List of Melbourne City FC players

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.

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

Curtis Good holds the record for the greatest number of appearances for Melbourne City. Between 2011 and 2024, the Australian defender played 180 times for the club. The club's goalscoring record is held by Jamie Maclaren, who has scored 115 goals in all competitions between 2019 and 2024. He surpassed the previous record of 57 goals, held by Bruno Fornaroli in 2021.[1]

  • 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 3 August 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

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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
103 6 109 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
2018–2024
169 11 180 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 2019–2024 155 9 164 115
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– 69 24 93 13
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–
60 31 91 21
Nuno Reis   Portugal DF 2021–2024 75 19 94 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– 8 25 34 4
Jordan Bos   Australia DF 2021–2023 41 11 52 3
Mathew Leckie   Australia FW 2021– 54 13 67 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 2022–2024 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– 50 12 62 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 2023–2024 5 23 28 5
Tolgay Arslan   Germany MF 2023– 34 0 34 19
Marin Jakoliš   Croatia FW 2023–2024 31 3 34 3
Alessandro Lopane   Australia MF 2023– 17 17 34 3
Steven Ugarkovic   Australia MF 2023– 33 4 37 3
Jamie Young   England GK 2023– 38 0 38 0
Hamza Sakhi   Morocco MF 2023–2024 21 1 22 1
Zane Schreiber   Australia MF 2023– 1 8 9 1
Samuel Souprayen   France DF 2023– 28 2 30 2
Medin Memeti   Australia FW 2023– 0 2 2 0
Harrison Shillington   Australia DF 2023– 0 1 1 0
Harry Politidis   Australia DF 2023– 3 14 17 1
Léo Natel   Brazil FW 2023–2024 23 6 29 6
Benjamin Mazzeo   Australia FW 2023– 3 9 12 2
Jimmy Jeggo   Australia MF 2024– 13 2 15 0
Vicente Fernández   Chile DF 2024 11 1 12 0
Benjamin Dunbar   Australia MF 2024– 0 1 1 0
Germán Ferreyra   Argentina DF 2024– 0 1 1 0
James Nieuwenhuizen   Australia GK 2024– 1 0 1 0
Arion Sulemani   Australia DF 2024– 0 1 1 0
Kai Trewin   Australia DF 2024– 1 0 1 0
Lawrence Wong   Australia MF 2024– 0 1 1 0

Captains

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Eight 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)
2023–24   Jamie Maclaren (AUS)
2024–present   Aziz Behich (AUS)
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References

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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.