List of Melbourne City FC players

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Bruno Fornaroli was Melbourne City's record goalscorer until it was overtaken by Jamie Maclaren in May 2021.

Melbourne City Football Club, an association football club based in Cranbourne East, Melbourne, was founded in 2009 as Melbourne Heart. They became the second Victorian member admitted into the A-League Men in 2010 after their local rivals Melbourne Victory.

Curtis Good holds the record for the greatest number of appearances for Melbourne City. Between 2011 and 2023, the Australian defender played 173 times for the club. The club's goalscoring record is held by Jamie Maclaren, who has scored 112 goals in all competitions between 2019 and the present day. He surpassed the previous record of 57 goals, held by Bruno Fornaroli in 2021.[1]

Key[edit]

  • The list is ordered first by date of debut, and then if necessary in alphabetical order.
  • Appearances as a substitute are included.
  • Statistics are correct up to and including the match played on 17 February 2024. Where a player left the club permanently after this date, his statistics are updated to his date of leaving.
Positions key
GK Goalkeeper
DF Defender
MF Midfielder
FW Forward
Nationality
Unless otherwise noted, the nationality of a player is determined by the country/countries which he has played for, or if said person has not played international football, their country of birth.
Position
Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time.
Club career
Club career is defined as the first and last calendar years in which the player appeared for the club in any of the competitions listed below.
Total appearances and Total goals
Total appearances and goals comprise those in the A-League Men regular season and finals series, Australia Cup and AFC Champions League.

Players[edit]

