# 2019–20 Western Sydney Wanderers FC season

The 2019–20 Western Sydney Wanderers FC season was the club's eighth season since its foundation in 2012. The club participated in the A-League for the eighth time, and the FFA Cup for the sixth time.
On 24 March 2020, the FFA announced that the 2019–20 A-League season would be postponed until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and New Zealand, and subsequently extended indefinitely. The season resumed on 17 July 2020.

## Players
### Squad information

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | SUI | Daniel Lopar |
| 4 | DF | AUS | Dylan McGowan (Vice-captain) |
| 5 | DF | MKD | Daniel Georgievski |
| 6 | DF | AUS | Matthew Jurman |
| 7 | FW | AUS | Mitchell Duke (Captain) |
| 8 | MF | AUS | Jordan O'Doherty |
| 9 | MF | GER | Nicolai Müller (Injury replacement) |
| 10 | FW | IRL | Simon Cox |
| 11 | FW | AUS | Bruce Kamau |
| 13 | DF | AUS | Tass Mourdoukoutas |
| 16 | DF | AUS | Mathieu Cordier |
| 17 | MF | AUS | Keanu Baccus |
| 19 | MF | SUI | Pirmin Schwegler |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | GK | AUS | Vedran Janjetovic |
| 22 | MF | AUS | Nick Sullivan |
| 23 | MF | AUS | Kosta Grozos (Scholarship) |
| 27 | FW | AUS | Kwame Yeboah |
| 28 | MF | AUS | Fabian Monge (Scholarship) |
| 29 | DF | AUS | Daniel Wilmering (Scholarship) |
| 31 | DF | AUS | Noah Pagden (Scholarship) |
| 33 | DF | AUS | Tate Russell (Scholarship) |
| 34 | DF | GER | Patrick Ziegler |
| 35 | FW | SDN | Mohamed Adam (Scholarship) |
| 40 | GK | AUS | Nicholas Suman (Scholarship) |
| — | MF | POL | Radosław Majewski (injured) |
| — | GK | AUS | Tristan Prendergast (Injury replacement) |

## Transfers
### From youth squad

| N | Pos. | Name | Age | Notes |
| 29 | DF | Daniel Wilmering | 18 | 2 year scholarship contract |
| 35 | FW | Mohamed Adam | 19 | 2 year scholarship contract |
| 31 | DF | Noah Pagden | 18 | 2 year scholarship contract |

### Transfers in

| No. | Position | Player | Transferred from | Type/fee | Contract length | Date |
| 5 | DF | Daniel Georgievski | Newcastle Jets | Free transfer | 2 years | 2 May 2019 |
| 19 | MF | Pirmin Schwegler | Hannover 96 | Free transfer | 1 year | 15 May 2019 |
| 1 | GK | Daniel Lopar | St. Gallen | Free transfer | 1 year | 23 May 2019 |
| 10 | MF | Radosław Majewski | Pogoń Szczecin | Undisclosed | 1 year | 14 June 2019 |
| 4 | DF | Dylan McGowan | Unattached | Free transfer | 3 years | 19 June 2019 |
| 22 | MF | Nick Sullivan | Unattached | Free transfer | 1 year | 5 August 2019 |
| 6 | DF | Matthew Jurman | Unattached | Free transfer | 1 year | 6 September 2019 |
| 14 | FW | Alexander Meier | Unattached | Free transfer | 1 year | 19 September 2019 |
| 9 | MF | Nicolai Müller | Eintracht Frankfurt | Injury replacement (Undisclosed fee) | 1 year | 16 October 2019 |
| 10 | FW | Simon Cox | Unattached | Free transfer | 1.5 years | 16 January 2020 |
| 50 | GK | Tristan Prendergast | Unattached | Injury replacement | 1 month | 2 July 2020 |

### Transfers out

| No. | Position | Player | Transferred to | Type/fee | Date |
| 4 | DF | Josh Risdon | Western United | Free transfer | 12 February 2019 |
| 19 | FW | Mark Bridge | Retired | Retired | 12 March 2019 |
| 10 | MF | Alexander Baumjohann | Unattached | | 27 April 2019 |
| 9 | FW | Oriol Riera | Unattached | | 27 April 2019 |
| 28 | MF | Roly Bonevacia | Unattached | | 29 April 2019 |
| 24 | DF | Raúl Llorente | Unattached | | 3 May 2019 |
| 16 | FW | Jaushua Sotirio | Unattached | Free transfer | 3 May 2019 |
| 49 | FW | Abraham Majok | Unattached | Free transfer | 3 May 2019 |
| 18 | MF | Marc Tokich | Unattached | Free transfer | 3 May 2019 |
| 22 | MF | Rashid Mahazi | Unattached | Free transfer | 3 May 2019 |
| 32 | FW | John Roberts | Unattached | Free transfer | 3 May 2019 |
| 3 | DF | Giancarlo Gallifuoco | Unattached | Loan return | 3 May 2019 |
| 5 | DF | Brendan Hamill | Western United | Free transfer | 15 May 2019 |
| 7 | FW | Nick Fitzgerald | Unattached | Undisclosed | 18 June 2019 |
| 30 | GK | Danijel Nizic | Unattached | Mutual contract termination | 25 November 2019 |
| 14 | FW | Alexander Meier | Unattached | Mutual contract termination | 16 January 2020 |
| 21 | DF | Tarek Elrich | Unattached | Mutual contract termination | 24 January 2020 |

