The Big Blue (A-League Men)

The Big Blue
	Sydney FC vs Melbourne Victory, Allianz Stadium, February 2010
Location	Melbourne ; Sydney (Australia)
Teams	Melbourne Victory ; Sydney FC
First meeting	28 August 2005; A-League ; Sydney FC 1–1 Melbourne Victory
Latest meeting	26 January 2024; A-League Men ; Melbourne Victory 1–1 Sydney FC
Statistics
Meetings total	64
Most wins	Sydney FC (25)
Most player appearances	Leigh Broxham (47)
Top scorer	Archie Thompson (14)
Largest victory	Melbourne Victory 5–0 Sydney FC (16 October 2005); Melbourne Victory 0–5 Sydney FC (26 January 2014); Sydney FC 6–1 Melbourne Victory (12 May 2019)

Last updated April 14, 2024

The Big Blue,^[1]^[2] is the name of the soccer rivalry in Australia between Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory. While the main colour of both teams and their respective states are shades of the colour blue, in Australian English the word "blue" can also mean "a fight, brawl or heated argument".^[3]

Sydney and Melbourne are the two largest cities in Australia, and Sydney FC and Victory are two of the league's most supported and most successful clubs. The rivalry was further sparked by a number of highly competitive meetings between the two teams in early seasons. The Big Blue generally attracts some of the largest crowds and TV audiences of the regular season.

History

Regional rivals

There has been a long-standing rivalry between the cities of Sydney and Melbourne, the two largest cities in Australia.

In soccer terms, the rivalry has existed for almost 140 years, starting with the first inter-colonial match between Victoria and New South Wales taking place on 16 August 1883 at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, which ended as a 2–2 draw in front of a crowd of 2,000.^[4] These intercolonial and later interstate matches continued regularly as a highlight of early Australian soccer until the outbreak of World War I. Although there were many later matches between various mostly immigrant-founded teams from Melbourne and Sydney in the Australia Cup and the National Soccer League prior to the A-League Men era, the interstate rivalry aspect was not as much of a focus, given the context and identity of the clubs involved.

Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory FC were destined to become major rivals at the inception of the A-League Men due to the historic regional rivalry between their home cities. At the time, the A-League Men operated under the "one-team, one-city" model,^[5] so the rivalry was almost instantaneous.

Significant moments

The first competitive match between the two clubs was significantly played on the opening weekend of the inaugural 2005–06 A-League season. It was held on 28 August 2005 at Sydney FC's home ground, Sydney Football Stadium. Both teams were eager to stamp their authority as the biggest club in the league, with Sydney FC having already won the 2005 OFC Club Championship during pre-season. The match ended in a 1-all draw as Victory's first player signing and soon to become stalwart, Archie Thompson, cancelled out Sydney FC's marquee signing, Dwight Yorke's first half goal.^[6] The second meeting on 16 October 2005 resulted in a landslide win for Victory at their then home ground, Olympic Park Stadium, defeating Sydney FC 5–0.^[7] The result still stands as Sydney FC's worst defeat in this fixture.

The first encounter between the clubs during the 2006–07 A-League season (and fourth overall) entrenched the rivalry between the teams as passion and tension fueled the match. Sydney FC skipper, Mark Rudan was sent off after fourteen minutes and Victory player Fred elbowed Sydney FC defender Mark Milligan in the throat. Fred avoided sanction as he was substituted before the referee could see a replay on the big screen.^[7] The ugly incident required urgent medical attention as it left Milligan struggling to breathe and there were fears he swallowed his tongue.^[8] The following match in Melbourne, the sixth overall, set the record for attendance at an A-League match when 50,333 fans crammed into Etihad Stadium on 8 December 2006. The match ended in a nil-all draw.^[7]

After sealing the 2010 Premiership at home on the final day of the season by beating Melbourne 2–0, Sydney FC went on to win the Championship Grand Final on penalties at Melbourne's home stadium.

