Jason Petkovic (born 7 December 1972 in

Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...

) is an Australian

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player. He is the brother of Michael Petkovic.

Club career

He played as a

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for the Australian A-League club Perth Glory where he has won two championships with them in 2003 and 2004. Petkovic has also had trials with

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and Norway's Rosenborg BK before joining NSL outfit

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in 1993. A broken leg sustained during a match against the

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has ended his

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season and possibly his career. However, in Round 19 of the A-League 2007-08 season he made a return to Perth against the

which ended in a 1-1 draw showing good signs of his recovery. On 11 January 2009 he played his last professional game after announcing his retirement in the Round 19 A-League game against the

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which the Glory went on to win 3-2.

A-League career statistics

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Honours

With

Darwin Cubs Darwin Cubs is a now-defunct soccer club from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The Cubs played as a foreign team in the Singapore Premier League in 1994 and finished runners-up to another Australian team, Perth Kangaroos IFC. The Cubs los ...

: * Runner up

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: 1994 With Perth Glory: * NSL Championship: 2002-2003, 2003–2004 With

: * NSL Championship: 1993-1994

External links

Perth Glory profile

{{DEFAULTSORT:Petkovic, Jason 1972 births Living people Sportsmen from Western Australia Australian people of Croatian descent Australian soccer players Men's association football goalkeepers Australian expatriate soccer players Australia men's international soccer players A-League Men players Adelaide City FC players Konyaspor footballers Perth Glory FC players Süper Lig players Expatriate footballers in Turkey Australian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey 1998 OFC Nations Cup players 2000 OFC Nations Cup players 2002 OFC Nations Cup players Soccer players from Perth, Western Australia