2005–06 Central Coast Mariners FC season

Central Coast Mariners FC
2005-06 season
Manager	Lawrie McKinna
A-League	3rd
Finals	2nd
Pre-season cup	1st
Top goalscorer	S. Petrie - 8
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The 2005-06 season was the first for both the Central Coast Mariners and the Hyundai A-League

Compared with its Sydney rival, the Central Coast Mariners had a far more low-key buildup to the inaugural A-League season. The majority of its squad were experienced players from the defunct National Soccer League. They generally exceeded most expectations, having a very successful season, culminating in two solid displays in the preliminary competitions and reaching the grand final in the A-League.

Players

First team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	AUS	John Crawley
2	MF	EIR	Wayne O'Sullivan
3	DF	AUS	Paul O'Grady
4	MF	AUS	Noel Spencer (captain)
5	DF	AUS	Michael Beauchamp
6	MF	GER	André Gumprecht
7	MF	AUS	John Hutchinson
8	DF	AUS	Dean Heffernan
9	FW	AUS	Nick Mrdja
10	MF	AUS	Tom Pondeljak
11	MF	AUS	Damien Brown
12	FW	SCO	Stewart Petrie
13	FW	AUS	Russell Woodruffe


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
14	MF	AUS	Leo Carle
15	DF	AUS	Andrew Clark
16	DF	AUS	Nigel Boogaard
17	MF	AUS	Matthew Osman
18	DF	AUS	Alex Wilkinson
19	FW	AUS	Adam Kwasnik
20	GK	AUS	Danny Vukovic
21	MF	SCO	Ian Ferguson Short term cover
22	MF	AUS	Jamie McMaster Short term cover
23	MF	AUS	Brad Porter Short term cover
24	FW	AUS	Dez Giraldi Short term cover
30	GK	AUS	Matthew Trott Short term cover

Matches

2005-06 Pre-season fixtures

Round	Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Crowd
1	30 March 2005	Central Coast	3-0	Gladesville Spirit	Unknown
2	14 April 2005	Central Coast	9-0	Wyoming FC	Unknown
3	19 April 2005	Central Coast	3-3	Manly United	Unknown
4	25 April 2005	Central Coast	3-0	Blacktown City	No public access
5	27 April 2005	Central Coast	2-0	Bonnyrigg White Eagles	Unknown
6	8 July 2005	Central Coast	6-0	Townsville	Unknown
7	9 July 2005	Central Coast	1-2	Queensland Roar	Unknown
8	12 July 2005	Central Coast	3-0	Central Coast select XI	1500
9	16 July 2005	Central Coast	2-0	New Zealand Knights	Unknown

Phillips International Soccer Sevens

The Mariners competed in Phillips International soccer sevens tournament played in Hong Kong. Their group featured three of the biggest teams in the world, PSV, Manchester United and Celtic. The Mariners caused one of the upsets of the tournament by defeating a somewhat understrength Manchester United 2-1.

Round	Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Crowd
1	28 May 2005	HKF Association Chairman's Select	2-1	Central Coast	Unknown
2	28 May 2005	Central Coast	2-0	Hong Kong Football Club 2	Unknown
3	28 May 2005	Central Coast	0-0	Celtic	Unknown
Quarter Final	29 May 2005	Central Coast	2-1	Manchester United	Unknown
Semi Final	29 May 2005	Central Coast	0-1	PSV	Unknown

Club World Cup Qualification Competition

The Mariners were runners-up to Sydney FC in the qualifying tournament held to determine Australia's entry in the FIFA Club World Cup, losing in the grand final 1-0.

Round 1 (7 May)			Semi-finals (11 May)			Finals (15 May)

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	Template:ALeague CCM (PEN)	0 (4)

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2005 Pre-Season Cup

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Sydney FC	7	3	2	1	0	5	1
Central Coast	6	3	2	0	1	4	3
Queensland Roar FC	4	3	1	1	1	6	3
New Zealand Knights FC	0	3	0	0	3	1	9

Semi-finals		Final

12 August

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		21 August
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14 August
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2005-06 Hyundai A-League fixtures

26 August 2005 Round 1	Template:ALeague PG	0 : 1	Template:ALeague CCM	Members Equity Stadium
20:00 UTC+8		Report Summary	Spencer 66'	Attendance: 11,113 Referee: Ben Williams

4 September 2005 Round 2	Template:ALeague CCM	1 : 1	Template:ALeague NUJ	Bluetongue Stadium
15:00 UTC+10	Petrie 69'	Report Summary	Milicic 25'	Attendance: 5,917 Referee: Mark Shield

10 September 2005 Round 3	Template:ALeague CCM	0 : 2	Template:ALeague NZK	Bluetongue Stadium
19:35 UTC+10		Report Summary	Yeo 69' Devine 80'	Attendance: 5,261 Referee: Ben Williams

16 September 2005 Round 4	Template:ALeague SFC	2 : 3	Template:ALeague CCM	Aussie Stadium
20:00 UTC+10	Packer 13' Yorke 72'	Report Summary^{[permanent dead link‍]}	Petrie 20' (pen.) Gumprecht 35' Spencer 90+1'	Attendance: 15,614 Referee: Peter O'Leary

25 September 2005 Round 5	Template:ALeague AU	1 : 1	Template:ALeague CCM	Hindmarsh Stadium
17:00 UTC+9:30	Valkanis 34'	Report Summary	Kwasnik 19'	Attendance: 7,013 Referee: Angelo Nardi

30 September 2005 Round 6	Template:ALeague CCM	1 : 2	Template:ALeague MV	Bluetongue Stadium
20:00 UTC+10	Heffernan 33'	Report Summary	Thompson 73' Leijer 81'	Attendance: 9,313 Referee: Ben Williams