The rivalry reached another level in 2011, with both teams in pursuit of the signature of Socceroo Harry Kewell pre-season. Melbourne Victory announced they had signed Kewell on 20 August and five days afterwards Sydney FC announced that they had signed Socceroo Brett Emerton from Blackburn Rovers. The teams played out a 0–0 stalemate in the first round of the 2011–12 A-League season, with Australia's head coach not picking either player for national duty, allowing the eagerly-anticipated match up to occur.

A Big Blue match has been played each Australia Day at either the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium or Docklands Stadium in Melbourne since the 2011–12 A-League season which ended in a 2–all draw. However, the 2014–15 A-League season did not feature this fixture due to the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.

Since 2012, the teams have played for the BeyondBlue Cup, which is awarded to the winning team in the Big Blue.^[9] Sydney FC claimed the inaugural BeyondBlue Cup by defeating Melbourne Victory 1–0 at Allianz Stadium on 10 March 2012.

On 10 November 2012, Melbourne Victory came from 2–0 down to win 3–2 at Allianz Stadium, with two late goals from substitute player Andrew Nabbout helping them achieve the result. This match turned out of be Ian Crook's last match as Sydney FC manager, as he announced his resignation shortly after the defeat, which was Sydney's fourth in six games.

The fixture played 8 December 2006 holds the record for the second highest attendance at a regular season match with 50,333 in attendance. Currently, three fixtures between the two sides make up the top ten of the League's highest regular season attendances.^[10]

With Sydney defeating Melbourne on 3 March 2017 (36th match), they became the first side to win all 3 games of the rivalry in the normal season.

Melbourne Victory and Sydney met in the 2017 A-League Grand Final. Despite Sydney only losing 1 game throughout the whole season, it was Melbourne Victory who took the lead through a Besart Berisha goal. Sydney FC equalised after halftime thanks to Rhyan Grant. The game went to penalties and Sydney won 4–2 on penalties. It was exactly the same scoreline as there meeting in the 2010 Grand Final.

Head-to-head summary

As of 26 January 2024

Competition	Played	Melbourne Victory wins	Draws	Sydney FC wins
A-League Men regular season	56	16	18	22
A-League Men finals (except Grand Finals)	5	3	1	1
A-League Men Grand Finals	3	1	0	2
A-League Men (overall)	64	20	19	25
Australia Cup	0	0	0	0
Total	64	20	19	25

