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2018–19 Melbourne City FC Season
The 2018–19 season was the ninth in the history of Melbourne City Football Club. In addition to the domestic league, Melbourne City competed in the FFA Cup for the fifth time. Players Squad information Review Pre-season Melbourne City began their pre-season by playing two games in Kochi, India beating Indian club Kerala Blasters 6–0 and losing to Spanish club Girona FC 6–0. During August-October, the club played a training match each month, drawing with Adelaide United at Coopers Stadium and beating Adelaide United and Perth Glory at City Football Academy. On 12 October, Melbourne City played Western Sydney Wanderers in a friendly for the second season in a row at McEwen Reserve which ended in a 4–1 victory. May The club released five players on 3 May. Nick Fitzgerald, Bruce Kamau, and Ruon Tongyik were released to the Western Sydney Wanderers, while Christian Cavallo and Manny Muscat later joined Green Gully. Later in the month, Dani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne City FC
Melbourne City Football Club is an Australian professional Association football, soccer club based in the South-Eastern Metropolitan Region, South-Eastern region of Melbourne, Victoria. They compete in the A-League Men, the Australian soccer league system, highest division of soccer in Australia, under licence from the Australian Professional Leagues (APL). Founded in 2009 as Melbourne Heart, the club competed under that name from its inaugural 2010–11 A-League, 2010–11 A-League season until the end of the 2013–14 A-League, 2013–14 season. It was rebranded as Melbourne City following its acquisition by the City Football Group (CFG) and Holding M.S. Australia in January 2014. In August 2015, CFG assumed full ownership of the club after purchasing Holding M.S. Australia’s stake. Since their formation, Melbourne City have won three A-League Men premierships, two championships and one Australia Cup (in 2016 FFA Cup, 2016). The club operates out of the City Football Aca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019–20 Melbourne City FC Season
The 2019–20 season was the tenth in the history of Melbourne City Football Club. In addition to the domestic league, Melbourne City competed in the Australia Cup for the sixth time. The club appointed Erick Mombaerts to the vacant managerial role at the start of the season. On 24 March 2020, the FFA announced that the 2019–20 A-League season would be postponed until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and New Zealand, and subsequently extended indefinitely. The season resumed on 17 July 2020. In the 2019–20 season, Melbourne City qualified for though lost both the FFA Cup Final and A-League Grand Final, the latter being the first time it had qualified for a Grand Final. It finished the season in its highest ever place of second position, and in doing so qualified for a maiden AFC Champions League spot in 2021. Review Pre-season Melbourne City finished fifth in the previous season before being eliminated by Adelaide United by a single goal. Befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kearyn Baccus
Kearyn Byron Baccus (born 5 September 1991) is a footballer who most recently played as a central midfielder for Macarthur FC in the A-League Men. Born in South Africa, he played as a youth international for Australia. Club career Baccus joined Sydney FC's youth set-up in 2008, and in 2010 moved to Europe where he joined French side Le Mans' youth set-up, not before trialling at Mallorca and Real Sociedad in Spain. In 2012, Baccus joined A-League club Perth Glory on a short-term deal prior to his impending move to Italian outfit Siena. Though after a disappointing spell in Perth, due to injury and lack of fitness, Baccus chose to move back to Sydney, where he joined local side Blacktown City. On 6 November 2014, Baccus joined Western Sydney Wanderers on an injury-replacement contract, followed by signing a deal to play in the 2015 Asian Champions League before becoming a full squad member for Seasons 2015–16 and 2016–17. In October 2018, Baccus signed with Melbourne Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Atkinson
Nathaniel Caleb Atkinson (born 13 June 1999) is an Australian professional association football, soccer player who plays as a right-back for Melbourne City FC, Melbourne City and the Australia men's national soccer team, Australia national team. Club career Early career Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Atkinson was part of the youth setup at Riverside Olympic FC, Riverside Olympic before joining the NTC program at Football Tasmania. In 2016, Atkinson joined the Melbourne City FC, Melbourne City academy after a successful trial with the club. He played with the Melbourne City FC Youth, Melbourne City NPL side in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, NPL Victoria from 2016 to 2017. Towards the end of the 2016–17 Melbourne City FC season, 2016–17 season, Atkinson began training with the Melbourne City first team. Melbourne City Going into the 2017–18 Melbourne City FC season, 2017–18 season, Atkinson was given the 37 shirt. He made his competitive debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dario Vidošić
Dario Vidošić ( ; ; born 8 April 1987) is a former Association football, soccer player and current coach who is the manager of Women's Super League club Brighton & Hove Albion W.F.C., Brighton & Hove Albion. Born in Yugoslavia, he represented Australia at international level. Club career Early life Vidošić was born on 8 April 1987 in Osijek to Croatian Australian, Croatian parents, mother Jasna and father Rado Vidošić. He moved with his parents from Croatia to Australia in 1988 when his father received an offer to play for the Queensland Lions Soccer Club, Queensland Lions. The family settled in Brisbane, and he attended Yugumbir State School for his early education at Regents Park, when Dario grew up he attended Cavendish Road State High School. His father has been assistant coach at A-League club Queensland Roar since 2005 and as of May 2008, is the club's National Youth Team coach. Vidošić played with Queensland Lions in 2004 and also competed in the 2004 National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tottenham Hotspur F
