The

A-League Men A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...

is an Australian professional league for

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clubs. At the top of the

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, it is the country's primary soccer competition and is contested by 12 clubs. The competition was formed in April 2004, following a number of issues including financial problems in the

National Soccer League The National Soccer League (NSL) was the top-level soccer league in Australia, run by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association. The NSL, the A-League's predecessor, spanned 28 seasons from its inception in 1977 until its d ...

. Those records and statistics of the A-League Men are listed below. All updated as of 6 March 2023.

Team records

Titles

*Most Premiership titles: 4,

Sydney FC Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was fo ...

*Most Championship titles: 5,

*Most consecutive Premiership title wins: 2,

( 2016–17, 2017–18); Melbourne City (

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, 2021–22) *Most consecutive Championship title wins: 2,

Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland and has won the domestic title on three occasions, as well as holding the longest unbeaten record of 36 league matches without defeat. Brisba ...

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) *Biggest Premiership title winning margin: 17 points, 2016–17; Sydney FC (66 points) over Melbourne Victory (49 points) *Smallest Premiership title winning margin: 0 points and same goal difference, 2008–09; Melbourne Victory over Adelaide United through more goals scored.

Points

*Most points in a season: 66,

( 2016–17) *Most home points in a season: 33,

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, 2013–14) *Most away points in a season: 34,

( 2014–15) *Fewest points in a season: 6,

New Zealand Knights New Zealand Knights Football Club (formed from the Football Kingz Football Club in 2004) were the only professional association football club in New Zealand before they became defunct. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, they played in the A-League ...

( 2005–06) *Fewest home points in a season: 2,

( 2005–06) *Fewest away points in a season: 4,

( 2005–06) *Most points in a season without winning the league: 57,

Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League Men, under licence from the Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The Ma ...

(

) *Fewest points in a season while winning the league: 34,

( 2007–08)

Wins

*Most wins in total: 202,

*Most wins in a season: 20,

( 2016–17, 2017–18) *Most home wins in a season: 10 **

(

, 2013–14) **

( 2016–17) *Most away wins in a season: 10 **

Western Sydney Wanderers Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club (colloquially known as Western Sydney, or simply as Wanderers) is an Australian professional soccer club based in the Western Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier ...

(

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) **

( 2016–17) *Fewest wins in a season: 1,

( 2005–06) *Fewest home wins in a season: 0,

( 2005–06) *Fewest away wins in a season: 1,

( 2005–06) *Most consecutive wins: 10,

(13 January 2013 – 16 March 2013) *Most consecutive home wins: 8,

Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory e ...

(21 November 2008 – 28 February 2009) *Most consecutive away wins: 8,

(9 September 2006 – 30 December 2006) *Most consecutive games without a win: 19 **

(18 September 2005 – 27 August 2006) ** Melbourne City (24 February 2013 – 17 January 2014) *Most consecutive home games without a win: 11,

(2 September 2005 – 27 August 2006) *Most consecutive away games without a win: 22, Melbourne City (2 February 2012 – 16 February 2014)

Defeats

*Most defeats in total: 183,

*Most defeats in a season: 20,

( 2015–16) *Most home defeats in a season: 9,

North Queensland Fury Northern Fury Football Club was an Australian professional soccer club based in Townsville, Queensland. The club was founded in 2008 and competed in the A-League under the name North Queensland Fury. On 1 March 2011, the club was removed from t ...

