List of Sydney FC players

Terry McFlynn, the first player to appear in over 200 games for the club, finished his Sydney FC career with 214 appearances and 7 goals in the years spanning from 2005–2014.

Sydney FC is an Australian association football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club was founded in 2004 when the National Soccer League (Australia) was disbanded to form the A-League. The A-League is the premier football competition in Australia. Sydney FC were one of the eight inaugural clubs to participate in the new competition.^[1] Sydney FC have won three Championships, which came in 2006, 2010 and 2017. The club has also won the Premiership three times, which is a league record (shared with Melbourne Victory). These came in 2009–10, 2016–17 and 2017–18. Overall the club has only failed to make the finals series four times in thirteen seasons.

Sydney FC have participated five times in continental championships, including four times in the AFC Champions League in 2007, 2011, 2016 and 2018. The club will compete again at the 2019 AFC Champions League.

Sydney FC have also participated in other international competitive fixtures, including the 2008 Pan-Pacific Championships (placing fourth) and the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup (placing fifth).

As of 25 August 2018, 166 players have made a competitive appearance for the club. Of this, 74 players have played 25 or more competitive matches for the club, including ten players appearing in over 100 games. Alex Brosque holds numerous club records for appearances and goal-scoring. He is currently the club's most capped player overall with 238 games and in the A-League with 198 games (including finals series). He holds the record for most goals scored overall with 74 and in the league with 59.

This is a list of players who have played for Sydney FC. It includes players that have played at least 25 matches as either a starting player or a substitute for Sydney FC in any professional competitive match. Professional matches include but are not limited to league, domestic cup and continental cup matches.

Marquee players

Season	First MarqueeA	Second MarqueeB
2005–06	Dwight Yorke
2006–07
2007–08	Juninho Paulista
2008–09	John Aloisi
2009–10
2010–11	Nick Carle
2011–12		Brett Emerton
2012–13	Alessandro Del Piero
2013–14
2014–15	Marc Janko	Alex Brosque
2015–16	Filip Hološko
2016–17		Bobô
2017–18	Miloš Ninković
2018–19		Siem de Jong

^A First Marquee was occasionally referred to as "International Marquee" during the years when one of the two marquees were required to be of Australian nationality.

^B Second Marquee originally introduced as Australian only marquee from 2010–11 to 2014–15 seasons inclusive.

Players

For players with fewer than 25 appearances, see List of Sydney FC players (fewer than 25 appearances).

• Appearances and goals are for professional games only. These include A-League (domestic league regular season and finals series), FFA Cup (domestic cup), Asian and Oceanian Champions Leagues (continental championships), A-League Preseason Cup, Club World Cup, Pan-Pacific Championships, and the OFC Club Championships Qualification tournament.
• Current players are in bold.
• Players are listed according to the date of their first team debut for the club.

Table headers

• Nationality – If a player played international football, the country/countries he played for are shown. Otherwise, the player's nationality is given as their country of birth.
• Club career – The year of the player's first appearance for Brisbane Roar to the year of his last appearance.
• Starts – The number of games started.
• Subs – The number of games played as a substitute.
• Total – The total number of games played, both as a starter and as a substitute.
• Goals – The number of goals scored.

Correct as at 28 July 2018

Table of Sydney FC players over 100 appearances

Player	Nationality	Position	Club career	Starts	Subs	Total	Goals	Ref
Clint Bolton	Australia	GK	2005–2010	142	0	142	0	[2][3]
Iain Fyfe	Australia	DF	2005–2009	118	4	122	6	[4][5]
David Carney	Australia	MF	2005–2007 2016–2018	100	37	137	28	[6][7]
Terry McFlynn	Northern Ireland	MF	2005–2014	193	21	214	7	[8][9]
Steve Corica	Australia	MF	2005–2010	125	14	139	31	[10][11][12]
Alex Brosque	Australia	FW	2006–2011 2014–	214	19	236	71	[13][14]
Matt Jurman	Australia	DF	2007–2011 2013–2017	97	21	118	3	[15]
Rhyan Grant	Australia	MF	2008–	131	34	165	9	[16]
Sebastian Ryall	Australia	DF	2009–2018	146	43	189	12	[17]
Vedran Janjetovic	Australia	GK	2012–2016	112	0	112	0	[18]

