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This article is about Adelaide United players with at least 100 appearances. For Adelaide United players with between 25 and 99 appearances, see List of Adelaide United FC players (25–99 appearances). For Adelaide United players with fewer than 25 appearances, see List of Adelaide United FC players (1–24 appearances). For the current Adelaide United first-team squad, see Adelaide United § First-team squad.

Travis Dodd is Adelaide United's second-highest all-time goalscorer.

Adelaide United Football Club, an association club based in Adelaide, South Australia, was founded in 2003. They became the first southern member admitted into the A-League. The club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions, and all players who have played in 100 or more such matches are listed below.

Key

  • 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 23 January 2021. Where a player left the club permanently after this date, his statistics are updated to his date of leaving.
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, A-League Finals, National Soccer League, FFA Cup, Pre-Season Challenge Cup, AFC Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup

Players

Isaías has the most appearances for a non-Australian player with 180.
Early player Angelo Costanzo has played 107 times.
Cássio has the highest number of appearances for a Brazilian player with 158, scoring 11 goals.[1]
Eugene Galekovic has the most appearances as a goalkeeper for Adelaide United with 285 games played.[2]
From 2007 to 2013, Fabian Barbiero played 116 times for Adelaide United with 9 goals.

Players highlighted in bold are still actively playing at Adelaide United.

List of Adelaide United FC players with 100 or more appearances
Player Nationality Pos Club career Starts Subs Total Goals
Appearances
Angelo Costanzo  Australia DF 2005–2009 102 5 107 0
Travis Dodd  Australia FW 2005–2011 166 17 183 41
Robert Cornthwaite  Australia DF 2005–2011 109 29 138 8
Lucas Pantelis  Australia MF 2005–2011 97 32 129 15
Bruce Djite  Australia FW 2006–2008
2011–2016		 132 33 165 44
Cássio  Brazil DF 2007–2014 145 13 158 11
Eugene Galekovic  Australia GK 2007–2017 285 0 285 0
Fabian Barbiero  Australia MF 2007–2013 78 38 116 9
Michael Marrone  Australia DF 2008–2010
2014–		 146 42 188 4
Osama Malik  Australia DF 2008–2009
2011–2016		 93 17 110 2
Nigel Boogaard  Australia DF 2010–2015 108 6 114 4
Cameron Watson  Australia MF 2011–2015 77 34 111 1
Marcelo Carrusca  Argentina MF 2012–2017 111 12 123 27
Ryan Kitto  Australia FW 2013–2015
2016–		 60 44 104 10
Jordan Elsey  Australia DF 2013– 98 20 118 5
Isaías Sánchez  Spain MF 2013–2019 179 1 180 10
Sergio Cirio  Spain FW 2013–2017 110 4 114 30
Tarek Elrich  Australia DF 2013–2018 107 7 114 3
Nikola Mileusnic  Australia FW 2016– 79 24 103 19

Captains

Eight players have captained Adelaide United since it was founded in 2003, first being Ross Aloisi, who captained the team for Adelaide United's first two seasons. The club's longest-serving captain is Eugene Galekovic, who captained the club for 7 years between 2011 and 2017. The current captain is Stefan Mauk, who took over from Michael Jakobsen in 2020.

Years[3] Captain
2005–07  Ross Aloisi (AUS)
2007–08  Michael Valkanis (AUS)
2008–11  Travis Dodd (AUS)
2011  Jonathan McKain (AUS)
2011–17  Eugene Galekovic (AUS)
2017–19  Isaías (ESP)
2019–20  Michael Jakobsen (DEN)
2020–  Stefan Mauk (AUS)

References

General

  • "Complete Player Listing". aleaguestats.com.
  • "Adelaide United: All Players". Ultimate A-League.

Specific

  1. ^ "Reds release Cassio". Adelaide United. Football Federation Australia. 23 December 2014.
  2. ^ "Galekovic returns home as Goalkeeping Coach". Adelaide United. Football Federation Australia. 16 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Ultimate A-League: Adelaide United". Ultimate A-League.
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