# 2022–23 Sydney FC season

The 2022–23 season was the 18th in the history of Sydney Football Club. In addition to the domestic league, Sydney FC competed in the Australia Cup for the eighth time.
For the first time since the 2017–18 season, Sydney FC returned to Allianz Stadium.

## Players
### First-team squad

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 | AUS | Andrew Redmayne |
| 2 | DF | AUS | James Donachie |
| 3 | DF | AUS | Joel King (on loan from OB) |
| 4 | DF | AUS | Alex Wilkinson (captain) |
| 6 | DF | ENG | Jack Rodwell |
| 8 | MF | AUS | Paulo Retre |
| 9 | FW | ENG | Adam Le Fondre |
| 10 | FW | ENG | Joe Lolley |
| 11 | FW | SVK | Róbert Mak |
| 12 | FW | AUS | Patrick Wood |
| 17 | MF | AUS | Anthony Caceres |
| 18 | DF | ESP | Diego Caballo |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | FW | AUS | Adrian Segecic |
| 20 | GK | AUS | Tom Heward-Belle |
| 21 | FW | AUS | Alex Parsons |
| 22 | MF | AUS | Max Burgess |
| 23 | DF | AUS | Rhyan Grant |
| 24 | MF | AUS | Corey Hollman (scholarship) |
| 25 | FW | AUS | Jaiden Kucharski (scholarship) |
| 26 | MF | AUS | Luke Brattan (vice-captain) |
| 28 | MF | AUS | Jake Girdwood-Reich (scholarship) |
| 29 | DF | AUS | Aaron Gurd (scholarship) |
| 30 | GK | AUS | Adam Pavlesic |

## Transfers
### Transfers in

| No. | Position | Player | Transferred from | Type/fee | Contract length | Date |
| 29 | DF | Anton Mlinaric | Brisbane Roar | End of loan | | 19 May 2022 |
| 18 | DF | Diego Caballo | Unattached | Free transfer | 2 years | 13 July 2022 |
| 11 | MF | Róbert Mak | Unattached | Free transfer | 2 years | 9 August 2022 |
| 21 | FW | Alex Parsons | Unattached | Free transfer | 2 years | 10 August 2022 |
| 6 | DF | Jack Rodwell | Unattached | Free transfer | 2 years | 12 August 2022 |
| 10 | MF | Joe Lolley | Nottingham Forest | Undisclosed | 2 years | 15 August 2022 |
| 27 | DF | Adrian Vlastelica | Sydney United 58 | Injury replacement for Alex Wilkinson | 3 months | 15 August 2022 |
| 3 | DF | Joel King | OB | Loan | 6 months | 1 February 2023 |

#### From youth squad

| N | Pos. | Name | Age | Notes |
| 29 | DF | Aaron Gurd | 20 | 1-year scholarship contract |
| 25 | FW | Jaiden Kucharski | 19 | 2-year scholarship contract |
| 24 | MF | Corey Hollman | 18 | 2-year scholarship contract |
| 28 | MF | Jake Girdwood-Reich | 17 | 2-year scholarship contract |

### Transfers out

| No. | Position | Player | Transferred to | Type/fee | Date | Ref. |
| 9 | FW | Bobô | Retired | Retired | 2 May 2022 | |
| 7 | DF | Michael Zullo | Unattached | End of contract | 16 May 2022 | |
| 11 | FW | Kosta Barbarouses | Unattached | End of contract | 19 May 2022 | |
| 16 | FW | Luciano Narsingh | Unattached | End of contract | 19 May 2022 | |
| 12 | FW | Trent Buhagiar | Unattached | End of contract | 19 May 2022 | |
| 6 | MF | Mustafa Amini | Unattached | End of contract | 19 May 2022 | |
| 21 | DF | Harry Van Der Saag | Unattached | End of contract | 19 May 2022 | |
| 25 | DF | Callum Talbot | Unattached | End of contract | 19 May 2022 | |
| 29 | DF | Anton Mlinaric | Unattached | End of contract | 19 May 2022 | |
| 35 | DF | Liam McGing | Unattached | End of contract | 19 May 2022 | |
| 19 | MF | Chris Zuvela | Unattached | End of contract | 19 May 2022 | |
| 28 | MF | Calem Nieuwenhof | Unattached | End of contract | 19 May 2022 | |
| 10 | MF | Miloš Ninković | Unattached | End of contract | 21 June 2022 | |
| 3 | DF | Ben Warland | Adelaide United | Mutual contract termination | 24 June 2022 | |
| 27 | FW | Elvis Kamsoba | Sepahan | Undisclosed | 23 July 2022 | |
| 27 | DF | Adrian Vlastelica | Sydney United 58 | End of contract | 2 February 2023 | |
| 16 | MF | Patrick Yazbek | Viking FK | Undisclosed | 18 February 2023 | |
| 5 | DF | Connor O'Toole | Western United | Mutual contract termination | 6 February 2023 | [20] [21] |

