2017–18_Melbourne_Victory_FC_season

Melbourne Victory
2017–18 season
Chairman	Anthony Di Pietro
Manager	Kevin Muscat
Stadium	AAMI Park & Etihad Stadium, Melbourne
A-League	4th
A-League Finals Series	Champions
FFA Cup	Round of 16
AFC Champions League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Besart Berisha (13 goals); All: Besart Berisha (18 goals)
Highest home attendance	35,792 vs Melbourne City; (14 October 2017)
Lowest home attendance	8,370 vs Central Coast Mariners; (6 January 2018)
Average home league attendance	17,631
Home colours	Away colours
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2017–18 Melbourne Victory FC season

Melbourne Victory 2017–18 football season

The 2017–18 Melbourne Victory FC season was the club's 13th season since its establishment in 2004. The club participated in the A-League for the 13th time, the FFA Cup for the fourth time, as well as the AFC Champions League for the sixth time.

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[table_note_WEL0.044164526762517-23] Wellington Phoenix cannot qualify for the AFC Champions League as they are not recognised as an AFC club.

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N	Pos.	Name	Age	Notes
15	MF	Cameron McGilp	19	^[1]
16	MF	Josh Hope	19	^[1]
19	FW	Pierce Waring	18	^[1]
40	GK	Matt Sutton	17	2.5 year scholarship contract^[2]

No.	Position	Player	Transferred from	Type/fee	Contract length	Date	Ref
4	DF	Rhys Williams	Perth Glory	Free transfer	2 years	15 May 2017	^[3]
14	DF	Thomas Deng	Jong PSV	Loan return		15 May 2017	^[4]
9	FW	Kosta Barbarouses		Free transfer	2 years	13 June 2017	^[5]
5	MF	Mark Milligan		Free transfer	1 year	31 July 2017	^[6]
18	MF	Matías Sánchez	Temperley	Free transfer	1 year	16 August 2017	^[7]
41	MF	Leroy George		Free transfer	1 year	16 September 2017	^[8]
7	FW	Kenny Athiu	Heidelberg United	Loan	1 year	13 October 2017	^[9]
24	MF	Terry Antonis		Free transfer	2.5 years	3 January 2018	^[10]
3	DF	Dino Djulbic		Injury replacement contract	2 weeks	3 January 2018	^[10]

No.	Position	Player	Transferred to	Type/fee	Date	Ref
5	DF	Daniel Georgievski	Newcastle Jets	Free transfer	30 March 2017	^[11]
14	FW	Fahid Ben Khalfallah		End of contract	26 April 2017	^[12]
16	MF	Rashid Mahazi		Retired	10 May 2017	^[13]
4	DF	Nick Ansell		End of contract	12 May 2017	^[14]
15	DF	Alan Baró		End of contract	12 May 2017	^[14]
19	FW	George Howard		End of contract	12 May 2017	^[14]
27	GK	Alastair Bray		End of contract	12 May 2017	^[14]
30	GK	Lucas Spinella		End of contract	12 May 2017	^[14]
7	MF	Marco Rojas	Heerenveen	Undisclosed	26 July 2017	^[15]
3	DF	Dino Djulbic		End of contract	18 January 2018	^[16]
5	MF	Mark Milligan	Al-Ahli	$1,000,000	28 January 2018	^[17]
2	DF	Jason Geria	JEF United Chiba	$800,000	3 March 2018	^[18]

No.	Name	Position	Duration	Date	Notes
40	Matt Acton	Goalkeeper	1 year	16 May 2017	^[19]
10	James Troisi	Winger	2 years	26 July 2017	^[20]
8	Besart Berisha	Striker	1 year	21 December 2017	^[21]
1	Matt Acton	Goalkeeper	2 years	16 February 2018	^[22]

Position	Name
Manager	Kevin Muscat
Assistant manager	Jean-Paul de Marigny
Goalkeeping coach	Dean Anastasiadis
Youth Team Manager	Gareth Naven
Youth Team Assistant Manager	Vaughan Coveny
Youth Team Developmental Manager	Grant Brebner
Youth goalkeeping coach	Vacant
Strength & Conditioning Coach	Anthony Crea
Physiotherapist	Travis Maude

