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2022–23 Australian soccer season

Australia Cup
Tournament details
Country	Australia; New Zealand
Dates	27 July–26 October
Teams	32
Final positions
Champions	Central Coast Mariners (1st title)
Runner-up	Adelaide United
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	129 (4.16 per match)
Attendance	106,209 (3,426 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Nathan Hall; (Gold Coast United); (10 goals)
Best player	Dmytro Omelchuk; (Central Coast Mariners); (8.24 average rating)
	2023 →

A-League Men
Season	2022–23
Dates	7 October 2022–27 May 2023
Champions	Melbourne Victory (1st title)
Premiers	Adelaide United (1st title)
Matches played	156
Goals scored	431 (2.76 per match)
Top goalscorer	League: Kenta Katô (34); Overall: Kenta Katô (34)
Highest scoring	Adelaide United 6–2 Brisbane Roar; (21 April 2023)
Longest winning run	7 games; Adelaide United
Longest unbeaten run	19 games; Adelaide United
Longest winless run	13 games; Brisbane Roar
Longest losing run	7 games; Brisbane Roar
Highest attendance	30,050, Melbourne Victory 4–1 Melbourne City; (7 October 2022); Melbourne Victory 3–1 Melbourne City; (9 November 2022); Melbourne City 1–3 Melbourne Victory; (2 April 2023)
Lowest attendance	2,945, Wellington Phoenix 1–1 Macarthur FC; (11 October 2022)
Total attendance	1,993,699
Average attendance	12,780
	2023–24 →

Season	2022–23
Dates	27 July 2022–27 May 2023
AFC Champions League	Adelaide United
AFC Cup	Central Coast Mariners; Melbourne Victory
	2023–24 →

2022–23 A-League Men

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Club	City	Home ground	Capacity
Adelaide United	Adelaide (Hindmarsh)	Coopers Stadium (Hindmarsh Stadium)	16,500
Brisbane Roar	Moreton Bay (Kippa-Ring)	Kayo Stadium (Dolphin Stadium)	11,000
Central Coast Mariners	Gosford	Industree Group Stadium (Central Coast Stadium)	20,059
Macarthur FC	Sydney (Leumeah)	Campbelltown Stadium	20,000
Melbourne City	Melbourne	AAMI Park (Melbourne Rectangular Stadium)	30,050
Melbourne Victory	Melbourne	AAMI Park (Melbourne Rectangular Stadium)	30,050
Newcastle Jets	Newcastle (Broadmeadow)	McDonald Jones Stadium (Newcastle International Sports Centre)	33,000
Perth Glory	Perth (Balcatta) Perth	Macedonia Park HBF Park (Perth Rectangular Stadium)	7,000 20,500
Sydney FC	Sydney (Moore Park)	Allianz Stadium (Sydney Football Stadium)	45,500
Wellington Phoenix	Wellington (Pipitea)	Sky Stadium (Wellington Regional Stadium)	34,500
Western Sydney Wanderers	Sydney (Parramatta)	CommBank Stadium (Western Sydney Stadium)	30,000
Western United	Melbourne	AAMI Park (Melbourne Rectangular Stadium)	30,050

Personnel

Club	Manager	Captain
Adelaide United	Damian Elsey	Andrés Marcos
Brisbane Roar	Bailey Williams	Barry Herd
Central Coast Mariners	David Taylor	Peter Wiltshere
Macarthur FC	Adam Davis	Alberto García
Melbourne City	Josh Farrell	Sam Thomas
Melbourne Victory	Patrick Maguire	Lewis Spruce
Newcastle Jets	Nicholas Turner	Matt Kowalski
Perth Glory	Takahiro Saitô	Sebastian Richards
Sydney FC	Cai Perry	Glen Lucas
Wellington Phoenix	Lukas Ebert	Dylan Wilson
Western Sydney Wanderers	Jean Peron	Evanílson
Western United	Tiago Fernandes	Luca de Nicola

