List of Melbourne City FC managers

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Melbourne City Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in Cranbourne East, Melbourne. The club was formed 2009 as Melbourne Heart before it was renamed to Melbourne City in 2014. They were the second Victorian club admitted into the A-League Men in 2010.

There have been five permanent and two caretaker managers of Melbourne City since 2010; John van 't Schip has managed the club in two separate spells.

This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of Melbourne City since their foundation in 2009. Each manager's entry includes his dates of tenure and the club's overall competitive record (in terms of matches won, drawn and lost), honours won and significant achievements while under his care. Caretaker managers are included, where known, as well as those who have been in permanent charge.

Managers[edit]

  • Manager dates and nationalities are sourced from worldfootball.net[1] for van 't Schnip to Aloisi and Soccerbase[2] thereafter for van 't Schnip to Kisnorbo. Statistics are sourced from ALeagueStats.com.[3] Names of caretaker managers are supplied where known, and periods of caretaker management are highlighted in italics and marked caretaker or caretaker, then permanent appointment, depending on the scenario. Win percentage is rounded to two decimal places.
  • Only first-team competitive matches are counted. Wins, losses and draws are results at the final whistle; the results of penalty shoot-outs are not counted.

Statistics are complete as of 9 February 2024.

Key

  • M = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Win % = percentage of total matches won
  •    † Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments.
  •    ‡ Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments promoted to full-time manager.
List of Melbourne City FC managers
Name Nationality From To M W D L GF GA Win % Honours Notes
John van 't Schip  Netherlands 13 October 2009 5 April 2012 58 17 21 20 67 78 029.31
John Aloisi  Australia 8 May 2012 29 December 2013 39 8 7 24 40 52 020.51
John van 't Schip  Netherlands 30 December 2013 5 January 2017 96 43 22 31 178 93 044.79 FFA Cup winners: 2016
Michael Valkanis †  Australia 5 January 2017 19 June 2017 15 6 1 8 27 26 040.00
Warren Joyce  England 19 June 2017 1 June 2019 63 29 11 23 91 62 046.03
Erick Mombaerts  France 1 June 2019 3 September 2020 33 19 5 9 64 42 057.58 [nb 1]
Patrick Kisnorbo  Australia 3 September 2020 23 November 2022 74 43 17 14 147 78 058.11 A-League Men premiers: 2020–21, 2021–22
A-League Men champions: 2021 		[nb 2]
Rado Vidošić ‡  Australia 23 November 2022 1 November 2023 32 17 8 7 67 49 053.13 A-League Men premiers: 2022–23 [nb 3]
Aurelio Vidmar  Australia 1 November 2023 Present 18 6 6 6 31 17 033.33

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Patrick Kisnorbo was a fill-in coach between Mombaerts' contract. Kisnorbo's record was W1-D0-L1, scoring 5 goals and conceding 4 goals.
  2. ^ Des Buckingham was a fill-in coach between Kisnorbo's contract. Buckingham's record was W3-D0-L0, scoring 8 goals and conceding 3 goals.
  3. ^ Petr Kratky was a fill-in coach between Vidošić's contract. Kratky's record was W1-D0-L0, scoring 2 goals and conceding 0 goals.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Melbourne City FC » Manager history". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Melbourne C: Managers". Soccerbase. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Melbourne City Team Statistics: Coaching history". ALeagueStats.com. Retrieved 7 April 2021.

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