Patrick Beach

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Patrick Beach
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Beach with Melbourne City in 2025.
Personal information
Full name Patrick Thomas Beach
Date of birth (2003-08-06) 6 August 2003 (age 22)
Place of birth Sydney, Australia
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) [1]
Position Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Melbourne City
Number 1
Youth career
2007-2011 Glenmore Park FC [2]
2012–2018 Mt Druitt Town Rangers
2018–2019 Marconi Stallions
2021–2023 Central Coast Mariners
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021–2023 Central Coast Mariners NPL 15 (0)
2021–2023 Central Coast Mariners 0 (0)
2023– Melbourne City NPL 6 (0)
2023– Melbourne City 35 (0)
International career‡
2024– Australia U23 11 (0)
2025– Australia 1 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
WAFF U-23 Championship
Runner-up 2024 Saudi Arabia
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 1 November 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 15 November 2025

Patrick Beach (born 6 August 2003) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for A-League Men club Melbourne City and the Australia national team.

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Beach developed his football skills playing in the NSW Football Competition. His junior club was Glenmore Park Football Club where he played his first 5 years, then transferring to Mount Druitt Town Rangers for the SAP program. After completing 3 years in the SAP program Beach played a further 3 years with Rangers in the NSW Youth League program. Beach then transferred to the Marconi Stallions Football Club for 2 seasons before accepting a position to trial overseas at Larne FC, Northern Ireland. After 12 months Beach headed south to Dundalk FC, Republic of Ireland and then across to the United Kingdom to trial with Ipswich Town FC, returning to Australia in October 2021 to join the Central Coast Mariners. After a successful stint with the Mariners, Beach accepted an offer in the A League in 2023 to join Melbourne City on the bench playing behind Goalkeeper Jamie Young. In October 2024, Beach replaced Young as the starting keeper, making his A League debut against Newcastle FC, keeping a clean sheet on debut and receiving the Man of the Match award after the 1–0 win to Melbourne City. During his debut in the 2024–25 A-League Men season, Beach played in all games, (regular season and finals fixtures) culminating in a grand final win with his team and becoming an A League Championship winning player at 21 years of age.

Club career

Central Coast Mariners

Beach was benched in two league matches with the Central Coast Mariners in January 2022 and joined the roster for the 2021 FFA Cup final, [3] but did not make an appearance during his stint with the club.

Melbourne City

Beach signed for Melbourne City on 23 June 2023 on a three-year deal, and was benched for the entire 2023–24 A-League Men campaign. [4] In the next season in 2024–25, he made his professional debut with Melbourne City on 19 October 2024 starting and keeping a clean sheet against the Newcastle Jets in a 1–0 win, earning him the Man of the Match on debut. [5] Manager Aurelio Vidmar explained the decision to start Beach ahead of regular goalkeeper Jamie Young by saying that it was the time to give the younger player the opportunity. [6] Beach played every minute of the season, leading to Young retiring in February 2025. [7] Beach finished the 2024-25 A-League season playing all 29 games for Melbourne City, with 13 clean sheets.

International career

Beach was called up to represent the Australia U23 at the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup donning caps in all three group games. He was then called up to the Australia U-23s for the Pacific Aus Sports Football Series in October 2024. [8] Beach is the current Captain of the Mens U-23 Australian Team. Beach was recently called up by Australian Mens team coach Tony Popovic as a train on player during the 2025 Socceroo's training camp in Sydney.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 1 November 2025 [9]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational AUS CupContinental AFCTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Central Coast Mariners 2021–22 A-League Men 00000000
Central Coast Mariners NPL 2023 NPL NSW 150——150
Melbourne City NPL 2023 NPL Victoria 2 10——10
2024 VPL 1 50——50
Total210——210
Melbourne City 2023–24 A-League Men00000000
2024–25 2900000290
2025-2630003060
Total3200000350
Career total5300000560

International

As of match played 21 April 2024 [9]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Australia U23 202320
Australia U23202440
Australia U23202550

Honours

Melbourne City

Australia U-23

References

  1. ↑ "Patrick Beach". Melbourne City . Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  2. ↑ https://www.socceroos.com.au/news/subway-australian-u-23-squad-named-doha-international-cup
  3. ↑ "Mariners without Jason Cummings for FFA Cup final". NBN News. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "CITY SWOOP ON YOUNG TRIO: Beach, Lopane, Schreiber make Melbourne move". Melbourne City . 23 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "BEACH: I'm ecstatic with the win". Melbourne City . 21 October 2024.
  6. ↑ Comito, Matt (19 October 2024). "City coach explains big selection call that paved the way for 21yo's best-on-ground debut". A-Leagues. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
  7. ↑ Harrington, Anna (6 February 2025). "A-League stalwart, City goalkeeper Jamie Young retires". Bay Post/Moruya Examiner. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Subway Australian U-23 squad named for PacificAus Sports Football Series". Socceroos . Football Australia Media. 26 August 2024.
  9. 1 2 Patrick Beach at Soccerway . Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  10. ↑ "Subway Olyroos' Head Coach, Tony Vidmar has named an extended 26-man squad for the fifth edition of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) U-23 Championship – Saudi Arabia 2024". Football Federation Australia . Retrieved April 6, 2025.
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