Managerial changes

Club	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date	League position	Incoming manager
Brisbane Roar	Colin Whitehouse	Sacked	18 December 2022	12th	Jason Poole (Caretaker)
Perth Glory	Daniel Adams	Sacked	24 December 2022	11th	Tom Martin (Caretaker)
Western Sydney Wanderers	Hayden Armstong	Sacked	31 December 2022	9th	Rhys Parrett (Caretaker)
Perth Glory	Tom Martin (Caretaker)	Left caretaker position	3 January 2023	11th	Takahiro Saitô
Brisbane Roar	Jason Poole (Caretaker)	Left caretaker position	13 January 2023	12th	Bailey Williams
Western United	Max Short	Sacked	13 January 2023	9th	Aaron French (Caretaker)
Western Sydney Wanderers	Rhys Parrett (Caretaker)	Left caretaker position	17 January 2023	8th	Jean Peron
Western United	Aaron French (Caretaker)	Left caretaker position	7 February 2023	10th	Tiago Fernandes

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Adelaide United	26	21	4	1	72	22	+50	67	Qualification for AFC Champions League first preliminary round and Finals series
2	Melbourne Victory (C)	26	21	0	5	64	19	+45	63	Qualification for AFC Cup group stage and Finals series
3	Wellington Phoenix^[a]	26	14	5	7	39	27	+12	47	Qualification for Finals series^[b]
4	Sydney FC	26	11	6	9	51	48	+3	39
5	Western Sydney Wanderers	26	11	4	11	32	34	−2	37
6	Melbourne City	26	9	6	11	29	38	−9	33
7	Macarthur FC	26	8	7	11	26	26	0	31
8	Central Coast Mariners	26	9	4	13	26	40	−14	31	Qualification for AFC Cup group stage^[c]
9	Western United	26	6	8	12	27	42	−15	26	Qualification for Australia Cup qualifying finals
10	Newcastle Jets	26	6	7	13	22	34	−12	25
11	Perth Glory	26	6	3	17	23	47	−24	21
12	Brisbane Roar	26	4	6	16	20	54	−34	18

Source: Football Manager 2023
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Least red cards; 6) Least yellow cards; 7) Toss of a coin.
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ Wellington Phoenix cannot qualify for Asian Football Confederation competitions as they are based in New Zealand, which is under the Oceania Football Confederation.
^ The top two teams enter the finals series at the semi-finals, while the teams ranked third to sixth enter the finals series at the elimination-finals.
^ Central Coast Mariners qualified for the AFC Cup group stage as the 2022 Australia Cup winners.

Results

Home \ Away	ADL	BRI	CCM	MAC	MCY	MVC	NEW	PER	SYD	WEL	WSW	WUN	ADL	BRI	CCM	MAC	MCY	MVC	NEW	PER	SYD	WEL	WSW	WUN
Adelaide United		6–2	2–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	1–2	4–1	4–1	3–0	4–0	3–1					4–3		3–1
Brisbane Roar	0–6		1–2	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–3	0–2	1–0	0–2								1–2		0–2
Central Coast Mariners	0–3	1–1		1–1	2–1	1–3	1–0	3–1	0–4	2–3	3–0	3–0							0–2				0–2
Macarthur FC	1–1	1–1	3–1		0–1	1–3	0–0	3–1	2–4	1–0	0–1	3–0			2–0								0–2
Melbourne City	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0		1–3	0–2	2–0	3–0	0–4	0–1	1–1			2–1									1–1
Melbourne Victory	1–2	5–0	5–1	1–0	4–1		4–0	3–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–1					3–1							5–0
Newcastle Jets	2–4	1–1	0–1	0–2	1–2	0–2		0–0	2–2	0–0	1–0	0–1		2–1				1–2
Perth Glory	0–1	2–0	2–0	0–2	3–0	0–3	1–1		1–2	0–1	1–3	1–1	1–2			1–0
Sydney FC	1–4	5–1	1–1	3–1	1–3	1–2	0–0	4–1		2–2	2–1	4–1				2–1		0–4
Wellington Phoenix	0–4	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–2	2–2		0–1	2–1								2–0	3–1
Western Sydney Wanderers	1–3	3–2	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	3–0	3–3	1–0		2–3	1–1								1–2
Western United	1–1	4–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	0–3	1–1			1–2								0–2

Source: Football Manager 2023
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Pos	Player	Club	Goals
1	Kenta Katô	Adelaide United	34
2	Dimitris Christopoulos	Sydney FC	17
2	Lucas Fleeting	Melbourne Victory	17
4	Mark Hobbs	Melbourne Victory	15
5	Nikolay Georgiev	Wellington Phoenix	12
5	Vuk Radulović	Western United	12
7	Travis Becerra	Adelaide United	11
7	Bill Grant	Melbourne City	11
9	David Reilly	Adelaide United	9
10	6 players		8

