Melbourne Victory FC

Melbourne Victory

Full name	Melbourne Victory Football Club
Nickname(s)	Victory, Big V[1]
Short name	MVFC
Founded	1 November 2004
Ground	AAMI Park (most games), Etihad Stadium
Capacity	30,050 and 53,359
Chairman	Anthony Di Pietro
Head Coach	Kevin Muscat
League	A-League
2015–16	A-League, 6th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Active teams of Melbourne Victory
Football (Men's)	Youth & NPL team (Men's)	W-League team (Women's)

Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. It competes in the country's premier competition, the A-League, under licence from Football Federation Australia.^[2] Victory entered the competition in the inaugural season as the only Victorian-based club in the newly revamped domestic Australian league. The club has won three A-League Championships, three A-League Premierships, one Pre-Season Challenge Cup and one FFA Cup, the only club to have won all four Australian football trophies. They have also competed in the AFC Champions League on four occasions.

The club plays matches at both multi-use venues, Melbourne Rectangular Stadium and Docklands Stadium, with seated capacities of 30,050 and 56,347 respectively. A youth team competes in the National Youth League. A women's team competes in the W-League. The youth and women matches are played at various locations across Melbourne, including Lakeside Stadium, Kingston Heath Soccer Complex as well as Melbourne Rectangular Stadium.

History

Season	A-League	A-League Finals	FFA Cup	A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup	AFC Champions League	Captain(s)	Head Coach(s)	Members	Average attn.	Total attn.
2005–06	7th	DNQ	Not Held	Semi-Finals	DNQ	Kevin Muscat	Ernie Merrick	14,908	14,167	141,668[3]
2006–07	Premiers	Champions		Group Stage				19,235	27,728	305,011[4]
2007–08	5th	DNQ			Group Stage			22,611	26,064	260,642[5]
2008–09	Premiers	Champions		Champions	DNQ			21,908	24,516	269,671[6]
2009–10	2nd	Runners-Up		Not Held	Group Stage			22,526	20,750	290,503[7]
2010–11	5th						Ernie Merrick Mehmet Durakovic (interim)	17,642	15,058	225,875[8]
2011–12	8th	DNQ			DNQ	Adrian Leijer	Mehmet Durakovic Kevin Muscat (interim) Jim Magilton (2nd interim)	18,047	19,208	268,916[9]
2012–13	3rd						Ange Postecoglou	18,432	21,885	306,396[10]
2013–14	4th		Quarter Final		Group Stage	Mark Milligan	Ange Postecoglou Kevin Muscat	22,021	21,808	283,507
2014–15	Premiers	Champions	Champions		DNQ	Mark Milligan[11] Carl Valeri[12]	Kevin Muscat	24,200	25,388	355,436
2015–16	6th	5th	TBD		TBD	Carl Valeri		27,054	25,925	181,478

-DNQ denotes that the club Did Not Qualify for the particular fixture
-Not Held denotes that the event did not take place
-TBD denotes that the final outcome has not occurred

Colours and badge

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor (front)	Shirt sponsor (back)
2005–09	Reebok	Samsung	Samsung
2009–11		Intralot	La Ionica
2011–12	Adidas	Adecco (home) EnergyWatch (away)	La Ionica
2012–14		Adecco (home) Oliana Foods (away)	La Ionica
2014–		Community Training Initiatives (home) Oliana Foods (away)	La Ionica

Melbourne Victory's club colours are navy blue, silver and white, which encompass the traditional state sporting colours of Victoria. In the Victory's inaugural A-League season, only the club badge displayed a chevron, known colloquially as the "Big V", a symbol traditionally used by the Victoria Australian rules football team. From the 2006–07 season the away strip was changed to a grey jersey with a white chevron on the front. This was an immediate hit with the club's supporters, and from the 2007–08 season onwards Melbourne's home jersey also sported the white chevron on the front. A new kit was introduced for the 2008 AFC Champions League^[13] due to AFC rules requiring kits to have player numbers on the front of the uniform as well as the back, which would not fit well with the 'V' on the Victory's regular kit. For the 2009–10 season, Melbourne changed their away jersey to be a reverse of their home jersey; a white shirt with a blue chevron.^[14] In 2010, Melbourne wore the TAC 'seatbelt' shirt against Perth Glory in a charity event to raise awareness for the necessary use of seat belts in cars. On 16 June 2011, the current kits were announced via the club's YouTube channel,^[15] which features a change to a fluoro yellow away jersey. Adidas were announced as the club's official kit manufacturer for five years.^[16] For their 2013–14 kits, Melbourne Victory received backlash from supporters following the releasing of the kits, as the away kits had a large resemblance to rivals Sydney FC.^[17]