(

) *Most away defeats in a season: 12, Melbourne City (

) *Fewest defeats in a season: 1 **

(

) **

( 2016–17) *Fewest home defeats in a season: 0 **

(

) **

( 2016–17) *Fewest away defeats in a season: 0,

( 2014–15) *Most consecutive games undefeated: 36,

(18 September 2010 – 26 November 2011) *Most consecutive home games undefeated: 29,

(2 April 2016 – 17 March 2018) *Most consecutive away games undefeated: 16,

(3 October 2010 – 19 November 2011) *Most consecutive defeats: 11,

(18 September 2005 – 26 November 2005) *Most consecutive home defeats: 7,

(2 September 2005 – 26 November 2005) *Most consecutive away defeats: 9 **

(8 January 2006 – 26 November 2006) ** Melbourne City (14 December 2012 – 30 March 2013)

Draws

*Most draws in total: 107,

*Most draws in a season: 12,

( 2016–17) *Most home draws in a season: 7 **

( 2009–10) **

( 2011–12) **

( 2016–17) *Most away draws in a season: 6 **

( 2005–06,

) **

(

) **

Adelaide United Adelaide United Football Club is a professional Association Football, soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club participates in the A-League Men under North American professional sports league organization#Systems ar ...

( 2011–12) **

( 2011–12) *Fewest draws in a season: 2,

( 2008–09) *Most consecutive draws: 6,

Wellington Phoenix Wellington Phoenix Football Club is a professional association football club based in Wellington, New Zealand. It competes in the Australian A-League, under licence from Football Federation Australia. Phoenix entered the competition in the ...

(4 September 2009 – 17 October 2009) *Most consecutive home draws: 5,

Perth Glory Perth Glory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Perth, Western Australia. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues. Founded in 19 ...

(28 December 2006 – 9 September 2007) *Most consecutive away draws: 5,

(15 April 2017 – 12 November 2017)

Goals

*Most goals scored in a season: 64,

( 2017–18) *Fewest goals scored in a season: 13,

( 2006–07) *Most goals conceded in a season: 70,

( 2015–16) *Fewest goals conceded in a season: 12,

( 2016–17) *Best goal difference in a season: +43,

( 2016–17) *Worst goal difference in a season: –37,

( 2015–16) *Most goals scored at home in a season: 35, Melbourne City ( 2015–16) *Most goals scored away in a season: 30,

( 2016–17) *Fewest goals scored at home in a season: 8,

( 2006–07) *Fewest goals scored away in a season: 4,

( 2005–06) *Most goals conceded at home in a season: 32,

( 2015–16) *Most goals conceded away in a season: 38,

( 2015–16) *Fewest goals conceded at home in a season: 4,

( 2016–17) *Fewest goals conceded away in a season: 8,

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( 2016–17) *Most clean sheets in a season: 16,

( 2016–17) *Fewest clean sheets in a season: 0,

( 2015–16) *Most clean sheets in total: 142,

*Fewest failures to score in a match in a season: 3,

(

) *Most goals scored in total: 761,

*Most goals conceded in total: 721,

*Most home goals scored in total: 434,

*Most home goals conceded in total: 341,

*Most away goals scored in total: 358,

*Most away goals conceded in total: 402,

Disciplinary

*Most yellow cards in total: 1,004,

*Most red cards in total: 60,

*Most yellow cards in a season: 79,

(

& 2015–16) *Fewest yellow cards in one season: 23,

( 2005–06) *Most red cards in total: 10,

(

) *Most yellow cards in one match: 11 **

Melbourne Heart Melbourne City Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the south–eastern Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne East, that plays in the A-League, the top level of Australian soccer, under licence from Australian Profession ...

, 4 April 2014 **

, 12 April 2014 **

v Melbourne City, 4 February 2017 **

, 7 May 2017 *Most red cards in one match: 3 **

, 4 November 2007 **

, 7 February 2015 **

, 2 February 2019 *Most fair play awards: 6,

Scorelines

*Biggest home win: 8–1 (

, 21 January 2011), 7–0 (

Newcastle Jets Newcastle United Jets Football Club, commonly known as Newcastle Jets, is an Australian professional soccer club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier competition, the A-League, under licence from The Australia ...

, 24 January 2015), 7-0 ( Melbourne City v

, 17 April 2021) *Biggest away win: 2–8 (

, 14 April 2018) *Highest scoring: 2–8 (

, 14 April 2018)

Attendances

*Highest attendance, single game: 61,880 (

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, 8 October 2016) *Lowest attendance, single game: 38 (

Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a rugby league and soccer stadium in Lilyfield, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently one of three home grounds for the Wests Tigers National Rugby League (NRL) team, along with Campbelltown Stadium and Western Sydney S ...