Finals series

Bracket

Elimination Finals			Semi-finals					Grand Final

4	Wellington Phoenix	2
5	Melbourne City	0	4	Wellington Phoenix	1	0	1
			1	Adelaide United	2	1	3
								1	Adelaide United	1
3	Sydney FC (p)	1 (5)						2	Melbourne Victory	2
6	Western Sydney Wanderers	1 (3)	3	Sydney FC	0	1	1
			2	Melbourne Victory	3	4	7

Elimination Finals

5 May 2023

18:00 AEST

Sydney FC	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Western Sydney Wanderers
Petersen 80'		McKee 53'
Penalties
Carlos Roberto Salvador Kristof Sargent Petersen	5–3	Zeljković Dosso Gojic Murphy

Allianz Stadium, Sydney

Attendance: 38,629

Referee: Stuart Muldoon

7 May 2023

18:00 NZST
(16:00 AEST)

Wellington Phoenix	2–0	Melbourne City
Hristov 11' Georgiev 34'

Sky Stadium, Wellington

Attendance: 11,284

Referee: Stephen Lucas

Semi-finals

14 May 2023

19:45 NZST
(17:45 AEST)

Wellington Phoenix	1–2	Adelaide United
West 20'		Reilly 40' Becerra 45+2'

Sky Stadium, Wellington

Attendance: 13,764

Referee: Leigh Pigram

21 May 2023

19:45 ACST
(20:15 AEST)

Adelaide United	1–0	Wellington Phoenix
Iván 48'

Coopers Stadium, Adelaide

Attendance: 15,375

Referee: Leigh Pigram

Adelaide United won 3–1 on aggregate

12 May 2023

19:45 AEST

Sydney FC	0–3	Melbourne Victory
		Tipene-Clegg 11', 12' Fleeting 13'

Allianz Stadium, Sydney

Attendance: 31,871

Referee: Trent Fleskens

20 May 2023

19:45 AEST

Melbourne Victory	4–1	Sydney FC
Fleeting 9' Hobbs 19', 31', 63'		Petersen 11'

AAMI Park, Melbourne

Attendance: 30,006

Referee: Trent Fleskens

Melbourne Victory won 7–1 on aggregate

Grand Final

27 May 2023

19:45 ACST
(20:15 AEST)

Adelaide United	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Melbourne Victory
Purcell 33'		Freitas 67' Tipene-Clegg 94'

Adelaide Oval, Adelaide

Attendance: 27,042

Referee: Leigh Pigram

Australia Cup qualifying finals

5 May 2023

18:00 AEST

Brisbane Roar	0–1	Western United
		Radulović 21'

Kayo Stadium, Kippa-Ring

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Leigh Pigram

6 May 2023

18:00 AWST
(20:00 AEST)

Perth Glory	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Newcastle Jets

Penalties
Horak McGrath Ortuño Evans Walker Arnhem Hughes Vélez	8–7	Semiz Andrews Eckford McGuinness Yeomans McGeown Murphy Woods

HBF Park, Perth

Attendance: 20,500

Referee: Jonathon Streater

Awards

Team of the season

Rainbird

Narciso

Rixon

Byrne

Reilly

McColl

Fernandes

Hristov

Hobbs

Tipene-Clegg

Katô

A-League Men Best XI
(GK) Tyler Rainbird, MVC
(RB) Ben Byrne, MVC
(RCB) Diogo Narciso, MVC
(LCB) Mathew Rixon, ADL
(LB) David Reilly, ADL
(DM) Christopher McColl, MVC
(RCM) Carlos Fernandes, MVC
(LCM) Boyko Hristov, WEL
(RW) Mark Hobbs, MVC
(LW) Daniel Tipene-Clegg, MVC
(CF) Kenta Katô, ADL
Substitutes
(GK) Matthew Rutherford, ADL
(DF) Mário Martins, MVC
(DF) Filipe Maria, MVC
(FW) Travis Becerra, ADL
(FW) Cláudio Freitas, MVC
(FW) Harry Phelan, ADL
(FW) Lucas Fleeting, MVC

