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2020–21 Melbourne Victory FC Season
The 2020–21 season is Melbourne Victory FC, Melbourne Victory's 16th season since its establishment in 2004. The club will be participating in the A-League for the 16th time. This season was the last season where the Victory played home matches at Docklands Stadium, Marvel Stadium; from the 2021-22 season onwards, the Victory play all home matches of all competitions exclusively at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, AAMI Park. Players Transfers Transfers in Transfers out Contract extensions Technical staff Pre-season and friendlies Competitions Overview A-League League table Matches AFC Champions League Melbourne Victory were in continuation of their 2020 AFC Champions League campaign from their 2019–20 Melbourne Victory FC season#AFC Champions League, 2019–20 season. Group stage Knockout stage Statistics Appearances and goals ''Includes all competitions. Players with no appearances not in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Victory FC
Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under North American professional sports league organization#Systems around the world, licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory entered the competition in the 2005–06 A-League, inaugural season as the only Victorian-based club in the newly revamped domestic Australian league. Recognised as the List of Australian soccer champions, second most successful club in the league to date, Victory has won four A-League Championships, three A-League Minor Premiership, Premierships, one A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup, Pre-Season Challenge Cup and two Australia Cups, the only club to have won all four domestic trophies in the modern era of Australian soccer. They have also competed in the AFC Champions League on seven occasions, most recently in 2020 AFC Champions League, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storm Roux
Storm James Roux ( ; born 13 January 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a right back for A-League Men club Central Coast Mariners. Born in South Africa, he plays for the New Zealand national team. Roux played youth football with Sorrento, Football West National Training Centre and Perth Glory youth before making his professional debut with Perth Glory. In 2013, he joined Central Coast Mariners, where he made over 100 appearances before joining Melbourne Victory FC, Melbourne Victory in 2018. He returned to Central Coast Mariners in 2021. Roux made his debut for the New Zealand national team in 2013, having previously represented New Zealand national under-20 football team, New Zealand U-20, including at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Early life Roux was born in South Africa but moved to New Zealand aged three. He later moved again, to Australia, in his early teens. Despite his multinational childhood, Storm has stated that he considers himself to be primarily a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Lauton
Brandon Lauton (born 3 March 2000), is a South African-Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Preston Lions. Personal life He moved to Australia at the age of 2. Lauton has two younger brothers, Jordan and Leighton, who are also footballers; the latter currently plays for the Western United NPL3 squad. Career On 7 August 2019, he made his professional debut for Melbourne Victory against Newcastle Jets in the 2019 FFA Cup. During the off-season following the 2020–21 A-League season, Lauton was released by Melbourne Victory and during the pre-season trialled with Western United and Hume City The City of Hume is a Local government areas of Victoria, local government area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. It includes the outer north-western suburbs, including the major cent .... References External links * 2000 births Living people Australian men's soccer players South African ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Anderson (soccer)
Aaron Anderson (born 25 September 2000) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a central defender for National Premier Leagues Victoria club Preston Lions. Club career On 8 May 2019, he made his professional debut for Melbourne Victory against Daegu FC in the 2019 AFC Champions League. Honours Club ;Melbourne Victory *FFA Cup: 2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ... References External links * 2000 births Living people Australian men's soccer players Men's association football defenders Melbourne Victory FC players Preston Lions FC players National Premier Leagues players Victoria Premier League players Soccer players from Melbourne 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-footy-goalkeeper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Barnett
Jay Barnett (born 14 February 2001) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a defensive midfielder for Adelaide United. Career Brisbane Roar Barnett signed his first professional contract with Brisbane Roar on 18 October 2017, penning a two-year Scholarship deal with the club. He was part of the 2018-19 Y-League championship winning Brisbane Roar Youth team, playing the full 90 minutes as the Young Roar beat Western Sydney Wanderers Youth 3–1 in the 2019 Y-League Grand Final on 1 February 2019. Barnett made his first professional appearance as a second-half substitute in the Roar's 2–2 with Western Sydney Wanderers in Round 16 of the 2018–19 season. Melbourne Victory On 4 June 2019, Barnett joined Melbourne Victory on a one-year contract. Barnett made 47 appearances for Melbourne Victory in all competitions. After three-and-a-half seasons at Melbourne Victory, the club announced they had agreed to mutually terminate his contract. Adelaide United On 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birkan Kirdar