David Williams has the second most appearances for Melbourne City playing 103 times.[2]
Patrick Kisnorbo made 81 appearances for Melbourne City and managed the club from 2020 to 2022.[3]
Spanish international forward David Villa made four appearances for the club in 2014.[4]
List of Melbourne City FC players
Player Nationality Pos Club career Starts Subs Total Goals
Appearances
Michael Beauchamp  Australia DF 2010–2011 19 4 23 0
Eli Babalj  Australia FW 2010–2013 24 20 44 12
Aziz Behich  Australia DF 2010–2014
2023–2024
102 6 108 3
Clint Bolton  Australia GK 2010–2013 70 0 70 0
Simon Colosimo  Australia DF 2010–2013 56 7 63 1
Brendan Hamill  Australia DF 2010–2012 23 12 35 1
Dean Heffernan  Australia DF 2010–2011 9 4 13 0
Nick Kalmar  Australia MF 2010–2014 35 35 70 7
Michael Marrone  Australia DF 2010–2013 70 0 70 0
Gerald Sibon  Australia FW 2010–2011 24 3 27 7
Josip Skoko  Australia MF 2010–2011 21 2 22 0
Alex Terra  Brazil FW 2010–2012 25 18 43 7
Matt Thompson  Australia DF 2010–2013 81 1 82 7
Rutger Worm  Netherlands FW 2010–2012 36 10 46 2
Wayne Srhoj  Australia MF 2010–2012 42 1 43 0
Jason Hoffman  Australia MF 2010–2015 51 30 81 3
Kliment Taseski  Australia MF 2010–2012 0 4 4 0
John Aloisi  Australia FW 2010–2011 17 3 20 8
Kamal Ibrahim  Australia FW 2010–2012 1 2 3 0
Adrian Zahra  Australia MF 2010–2012 17 2 19 2
Kristian Sarkies  Australia MF 2010–2012 7 4 11 2
Mate Dugandzic  Australia FW 2011–2012 67 9 76 13
Fred  Brazil MF 2011–2013 33 5 38 3
Jonathan Germano  Argentina MF 2011–2015 49 8 57 7
Curtis Good  Australia DF 2011–2012
2018–
164 10 174 9
Maycon  Brazil FW 2011–2012 5 8 13 1
Nikola Roganovic  Australia GK 2011–2012 2 0 2 0
David Williams  Australia FW 2011–2016 66 37 103 21
Adrian Madaschi  Australia DF 2011–2012 8 1 9 0
Craig Goodwin  Australia DF 2012 3 1 4 0
Paul Reid  Australia MF 2012 2 2 4 0
Richard Garcia  Australia FW 2012–2013 24 0 24 6
Patrick Gerhardt  Liberia DF 2012–2014 34 6 40 1
Dylan Macallister  Australia FW 2012–2014 5 16 21 1
Josip Tadic  Croatia FW 2012–2013 19 3 22 6
David Vrankovic  Australia DF 2012–2014 9 5 14 0
Ben Garuccio  Australia DF 2012–2014
2020–2021
42 26 68 1
Sam Mitchinson  Australia MF 2012–2014 8 1 9 0
Jeremy Walker  Australia MF 2012–2014 16 0 16 0
Golgol Mebrahtu  Australia FW 2012–2014 10 16 26 4
Steven Gray  Ireland DF 2012 1 0 1 0
Ersin Kaya  Australia DF 2012 0 1 1 0
Andrew Redmayne  Australia GK 2012–2015 48 1 49 0
Stefan Mauk  Australia MF 2013–2016
2017–2018
39 25 64 10
Vince Grella  Australia MF 2013 0 1 1 0
Jamie Coyne  Australia MF 2013–2014 7 0 7 0
Marcel Meeuwis  Netherlands MF 2013 3 3 6 0
Harry Kewell  Australia FW 2013–2014 11 5 16 2
Patrick Kisnorbo  Australia DF 2013–2016 79 2 81 5
Massimo Murdocca  Australia MF 2013–2015 34 11 45 0
Iain Ramsay  Philippines MF 2013–2015 32 15 47 3
Rob Wielaert  Netherlands DF 2013–2015 38 0 38 1
Andrea Migliorini  Italy MF 2013–2014 7 1 8 3
Michael Mifsud  Malta FW 2013–2014 12 2 14 1
Paulo Retre  Australia MF 2013–2017 33 27 60 1
Orlando Engelaar  Netherlands MF 2013–2014 11 1 12 5
Ross Archibald  Australia DF 2014–2015 3 1 4 0
Tando Velaphi  Australia GK 2013–2016 26 0 26 0
James Brown  Australia MF 2014–2016 5 12 17 1
Damien Duff  Ireland FW 2014–2015 15 1 16 1
Aaron Mooy  Australia MF 2014–2016 57 1 58 24
Marc Marino  Australia FW 2014–2016 0 9 9 2
Erik Paartalu  Australia MF 2014–2016 43 0 43 7
David Villa  Spain FW 2014 3 1 4 2
Jacob Melling  Australia MF 2014–2016 27 10 37 1
Liam Miller  Ireland MF 2014 2 0 2 0
Connor Chapman  Australia DF 2014–2016 38 4 42 1
Robert Koren  Slovenia MF 2014–2016 23 5 28 4
Jack Clisby  Australia DF 2015–2016 27 9 36 0
Safuwan Baharudin  Singapore DF 2015 6 0 6 2
Joshua Kennedy  Australia FW 2015 11 1 12 2
Kew Jaliens  Netherlands FW 2015 11 1 12 2
Harry Novillo  Martinique FW 2015–2016 30 3 33 13
Nick Symeoy  Australia DF 2015 0 2 2 0
Wade Dekker  Australia FW 2015–2016 5 4 9 2
Ali Eyigun  Australia FW 2015–2016 1 1 2 0
Philip Petreski  Macedonia MF 2015 0 1 1 0
Stefan Zinni  Australia FW 2015–2016 3 4 7 0
Michael Zullo  Australia DF 2015–2016 13 4 17 0
Bruno Fornaroli  Uruguay FW 2015–2019 81 2 83 57
Hernan Espindola  Australia FW 2015–2016 2 3 5 0
Jason Trifiro  Australia MF 2015–2016 1 7 8 0
Steve Kuzmanovski  Australia FW 2015–2017 4 4 8 0
Thomas Sørensen  Denmark GK 2015–2017 39 2 41 0
Matthew Millar  Australia DF 2015–2016 3 2 5 1
Corey Gameiro  Australia FW 2015–2016 2 3 5 1
Aaron Hughes  Northern Ireland DF 2015–2016 2 3 5 1
Ivan Franjic  Australia DF 2015–2017 38 3 41 1