Individual

Award	First place		Second place		Third place
Player of the year	Kenta Katô	Adelaide United	—
Young player of the year	Harry Phelan	Adelaide United	—
Goalkeeper of the year	Tyler Rainbird (9)	Melbourne Victory	Matthew Rutherford (3)	Adelaide United	—
Manager of the year	Damian Elsey (632)	Adelaide United	Patrick Maguire (419)	Melbourne Victory	Lukas Ebert (419)	Wellington Phoenix
Golden boot	Kenta Katô (34)	Adelaide United	Lucas Fleeting (19)	Melbourne Victory	Mark Hobbs (18)	Melbourne Victory

2022 Australia Cup

Bracket

Round of 32		Round of 16		Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final



Narangba United	1

Eastern Suburbs	5
		Eastern Suburbs	1

		Eastern Lions	6
Eastern Lions	3

Brisbane Olympic	2
				Eastern Lions	1

				Gold Coast United (a.e.t.)	2
Logan Roos	2

Woombye FC	3
		Woombye FC	0

		Gold Coast United	7
Ridge Hills United	0

Gold Coast United	9
						Gold Coast United	0

						Central Coast Mariners	1
AC Carina	4

Tallebudgera Valley	0
		AC Carina	0

		Mt Gravatt Hawks	3
Mt Gravatt Hawks	4

Beerwah Glasshouse United	0
				Mt Gravatt Hawks	0

				Central Coast Mariners	5
Willowburn	2

Southside Comets	0
		Willowburn	0

		Central Coast Mariners	8
Teviot Downs	0

Central Coast Mariners	6
								Central Coast Mariers	1

								Adelaide United	0
Altona Magic	0

Macarthur FC	3
		Macarthur FC	1

		Brisbane Roar	2
Rockdale Ilinden	1

Brisbane Roar	2
				Brisbane Roar	0

				Sydney FC	3
Annerley FC	2

Hume City	5
		Hume City	0

		Sydney FC	3
Port Melbourne	0

Sydney FC	3
						Sydney FC	0

						Adelaide United	2
Adelaide United	2

Western United	1
		Adelaide United	3

		Wellington Phoenix	2
Melbourne City	0

Wellington Phoenix	1
				Adelaide United (p)	2 (3)

				Melbourne Victory	2 (2)
Old Bridge Salisbury	0

Sydney Olympic	8
		Sydney Olympic	0

		Melbourne Victory	1
Newcastle Jets	1

Melbourne Victory	2

Final

26 October 2023

19:30 AEDT

Central Coast Mariners	0–1	Adelaide United
Bellas 41'

Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne

Attendance: 38,533

Referee: Adam Kersey

Top scorers

Pos	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nathan Hall	Gold Coast United	10
2	Dmytro Omelchuk	Central Coast Mariners	7
3	Brad Murphy	Gold Coast United	5
	David Vieira	Sydney Olympic
	Theo Ward	Eastern Lions
6	Toby Ryles	Central Coast Mariners	4
6	Daniel Taylor	Central Coast Mariners	4
8	Dean Dawson	Hume City	3
	David Reilly	Adelaide United
	Will Smith	Sydney FC

Awards

Team of the tournament

Wiltshire

Bellas

Barton

Hughes

Ahmad

Tari

Vieira

Pearce

Omelchuk

Čakarun

Hall

Australia Cup Best XI
(GK) Peter Wiltshire, Central Coast Mariners
(LB) Jack Ahmad, Central Coast Mariners
(LCB) Christian Barton, Central Coast Mariners
(RCB) Fraser Bellas, Central Coast Mariners
(RB) Adam Hughes, Central Coast Mariners
(DM) Christopher Tari, Central Coast Mariners
(RCM) Alex Pearce, Eastern Lions
(RCM) David Vieira, Sydney Olympic
(LW) Ante Čakarun, Eastern Suburbs
(RW) Dmytro Omelchuk, Central Coast Mariners
(CF) Nathan Hall, Gold Coast United

[table_note_WEL0.10878683911114-1] Wellington Phoenix cannot qualify for Asian Football Confederation competitions as they are based in New Zealand, which is under the Oceania Football Confederation.

[table_note_res_F0.10878683911114-2] The top two teams enter the finals series at the semi-finals, while the teams ranked third to sixth enter the finals series at the elimination-finals.

[table_note_res_AFCC20.10878683911114-3] Central Coast Mariners qualified for the AFC Cup group stage as the 2022 Australia Cup winners.

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