2017–18_Melbourne_Victory_FC_season

2017–18 Melbourne Victory FC season

Players

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Transfers in

Transfers out

Contract extensions

Technical staff

Statistics

Squad statistics

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Overall

A-League

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Finals series

FFA Cup

AFC Champions League

Group stage

References

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25 July 2017	Port Melbourne	0–3	Melbourne Victory	Melbourne, Australia
19:30 AEST		Report	Goulding 55' Theoharous 79' Waring 89'	Stadium: SS Anderson Reserve

2 August 2017	Bentleigh Greens	0–5	Melbourne Victory	Melbourne, Australia
19:30 AEST		Report	Berisha 7' Austin 33' Barbarouses 56', 61', 90'	Stadium: Kingston Heath Soccer Complex

16 August 2017	Oakleigh Cannons	2–5	Melbourne Victory	Melbourne, Australia
19:30 AEST	Podaridis 22' Piemonte 48'	Report	Austin 25', 31' J. Ingham 69' Sette 73' Waring 78'	Stadium: Jack Edwards Reserve

1 September 2017	Melbourne Victory	3–1	Brisbane Roar	Ballarat, Australia
19:30 AEST	Berisha 14', 66' J. Ingham 19'	Report	Skapetis 31'	Stadium: Morshead Park Stadium

20 September 2017	Melbourne Victory	0–2	Central Coast Mariners	Melbourne, Australia
13:30 AEST		Report	Asdrúbal 40' Brama 72'	Stadium: AAMI Park

Competition	Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
A-League	—	4th	7 October 2017	14 April 2018
A-League Finals	Elimination-finals	Champions	22 April 2018	5 May 2018
FFA Cup	Round of 32	Round of 16	9 August 2017	23 August 2017
AFC Champions League	Group stage	Group stage	13 February 2018	18 April 2018

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sydney FC	27	20	4	3	64	22	+42	64	Qualification for 2019 AFC Champions League group stage and Finals series
2	Newcastle Jets	27	15	5	7	57	37	+20	50	Qualification for 2019 AFC Champions League second preliminary round and Finals series
3	Melbourne City	27	13	4	10	41	33	+8	43	Qualification for Finals series
4	Melbourne Victory (C)	27	12	5	10	43	37	+6	41	Qualification for 2019 AFC Champions League group stage and Finals series
5	Adelaide United	27	11	6	10	36	38	−2	39	Qualification for Finals series
6	Brisbane Roar	27	10	5	12	33	39	−6	35	Qualification for Finals series
7	Western Sydney Wanderers	27	8	9	10	38	47	−9	33
8	Perth Glory	27	10	2	15	36	50	−14	32
9	Wellington Phoenix^{[lower-alpha 1]}	27	5	6	16	31	55	−24	21
10	Central Coast Mariners	27	4	8	15	28	49	−21	20

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
27	12	5	10	43	37	+6	41	6	3	5	25	20	+5	6	2	5	18	17	+1

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
Ground	H	H	A	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	L	L	D	D	D	D	W	L	W	L	W	W	W	D	L	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	W	L	W	W	W
Position	8	9	7	8	7	9	6	8	6	7	5	5	3	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	3	4	4	4	4

7 October 2017 1	Melbourne Victory	0–1	Sydney FC	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT		Report	Deng 53' (o.g.)	Stadium: Etihad Stadium Attendance: 24,804 Referee: Kris Griffiths-Jones

