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The 2011–12
Adelaide United FC Adelaide United Football Club is a professional men's Association football, soccer club located in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club was one of the eight founding members of the A-League Men and have competed in it concurrently ...
season was the club's seventh
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season. It includes the
2011–12 A-League The 2011–12 A-League was the 35th season of top-flight soccer in Australia, and the seventh season of the Australian A-League soccer competition since its establishment in 2004. At the end of the previous season, the North Queensland Fury we ...
season as well as any other competitions of the 2011–12
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season.


Season overview

As of 1 April 2011, all
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clubs were able to negotiate new kit supplier deals as the previous contract with
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had elapsed and as such, Adelaide United negotiated a three-year deal with
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. Off-season transfers marked the departure of long serving players
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, Lucas Pantelis and Robert Cornthwaite, and of fan favourites Mathew Leckie and Marcos Flores to overseas clubs. In a coup for the club and the
A-League A-League Men, also known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional soccer league in Australia and New Zealand and the highest level of the Australian soccer league system. Established in 2004 as the A-League by the ...
, Rini Coolen managed to secure the signatures of Socceroos
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, Jon McKain and
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; with the latter being offered the Australian marquee player status at the club for the season. The signing of Ukrainian international, Evgeniy Levchenko completed Adelaide's foreign player quota. It was announced at the season launch gala dinner on 26 August that the club's captain for the season would be Jon McKain, with Cássio and Eugene Galeković named as vice-captains. During the last weeks of the off-season in September, Adelaide recruited its final players to complete the squad for the season. Ricardo Da Silva was scouted and signed from local South Australian Super League outfit,
Adelaide City Adelaide City Football Club is a semi-professional soccer club based in Oakden, a north-eastern suburb of Adelaide. The club was a founding member of the now-defunct National Soccer League (NSL) and currently competes in the National Premier ...
, whilst
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-winning defenders
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and Antony Golec were signed to add extra depth to the squad. On 30 September 2011, the club announced its intention to purchase the Veneto Club complex located in
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for an estimated $4 million and rename it the "Reds Centre". It is proposed that the refurbished facilities will be used as the club's permanent training venue for the players as well as for hosting post-match gatherings. On 12 December 2011 it became evident that the deal had fallen through due to unacceptable changes made to the contract between land owners and the club. The Veneto Centre was soon thereafter sold to Royal Park Salvage, despite the final sale not being announced. On 18 December 2011 it was announced that head coach
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had been sacked and replaced by former coach
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as caretaker coach for the rest of the season, including the AFC Champions League group stage of 2012. As part of Kosmina's takeover of the head coaching position, Eugene Galeković was named club captain on 28 December 2011, replacing Jon McKain.


Players


Squad information


Players in / out

Re-signed In Out


Player statistics


Squad stats


Delisted players


Disciplinary records


A-League


Scorers


A-League


Club


Coaching staff


Managerial Changes


Attendance at home games

''* Note: The Round 6 away match against
Gold Coast United Gold Coast United Football Club is an Australian Association football, 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 ...
was moved from Skilled Park to Hindmarsh Stadium and re-classified as an Adelaide United home game.
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Competitions


Overall


Pre-season


A-League


League table


Results summary


Results by round


Matches

''* Note: The Round 6 away match against
Gold Coast United Gold Coast United Football Club is an Australian Association football, 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 ...
was moved from Skilled Park to Hindmarsh Stadium and re-classified as an Adelaide United home game.'' ''
† Note: The Round 24 home match against
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was moved from 4 to 1 March to accommodate AFC Champions League participation.''


AFC Champions League


Qualifying play-off


Group stage


Round of 16


Quarter-finals


References


External links


Official website
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