Table of Sydney FC players with 25 to 99 appearances

Player	Nationality	Position	Club career	Starts	Subs	Total	Goals	Ref
David Zdrilic	Australia	FW	2005–2008	49	29	78	14	[19]
Alvin Ceccoli	Australia	DF	2005–2007	61	0	61	3	[20]
Ufuk Talay	Australia	MF	2005–2008	76	9	85	11	[21]
Matthew Bingley	Australia	U	2005–2007	28	9	37	2	[22]
Sasho Petrovski	Australia	FW	2005–2007	45	16	61	26	[23]
Mark Milligan	Australia	FW	2005–2008	58	0	58	1	[24]
Robbie Middleby	Australia	U	2005–2009	68	25	93	4	[25]
Jacob Timpano	Australia	DF	2005–2009	29	8	37	0	[26]
Mark Rudan	Australia	DF	2005–2008	62	9	71	6	[27]
Dwight Yorke	Trinidad and Tobago	FW	2005–2006	25	2	27	9	[28]
Ruben Zadkovich	Australia	MF	2005–2008	33	14	47	3	[29]
Brendon Santalab	Australia	FW	2007–2009	13	14	27	4	[30]
Tony Popovic	Australia	DF	2007–2009	30	2	31	1	[31]
Shannon Cole	Australia	DF	2007–2012	77	22	99	8	[32]
Ivan Necevski	Australia	GK	2007–2016	46	2	48	0	[33]
Simon Colosimo	Australia	DF	2008–2010	35	1	36	0	[34]
Mark Bridge	Australia	FW	2008–2012	72	12	84	18	[35]
Stuart Musialik	Australia	MF	2008–2011	72	3	75	4	[36]
John Aloisi	Australia	FW	2008–2010	26	14	40	12	[37]
Brendan Gan	Australia	MF	2008–2011	18	23	41	5	[38]
Kofi Danning	Australia	FW	2008–2011	8	19	27	3	[39]
Stephan Keller	Switzerland	DF	2008–2010	56	2	58	1	[40]
Karol Kisel	Slovakia	MF	2009–2010 2011–2012	52	0	52	7	[41]
Byun Sung-Hwan	South Korea	DF	2009–2011	55	2	57	0	[42]
Hayden Foxe	Australia	DF	2009–2011	14	11	25	0	[43]
Liam Reddy	Australia	GK	2010–2012	43	0	43	0	[44]
Nick Carle	Australia	MF	2010–2015	63	7	70	9	[45]
Scott Jamieson	Australia	DF	2010–2012	50	4	54	1	[46]
Hirofumi Moriyasu	Japan	MF	2010–2012	33	9	42	2	[47]
Bruno Cazarine	Brazil	FW	2010–2012	45	11	56	20	[48]
Terry Antonis	Australia	MF	2010–2015	51	21	72	5	[49]
Dimitri Petratos	Australia	MF	2010–2013	18	16	34	5	[50]
Joel Chianese	Australia	FW	2011–2014	17	14	41	11	[51]
Pascal Bosschaart	Netherlands	DF	2011–2013	33	0	33	1	[52]
Brett Emerton	Australia	MF	2011–2014	54	3	57	7	[53]
Alessandro Del Piero	Italy	FW	2011–2013	46	2	48	24	[54]
Yairo Yau	Panama	FW	2011–2013	11	15	26	6	[55]
Ali Abbas	Iraq	MF	2012–2016	60	12	72	5	[56]
Peter Triantis	Australia	MF	2012–2015	17	8	25	1	[57]
Aaron Calver	Australia	DF	2012–	28	10	38	0	[58]
Nikola Petković	Serbia	DF	2013–2015	56	0	56	0	[59]
Chris Naumoff	Australia	MF	2013–2016	36	19	55	5	[60]
Miloš Dimitrijević	Serbia	MF	2014–2017	71	15	86	4	[61]
Alex Gersbach	Australia	DF	2014–2016	26	8	34	0	[62]
Shane Smeltz	New Zealand	FW	2014–2016	26	25	51	13	[63]
George Blackwood	Australia	FW	2014–2017	15	11	26	1	[64]
Bernie Ibini	Australia	FW	2014–2015 2016–2017	31	20	51	11	[65]
Marc Janko	Austria	FW	2014–2015	24	1	25	16	[66]
Jacques Faty	Senegal	DF	2015–2016	27	3	30	2	[67]
Mickaël Tavares	Senegal	MF	2015–2016	32	6	38	1	[68]
Brandon O'Neill	Australia	MF	2015–	89	9	98	6	[69]
Matt Simon	Australia	FW	2015–2018	23	65	88	10	[70]
Miloš Ninković	Serbia	MF	2015–	92	7	99	24	[71]
Filip Hološko	Slovakia	MF	2015–2017	55	1	56	19	[72]
Josh Brillante	Australia	MF	2016–	66	2	68	3	[73]
Michael Zullo	Australia	DF	2016–	56	5	61	1	[74]
Danny Vukovic	Australia	GK	2016–2017	33	0	33	0	[75]
Alex Wilkinson	Australia	DF	2016–	62	0	62	0	[76]
Bobô	Brazil	FW	2016–2018	66	5	71	52	[77]
Jordy Buijs	Netherlands	DF	2017–2018	45	0	45	3	[78]
Andrew Redmayne	Australia	GK	2017–	40	0	40	0	[79]
Paulo Retre	Australia	U	2017–	10	17	27	0	[80]
Luke Wilkshire	Australia	DF	2017–2018	33	0	33	2	[81]
Adrian Mierzejewski	Poland	MF	2017–2018	31	3	34	15	[82]

See also

• Sydney FC
• List of Sydney FC players (fewer than 25 appearances)
• List of Sydney FC records and statistics

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