer League premierships 2 National Soccer League championships | [2] | |
Steve McMahon | England | 25 January 2005 | 7 December 2005 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 29 | 20 | 38.10 | |||
Alan Vest † | New Zealand | 8 December 2005 | 25 July 2006 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 33.33 | [6] | ||
Ron Smith | Australia | 26 July 2006 | 4 November 2007 | 43 | 9 | 14 | 20 | 44 | 44 | 20.93 | [7] [8] | ||
Dave Mitchell | Australia | 4 December 2007 | 12 October 2010 | 71 | 24 | 16 | 31 | 102 | 91 | 33.80 | [9] | ||
Ian Ferguson | Scotland | 12 October 2010 | 13 January 2013 | 72 | 23 | 14 | 35 | 82 | 87 | 31.94 | [10] | ||
Alistair Edwards | Australia | 11 February 2013 | 17 December 2013 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 20 | 38.89 | [11] | ||
Kenny Lowe ‡ | England | 20 December 2013 | 20 April 2018 | 141 | 61 | 27 | 53 | 226 | 185 | 43.26 | [12] | ||
Tony Popovic | Australia | 11 May 2018 | 26 August 2020 | 60 | 30 | 13 | 17 | 104 | 57 | 50.00 | 1 A-League Men premiership | [13] [14] [15] | |
Richard Garcia | Australia | 11 September 2020 | 20 March 2022 | 48 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 63 | 60 | 25.00 | [16] [17] | ||
Ruben Zadkovich ‡ | Australia | 20 March 2022 | 2 June 2023 | 37 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 44 | 56 | 21.62 | [17] [18] | ||
Kenny Lowe † | England | 12 July 2023 | 3 August 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | [19] | ||
Alen Stajcic | Australia | 3 August 2023 | Present | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 21 | 20.00 | [20] |
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