All-time results

Regular season matches

#	Date	Home team	Score	Away team	Goals (home)	Goals (away)	Venue	Attendance
1	28 August 2005	Sydney	1–1	Melbourne	Yorke (44)	Thompson (72)	Sydney Football Stadium	25,208
2	16 October 2005	Melbourne	5–0	Sydney	Kitzbichler (34), Muscat (53, 78), Thompson (57, 69)	—	Olympic Park Stadium	18,208
3	3 December 2005	Sydney	2–1	Melbourne	Corica (24), Carney (81)	Allsopp (88)	Sydney Football Stadium	17,272
4	2 September 2006	Melbourne	3–2	Sydney	Allsopp (8, 51), Muscat (11 p)	Fyfe (18), Vargas (83 o.g.)	Docklands Stadium	39,730
5	21 October 2006	Sydney	1–2	Melbourne	Corica (8)	Thompson (50, 73)	Sydney Football Stadium	20,881
6	8 December 2006	Melbourne	0–0	Sydney	—	—	Docklands Stadium	50,333
7	6 October 2007	Sydney	0–1	Melbourne	—	Allsopp (82)	Sydney Football Stadium	18,436
8	10 November 2007	Melbourne	0–0	Sydney	—	—	Docklands Stadium	31,884
9	20 January 2008	Sydney	2–2	Melbourne	Corica (4), Brosque (62)	Milligan (46 o.g.), Allsopp (76)	Sydney Football Stadium	33,458
10	16 August 2008	Sydney	0–0	Melbourne	—	—	Sydney Football Stadium	16,227
11	25 October 2008	Melbourne	0–2	Sydney	—	Bridge (20), Aloisi (62)	Docklands Stadium	31,654
12	27 December 2008	Melbourne	3–2	Sydney	Thompson (14), Ward (78), Ney Fabiano (80)	Cole (1), Gan (4)	Docklands Stadium	33,458
13	9 October 2009	Melbourne	0–3	Sydney	—	Brosque (14), Bridge (17, 19)	Docklands Stadium	30,668
14	19 December 2009	Melbourne	0–0	Sydney	—	—	Docklands Stadium	27,344
15	14 February 2010	Sydney	2–0	Melbourne	Kisel (34), Aloisi (49)	—	Sydney Football Stadium	25,407
16	7 August 2010	Sydney	3–3	Melbourne	Brosque (36), McFlynn (54), Cole (85)	Broxham (66), Dugandzic (67), Celeski (73)	Sydney Football Stadium	12,106
17	16 October 2010	Melbourne	3–0	Sydney	Vargas (20), Hernández (49), Kruse (90)	—	Docklands Stadium	17,299
18	15 January 2011	Sydney	1–1	Melbourne	Mäkelä (90)	Allsopp (51)	Sydney Football Stadium	11,387
19	8 October 2011	Melbourne	0–0	Sydney	—	—	Docklands Stadium	40,351
20	26 January 2012	Melbourne	2–2	Sydney	Cernak (45), Fabio (45+2)	Cazarine (56), Ryall (90)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	20,053
21	10 March 2012	Sydney	1–0	Melbourne	Kisel (34 p)	—	Sydney Football Stadium	18,180
22	10 November 2012	Sydney	2–3	Melbourne	Yau (14), Bosschaart (48)	Nabbout (75, 88), Thompson (83)	Sydney Football Stadium	21,531
23	26 January 2013	Melbourne	3–1	Sydney	Rojas (23, 73), Thompson (67)	Griffiths (75)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	26,882
24	16 March 2013	Sydney	1–1	Melbourne	Yau (85)	Milligan (3)	Sydney Football Stadium	22,233
25	9 November 2013	Sydney	3–2	Melbourne	Garcia (3), Ryall (15), Del Piero (37 p)	Thompson (18), Troisi (27)	Sydney Football Stadium	18,784
26	26 January 2014	Melbourne	0–5	Sydney	—	Despotovic (11), Del Piero (20 p, 54), Ryall (25), Carle (87)	Docklands Stadium	24,354
27	29 March 2014	Melbourne	1–1	Sydney	Troisi (63)	Chianese (48)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	20,447
28	15 November 2014	Sydney	0–0	Melbourne	—	—	Sydney Football Stadium	21,242
29	13 December 2014	Melbourne	3–3	Sydney	Thompson (23, 47, 79)	Janko (17), Smeltz (51, 76)	Docklands Stadium	25,242
30	14 February 2015	Sydney	3–3	Melbourne	Janko (8 p), Smeltz (73 p, 85)	Barbarouses (34), Finkler (41), Ansell (78)	Sydney Football Stadium	17,352
31	14 November 2015	Sydney	2–4	Melbourne	Hološko (5), Brosque (20)	Berisha (9, 90+2), Finkler (28), Barbarouses (68)	Sydney Football Stadium	15,947
32	26 January 2016	Melbourne	1–0	Sydney	Jurman (79 o.g.)	—	Docklands Stadium	30,493
33	27 February 2016	Melbourne	1–1	Sydney	Barbarouses (46)	Carney (76)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	20,112
34	5 November 2016	Sydney	2–1	Melbourne	Carney (63, 78)	Austin (41)	Sydney Football Stadium	19,143
35	26 January 2017	Melbourne	1–2	Sydney	Troisi (18)	Hološko (38), Ibini (65)	Docklands Stadium	30,262
36	3 March 2017	Sydney	1–0	Melbourne	Bobô (20)	—	Sydney Football Stadium	13,310
37	7 October 2017	Melbourne	0–1	Sydney	—	Deng (53 o.g.)	Docklands Stadium	24,804
38	26 January 2018	Melbourne	1–3	Sydney	Berisha (58 p)	Bobô (60, p 78), Carney (84)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	21,037
39	13 April 2018	Sydney	1–0	Melbourne	Bobô (8)	—	Sydney Football Stadium	15,567
40	25 November 2018	Sydney	1–2	Melbourne	Le Fondre (35)	Toivonen (23), Honda (71 p)	Jubilee Oval	19,081
41	26 January 2019	Melbourne	2–1	Sydney	Toivonen (20), Troisi (58)	Ninkovic (63)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	21,085
42	6 April 2019	Sydney	2–1	Melbourne	O'Neill (6), Ninkovic (90+3)	Barbarouses (16)	Sydney Cricket Ground	14,155
43	17 November 2019	Sydney	2–1	Melbourne	Le Fondre (61), Barbarouses (68)	Toivonen (45)	Jubilee Oval	16,116
44	24 January 2020	Melbourne	0–3	Sydney	—	Le Fondre (27), Barbarouses (53), Baumjohann (85)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	17,814
45	7 March 2020	Melbourne	1–4	Sydney	Rojas (5)	Ninkovic (43), Caceres (64), Le Fondre (66), Barbarouses (87 p)	Docklands Stadium	15,102
46	4 April 2021	Melbourne	0–3	Sydney	—	Bobô (42), Barbarouses (50), Baumjohann (84 p)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	5,347
47	27 April 2021	Sydney	1–0	Melbourne	Bobô (6)	—	Jubilee Oval	4,816
48	19 May 2021	Sydney	2–0	Melbourne	Bobô (10), Barbarouses (83)	—	Jubilee Oval	4,226
49	25 January 2022	Melbourne	2–2	Sydney	Folami (17), Kruse (77)	Ninkovic (37), Bobô (81)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	10,496
50	7 May 2022	Sydney	1–4	Melbourne	Le Fondre (16)	D'Agostino (14), Brimmer (30), Geria (38), Hamill (87)	Jubilee Oval	11,404
51	8 October 2022	Sydney	2–3	Melbourne	Mak (15), Donachie (79)	D'Agostino (31), Ikonomidis (67), Brillante (83)	Sydney Football Stadium	21,840
52	26 January 2023	Melbourne	1–2	Sydney	Brimmer (26)	Burgess (32), Le Fondre (52)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	8,181
53	4 March 2023	Sydney	1–0	Melbourne	Caceres (35)	—	Sydney Football Stadium	15,167
54	21 October 2023	Sydney	0–2	Melbourne	—	Fornaroli (62), Machach (86)	Sydney Football Stadium	14,586
55	16 December 2023	Melbourne	3–0	Sydney	Arzani (20), Machach (24), Fornaroli (57)	—	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	14,607
56	26 January 2024	Melbourne	1–1	Sydney	Machach (17)	Courtney-Perkins (10)	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	18,012