First home kit (2005–07)

First away kit (2005–06)

First ACL home kit (2008–11)

First ACL away kit (2008–11)

Club songs

Stand by Me by Ben E. King is played prior to kick-off, when the Victory walk onto the field.^[18] "Victory the Brave", a rearrangement for the club of Scotland the Brave by Jim Keays of The Masters Apprentices, is played after every home win. "Horses" by Daryl Braithwaite is played at random during the game at AAMI Park.

Stadium

2007 A-League Grand Final at Docklands Stadium

Melbourne were originally based at the 50-year-old Olympic Park Stadium, where they played all home matches during the 2005–06 A-League season. This stadium had seated areas only on the wings, with standing-room sandy terraces on the north and south ends. The average crowd during the first year was 14,158.

On 2 September 2006, Melbourne Victory played Sydney FC at the 56,000 capacity Docklands Stadium. The match was a runaway success in terms of crowds, with 39,730 in attendance.^[19] As a result, the club moved all but one of their home games to the ground.^[20]

This move to such a large stadium was viewed with scepticism by many, but proved to be an outstanding success, with the Grand Final held there. The average attendance rose to 27,728 for the 2006–07 season, 10,000 above the next highest in the A-League.

Prior to the 2006–07 season the club had planned to move to a new $190 million stadium being built to the east of the current Olympic Park complex.^[21] The new stadium was originally expected to sit approximately 20,000 spectators (expandable to 25,000) and was to be completed by 2009.^[21]

These plans were revised after the Victory refused to commit to playing at such a small capacity stadium. On 23 May 2007, the club announced it had signed as a founding co-tenant of the new stadium, which would now be built to accommodate a maximum of 30,050 spectators with further renovations to 50,000 possible. However, further expansion in the near-term is unlikely as it was discovered during Australia's World Cup Bid process that to build such an expansion would be prohibitively expensive.^[22]

Docklands Stadium continued to serve as the club's only home ground until the completion of AAMI Park. The club split its home games between the new stadium and Etihad Stadium from the 2010–11 A-League campaign onwards; the games of less importance or potential drawing power at the new stadium and the 'blockbusters' and finals matches at Etihad Stadium.

On 15 February 2014, Melbourne Victory played their Asian Champions League qualifying game against Muangthong United at Kardinia Park in Geelong due to AAMI Park and Etihad Stadium being unavailable.^[23]

Support

Melbourne Victory supporters at the 2007 A-League Grand Final

Season	Members	Average attn.	Total attn.
2005–06	14,908	14,167	141,668[3]
2006–07	19,235	27,728	305,011[4]
2007–08	22,611	26,064	260,642[5]
2008–09	21,908	24,516	269,671[6]
2009–10	22,526	20,750	290,503[7]
2010–11	17,642	15,058	225,875[8]
2011–12	18,047	19,208	268,916[9]
2012–13	18,432	21,885	306,396[10]
2013–14	22,021	21,808	283,507
2014–15	24,200	25,388	355,436
2015–16	27,054	25,925	181,478

Melbourne Victory has the largest supporter base in Australia and has consistently set record highs in membership and attendance.^[24]

In January 2011, the Horda group was suspected to have stolen a banner from Melbourne Heart's Yarraside active group.^[25] In the following games, Horda banners were banned, which led to great protest from the Northern Terrace active members.^[26] At the following games, there was an increase in police and security present at the active area. Fans that were perceived as being "too aggressive" were escorted from the terrace, and in some cases fined or banned from the terrace. This led to the fans' anger escalating as they protested against the police control. On 2 February 2011, the fans from the North Terrace organised a silent protest for the Melbourne Victory – Newcastle Jets match. They left the North Terrace empty, and had a banner saying "No fans no past no future – without us you are nothing",^[27] "NT United". The banner was later confiscated by the police.

