Melbourne Victory FC Player of the Season

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Victory Medal
Adama Traore.jpg
Adama Traoré won the 2013–14 Victory Medal
Sport Association football
History
First award2006
Editions19 (as of 2024)
First winner Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kevin Muscat
Most wins Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kevin Muscat
(3 times)
Most recent Flag of France.svg Damien Da Silva

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.

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The first winner of the award was Kevin Muscat in 2006, who became the first player to win it twice in 2007. Since then, three other players have won the award more than once: Danny Allsopp (2007 and 2009), Archie Thompson (2008 and 2010) and Leigh Broxham (2019 and 2020). Muscat won again in 2009 to become first player to receive the award thrice.

Voting takes place on a 3-2-1 basis, as allocated by the Melbourne Victory coaching staff.

Other end-of-season awards given by Melbourne Victory include the Players' Player of the Year Award and the Goal of the Season Award. The prizes for all awards are given at an annual awards night, which is held near the end of the league season.

Winners

Players in bold are still playing for Melbourne Victory

SeasonNameNationalityPositionNotesRef.
2005–06 Kevin Muscat Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender [1]
2006–07 Danny Allsopp Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Forward [2]
Kevin Muscat Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender First player to win the award on two occasions
2007–08 Archie Thompson Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Forward [3]
Rodrigo Vargas Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender
2008–09 Danny Allsopp Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Forward [4]
Kevin Muscat Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender First player to win the award on three occasions
2009–10 Archie Thompson Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Forward [5]
2010–11 Grant Brebner Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland Midfielder First winner from outside Australia [6]
2011–12 Ante Covic Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Goalkeeper First goalkeeper to win the award [7]
2012–13 Mark Milligan Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Midfielder [8]
2013–14 Adama Traoré Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast Defender First winner from Africa [9]
2014–15 Fahid Ben Khalfallah Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia Forward [10]
2015–16 Matthieu Delpierre Flag of France.svg  France Defender [11]
2016–17 Carl Valeri Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Midfielder [12]
2017–18 Leroy George Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Midfielder [13]
2018–19 Leigh Broxham Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Midfielder [14]
2019–20 Leigh Broxham Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Midfielder [15]
2020–21 Robbie Kruse Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Midfielder [16]
2021–22 Jake Brimmer Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Midfielder [17]
2022–23 Damien Da Silva Flag of France.svg  France Defender The winner who had played the least games for the club. [18]
2023–24 Damien Da Silva Flag of France.svg  France Defender [19]

Statistics

Players with multiple wins

WinnerTotal winsYear(s)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kevin Muscat 32006, 2007, 2009
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Danny Allsopp 22007, 2009
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Archie Thompson 22008, 2010
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Leigh Broxham 22019, 2020
Flag of France.svg Damien Da Silva 22023, 2024

Wins by playing position

PositionNumber of wins
Goalkeeper 1
Defender 8
Midfielder 8
Forward 5

Wins by nationality

NationalityNumber of winners
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 15
Flag of France.svg  France 3
Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast 1
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 1
Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 1

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