Home team	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses
League home record
Sydney	28	12	8	8
Melbourne	28	8	10	10

Matches	Sydney FC wins	Melbourne Victory wins	Draws
Overall league head-to-head record
56	22	16	18

Finals series matches

#	Date	Round	Home team	Score	Away team	Goals (home)	Goals (away)	Venue	Attendance
1	18 February 2010	Semi-final 1st leg	Melbourne	2–1	Sydney	Mrdja (16), Hernández (40)	Aloisi (43)	Docklands Stadium	28,453
2	7 March 2010	Semi-final 2nd leg	Sydney	2–2 AET	Melbourne	Kisel (36 p), Bridge (54)	Kruse (15), Thompson (114)	Sydney Football Stadium	23,818
3	20 March 2010	Grand Final	Melbourne	1–1 ( a.e.t. ) (2–4 p)	Sydney	Leijer (81)	Bridge (63)	Docklands Stadium	44,560
4	18 April 2014	Elimination Final	Melbourne	2–1	Sydney	Thompson (19), Finkler (90+2)	Ryall (33)	Docklands Stadium	20,802
5	17 May 2015	Grand Final	Melbourne	3–0	Sydney	Berisha (33), Barbarouses (83), Broxham (90)	—	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium	29,843
6	7 May 2017	Grand Final	Sydney	1–1 ( a.e.t. ) (4–2 p)	Melbourne	Grant (69)	Berisha (20)	Sydney Football Stadium	41,546
7	28 April 2018	Semi-final	Sydney	2–3( a.e.t. )	Melbourne	Nigro (24 o.g.), Antonis (90+5 o.g.)	Barbarouses (31), Troisi (47), Antonis (117)	Sydney Football Stadium	17,775
8	12 May 2019	Semi-final	Sydney	6–1	Melbourne	Calver (3), Brosque (43), Broxham (45+2 o.g.), Le Fondre (63 p, 68), Ninkovic (88)	Toivonen (90+1)	Jubilee Oval	12,141