, 16 February 2022)

Player records

Appearances

* Most A-League Men appearances: 376 **

Leigh Broxham Leigh Michael Broxham (born 13 January 1988) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Melbourne Victory in the A-League. As of May 2021, he currently holds the record for most appearances for Melbourne Victory, p ...

(7 January 2007 to 26 February 2023) **

Nikolai Topor-Stanley Nikolai David Topor-Stanley (born 11 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a centre back. He has played for A-League clubs Sydney FC, Perth Glory, Newcastle Jets and Western Sydney Wanderers. He has also played i ...

(22 July 2006 to 5 February 2023) * Most different clubs played for: 7 **

Antony Golec Antony Paul Golec (; born 29 May 1990) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a centre back. Golec is now a real estate agent after his retirement from professional football. Club career Sydney FC Golec was a member of ...

(for

and

Macarthur FC Macarthur Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in South Western Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in Australia's premier soccer competition, the A-League, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). On ...

) **

Liam Reddy Liam Rhys Reddy (born 8 August 1981) is an Australian professional football player who plays as a goalkeeper for A-League side Perth Glory. Early life Reddy comes from a successful sports family. His father is Australian former rugby league ...

(for

and

) * Youngest player: Alusine Fofanah, 15 years, 189 days (for

, 19 January 2014) * Oldest player:

Romário Romário de Souza Faria Figueiredo (born 29 January 1966), known simply as Romário (), is a Brazilian politician and a former professional footballer. A prolific striker renowned for his clinical finishing, he scored over 750 goals and was ...

, 40 years 320 days (for

, 15 December 2006) * Most consecutive A-League Men appearances: 98,

Alex Wilkinson Alexander William Wilkinson (born 13 August 1984) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a central defender and is the captain for Sydney FC in the A-League. Wilkinson was born in Sydney and made his senior debut f ...

(4 November 2007 until 13 March 2011) Players currently playing in the A-League Men are highlighted in bold.

Goals

*First A-League Men goal:

Carl Veart Thomas Carl Veart (born 21 May 1970 in Whyalla, South Australia, Australia) is an Australian former footballer who is the head coach for Adelaide United. Club career He previously played in England for Sheffield United, Crystal Palace and Mill ...

(for

''v.''

, 26 August 2005) *Most A-League Men goals: 142,

Besart Berisha Besart Berisha (born 29 July 1985) is a Kosovan retired professional footballer who played as a striker. Club career Youth and Hamburger SV Berisha began his youth career at German side Berliner VB 49 academies at age of 9. He then moved to var ...

*Most goals in Finals series: 10 **

Archie Thompson Archie Gerald Thompson (born 23 October 1978) is an Australian former professional association football, footballer. He also is serving as a club ambassador for Melbourne Victory FC. Born in New Zealand, Thompson played youth football at the N ...

*Most goals in a match: 5 **

(for

, 18 February 2007) **

Jamie Maclaren Jamie Maclaren (born 29 July 1993) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a striker for A-League club Melbourne City. He has also previously played for Darmstadt 98, Perth Glory, Brisbane Roar and Hibernian. Maclaren initial ...

(for Melbourne City v

, 17 April 2021) *Most goals in a season: 27, Bobô (for

, 2017–18) *Most appearances without scoring a goal: 150,

Adam D'Apuzzo Adam Leonard D'Apuzzo (born 20 October 1986) is a retired Australian association football player who played as a left-back. He retired from professional football following his release from Western Sydney Wanderers. Biography He has previously pl ...

*Most consecutive matches scored in: 8,

Andy Keogh Andrew Declan Keogh (born 16 May 1986) is a former Irish professional footballer who last played as a striker for A-League club Perth Glory. Born in Dublin, Keogh played the first several years of his professional career playing for a number ...

