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2025–26 Melbourne City FC (women) Season
The 2025–26 season is Melbourne City Football Club's eleventh season in the A-League Women. They are also participating in the AFC Women's Champions League for the second time. Players First-team squad Transfers Transfers in Transfers out Contract extensions Pre-season and friendlies Competitions Overall record A-League Women League table Results summary Matches Statistics See also * 2025–26 Melbourne City FC season The 2025–26 season is Melbourne City Football Club's 15th season in the A-League Men; 11th since the club was taken over by the City Football Group. In addition to the domestic league, Melbourne City participated in this season's edition ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:2025-26 Melbourne City FC (women) season Melbourne City FC (women) seasons Melbourne City ...
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Melbourne City FC (women)
Melbourne City Women's Football Club, also known as the Melbourne City Women or simply as City, represents Melbourne City in the A-League Women, the top division soccer league in Australia. Founded in 2015, the club has its training and administration based at the City Football Academy in Melbourne and plays matches at Casey Fields in Casey and at AAMI Park in Melbourne. The current manager of the team is Michael Matricciani. History Following on from their purchase of and investment into Manchester City in England, City Football Group turned their eyes to investment into the women's game as well, funding a serious overhaul of the Manchester club's female affiliate. Only months after their takeover of the men's team Melbourne City FC, they followed likewise on the women's side, contacting the FFA regarding entering a team into the W-League to be affiliated to the men's Melbourne side. After a year of negotiations, their involvement was sealed with an announcement that a wome ...
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Shelby McMahon
Shelby McMahon (born May 13, 2008) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a midfielder for A-League Women club Melbourne City. Career Club career 15-year-old McMahon joined Melbourne City as an injury replacement for Holly McNamara in January 2024. On May 21, 2025, in the semifinals of the 2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League, McMahon scored a "thunderous right-foot drive into the top corner" from during stoppage time against Incheon Red Angels, leading her team to a 1–0 victory. In the final on May 24, she scored the opening goal in a 1–1 draw against Wuhan Jianghan and converted her penalty kick in a 5–4 loss in the penalty shootout. Honors Melbourne City *A-League Women A-League Women (currently known as the Ninja A-League for sponsorship reasons), formerly the W-League, is the top-division women's soccer league in Australia. The W-League was established in 2008 by Football Australia (then known as Football Fe ...: 2023–24 References External l ...
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Malena Mieres
Malena Mieres García (born 29 March 2000) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for A-League Women club Melbourne City. Club career Mieres started her career at Friol. In 2018, she was awarded the Best Galician Goalkeeper of the Year award. In July 2024, Mieres joined Australian club Melbourne City. International career Mieres has represented the Spain under-19 football team. With them, she won the 2018 UEFA Championship. References External linksProfileat La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest ... 2000 births Living people Women's association football goalkeepers Spanish women's footballers Footballers from As Pontes de García Rodríguez Deportivo de La Coruña (women) players SD Eibar Femenino players Real Betis F ...
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Melissa Barbieri
Melissa Hudson Melissa Anne Barbieri (born 20 February 1980) is an Australian soccer goalkeeper who has played for Melbourne City in the A-League Women. From 2002 she represented the Australia women's national soccer team (Matildas) and was captain from 2010 to 2013. She competed at four FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015). After 86 caps, Barbieri retired from international football in June 2015 and set the record for the most clean sheets by any Matildas keeper, at 34. Barbieri was named A-League Women's Goalkeeper of the Year (Golden Glove) for the 2008–09 and 2013–14 seasons. As from June 2025 she was playing for Melbourne City and had become the longest-serving professional soccer player in Australian history with 28 years in league teams. Early years Barbieri was born in Melbourne on 20 February 1980 to Italian-born parents, her mother is Nory Barbieri. From eight years old she regularly played in boys' teams, where her bro ...
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Bryleeh Henry
Bryleeh Flo Henry (born 5 May 2003) is an Australian soccer player who plays for Melbourne City in the A-League Women and the Australia national team. Club career Western Sydney Wanderers In December 2020, Henry joined A-League Women club Western Sydney Wanderers ahead of the 2020–21 W-League season. A couple of weeks later, she made her debut for the club in a 3–0 loss to Sydney FC, starting the match and playing 76 minutes before being subbed off. In August 2021, the club re-signed Henry for the 2021–22 A-League Women season. Melbourne City In September 2022, Henry joined fellow A-League Women club Melbourne City on a two-year contract. International career Henry was a part of the Junior Matildas team during the 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship. She featured during one match of the tournament, playing the full 90 minutes in a 0–0 draw with Japan. On 21 November 2020, Henry was called up for the first ever Women's Talent Identification Camp which was held in Can ...
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Isabella Accardo
Isabella may refer to: People and fictional characters * Isabella (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Isabella (surname), including a list of people Places United States * Isabella, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Isabella, California, a former settlement * Lake Isabella, California, a man-made reservoir * Isabella, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Isabella County, Michigan * Isabella, an unincorporated community in Isabella Township, Michigan * Isabella, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Isabella, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Isabella River (Minnesota) * Isabella, Oklahoma, a census-designated place and unincorporated community * Isabella, Pennsylvania (other) * Isabella Furnace, a cold-blast charcoal iron furnace, Pennsylvania Elsewhere * Isabella River (New South Wales), Australia * Isabella Island, Tasmania, Australia * Isabela Island (Galápagos) * Isabella, Manitoba, Canada, a settlement * ...