Tottenham (, , , ) is a district in north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey. It is located in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Greater London. Tottenham is centred north-northeast of Charing Cross, bordering Edmonton, London, Edmonton to the north, Walthamstow, across the River Lea, to the east, and Stamford Hill to the south, with Wood Green and Harringay to the west. The area rapidly expanded in the late 19th century, becoming a Working class, working-class suburb of London following the advent of the railway and mass development of housing for the Lower middle class, lower-middle and working classes. It has been home to the Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur since 1882. The parish of Municipal Borough of Tottenham, Tottenham was granted Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district status in 1894 and municipal borough status in 1934. Following the World War II, Second World War, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shayon Harrison
Shayon Adam Harrison (born 13 July 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Veikkausliiga club AC Oulu. Club career Tottenham Hotspur Harrison made his professional debut for Tottenham on 25 October 2016, coming on in the 83rd minute for Georges-Kévin Nkoudou in a 2–1 defeat to Liverpool in the EFL Cup. On 20 January 2017, Harrison joined League Two side Yeovil Town on loan until the end of the season. He made his debut for Yeovil in a 2–2 draw against Blackpool, on 21 January 2017. For the second half of the 2017–18 season Harrison went on loan to Southend United. In the January 2019 transfer window, Harrison went out on loan to Australian club Melbourne City of the A-League. Holland and English lower leagues In the summer 2019 transfer window, Harrison signed for Almere City in Holland. On 1 February 2021, he was released by Almere. On 8 February 2021, Harrison joined League One side AFC Wimbledon on a free transfer. On 11 August 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Brugge KV
(), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional Association football, football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,042. They play in the Belgian Pro League, the top domestic league in Belgian football. One of the most decorated clubs in Football in Belgium, Belgian football, Club Brugge has been crowned List of Belgian football champions, Belgian league champions 19 times, second only to major rivals R.S.C. Anderlecht, Anderlecht, and shares the Jan Breydel Stadium with city rival Cercle Brugge K.S.V., Cercle Brugge, with whom they contest the Bruges derby. Throughout its long history, "Club" has enjoyed much European football success, reaching two European finals and three European semi-finals. Club Brugge is the only Belgian club to have played the final of the European Cup (now the UEFA Champions League) as of November 2024, losing to Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostyn Griffiths
Rostyn John Griffiths (born 10 March 1988) is an Australian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, defender or Midfielder#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder for National Premier Leagues Western Australia, NPL Western Australia club Balcatta Etna FC, Balcatta Etna. Griffiths joined Mumbai City FC, Mumbai City from fellow City Football Group side and A-League outfit Melbourne City FC. The experienced Griffiths won the A-League Premiers Plate and Championship double in the 2020/21 season and also featured in the club's debut continental campaign at the 2022 AFC Champions League, before getting his hands on a second consecutive Premiers Plate in the 2021/22 season. Griffiths is a former captain of A-League Men, A-League club Perth Glory FC, Perth Glory. In August 2017 it was announced that Griffiths had signed a lucrative deal as a defensive midfielder for Uzbekistan giants Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, Pakhtakor T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bart Schenkeveld
Bartholomew Schenkeveld (; born 28 August 1991) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Greek Super League club Panathinaikos. Besides the Netherlands, he has played in Australia and Greece. Early life Schenkeveld was born and raised in Den Hoorn, South Holland, a village between the cities The Hague and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Club career Youth career At the age of five, Schenkeveld started his youth career at the local amateur club SV Den Hoorn. After one season, Schenkeveld joined the Feyenoord youth academy as right winger, but got quickly turned into a defender. Schenkeveld successfully went through the complete academy, but had a major injury setback at the age of 15. The youngster partially tore his cruciate ligament, which caused him to be out for five months. When he was about to make his comeback, he tore his cruciate ligament completely. In total, Schenkeveld had to recover for almost two years. On 29 November 2008, Schenkeveld wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrison Delbridge
Harrison Andrew Delbridge (born 15 March 1992) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a centre-back for K League 1 club Incheon United and the Australia national team. Club career Youth and amateur Delbridge played four years of college soccer at Division 1 Appalachian State University between the years of 2010 and 2013 playing 54 games, starting in 46 and captaining the team in his senior year. Over the course of his college career he scored 9 goals and had 1 assist and received the following recognitions: NSCAA Scholar All-America Team (2013) NSCAA All South Region Team (2013) NCCSIA University Division 1 All-State Team (2013) All-Conference Team (2013) Adidas Tournament All-Tournament (2012) Southern Conference All-Tournament (2011) Carolina Railhawks In 2012 Delbridge also played for Carolina Railhawks U23 going to the National playoffs. In 2013, he played with Ventura County Fusion in the USL PDL. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Jamieson
Scott Alexander Jamieson (born 13 October 1988) is an Australian retired soccer player who played as a left back. Club career Blacktown City Jamieson was born in Auburn, Sydney. He has previously played for the Blacktown City in the New South Wales Premier League and has also attended Westfields Sports High School before signing for English Premier League side Bolton Wanderers. In the summer of 2007 he made an appearance for Wanderers in their pre-season defeat against Hibernian. Adelaide United He ended a three-year stint in England with Bolton on 6 June by signing for Adelaide United on a two-year deal. He made his first A-League appearance for Adelaide in the season opener on 17 August 2008 where he played a full game at left back. Since his first game Jamieson has become a mainstay in the United backline contributing significantly in attack and from set plays. Jamieson was named man of the match for his performance in the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup game against Wait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