(for Perth Glory, 13 February 2016 – 3 April 2016) *Most hat-tricks: 5,

and

*Fastest hat-trick: 6 minutes,

(for

, 28 October 2011) *Most own goals: 7,

Nigel Boogaard Nigel Boogaard ( ; born 14 August 1986) is a former Australian professional footballer who played as a central defender in the A-League. Boogaard currently plays for Charlestown Azzurri in the Northern NSW Football National Premier Leagues c ...

*Most penalties scored: 26,

Players currently playing in the A-League Men are highlighted in bold.

Goalkeepers

Players currently playing in the A-League Men are highlighted in bold. *Most A-League Men clean sheets (career): 90,

*Longest time without conceding a goal: 876 minutes,

Michael Theo Michael Theo (formerly Theoklitos) (born 11 February 1981) is an Australian goalkeeper who is the goalkeeping coach at A-League club Western United FC. Career Early career Theoklitos began his career as a young lad playing in the Victorian P ...

*Most clean sheets in one season: 15,

Danny Vukovic Daniel Vukovic ( ; born 27 March 1985) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Central Coast Mariners in the A-League and the Australia national team. Vukovic is the holder of several A-League records: he has ...

( 2016–17) *Most Goalkeeper of the Year Awards: 4,

Eugene Galekovic Eugen Josip Galekovic ( ; hr, Eugen Josip Galeković, ; born 12 June 1981) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current goalkeeper coach for Adelaide United. Biography Club career Galekovic's j ...

*Most goals scored by a goalkeeper: 1,

Disciplinary

*Most yellow cards in a season: 11 ** Steve Pantelidis (for

Gold Coast United Gold Coast United Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in Gold Coast, Queensland. The earliest incarnation of the club formed in 1966 and its home ground was at Nikiforides Family Park in Broadbeach. The first era of Gold Coast Unit ...

, 2009–10) **

Wayne Srhoj Wayne Srhoj (born 23 March 1982, in Mareeba) is an Australian footballer who plays for Mareeba Bulls FC in the Far North Queensland soccer zone. Club career Between summer of 2006 and February 2007, Srhoj and teammate Abiodun Agunbiade did no ...

(for

) ** Dimas (for

, 2015–16) **

Joshua Brillante Joshua Brillante (born 25 March 1993) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Australian A-league club Melbourne Victory. He was named captain of Melbourne Victory ahead of the 2021/22 season. Brillant ...

(for

, 2016–17) **

Alex Rufer Alex Arthur Rufer (born 12 June 1996) is a New Zealand professional footballer who captains and plays as a defensive midfielder for Wellington Phoenix in the A-League. Personal life Rufer is the son of former international New Zealand player ...

(for

, 2018–19) *Most red cards in a season: 3 **

(for

, 2013–14) **

(for

, 2015–16) ** Harrison Delbridge (for Melbourne City, 2019–20) *Most yellow cards in total: 85,

Andrew Durante Andrew James Durante (born 3 May 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a retired New Zealand international footballer. He is currently the Player Welfare and Development Manager at Western United while also working as a Senior Academy Assistant ...

*Most red cards in total: 10,

*Earliest red card: 57 seconds, Ante Covic for

against

, 5 November 2011 *Quickest red card (substitute): 9 seconds from restart of play to red card offence,

Ruben Zadkovich Ruben Anton Zadkovich ( hr, Zadković, ; born 23 May 1986) is a former Australian professional football (soccer) player, and manager of Perth Glory. He played for 6 clubs in a career that spanned between England and Australia, notably becoming a ...

for

. Play restarted at 60:33 after his substitution took place following a Perth goal, his red card offence was a foul on

Vince Lia Vince Lia (born 18 March 1985) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays for Altona Magic in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Born in Shepparton, Lia played youth football in Victoria before making his senior deb ...

at 60:42. *Most red cards for a single team in one season: 10,

(

) *Longest suspension: 9 months, with 3 months suspended,

(2008). Originally 15 months, with 3 months suspended, the sentence was reduced and restructured after two appeals. * Most appearances without a booking: 44 **

Romeo Castelen Romeo Erwin Marius Castelen (born 3 May 1983) is a Dutch former footballer who played as a right winger. Club career ADO Den Haag Born in Paramaribo, Suriname, Castelen started his professional career with ADO Den Haag, playing two full seasons ...