In February 2011, Victoria Police said they were reluctant to cover Melbourne Victory games because of behaviour by fans that they claimed was unacceptable. Problems included violence, anti-social behaviour and the lighting of flares.^[28][29]

On 3 January 2014 the Football Federation of Australia charged both Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers with bringing the game into disrepute following violent fan behaviour before and during their game on 28 December 2013.^[30]

Rivalries

Rivalry exists with Sydney FC, Melbourne City and Adelaide United, as well as a budding rivalry with the Western Sydney Wanderers. Victory have recorded big wins against Adelaide (6–0 in the 2006–07 Grand Final), Sydney (5–0 during the 2005–06 Season) and the Wanderers (4–1 on opening day 2014–15).

• Melbourne City – (Melbourne Derby.) Melbourne Victory's local rival is Melbourne City, which entered the competition in the 2009 season (as Melbourne Heart, before the name change in 2014), becoming the 2nd club in Melbourne. The rivalry reached a whole new level when Victory skipper Kevin Muscat was red carded for an unacceptable tackle on Heart player Adrian Zahra.^[31] Currently 5 former Victory players have switched to Melbourne Heart (City), with Mate Dugandžić doing the first ever direct switch from Victory to City in 2011. And arguably Harry Kewell in 2013, after being released by victory at the end of the 2012 season. There is some debate to whether he made a direct switch from victory to city (heart at the time), as he was a free agent when he made the switch. Currently no players have gone the other way (City to Victory)
• Sydney FC – (The Big Blue). Sydney is considered Melbourne's major interstate rival, due to Melbourne and Sydney being Australia's two largest cities (see Melbourne-Sydney rivalry). Matches between the two teams are regularly controversial and bitter encounters. Strong tensions are also emerging between the supporters from opposing teams, evident in the sell-out crowds. The rivalry between the two teams was escalated further after Sydney beat Melbourne in the final match of the 2009–10 season to win the A-League Premiership, and again beat Melbourne in the 2010 A-League Grand Final. However, in season 2014/15, Victory reversed these feats, by first pipping Sydney to the A-League Premiership, in the normal 'home and away' season and weeks later comprehensively beat them 3-nil in the 2015 A-League Grand Final. Victory now have won 3 A-League Grand Finals to Sydney's 2.
• Adelaide United – (The Cross Border Rivalry). Melbourne Victory also has a rivalry with Adelaide United. This rivalry stems from the other football codes, where the interstate rivalry is big between Victorians and South Australians (see South Australia-Victoria rivalry). There has also been altercations between sets of opposing fans in Melbourne and Adelaide. The rivalry has built up from previous encounters, when an incident between the then Adelaide United manager, John Kosmina, and Victory skipper Kevin Muscat took place during a sideline altercation during a match in the 2006–07 season,^[32] and when Victory striker Ney Fabiano allegedly spat in the direction of Adelaide defender Robert Cornthwaite during Round 4 in the 2008–09 season he was banned for 9 matches; however, this was reduced to 6 after a successful appeal.^[33] Victory and Adelaide contested both the 2006–07 and 2008–09 Grand Finals, with Melbourne winning both.
• Melbourne Victory are also the winners of the 2014/15 Hyundai A-League season, defeating rivals Sydney FC in a now famous 3-0 scoreline. This performance has been the base for humiliation for many Sydney FC fans and has been made famous over the past 12 months by the prestigious CAFF FB group.

Players

Archie Thompson was Melbourne's first signing. He leads in most appearances & most goals scored for the club, and has been the only player to wear the number 10 in victory colours.