Anthony Caceres  Australia MF 2015–2017
2018
29 20 49 4
Nick Fitzgerald  Australia FW 2016–2018 41 30 71 10
Osama Malik  Australia DF 2016–2019 58 7 65 0
Alex Wilkinson  Australia DF 2016 10 0 10 0
Dean Bouzanis  Australia GK 2016–2020 64 2 66 0
Daniel Arzani  Australia MF 2016–2018 16 11 27 2
Fernando Brandán  Argentina MF 2016–2017 16 8 24 5
Luke Brattan  Australia MF 2016–2019 82 8 90 7
Bruce Kamau  Australia FW 2016–2018 36 12 38 4
Manny Muscat  Malta DF 2016–2018 31 12 43 1
Tim Cahill  Australia FW 2016–2017 22 11 33 13
Bradley Clarke  Australia DF 2016 0 1 1 0
Neil Kilkenny  Australia MF 2016–2018 32 3 35 2
Josh Rose  Australia DF 2016–2017 26 0 26 0
Nicolás Colazo  Argentina FW 2016–2017 19 5 24 4
Michael Jakobsen  Denmark DF 2016–2018 49 0 49 3
Christian Cavallo  Australia DF 2016 0 1 1 0
Ruon Tongyik  Australia DF 2016–2017 14 3 17 0
Denis Genreau  Australia MF 2016–2020 6 8 14 1
Braedyn Crowley  Australia FW 2016–2018 0 5 5 0
Dylan Pierias  Australia DF 2017–2019 1 2 3 0
Nathaniel Atkinson  Australia DF 2017–2020
2020–2021
58 22 80 4
Scott Jamieson  Australia DF 2017–2023 141 20 161 3
Bart Schenkeveld  Australia DF 2017–2019 57 0 57 1
Eugene Galekovic  Australia GK 2017–2019 39 0 39 0
Iacopo La Rocca  Italy DF 2017–2019 19 2 21 0
Marcin Budzinski  Poland MF 2017–2018 8 9 17 5
Ross McCormack  Scotland FW 2017–2018 14 3 17 14
Harrison Delbridge  Australia DF 2017–2020 57 11 68 1
Dario Vidošić  Australia MF 2017–2019 26 6 34 8
Connor Metcalfe  Australia DF 2017–2022 66 18 84 11
Oliver Bozanic  Australia MF 2018 9 0 9 0
Rostyn Griffiths  Australia MF 2018–2022 74 20 94 4
Anthony Lesiotis  Australia MF 2018–2019
2021–2022
1 6 7 0
Riley McGree  Australia MF 2018–2019 21 9 30 8
Michael O'Halloran  Scotland FW 2018–2019 0 3 3 0
Lachlan Wales  Australia FW 2018–2020 34 25 59 3
Ritchie De Laet  Belgium DF 2018–2019 25 1 26 7
Kearyn Baccus  Australia MF 2018–2019 26 1 27 0
Florin Berenguer  France MF 2018–2023 93 22 115 9
Ramy Najjarine  Australia MF 2018–2020 4 21 25 1
Moudi Najjar  Australia FW 2019–2020 2 6 8 1
Shayon Harrison  England FW 2019 11 0 11 4
Jamie Maclaren  Australia FW 2019– 149 4 153 112
Idrus Abdulahi  Australia MF 2019–2020 0 2 2 0
James Delianov  Australia GK 2019 1 0 1 0
Joshua Brillante  Australia MF 2019–2020 32 1 33 1
Javier Cabrera  Uruguay FW 2019–2020 9 4 13 2
Scott Galloway  Australia DF 2019– 62 44 106 7
Adrián Luna  Uruguay MF 2019–2021 40 14 54 8
Craig Noone  England FW 2019–2021 53 2 55 15
Richard Windbichler  Austria DF 2019–2020 7 3 10 0
Stefan Colakovski  North Macedonia MF 2019–2022 11 43 54 4
Tom Glover  Australia GK 2019–2023 109 0 109 0
Markel Susaeta  Spain FW 2020 9 1 10 2
Jack Hendry  Scotland DF 2020 2 0 2 0
Raphael Borges Rodrigues  Australia FW 2020–2023 6 11 17 2
Andrew Nabbout  Australia FW 2020– 67 20 87 12
Aiden O'Neill  Australia MF 2020–2023 61 3 64 4
Naoki Tsubaki  Japan MF 2020–2021 8 7 15 1
Taras Gomulka  Australia MF 2020–2023 22 21 43 0
Kerrin Stokes  Australia DF 2021–2022 9 2 11 0
Alec Mills  Australia DF 2021 0 3 3 0
Marco Tilio  Australia FW 2021–2023
2024–
59 29 88 20
Nuno Reis  Portugal DF 2021– 68 18 86 0
Daniel Georgievski  North Macedonia DF 2021 1 2 3 0
Matt Sutton  Australia GK 2021–2022 3 0 3 0
Max Caputo  Australia FW 2021– 2 21 23 2
Jordan Bos  Australia DF 2021–2023 41 11 52 3
Mathew Leckie  Australia FW 2021– 49 10 59 19
Luke Oresti  Australia MF 2021–2022 1 1 2 1
Manuel Pucciarelli  Italy MF 2021–2022 2 4 6 0
Jordon Hall  Australia DF 2022– 8 7 15 0
Carl Jenkinson  England DF 2022 23 5 28 3
Tsubasa Endoh  Japan MF 2022 3 6 9 0
Jordi Valadon  Australia MF 2022 0 4 4 0
Callum Talbot  Australia DF 2022– 42 10 52 1
Valon Berisha  Kosovo MF 2022–2023 26 1 27 1
Thomas Lam  Finland MF 2022–2023 25 2 27 1
Richard van der Venne  Netherlands MF 2022–2023 17 6 23 7
Terry Antonis  Australia MF 2023– 4 16 20 3
Tolgay Arslan  Germany MF 2023– 24 0 24 12
Marin Jakoliš  Croatia FW 2023– 21 2 23 2
Alessandro Lopane  Australia MF 2023– 15 8 23 3
Steven Ugarkovic  Australia MF 2023– 22 4 26 2
Jamie Young  England GK 2023– 27 0 27 0
Hamza Sakhi  Morocco MF 2023–2024 21 1 22 1
Zane Schreiber  Australia MF 2023– 0 5 5 0
Samuel Souprayen  France DF 2023– 17 3 20 0
Medin Memeti  Australia FW 2023– 0 1 1 0
Harrison Shillington  Australia DF 2023– 0 1 1 0
Harry Politidis  Australia DF 2023– 2 8 10 0
Léo Natel  Brazil FW 2023– 14 6 20 2
Benjamin Mazzeo  Australia FW 2023– 3 9 12 2
Jimmy Jeggo  Australia MF 2024– 2 1 3 0
Vicente Fernández  Chile DF 2024– 0 1 1 0