** Chris Naumoff * Most appearances without a red card: 355,

Other individual records

*Most A-League Men Premiership wins: 4,

*Most A-League Men Championship wins: 5,

*Most Golden Boot Awards: 2,

Shane Smeltz Shane Edward Smeltz (born 29 September 1981) is a New Zealand Australian footballer. He plays as a striker for Guiseley AFC in the Northern Premier League, the 7th tier of English football. Smeltz had spent much of his early career playing i ...

*Most

Joe Marston Medal The Joe Marston Medal is an A-League award given to the player of the match in the A-League Grand Final each year. Introduced in 1990, previously the award was also given to the best player in the National Soccer League grand final. The medal i ...

Awards: 1, ''13 players'' *Most

Johnny Warren Medal The Johnny Warren Medal is awarded to the best player of the Australian national soccer club competition. It was first awarded in the National Soccer League in 1990, and upon the NSL's demise in November 2004, was carried forward into the new na ...

Awards: 2,

Thomas Broich Thomas Broich (born 29 January 1981) is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. A SpVgg Unterhaching youth product, Broich went on to play for Wacker Burghausen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, 1. FC Köln, and ...

*Most Young Footballer of the Year Awards: 2,

Mathew Ryan Mathew David Ryan (born 8 April 1992) is an Australian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Danish club F.C. Copenhagen and captains the Australia men's national soccer t ...

*Most Goal of the Year Awards: 2, Carlos Hernández

Managers

*Most A-League Premiership wins: 3,

Graham Arnold Graham James Arnold (born 3 August 1963) is an Australian soccer manager and former player. Arnold was appointed to work as an assistant coach of the Australian national soccer team in 2000. After head coach Frank Farina was sacked in 2005, Ar ...

*Most A-League Championship wins: 2,

Ernie Merrick Ernest Merrick OAM (born 15 January 1953) is a Scottish-Australian coach, who last managed A-League soccer club Newcastle Jets. He was released on 6 January 2020. He was the former head coach of the Hong Kong national football team and A-League ...

Ange Postecoglou Angelos Postecoglou ( el, Άγγελος Ποστέκογλου, ; born 27 August 1965) is an Australian association football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic. Born in Greece, he moved ...

Kevin Muscat Kevin Vincent Muscat (born 7 August 1973) is an Australian former association football player and the current manager of Yokohama F. Marinos. As a player, he represented the Australia national team at international level winning 46 caps and sco ...

*Most

Coach of the Year Many sports leagues, sportswriting associations, and other organizations confer "Coach of the Year" awards. In some sports — including baseball and association football — the award is called the "Manager of the Year" award. Some of the ...

Awards: 3,

*Longest-serving manager: 151 games,

(

) *Shortest-serving manager (excluding caretakers): 7 games,

Nick Theodorakopoulos Nick Theodorakopoulos (born 29 June 1964) is an Australian football (soccer) coach. Managerial career Theodorakopoulos previously coached in the predecessor to the A-League, the NSL with the now-defunct Parramatta Power. His last coaching r ...

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)

All-time A-League table

The all-time A-League table is a cumulative record of all match results, points and goals of every team that has played in the A-League since its inception in 2005. The table that follows is accurate as of the end of the 2021-22 season. Teams in bold are part of the current A-League season. This table does not include the finals series.

References

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Team records

Titles

Points

Wins

Defeats

Draws

Goals

Disciplinary

Scorelines

Attendances

Player records

Appearances

Goals

Goalkeepers

Disciplinary

Other individual records

Managers

All-time A-League table

See also

References