List of A-League honours

This is a list of A-League honours achieved since the inaugural season of the league. The following details honours won by A-League clubs and those awarded to players, managers and referees of the competition.

Note that honours achieved by the following clubs were achieved under a different name due to a change in the clubs name: Brisbane Roar formally Queensland Roar prior to the 2009–10 season, and Melbourne City formally Melbourne Heart prior to the 2014–15 season.

Club honours

Premiers

The club that finishes first on the A-League table is crowned A-League Premiers.

Season Premiers Runners-Up
2005–06 Adelaide United Sydney FC
2006–07 Melbourne Victory Adelaide United
2007–08 Central Coast Mariners Newcastle Jets
2008–09 Melbourne Victory Adelaide United
2009–10 Sydney FC Melbourne Victory
2010–11 Brisbane Roar Central Coast Mariners
2011–12 Central Coast Mariners Brisbane Roar
2012–13 Western Sydney Wanderers Central Coast Mariners
2013–14 Brisbane Roar Western Sydney Wanderers
2014–15 Melbourne Victory Sydney FC
2015–16 Adelaide United Western Sydney Wanderers

Champions

The club that wins the A-League Grand Final in the finals series is crowned A-League Champions.

Grand Final Champions Runners-up
2006 Sydney FC Central Coast Mariners
2007 Melbourne Victory Adelaide United
2008 Newcastle Jets Central Coast Mariners
2009 Melbourne Victory Adelaide United
2010 Sydney FC Melbourne Victory
2011 Brisbane Roar Central Coast Mariners
2012 Brisbane Roar Perth Glory
2013 Central Coast Mariners Western Sydney Wanderers
2014 Brisbane Roar Western Sydney Wanderers
2015 Melbourne Victory Sydney FC
2016 Adelaide United Western Sydney Wanderers

Summary

Regular season Finals series
Club Premiers Runners-up Champions Runners-up Qualified
Melbourne Victory 31318
Brisbane Roar2138
Central Coast Mariners 22137
Adelaide United 22128
Sydney FC 12217
Western Sydney Wanderers 1233
Newcastle Jets 11 4
Perth Glory 14
Wellington Phoenix 4
Melbourne City 3
Gold Coast United 2
North Queensland Fury
New Zealand Knights
Bold denotes club still competing in the A-League.

Individual honours

Fair Play Award

The Fair Play Award goes to the team with the fewest points on the fair play ladder at the conclusion of the regular season.[1]

1 point Yellow Card
2 points Second Caution Red Card
3 points Direct Red Card
Year Club
2005–06 Melbourne Victory
2006–07 Perth Glory
2007–08 Newcastle Jets
2008–09 Brisbane Roar
2009–10 Sydney FC
2010–11 Brisbane Roar
2011–12 Brisbane Roar
2012–13 Brisbane Roar
2013–14 Brisbane Roar
2014–15 Wellington Phoenix
2015–16 Brisbane Roar

Goal of the Year

Year Player/s Club
2009–10 Costa Rica Carlos Hernández Melbourne Victory
2010–11 Australia Erik Paartalu Brisbane Roar
2011–12 Costa Rica Carlos Hernández Melbourne Victory
2012–13 Argentina Marcos Flores Melbourne Victory
2013–14 Netherlands Orlando Engelaar Melbourne City
2014–15 Australia Tarek Elrich Adelaide United
2015–16 Republic of Ireland Roy O'Donovan Central Coast Mariners

Goalkeeper of the Year

Year Player Club
2005–06 Australia Clint Bolton Sydney FC
2006–07 Australia Michael Theoklitos Melbourne Victory
2007–08 Australia Michael Theoklitos Melbourne Victory
2008–09 Australia Eugene Galekovic Adelaide United
2009–10 Australia Eugene Galekovic Adelaide United
2010–11 Australia Michael Theoklitos Brisbane Roar
2011–12 Australia Mathew Ryan Central Coast Mariners
2012–13 Australia Ante Covic Western Sydney Wanderers
2013–14 Australia Eugene Galekovic Adelaide United
2014–15 Australia Eugene Galekovic Adelaide United
2015–16 Denmark Thomas Sørensen Melbourne City

Golden Boot

Further information: A-League Golden Boot

The Golden Boot is presented to the player who scores the most goals during the season. Only regular A-League matches in the regular season are counted. In recent years this has been between Round 1 and Round 27. Prior to season 2009–10 the season finished in Round 21.[1]

Year Player/s Club Goals
2005–06 Australia Alex Brosque
Australia Bobby Despotovski
Scotland Stewart Petrie
Australia Archie Thompson
Brisbane Roar
Perth Glory
Central Coast Mariners
Melbourne Victory
8
2006–07 Australia Daniel Allsopp Melbourne Victory 11
2007–08 Australia Joel Griffiths Newcastle Jets 12
2008–09 New Zealand Shane Smeltz Wellington Phoenix 12
2009–10 New Zealand Shane Smeltz Gold Coast United 19
2010–11 Indonesia Sergio van Dijk Adelaide United 16
2011–12 Albania Besart Berisha Brisbane Roar 19
2012–13 Australia Daniel McBreen Central Coast Mariners 17
2013–14 Australia Adam Taggart Newcastle Jets 16
2014–15 Austria Marc Janko Sydney FC 16
2015–16 Uruguay Bruno Fornaroli Melbourne City 23

Joe Marston Medal

The Joe Marston Medal is given to the best player in an A-League Grand Final.[1] It is named after Joe Marston, an Australian national player in the 1950s.