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Caitlin Karic
Caitlin () is a feminine given name of Irish origin. Historically, the Irish name Caitlín was anglicized as Cathleen or Kathleen. In the 1970s, however, non-Irish speakers began pronouncing the name according to English spelling rules as , which led to many variations in spelling such as Caitlin, Ceitlin, Catelynn, Caitlyn, Katlyn, Kaitlin, Kaitlyn, Kaitlyne, Katelyn and Katelynn. It is the Irish version of the Old French name ''Cateline'' , which comes from Catherine">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... name ''Cateline'' , which comes from Catherine, which in turn comes from the Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterine). Catherine is attributed to St. Catherine of Alexandria. Along with the many other variants of Catherine, it is generally believed to mean "pure" because of its long association with the Greek adjective καθαρός ''katharos'' (pure), though the name did n ...
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Lourdes Bosch
Lourdes de la Caridad Bosch (born August 17, 2001) is a professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for A-League Women club Melbourne City. Born in the United States, she plays for the Mexico national team. She played college soccer for the UNLV Rebels and the California Baptist Lancers. Early life Born and raised in Las Vegas, Bosch began playing soccer when she was eight years old. She played club soccer for Las Vegas Premier Soccer Club and Heat FC, winning state cup titles with both teams. She attended West Career and Technical Academy and Spring Valley High School, graduating one semester early. College career Bosch enrolled in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the spring of 2019. In three seasons with the UNLV Rebels, she played in 44 games and scored 12 goals. She was named second-team all-Mountain West Conference as a sophomore and first-team all-conference as a junior. Bosch transferred to California Baptist University in 2022. In her first season w ...
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Leah Davidson
Leah Davidson (born 28 March 2001) is an Australian professional women's footballer who plays as a midfielder for Melbourne City. Early life Davidson grew up on the Gold Coast and attended All Saints Anglican School throughout her upbringing. She played junior football for Palm Beach in the local Gold Coast leagues and scored 13 goals in 18 matches during the 2013 season, which led to selection in multiple Queensland state teams in the following years. In 2016, she was invited to play for Brisbane Roar's QAS junior team. Club career Youth career Throughout her entire Brisbane Roar junior career, she played 23 matches and scored 6 goals. Davidson was also selected to play for the Australian under-20 team during the qualification process for the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship. Brisbane Roar At the age of 17, she competed in the women's NPL in Queensland. She was part of the Championship winning side with Roar/NTC during the 2018 season and scored seven goals in 16 matc ...
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Mariana Speckmaier
Mariana Sofía Speckmaier Fernández (born 26 December 1997) is a professional footballer who last played as a forward for A-League Women club Melbourne City. Born and raised in the United States to Venezuelan parents, she caps for the Venezuela women's national team. Early life Speckmaier was born in Florida and lives in Miami. High school and college career Speckmaier has attended the MAST Academy in Miami, Florida and the Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. Club career In January 2021, Speckmaier was selected by Washington Spirit in the 2021 NWSL Draft. On 21 February 2022, Speckmaier signed for Russian club CSKA Moscow on a two-year contract. As three days later began the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she did not join the club and the deal was aborted. In May 2022, Speckmaier signed with Valur. She made six appearances for the club. On 28 June 2023, Washington Spirit re-signed Speckmaier to a short-term national team replacement contract. In August 2 ...
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Karly Roestbakken
Karly Roestbakken (, ; born 17 January 2001) is an Australian professional Association football, soccer player who plays as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre-back for Melbourne City FC (A-League Women), Melbourne City in the A-League Women in Australia. Club career Canberra United On 26 November 2016, Roestbakken made her professional debut aged 15 in a W-League (Australia), W-League match against the Newcastle Jets FC (W-League), Newcastle Jets. In Canberra's next match, Roestbakken came on as a half-time substitute and became the second-youngest goalscorer in W-League history when she netted an 83rd-minute winner in a 2–1 victory over Melbourne City FC (W-League), Melbourne City. She continued to play as part of the Canberra United Academy side in the NPLW Capital Football league, captaining the team to a Federation Cup Final in 2018. By the beginning of her third season, a high level of roster turnover meant she was the second longest serving Canberra pla ...
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Kiera Meyers
Kiera is a female given name. It is an Anglicized version of ''Ciara'', the name of a 7th-century saint, and means 'dark' or 'dark haired' in Irish. People with this name *Kiera Aitken (born 1983), swimmer from Bermuda *Kiera Allen (born 1997), American actress *Kiera Austin (born 1997), Australian netball player *Kiera Bennett (born 1971), a painter from England *Kiera Cass (born 1981), American author *Kiera Chaplin (born 1982), British actress and model *Kiera Duffy (born 1979), American opera singer *Kiera Gazzard (born 2001), Australian swimmer *Kiera Gormley, model from Northern Ireland *Kiera Hogan (born 1994), American professional wrestler *Kiera Van Ryk (born 1999), Canadian volleyball player *Kiera Skeels (born 2001), English footballer See also *Keira (given name) *Kira (given name), alternate Anglicization (and name with other origins also) *List of Irish-language given names This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language given names, their Anglici ...
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