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Total					A-League					A-League Finals Series					FFA Cup					AFC Champions League
N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Apps	Goals				Apps	Goals				Apps	Goals				Apps	Goals				Apps	Goals
1	GK		Matt Acton	4	0	0	0	0	2+1	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
4	DF		Rhys Williams	32	2	12	0	1	24+0	1	8	0	1	1+0	0	1	0	0	2+0	0	1	0	0	5+0	1	2	0	0
6	MF		Leigh Broxham	35	0	6	0	0	20+4	0	5	0	0	3+0	0	1	0	0	2+0	0	0	0	0	5+1	0	0	0	0
7	MF		Kenny Athiu	11	2	0	0	0	0+4	1	0	0	0	0+2	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	1+4	1	0	0	0
8	FW		Besart Berisha	35	18	2	0	0	25+0	13	1	0	0	3+0	1	1	0	0	2+0	2	0	0	0	5+0	2	0	0	0
9	FW		Kosta Barbarouses	32	12	3	0	1	22+0	8	2	0	1	3+0	2	0	0	0	2+0	0	0	0	0	5+0	2	1	0	0
10	FW		James Troisi	32	5	8	0	0	21+1	3	6	0	0	3+0	1	1	0	0	2+0	1	1	0	0	5+0	0	0	0	0
11	FW		Mitch Austin	7	2	1	1	0	3+2	1	1	1	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	2+0	1	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
14	DF		Thomas Deng	29	2	6	0	0	20+1	2	5	0	0	3+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	4+1	0	1	0	0
15	MF		Cameron McGilp	2	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0
16	MF		Josh Hope	12	0	2	0	0	0+5	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+2	0	1	0	0	2+3	0	1	0	0
17	DF		James Donachie	23	0	4	0	0	10+2	0	2	0	0	3+0	0	1	0	0	2+0	0	1	0	0	6+0	0	0	0	0
18	MF		Matías Sánchez	25	0	8	0	0	14+8	0	6	0	0	0+3	0	2	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
19	FW		Pierce Waring	2	1	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	1+0	1	0	0	0
20	GK		Lawrence Thomas	35	0	1	0	0	25+0	0	1	0	0	3+0	0	0	0	0	2+0	0	0	0	0	5+0	0	0	0	0
21	MF		Carl Valeri	33	0	10	0	0	23+2	0	6	0	0	3+0	0	1	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0	4+0	0	3	0	0
22	MF		Stefan Nigro	23	0	2	0	0	10+6	0	1	0	0	2+0	0	0	0	0	1+1	0	0	0	0	3+0	0	1	0	0
23	FW		Jai Ingham	25	1	0	0	0	6+14	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+2	0	0	0	0	1+2	1	0	0	0
24	MF		Terry Antonis	22	1	5	0	0	10+4	0	2	0	0	3+0	1	1	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	5+0	0	2	0	0
25	MF		Birkan Kirdar	1	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0
26	MF		Nicholas Sette	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
27	DF		Callum Goulding	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
30	GK		Stephen Hatzikourtis	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
31	FW		Christian Theoharous	24	1	1	0	0	2+14	1	1	0	0	0+2	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	1+5	0	0	0	0
40	GK		Matt Sutton	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
41	MF		Leroy George	34	12	4	0	0	24+2	8	4	0	0	3+0	1	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	5+0	3	0	0	0
Players no longer at the club:
2	DF		Jason Geria	25	0	4	1	0	20+1	0	3	1	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	2+0	0	1	0	0	2+0	0	0	0	0
3	DF		Dino Djulbic	3	0	0	0	0	3+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
5	MF		Mark Milligan	15	4	2	0	1	12+1	3	1	0	1	0+0	0	0	0	0	2+0	1	1	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0

20 October 2017 3	Adelaide United	2–2	Melbourne Victory	Adelaide
19:20 ACDT	Lia 23', 62'	Report	Berisha 13' Austin 82'	Stadium: Adelaide Oval Attendance: 19,416 Referee: Shaun Evans

23 November 2017 8	Newcastle Jets	4–1	Melbourne Victory	Newcastle
19:50 AEDT	Georgievski 13' Nabbout 37', 83' Champness 75'	Report	Barbarouses 5'	Stadium: McDonald Jones Stadium Attendance: 8,427 Referee: Stephan Lucas

3 December 2017 9	Wellington Phoenix	2–3	Melbourne Victory	Wellington
16:30 NZDT	Kaluđerović 29', 31'	Report	Berisha 54' Paracki 57' (o.g.) Troisi 87'	Stadium: Westpac Stadium Attendance: 5,765 Referee: Alex King

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
27	12	5	10	43	37	+6	41	6	3	5	25	20	+5	6	2	5	18	17	+1