7 October 2005 Round 7	Template:ALeague QR	1 : 1	Template:ALeague CCM	Suncorp Stadium
20:00 UTC+10	Seo 57'	Report Summary	Spencer 41'	Attendance: 13,195 Referee: Perry Mur

16 October 2005 Round 8	Template:ALeague CCM	4 : 0	Template:ALeague PG	Bluetongue Stadium
17:00 UTC+10	Petrie 14', 48' Heffernan 85' Spencer 90+3'	Report Summary		Attendance: 6,494 Referee: Ben Williams

23 October 2005 Round 9	Template:ALeague NUJ	1 : 0	Template:ALeague CCM	Energy Australia Stadium
17:00 UTC+10	Parisi 88'	Report Summary		Attendance: 9,371 Referee: Matthew Breeze

29 October 2005 Round 10	Template:ALeague NZK	1 : 3	Template:ALeague CCM	North Harbour Stadium
20:00 UTC+12	Yeo 7' (pen.)	Report Summary	Heffernan 4' Petrie 49', 72' (pen.)	Attendance: 2,583 Referee: Neil Fox

5 November 2005 Round 11	Template:ALeague CCM	1 : 5	Template:ALeague SFC	Bluetongue Stadium
20:00 UTC+11	Hutchinson 40'	Report Summary^{[permanent dead link‍]}	Yorke 9' (pen.) Talay 14' Petrovski 23', 68', 83'	Attendance: 10,529 Referee: Simon Przydacz

13 November 2005 Round 12	Template:ALeague CCM	1 : 2	Template:ALeague AU	Bluetongue Stadium
	Hutchinson 12'		Rech 90' Dodd 85'	Attendance: 5,467 Referee: Peter O'Leary

18 November 2005 Round 13	Template:ALeague MV	0 : 2	Template:ALeague CCM	Olympic Park Stadium
			Heffernan 75' Hutchinson 38'	Attendance: 13,892 Referee: Ben Williams

25 November 2005 Round 14	Template:ALeague CCM	2 : 2	Template:ALeague QR	Bluetongue Stadium
	Heffernan 89' Osman 56'		Brosque 7', 78' Baird 75'	Attendance: 5,194 Referee: Matthew Breeze

4 December 2005 Round 15	Template:ALeague PG	2 : 2	Template:ALeague CCM	Members Equity Stadium
	Ishida 65' Ward 54'		Petrie 12' Hutchinson 8'	Attendance: 7,428 Referee: Mark Shield

31 December 2005 Round 16	Template:ALeague CCM	4 : 1	Template:ALeague NUJ	Bluetongue Stadium
	Hutchinson 71', 82' Brown 30' Gumprecht 3'		Coveny 85' Corbo 56'	Attendance: 11,612 Referee: Mark Shield

8 January 2006 Round 17	Template:ALeague CCM	1 : 0	Template:ALeague NZK	Bluetongue Stadium
	Heffernan 90'			Attendance: 7,257 Referee: Srebre Delovski

14 January 2006 Round 18	Template:ALeague SFC	1 : 1	Template:ALeague CCM	Aussie Stadium
	Carney 61'		Pondeljak 52'	Attendance: 15,977 Referee: Ben Williams

20 January 2006 Round 19	Template:ALeague AU	1 : 1	Template:ALeague CCM	Hindmarsh Stadium
	Veart 50' (pen.)		Kwasnik 54'	Attendance: 13,008 Referee: Mark Shield

27 January 2006 Round 20	Template:ALeague CCM	3 : 1	Template:ALeague MV	Bluetongue Stadium
	Heffernan 88' Spencer 28', 62'		Ferrante 13'	Attendance: 11,945 Referee: Simon Przydacz

4 February 2006 Round 21	Template:ALeague QR	2 : 2	Template:ALeague CCM	Suncorp Stadium
	Baird 60' Brosque 3'		O'Sullivan 81' Petrie 33'	Attendance: 13,641 Referee: Ben Williams

2005-06 Finals series

10 February 2006 Semi-Final Leg 1	Template:ALeague NUJ	0 : 1	Template:ALeague CCM	EnergyAustralia Stadium
			Osman 76'	Attendance: 10,236 Referee: Ben Williams

17 February 2006 Semi-Final Leg 2	Template:ALeague CCM	1 : 1	Template:ALeague NUJ	Bluetongue Stadium
	Heffernan 79'		Thompson 28'	Attendance: 17,429 Referee: Simon Przydacz

26 February 2006 Preliminary Final	Template:ALeague AU	0 : 1	Template:ALeague CCM	Hindmarsh Stadium
			Pondeljak 7'	Attendance: 11,405 Referee: Matthew Breeze

5 March 2006 Grand Final	Template:ALeague SFC	1 : 0	Template:ALeague CCM	Aussie Stadium
	Corica 62'			Attendance: 41,689 Referee: Mark Shield

Ladder

Template:A-League 2005-06 Position Ladder

Finals

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Statistics

Goal scorers

Player	Goals
Stewart Petrie	8
Dean Heffernan	7
John Hutchinson	6
Noel Spencer	6
Andre Gumprecht	2
Adam Kwasnik	2

End of Year Awards

Mariners Medallist - player of the year, as voted by Club members:
- Michael Beauchamp
Chairman's Award - awarded for outstanding service to the club:
- John Hutchinson and Ben Coonan (Mariners' media officer) (shared)
Golden Boot (top goalscorer):
- Stewart Petrie
Jesters' Pies Marinators' Goal of the Year:
- Noel Spencer, round 1 vs Perth Glory
Central Coast Mariners Members Player of the Year Award:
- Andre Gumprecht

References

External links

Official website

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