First team squad

As of 30 April 2016.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Danny Vukovic 2 DF Jason Geria 3 DF Scott Galloway 4 DF Nick Ansell 5 DF Daniel Georgievski 6 MF Leigh Broxham (vice-captain) 8 FW Besart Berisha 11 FW Connor Pain 13 MF Oliver Bozanic 14 FW Fahid Ben Khalfallah 15 DF Giancarlo Gallifuoco

No. Position Player 16 MF Rashid Mahazi 18 DF Dylan Murnane 19 FW George Howard (Youth) 20 GK Lawrence Thomas 21 MF Carl Valeri (Captain) 22 MF Jesse Makarounas 23 FW Jai Ingham 24 DF Thomas Deng (Youth) 30 GK Lucas Spinella (Youth) 32 MF Stefan Nigro (Youth)

Youth squad

Corporate

Club chairman Anthony Di Pietro took charge in the 2011–12 pre-season following inaugural chairman Geoff Lord's resignation.

Period	Chairman
2005–2011	Geoff Lord
2011–	Anthony Di Pietro

As of 2015, the largest of around fifty shareholders of Melbourne Victory Ltd, an unlisted public company, is Mario Biasin, owner of construction company Metricon, followed by others including current Victory chairman Anthony Di Pietro, CEO of Premier Fruits Group.

Victory struggled to raise the initial $5 million equity capital to join the A-League in its first year and the FFA helped the club over the line by contributing franchise and set-up fees of about $500,000.^[34] The FFA took a ten per cent holding in the club in return, as well as having a representative on the Victory board.^[34] The shareholding was offered back to the club in 2007 and Geoff Lord and his partners – including Ron Peck, Richard Wilson and John Harris – raised the money to buy the shares.^[34]

In 2014, it was announced that major shareholder, real estate investor Harry Stamoulis and fellow shareholder Robert Belteky, Managing Director of car parking company Care Park, along with some other minority shareholders, would offer their combined 35% stake in Melbourne Victory for sale to the general public, making part ownership of the club available to regular fans, a first for an A-League club.^[35] However, despite payments already having been collected from fans by the facilitator of the sale Deloitte, on the 12 of November it was announced that the entire allocation of shares were eventually purchased "by a small number of long-term substantial shareholders".^[36]

Sponsors

On 5 December 2005, South Korean electronics giant Samsung became the club's major sponsor in a two-year deal.^[37] This would ensure that Samsung would have their logo feature on the front and the back of Victory's home and away kits. Prior to the 2006–07 season, KFC were announced as Victory's sleeve sponsor, with their logo appearing on the sleeve of Victory's home and away kits.^[38] On 28 January 2009, Samsung announced that they would not be renewing their sponsorship for the 2009–10 A-League season. Intralot became the Melbourne Victory's new major sponsor when they signed a two season $2 million contract on 4 May 2009. Their logo subsequently featured on the front of Melbourne Victory's playing strip, starting from the 2009–10 season.^[39] On 6 August 2010, it was announced that law firm Florin Burhala Lawyers would be Melbourne Victory's official shorts sponsor for the 2010–11 season.^[40] On 1 June 2011, it was announced that human resources company Adecco Group signed a three-year deal as the club's major sponsor, replacing Intralot. As part of the deal, Adecco's logo will appear on the front of the club's playing strip.^[41] Melbourne Victory announced on 16 June 2011 that they had signed a five-year deal with global sportswear giant Adidas as the club's official kit manufacturer.^[16]

Personnel

Board members

• Chairman: Anthony Di Pietro
• Managing Director: Ian Robson
• Director: Mario Biasin
• Director: Florin Burhala
• Director: John Harris
• Director: John Doveston
• Director: Richard Wilson

Source:^[42]