Home Team	Matches	Wins	Losses	Draws
Finals home record
Sydney	4	2	1	1
Melbourne	4	3	1	0

Matches	Sydney FC wins	Melbourne Victory wins	Draws
Overall finals head-to-head record
8	3	4	1

Leading goalscorers (4+ goals)

As of 26 January 2024

Player	Club	Goals scored
Archie Thompson	Melbourne	14
Kosta Barbarouses	Melbourne/Sydney	11
Adam Le Fondre	Sydney	8
Bobô	Sydney	8
Danny Allsopp	Melbourne	6
Besart Berisha	Melbourne	5
James Troisi	Melbourne	5
Alex Brosque	Sydney	5
Mark Bridge	Sydney	5
David Carney	Sydney	5
Shane Smeltz	Sydney	4
Ola Toivonen	Melbourne	4

BOLD indicates player still playing for that club.

Players who played for both clubs

As of 26 January 2024

Player	Nation	Melbourne		Sydney FC		Total "Big Blues"
Player	Nation	Years	Record	Years	Record	Apps	Goals	Record
Sebastian Ryall ^[11]		2007–2009	2–1–0	2009–2018	8–12–6	29 (3 / 26)	4 (0 / 4)	10–13–6
Mark Milligan ^[12]^[13]		2012–2015, 2017–2018	4–5–3	2005–2008	1–3–3	19 (12 / 7)	1 (1 / 0)	5–8–6
Fabio ^[14]		2011–2012	0–2–1	2012–2013	0–0–2	5 (3 / 2)	1 (1 / 0)	0–2–3
Danny Vukovic ^[15]^[16]		2015–2016	2–1–0	2016–2017	4–0–0	7 (3 / 4)	0	6–1–0^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Terry Antonis ^[17]^[18]		2018–2019	3–0–3	2010–2015	1–5–2	14 (6 / 8)	1 (1 / 0)	4–5–5
Mitch Austin ^[19]^[20]		2016–2018	0–0–2	2019	0–0–0	2 (2 / 0)	1 (1 / 0)	0–0–2
Kosta Barbarouses		2013–2016, 2017–19	7–4–5	2019–2022	6–0–1	23 (16 / 7)	11 (6 / 5)	13–4–6
James Donachie		2016–2018, 2019–20	1–0–10	2021–2023	2–1–2	16 (11 / 5)	1 (0 / 1)	3–1–12
Elvis Kamsoba		2019–2021	1–0–7	2021–2022	0–1–1	10 (8 / 2)	0 (0 / 0)	1–1–8
Joshua Brillante		2021–2023	2–1–1	2016–2019	9–0–3	16 (4 / 12)	0 (0 / 0)	11–1–4

Players in bold denote currently still active at either Melbourne Victory or Sydney FC

↑ Wins include 2017 A-League Grand Final won in penalty shootout

Played for one, managed the other

As of 12 April 2024

Manager	Played for				Managed
Manager	Team	Span	League apps	League goals	Team	Span	G	W	D	L	Win %
Tony Popovic	Sydney FC	2007–2008	27	1	Melbourne Victory	2021–present	88	38	24	26	43.18

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[17] Wins include 2017 A-League Grand Final won in penalty shootout

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The Big Blue (A-League Men)

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Statistics
Sydney FC vs Melbourne Victory, Allianz Stadium, February 2010
Location	Melbourne Sydney (Australia)
Teams	Melbourne Victory Sydney FC
First meeting	28 August 2005 A-League Sydney FC 1–1 Melbourne Victory
Latest meeting	26 January 2024 A-League Men Melbourne Victory 1–1 Sydney FC
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