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The Mark Viduka Medal is an association football award that recognises the best adjudged player/s from the final of the
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(formally the FFA Cup) each year. Introduced in the first edition of the competition in 2014, the award is named after
Mark Viduka Mark Antony Viduka ( ; born 9 October 1975) is an Australian retired football player who played as a centre forward. He captained the Australia national team to the Round of 16 at the 2006 FIFA World Cup which remains their best ever performance ...
, who captained the Australian national team during the
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following the final, the recipient/s are determined by a panel of three judges consisting of Viduka, the Australian national team manager and Football Australia's national technical director.


Award recipients

; Legend : – Indicates the match went to
extra time Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played onl ...
: – Indicates the player was on the losing team


Wins by club


Wins by nationality


Wins by playing position


See also

*
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 ...
*
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 ...
* John Kosmina Medal * Michael Cockerill Medal


References

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