Birkan Kirdar (born 7 February 2002) is an Australian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Dandenong Thunder in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Club career Melbourne Victory The youngest player chosen in Melbourne Victory's youth squad for the 2017-18 National Youth League season, Kirdar made his debut for Melbourne Victory Youth at the age of 15, coming on in the 76th minute against Perth Glory Youth. Kirdar made his first-team debut for Melbourne Victory in an AFC Champions League match against Shanghai SIPG F.C., coming on as an 87th-minute substitute for Pierce Waring in an eventual 2–1 win. At 16 years and 70 days, Kirdar became the Victory's youngest ever debutant. On 1 June 2018, Kirdar signed his first professional contract with Victory, through till the end of the 2019/20 season. On 29 September 2020, Kirdar re-signed with Victory for the 2020/21 season. In September 2022, he left Melbourne Victory. International career Kirdar represented A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipswich Town F
Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, after Peterborough and Norwich. It is northeast of London and in 2011 had a population of 144,957. The Ipswich built-up area is the fourth-largest in the East of England and the 42nd-largest in England and Wales. It includes the towns and villages of Kesgrave, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Woodbridge, Bramford and Martlesham Heath. Ipswich was first recorded during the medieval period as ''Gippeswic'', the town has also been recorded as ''Gyppewicus'' and ''Yppswyche''. It has been continuously inhabited since the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Saxon period, and is believed to be one of the Oldest town in Britain, oldest towns in the United Kingdom.Hills, Catherine"England's Oldest Town" Retrieved 2 August 2015. The settlement was of great eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Folami
Gbenga Tai "Ben" Folami (born 8 June 1999) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a winger for Adelaide United and the Australia national team. Club career Ipswich Town Born in Sydney, Folami joined Ipswich Town's academy in 2015, having previously played for the Football NSW Institute and the Sutherland Sharks at youth level. After working his way through the youth system at Portman Road, he went on to make his full senior debut in a 2–1 defeat against Crystal Palace in the EFL Cup second round on 22 August 2017. He made his league debut for the club on 2 April 2018 in a 2–2 draw against Millwall. In May 2018, Folami signed a new three-year contract at Ipswich until 2021. On 14 January 2019, Folami tore his achilles tendon during an under-23 match against Cardiff City, ruling him out for the remainder of the season. Following his recovery from injury Folami appeared for Ipswich's under-23 side before returning to first-team action on 12 November 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie Kruse
Robbie Thomas Kruse ( ; ; born 5 October 1988) is an Australian former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward. He played his junior football with Pine Rivers Soccer Club in the Pine Rivers district to the near north of Brisbane and began his professional career with A-League side Brisbane Roar FC, Brisbane Roar and later Melbourne Victory before moving to Germany in 2011. Club career Brisbane Roar Recruited in 2006 by Miron Bleiberg, Kruse was injured during an otherwise successful A-League pre-season during training. He scored on his debut against Wellington Phoenix FC, Wellington Phoenix on 5 October 2007, his nineteenth birthday, with what was to be the winning goal for that game. On 19 October 2007, Kruse struck against the Newcastle Jets for his second goal of his A-League career. On 16 November, he got his third with an excellent curling effort to the far post as Brisbane beat Melbourne 1–0. Kruse and his cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Butterfield
Jacob Luke Butterfield (born 10 June 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for National League club Gateshead. Butterfield came through the youth academy at Barnsley and went on to establish himself as a first team player over a five-year spell between 2007 and 2012. He moved to Premier League side Norwich City but failed to make a league appearance and spent time on loan with Bolton Wanderers and Crystal Palace before signing permanently for Middlesbrough. He has since played for Huddersfield Town, Derby County, Sheffield Wednesday, Bradford City and Luton Town. Between 2020 and 2022 he played outside of English football firstly with A-League side Melbourne Victory before a stint in the Scottish Premiership with St Johnstone. Club career Early career Born in Bradford, Butterfield spent a brief spell with the youth team of hometown club Bradford City at the age of 7 or 8, before joining the Manchester United Academy. Barnsley Butterfield was des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callum McManaman
Callum Henry McManaman (born 25 April 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for side Wigan Athletic. Born in Huyton, Merseyside, but lived and brought up in Rainhill, Merseyside. McManaman began his youth career at Everton before being released in 2007 and joined Wigan Athletic. He made his first senior debut for Wigan Athletic in 2009. He became the man of the match at the 2013 FA Cup Final for Wigan Athletic on 1–0 winning-match against Manchester City. In January 2015, he joined West Bromwich Albion for £4.75 million. On 13 October 2020, McManaman signed a two-year contract with A-League club Melbourne Victory ahead of the 2020–21 A-League season. In June 2023, he rejoined Wigan Athletic for his third spell at the club. Club career Wigan Athletic McManaman was born in Huyton. He grew up as an Everton supporter, and joined the club's youth system when he was seven years old. After being released by the club at the age of sixteen, he sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