Captains[edit]

Seven players have captained Melbourne City since it was founded as Melbourne Heart in 2009, first being Simon Colosimo, who captained the team until the end of their inaugural season in 2011. The club's longest-serving captain is Scott Jamieson, who captained the club for five years between 2018 and 2023.

Dates Captain
2010–11  Simon Colosimo (AUS)
2011–13  Fred (BRA)
2013–14  Harry Kewell (AUS)
2014–16  Patrick Kisnorbo (AUS)
2016–17  Bruno Fornaroli (URU)
2017–18  Michael Jakobsen (DEN)
2018–23  Scott Jamieson (AUS)
2023–  Jamie Maclaren (AUS)
[5]

References[edit]

General

  • "Complete Player Listing". aleaguestats.com.
  • "Melbourne City: All Players". Ultimate A-League.

Specific

  1. ^ Trevenen, Brett (13 May 2021). "Match Report: City 4-1 Adelaide". Melbourne City FC. Football Australia.
  2. ^ "Williams to Pursue Overseas Opportunity". Melbourne City FC. 19 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Patrick Kisnorbo appointed head coach of Melbourne City as mentor Erick Mombaerts departs". Melbourne City FC. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  4. ^ Lynch, Michael (30 November 2014). "Adios David Villa, it's been short but sweet". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  5. ^ "Melbourne City (Honour Roll) :: Ultimate A-League". Ultimate A-League.