Year Player Club
2006 Trinidad and Tobago Dwight Yorke[2] Sydney FC
2007 Australia Archie Thompson[3] Melbourne Victory
2008 Australia Andrew Durante[4] Newcastle Jets
2009 Australia Tom Pondeljak[5] Melbourne Victory
2010 Australia Simon Colosimo[6] Sydney FC
2011 Australia Mathew Ryan[7] Central Coast Mariners
2012 Australia Jacob Burns[8] Perth Glory
2013 Australia Daniel McBreen[9] Central Coast Mariners
2014 Germany Thomas Broich[10]
Italy Iacopo La Rocca[11]
Brisbane Roar
Western Sydney Wanderers
2015 Australia Mark Milligan[12] Melbourne Victory
2016 Spain Isaías[13] Adelaide United

Johnny Warren Medal

The Johnny Warren Medal, named after the late former Socceroo and media advocate Johnny Warren, is presented to the player who is deemed to be the best player overall at the end of the season as judged by his fellow players. Each player in the A-League votes three times over the season: after Round 9, Round 18 and Round 27. Players are not allowed to vote for players from their own team.[1] The format was changed for the 2015–16 season, with a panel featuring former players, media, referees and technical staff, who voted on each regular-season match.[14]

Year Player Club
2005–06 Australia Bobby Despotovski Perth Glory
2006–07 Australia Nick Carle Newcastle Jets
2007–08 Australia Joel Griffiths Newcastle Jets
2008–09 New Zealand Shane Smeltz Wellington Phoenix
2009–10 Costa Rica Carlos Hernández Melbourne Victory
2010–11 Argentina Marcos Flores Adelaide United
2011–12 Germany Thomas Broich Brisbane Roar
2012–13 New Zealand Marco Rojas Melbourne Victory
2013–14 Germany Thomas Broich Brisbane Roar
2014–15 Australia Nathan Burns Wellington Phoenix
2015–16 Spain Diego Castro Perth Glory

Coach of the Year

Year Name Club
2005–06 Scotland Lawrie McKinna Central Coast Mariners
2006–07 Scotland Ernie Merrick Melbourne Victory
2007–08 Australia Gary van Egmond Newcastle Jets
2008–09 Australia Aurelio Vidmar Adelaide United
2009–10 Scotland Ernie Merrick Melbourne Victory
2010–11 Australia Ange Postecoglou Brisbane Roar
2011–12 Australia Graham Arnold Central Coast Mariners
2012–13 Australia Tony Popovic Western Sydney Wanderers
2013–14 England Mike Mulvey Brisbane Roar
2014–15 Australia Kevin Muscat Melbourne Victory
2015–16 Spain Guillermo Amor Adelaide United

Referee of the Year

Year Referee
2005–06 Australia Mark Shield
2006–07 Australia Mark Shield
2007–08 Australia Mark Shield
2008–09 Australia Matthew Breeze
2009–10 Australia Strebre Delovski
2010–11 Australia Matthew Breeze
2011–12 Australia Jarred Gillett
2012–13 Australia Peter Green
2013–14 Australia Peter Green
2014–15 Australia Jarred Gillett
2015–16 Australia Jarred Gillett

Young Footballer of the Year

The Young Footballer of the Year award is awarded to a youth (under 23) player judged by a panel of experts to be the best young performer throughout the season.[1]

Year Player Club
2005–06 Australia Nick Ward Perth Glory
2006–07 Australia Adrian Leijer Melbourne Victory
2007–08 Australia Bruce Djite Adelaide United
2008–09 Australia Scott Jamieson Adelaide United
2009–10 Australia Tommy Oar Brisbane Roar
2010–11 Australia Mathew Ryan Central Coast Mariners
2011–12 Australia Mathew Ryan Central Coast Mariners
2012–13 New Zealand Marco Rojas Melbourne Victory
2013–14 Australia Adam Taggart Newcastle Jets
2014–15 Australia James Jeggo Adelaide United
2015–16 Australia Jamie Maclaren Brisbane Roar

Foreign Player of the Year

The Foreign Player of the Year award is awarded to an international player judged by a panel of experts to be the best performer throughout the season. As of 2012 it has no longer been awarded.

Year Player/s Club
2008–09 Scotland Charlie Miller Brisbane Roar
2009–10 Costa Rica Carlos Hernández Melbourne Victory
2010–11 Argentina Marcos Flores Adelaide United
2011–12 Germany Thomas Broich Brisbane Roar

See also

References

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