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

Alex Brosque is Sydney FC's highest all-time goalscorer.

Sydney Football Club is an association football club based in Moore Park, Sydney, who was formed in 2004. They became the first member from Sydney admitted into the A-League Men in 2005.

Rhyan Grant holds the record for the greatest number of appearances for Sydney FC with 340 games. Alex Brosque holds the goalscoring record with 83 goals.

Key

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  • 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 30 July 2024. 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 Men, Australia Cup, AFC Champions League, OFC Champions League, Pre-Season Challenge Cup, FIFA Club World Cup and the Pan-Pacific Championship

Players

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Rhyan Grant, who lies first in the all-time appearance list with 339 who scored 18 goals from 2008.[1]
Terry McFlynn made 214 appearances and was the club's first foreign captain from 2010 to 2013.[2]
Steve Corica played 139 games for Sydney FC and has managed the club from 2018 to the present day.[3]
Clint Bolton has the second highest amount of matches played for a goalkeeper with 142 games.

Players highlighted in bold are still actively playing at Sydney FC.

As of 18 May 2024
List of Sydney FC players with at least 100 appearances
Player Nationality Pos Club career Starts Subs Total Goals
Appearances
Clint Bolton  Australia GK 2005–2010 142 0 142 0
David Carney  Australia FW 2005–2007
2016–2018		 100 37 137 27
Steve Corica  Australia FW 2005–2010 125 14 139 31
Iain Fyfe  Australia DF 2005–2009 118 4 122 6
Terry McFlynn  Northern Ireland MF 2005–2014 193 21 214 7
Alex Brosque  Australia FW 2006–2011
2014–2019		 239 28 267 83
Vedran Janjetović  Australia GK 2012–2017 112 0 112 0
Matthew Jurman  Australia DF 2008–2011
2013–2017		 97 21 118 3
Rhyan Grant  Australia DF 2008– 300 40 340 18
Sebastian Ryall  Australia DF 2009–2018 146 43 189 12
Miloš Ninković  Serbia MF 2015–2022 196 25 221 41
Brandon O'Neill  Australia MF 2015–2019 136 9 145 10
Joshua Brillante  Australia MF 2016–2019 101 3 104 3
Alex Wilkinson  Australia DF 2016–2023 219 2 221 3
Michael Zullo  Australia DF 2016–2022 102 8 110 2
Bobô Brazil Brazil FW 2016–2018
2021–2022		 90 30 120 71
Andrew Redmayne  Australia GK 2017– 176 0 176 0
Paulo Retre  Australia MF 2017–2023 127 49 176 4
Adam le Fondre  England FW 2018–2020
2021–2023		 119 9 128 73
Anthony Caceres  Australia MF 2019– 104 24 128 9
Joel King  Australia DF 2019–2022
2023–		 93 20 113 3
Luke Brattan  Australia MF 2019–2024 115 4 119 3

Captains

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Nine players have captained Sydney FC since it was founded in 2004, the first being Mark Rudan, who captained the team until 2007. The club's longest-serving captain is Alex Brosque, who captained the club for five years between 2014 and 2019. The current captain is Rhyan Grant.

Dates Captain[4]
2005–2007 Australia Mark Rudan
2007–2008 Australia Tony Popovic
2008–2010 Australia Steve Corica
2010–2013 Northern Ireland Terry McFlynn
2013–2014 Italy Alessandro Del Piero
2014–2019 Australia Alex Brosque
2019–2023 Australia Alex Wilkinson
2023–2024 Australia Luke Brattan
2024–present Australia Rhyan Grant

References

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General

  • "Player List". SFC Statistics. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  • "Complete Player Listing". aleaguestats.com.
  • "Sydney FC: All Players". Ultimate A-League.

Specific

  1. ^ Jurd, Bradley (21 December 2018). "Rhyan Grant to become first player to mark 10 years at Sydney FC". Western Advocate.
  2. ^ Green, Samuel (12 June 2019). "Sydney FC farewells club legend McFlynn". A-League. Football Federation Australia.
  3. ^ "Sydney FC confirm former Socceroo Steve Corica as new coach". The Guardian. 16 May 2018.
  4. ^ "Sydney FC (Honour Roll)". Ultimate A-League. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
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