List of Sydney FC players

This article is about Sydney FC players with at least 100 appearances. For Sydney FC players with between 25 and 99 appearances, see List of Sydney FC players (25–99 appearances). For Sydney FC players with fewer than 25 appearances, see List of Sydney FC players (1–24 appearances). For the current Sydney FC first-team squad, see Sydney FC § First-team squad.

Alex Brosque is Sydney FC's highest all-time goalscorer.

Sydney Football Club is an association football club based in Moore Park, Sydney, who was formed in 2004. They became the first member from Sydney admitted into the A-League Men in 2005.

Rhyan Grant holds the record for the greatest number of appearances for Sydney FC with 340 games. Alex Brosque holds the goalscoring record with 83 goals.

Key

• The list is ordered first by date of debut, and then if necessary in alphabetical order.
• Appearances as a substitute are included.
• Statistics are correct up to and including the match played on 30 July 2024. Where a player left the club permanently after this date, his statistics are updated to his date of leaving.

Nationality

Unless otherwise noted, the nationality of a player is determined by the country/countries which he has played for, or if said person has not played international football, their country of birth.

Position

Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time.

Club career

Club career is defined as the first and last calendar years in which the player appeared for the club in any of the competitions listed below.

Total appearances and Total goals

Total appearances and goals comprise those in the A-League Men, Australia Cup, AFC Champions League, OFC Champions League, Pre-Season Challenge Cup, FIFA Club World Cup and the Pan-Pacific Championship

Players

Rhyan Grant, who lies first in the all-time appearance list with 339 who scored 18 goals from 2008.

Terry McFlynn made 214 appearances and was the club's first foreign captain from 2010 to 2013.

Steve Corica played 139 games for Sydney FC and has managed the club from 2018 to the present day.

Clint Bolton has the second highest amount of matches played for a goalkeeper with 142 games.

Players highlighted in bold are still actively playing at Sydney FC.

As of 18 May 2024

List of Sydney FC players with at least 100 appearances

Player	Nationality	Pos	Club career	Starts	Subs	Total	Goals
				Appearances
Clint Bolton	Australia	GK	2005–2010	142	0	142	0
David Carney	Australia	FW	2005–2007 2016–2018	100	37	137	27
Steve Corica	Australia	FW	2005–2010	125	14	139	31
Iain Fyfe	Australia	DF	2005–2009	118	4	122	6
Terry McFlynn	Northern Ireland	MF	2005–2014	193	21	214	7
Alex Brosque	Australia	FW	2006–2011 2014–2019	239	28	267	83
Vedran Janjetović	Australia	GK	2012–2017	112	0	112	0
Matthew Jurman	Australia	DF	2008–2011 2013–2017	97	21	118	3
Rhyan Grant	Australia	DF	2008–	300	40	340	18
Sebastian Ryall	Australia	DF	2009–2018	146	43	189	12
Miloš Ninković	Serbia	MF	2015–2022	196	25	221	41
Brandon O'Neill	Australia	MF	2015–2019	136	9	145	10
Joshua Brillante	Australia	MF	2016–2019	101	3	104	3
Alex Wilkinson	Australia	DF	2016–2023	219	2	221	3
Michael Zullo	Australia	DF	2016–2022	102	8	110	2
Bobô	Brazil	FW	2016–2018 2021–2022	90	30	120	71
Andrew Redmayne	Australia	GK	2017–	176	0	176	0
Paulo Retre	Australia	MF	2017–2023	127	49	176	4
Adam le Fondre	England	FW	2018–2020 2021–2023	119	9	128	73
Anthony Caceres	Australia	MF	2019–	104	24	128	9
Joel King	Australia	DF	2019–2022 2023–	93	20	113	3
Luke Brattan	Australia	MF	2019–2024	115	4	119	3

Captains

Nine players have captained Sydney FC since it was founded in 2004, the first being Mark Rudan, who captained the team until 2007. The club's longest-serving captain is Alex Brosque, who captained the club for five years between 2014 and 2019. The current captain is Rhyan Grant.

Dates	Captain [4]
2005–2007	Mark Rudan
2007–2008	Tony Popovic
2008–2010	Steve Corica
2010–2013	Terry McFlynn
2013–2014	Alessandro Del Piero
2014–2019	Alex Brosque
2019–2023	Alex Wilkinson
2023–2024	Luke Brattan
2024–present	Rhyan Grant

References

General

• "Player List". SFC Statistics. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
• "Complete Player Listing". aleaguestats.com.
• "Sydney FC: All Players". Ultimate A-League.

Specific

1. Jurd, Bradley (21 December 2018). "Rhyan Grant to become first player to mark 10 years at Sydney FC". Western Advocate.
2. Green, Samuel (12 June 2019). "Sydney FC farewells club legend McFlynn". A-League . Football Federation Australia.
3. "Sydney FC confirm former Socceroo Steve Corica as new coach". The Guardian. 16 May 2018.
4. "Sydney FC (Honour Roll)". Ultimate A-League. Retrieved 8 January 2023.