14 October 2017 2	Melbourne Victory	1–2	Melbourne City	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	George 55'	Report	Budziński 45+3' Kamau 64'	Stadium: Etihad Stadium Attendance: 35,792 Referee: Peter Green

29 October 2017 4	Central Coast Mariners	1–1	Melbourne Victory	Gosford
19:00 AEDT	Pain 58'	Report	George 66'	Stadium: Central Coast Stadium Attendance: 5,519 Referee: Adam Fielding

6 November 2017 5	Melbourne Victory	1–1	Western Sydney Wanderers	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	Deng 49'	Report	Riera 32'	Stadium: Etihad Stadium Attendance: 21,577 Referee: Peter Green

11 November 2017 6	Melbourne Victory	1–1	Brisbane Roar	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	Berisha 79'	Report	Holman 84'	Stadium: Etihad Stadium Attendance: 18,098 Referee: Kris Griffiths-Jones

19 November 2017 7	Perth Glory	0–2	Melbourne Victory	Perth
16:00 AWST		Report	Berisha 56' George 67'	Stadium: nib Stadium Attendance: 13,565 Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

8 December 2017 10	Melbourne Victory	1–2	Adelaide United	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	Milligan 56'	Report	Diawara 17' Blackwood 72'	Stadium: Etihad Stadium Attendance: 16,778 Referee: Kurt Ams

17 December 2017 11	Brisbane Roar	1–2	Melbourne Victory	Brisbane
18:00 AEST	Maccarone 56'	Report	Williams 12' Barbarouses 19'	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 10,225 Referee: Peter Green

23 December 2017 12	Melbourne City	0–1	Melbourne Victory	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT		Report	Milligan 90+6' (pen.)	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 22,515 Referee: Jarred Gillett

29 December 2017 13	Melbourne Victory	2–1	Newcastle Jets	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	Barbarouses 33' Berisha 53'	Report	Hoffman 45+1'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 15,534 Referee: Chris Beath

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
27	12	5	10	43	37	+6	41	6	3	5	25	20	+5	6	2	5	18	17	+1

6 January 2018 14	Melbourne Victory	1–1	Central Coast Mariners	Geelong
18:00 AEDT	Berisha 49'	Report	Powell 71'	Stadium: GMHBA Stadium Attendance: 8,370 Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

10 January 2018 15	Wellington Phoenix	2–1	Melbourne Victory	Wellington
19:35 NZDT	Krishna 64' Milligan 83' (o.g.)	Report	Barbarouses 40'	Stadium: Westpac Stadium Attendance: 5,105 Referee: Matthew Conger

13 January 2018 16	Melbourne Victory	3–2	Perth Glory	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	Troisi 27' Milligan 47' Barbarouses 90'	Report	Neville 2' Castro 83'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 14,332 Referee: Shaun Evans

19 January 2018 17	Western Sydney Wanderers	0–3	Melbourne Victory	Sydney
19:50 AEDT		Report	Barbarouses 36', 90+2' Berisha 67'	Stadium: ANZ Stadium Attendance: 11,864 Referee: Adam Kersey

26 January 2018 18	Melbourne Victory	1–3	Sydney FC	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	Berisha 58' (pen.)	Report	Bobô 60', 78' (pen.) Carney 84'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 21,037 Referee: Jarred Gillett

3 February 2018 19	Newcastle Jets	2–0	Melbourne Victory	Newcastle
17:35 AEDT	Boogaard 31' McGree 70'	Report		Stadium: McDonald Jones Stadium Attendance: 11,473 Referee: Shaun Evans

9 February 2018 20	Melbourne Victory	1–2	Brisbane Roar	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	Troisi 83'	Report	Maccarone 7' Holman 28'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 14,576 Referee: Chris Beath

24 February 2018 21	Melbourne Victory	3–0	Adelaide United	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	Regan 22' (o.g.) George 29' Berisha 59'	Report		Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 13,396 Referee: Alex King

2 March 2018 22	Melbourne City	1–2	Melbourne Victory	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	Fornaroli 54' (pen.)	Report	Barbarouses 12' George 62'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 20,083 Referee: Kris Griffiths-Jones