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Football Operations Manager	Paul Trimboli
Head Coach	Kevin Muscat
First Assistant Coach	Rado Vidošić
Second Assistant Coach	Darren Davies
Goalkeeping Coach	Dean Anastasiadis
Strength and Conditioning Coach	Anthony Crea
Sports Science	Amber Rowell
Doctor	Dr Andrew Jowett
Doctor	Dr Krishant Naidu
Physiotherapist	Travis Maude
HAL Rehabilitation and Injury Prevention Coordinator	Domenic Trimboli
Assistant HAL Physiotherapist & NYL Physiotherapist	Ryan Florence-Rieniets
NYL Coach	Darren Davies
NYL Development Coach	Grant Brebner (interim)
NYL Assistant Coach	Vaughan Coveny
NYL Goalkeeping Coach	Vacant
Assistant HAL and NYL Conditioning Coach	Aaron D'Antino
Women's Head Coach	Dave Edmondson

Source: "About Us". Melbourne Victory FC.
"W-League: Edmondson named as coach". Melbourne Victory FC. 4 February 2013.

Director of football

Dates	Name	Notes
2005 – 12 April 2011	Gary Cole	Football Operations Manager
21 June 2011 – 22 November 2011[43]	Francis Awaritefe	Director of Football
25 June 2012 – present	Paul Trimboli[44]	Football Operations Manager

Managerial history

Dates	Name	Notes	Honours
20 December 2004 – 12 March 2011	Ernie Merrick	Inaugural head coach and first dual-nationality head coach	2006–07 A-League Premiership 2008–09 A-League Premiership 2009–10 A-League Premiership Runner Up 2006–07 A-League Championship 2008–09 A-League Championship 2009–10 A-League Championship Runner Up 2008 A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup A-League Coach of the Year 2006–07 A-League Coach of the Year 2009–10
12 March 2011 – 20 June 2011	Mehmet Durakovic	Caretaker head coach
21 June 2011 – 6 January 2012	Mehmet Durakovic	First head coach who previously represented Socceroos
6 January 2012 – 7 January 2012	Kevin Muscat	Caretaker head coach for one match
7 January 2012 – 1 April 2012	Jim Magilton	First foreign head coach
26 April 2012 – 26 October 2013	Ange Postecoglou	First head coach to progress from the club directly to the Socceroos
31 October 2013 – present	Kevin Muscat	First former club captain & club player appointed as head coach	2014–15 A-League Premiership 2014–15 A-League Championship A-League Coach of the Year 2014–15 2015 FFA Cup

Club captains

Dates	Name	Notes	Honours (as captain)
5 May 2005 – 16 February 2011	Kevin Muscat	Inaugural club captain	2006–07 A-League Premiership 2008–09 A-League Premiership 2009–10 A-League Premiership Runner Up 2006–07 A-League Championship 2008–09 A-League Championship 2009–10 A-League Championship Runner Up 2008 A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup
16 February 2011 – 17 September 2013	Adrian Leijer
17 September 2013 – 23 June 2015	Mark Milligan	First club captain as Australian marquee	2014–15 A-League Premiership 2014–15 A-League Championship 2015 Joe Marston Medal
7 September 2015 –	Carl Valeri[45]		2015 FFA Cup

Affiliated clubs

• Tasmanian Victory League (sponsored and supported by Melbourne Victory)
• Tianjin Teda (sister club relationship)

Honours

• A-League

Premierships (3) – record: 2006–07, 2008–09, 2014–15

Runners-Up (1): 2009–10

• A-League Finals

Championships (3) – record: 2007, 2009, 2015

Runners-Up (1): 2010

• A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup

Winners (1): 2008

• FFA Cup

Winners (1) – record: 2015

Records

Archie Thompson holds the team record for number of total games played with 174 matches. Thompson also holds the record for all-time highest goalscorer in all competitions with 95 goals.

Melbourne Victory's record win came against Adelaide United 6–0, on 18 February 2007, in the 2007 A-League Grand Final.^[46] Victory's record defeat was against rival Sydney FC, in a 0–5 on 26 January 2014.^[47] Melbourne Victory's record FFA Cup win came against Balmain Tigers FC on the 4th of August 2015 with the score of 0–6.

The clubs highest home attendance is 50,333 for a league Big Blue match on 8 December 2006, at Docklands Stadium.^[48] The clubs highest home attendance for any match is 95,446 for pre-season friendly at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 24 July 2013, against Liverpool.^[49]

See also

• Melbourne Victory FC W-League

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External links

• Official website