### Contract extensions

| No. | Name | Position | Duration | Date |
| 1 | Daniel Lopar | Goalkeeper | 2 years | 15 January 2020 |
| 13 | Tass Mourdoukoutas | Centre-back | 3 years | 18 February 2020 |
| 33 | Tate Russell | Right-back | 1 year | 6 March 2020 |

### Manager changes

| Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position on table | Incoming manager | Notes |
| Markus Babbel | Sacked | 20 January 2020 | 9th | Jean-Paul de Marigny | |

## Squad statistics
### Appearances and goals

    As of 13 August 2020
Source:
| No. | Pos. | Player | A-League | A-League | FFA Cup | FFA Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos. | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | Daniel Lopar | 20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Dylan McGowan | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Daniel Georgievski | 23 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 2 |
| 6 | DF | Matthew Jurman | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | Mitchell Duke | 26 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 14 |
| 8 | MF | Jordan O'Doherty | 7(3) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | Nicolai Müller | 18(1) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 5 |
| 10 | MF | Radosław Majewski | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 10 | FW | Simon Cox | 9(2) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 |
| 11 | FW | Bruce Kamau | 9(5) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 1 |
| 13 | DF | Tass Mourdoukoutas | 2(8) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
| 14 | FW | Alexander Meier | 8(4) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | DF | Mathieu Cordier | 3 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | Keanu Baccus | 19(1) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 2 |
| 19 | MF | Pirmin Schwegler | 20(4) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 2 |
| 20 | GK | Vedran Janjetović | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | Tarek Elrich | 4(1) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | Nick Sullivan | 7(8) | 0 | 0(1) | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | Kosta Grozos | 1(6) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | Kwame Yeboah | 15(5) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 6 |
| 28 | MF | Fabian Monge | 0 | 0 | 0(1) | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | Daniel Wilmering | 7(2) | 0 | 0(2) | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | Danijel Nizic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | Noah Pagden | 0(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | Lochlan Constable | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | Tate Russell | 11(4) | 1 | 0(3) | 1 | 18 | 2 |
| 34 | DF | Patrick Ziegler | 19(2) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 |
| 35 | FW | Mohamed Adam | 5(14) | 1 | 2(1) | 1 | 22 | 2 |
| 36 | MF | Jarrod Carluccio | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 37 | FW | Jake Trew | 0(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 40 | GK | Nicholas Suman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 50 | GK | Jack Greenwood | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | GK | Tristan Prendergast | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 53 | DF | Mohamed Al-Taay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 59 | MF | Dean Pelekanos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 62 | FW | Ali Auglah | 0(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Overview

| Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| A-League | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 35 | 40 | −5 | 034.62 |
| FFA Cup | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 066.67 |
| Total | 29 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 44 | 45 | −1 | 037.93 |
Source: Competitions

### A-League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Sydney FC (C) | 26 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 49 | 25 | +24 | 53 | Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League group stage and Finals series |
| 2 | Melbourne City | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 49 | 37 | +12 | 47 | Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs and Finals series |
| 3 | Wellington Phoenix | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 38 | 33 | +5 | 41 | Qualification for Finals series |
| 4 | Brisbane Roar | 26 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 29 | 28 | +1 | 40 | Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs and Finals series |
| 5 | Western United | 26 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 46 | 37 | +9 | 39 | Qualification for Finals series |
| 6 | Perth Glory | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 43 | 36 | +7 | 37 | Qualification for Finals series |
| 7 | Adelaide United | 26 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 44 | 49 | −5 | 36 | |
| 8 | Newcastle Jets | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 32 | 40 | −8 | 34 | |
| 9 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 35 | 40 | −5 | 33 | |
| 10 | Melbourne Victory | 26 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 33 | 44 | −11 | 23 | |
| 11 | Central Coast Mariners | 26 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 26 | 55 | −29 | 18 | |
* 1 2 3 All Australian teams withdrew from the 2021 AFC Champions League on 4 June 2021.
* 1 2 3 4 5 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.
* ↑ Wellington Phoenix cannot qualify for the 2021 AFC Champions League as they are not recognised as an AFC club.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: ultimatealeague.com

#### Result by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| Ground | H | A | H | H | A | B | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | B | A | A | H | H | B | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H |
| Result | W | W | W | D | L | ✖ | L | L | L | L | D | W | L | L | L | ✖ | W | W | D | W | ✖ | L | D | D | L | L | W | D | W |
| Position | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | 9 |