### Contract extensions

| No. | Position | Name | Duration | Date | Note |
| 19 | MF | Adrian Segecic | 3 years | 9 May 2022 | |
| 26 | MF | Luke Brattan | 2 years | 20 May 2022 | |
| 1 | GK | Andrew Redmayne | 3 years | 30 May 2022 | |
| 30 | GK | Adam Pavlesic | 2 years | 2 June 2022 | |
| 12 | FW | Patrick Wood | 1 year | 20 June 2022 | |
| 4 | DF | Alex Wilkinson | 1 year | 22 June 2022 | |
| 23 | DF | Rhyan Grant | 2 years | 27 June 2022 | |
| 2 | DF | James Donachie | 2 years | 4 July 2022 | |
| 8 | MF | Paulo Retre | 2 years | 4 July 2022 | |
| 29 | DF | Aaron Gurd | 2 years | 9 February 2023 | Signed a full-time professional contract from 2023–24 until end of 2024–25. |
| 22 | MF | Max Burgess | 2 years | 21 February 2023 | Contract extended from end of 2022–23 until end of 2024–25. |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| A-League Men | 8 October 2022 | 29 April 2023 | Matchday 1 | 5th | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 40 | 39 | +1 | 042.31 |
| A-League Men Finals | 6 May 2023 | 19 May 2023 | Elimination-finals | Semi-finals | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 033.33 |
| Australia Cup | 31 July 2022 | 31 August 2022 | Round of 32 | Quarter-finals | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | +0 | 033.33 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 32 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 49 | 51 | −2 | 040.63 |
Last updated: 19 May 2023 Source: Soccerway

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 3 | Adelaide United | 26 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 53 | 46 | +7 | 42 | Qualification for Finals series |
| 4 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 26 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 43 | 27 | +16 | 41 | Qualification for Finals series |
| 5 | Sydney FC | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 40 | 39 | +1 | 38 | Qualification for Finals series |
| 6 | Wellington Phoenix | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 39 | 45 | −6 | 35 | Qualification for Finals series |
| 7 | Western United | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 34 | 47 | −13 | 32 | |
* ↑ 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 Asian Football Confederation competitions as they are based in New Zealand, which is under the Oceania Football Confederation.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 29 April 2023. Source: Ultimate A-League

#### Results 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 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | L | W | D | W | L | L | W | L | L | W | L | D | L | W | W | W | D | L | W | L | L | D | D | W | W | W |
| Position | 9 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Points | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 35 | 38 |

#### Finals series
### Australia Cup
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

Includes all competitions. Players with no appearances not included in the list.
    As of 19 May 2023
| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | A-League Men | A-League Men | A-League Men Finals Series | A-League Men Finals Series | Australia Cup | Australia Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | | Andrew Redmayne | 26 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | | James Donachie | 20 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | | Joel King | 5+5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | | Alex Wilkinson | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | | Jack Rodwell | 7+3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | | Paulo Retre | 12+11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | | Adam Le Fondre | 14+4 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 13 |
| 10 | FW | | Joe Lolley | 23+1 | 6 | 0+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 6 |
| 11 | MF | | Róbert Mak | 23+1 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 27 | 10 |
| 12 | FW | | Patrick Wood | 5+15 | 3 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 3 |
| 17 | MF | | Anthony Caceres | 26 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 32 | 3 |
| 18 | DF | | Diego Caballo | 23+1 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 2 |
| 19 | MF | | Adrian Segecic | 2+14 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 |
| 21 | FW | | Alex Parsons | 0+8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 22 | MF | | Max Burgess | 17+6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 3 |
| 23 | DF | | Rhyan Grant | 25 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 2 |
| 25 | FW | | Jaiden Kucharski | 0+14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | | Luke Brattan | 23+1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | | Jake Girdwood-Reich | 2+9 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | | Aaron Gurd | 8+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 1 |
| 35 | FW | | Luka Smyth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 36 | MF | | Oscar Priestman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Player(s) transferred out but featured this season ||||||||||||
| 5 | DF | | Connor O'Toole | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | | Patrick Yazbek | 2+12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | | Adrian Vlastelica | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |

### Disciplinary record

Includes all competitions. The list is sorted by squad number when total cards are equal. Players with no cards not included in the list.
    As of 19 May 2023
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | A-League Men | A-League Men | A-League Men | A-League Men Finals Series | A-League Men Finals Series | A-League Men Finals Series | Australia Cup | Australia Cup | Australia Cup | Total | Total | Total |
| 1 | 22 | MF | | Max Burgess | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 23 | DF | | Rhyan Grant | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 8 | MF | | Paulo Retre | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 10 | FW | | Joe Lolley | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 25 | FW | | Jaiden Kucharski | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | 26 | MF | | Luke Brattan | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 2 | DF | | James Donachie | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 12 | FW | | Patrick Wood | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 18 | DF | | Diego Caballo | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 17 | MF | | Anthony Caceres | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 3 | DF | | Joel King | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 1 | GK | | Andrew Redmayne | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 11 | FW | | Róbert Mak | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 36 | MF | | Oscar Priestman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Player(s) transferred out but featured this season |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 16 | MF | | Patrick Yazbek | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 27 | DF | | Adrian Vlastelica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 43 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 4 |

### Clean sheets

Includes all competitions. The list is sorted by squad number when total clean sheets are equal. Numbers in parentheses represent games where both goalkeepers participated and both kept a clean sheet; the number in parentheses is awarded to the goalkeeper who was substituted on, whilst a full clean sheet is awarded to the goalkeeper who was on the field at the start and end of play. Goalkeepers with no clean sheets not included in the list.
    As of 19 May 2023
| Rank | No. | Nat. | Goalkeeper | A-League Men | A-League Men Finals Series | Australia Cup | Total |
| 1 | 1 | | Andrew Redmayne | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |

## End of Season awards

On 9 June 2023, Sydney FC hosted their annual Sky Blue Ball and presented nine awards on the night.
| Award | Men's | Women's |
| Player of the Year | Róbert Mak | Natalie Tobin |
| Member's Player of the Year | Max Burgess | |
| U20 Player of the Year | Patrick Wood | Sarah Hunter |
| Golden Boot | Adam Le Fondre | Madison Haley |
| U20 Player of the Year | Mitchell Glasson | |
| Powerchair Players’ Player of the Year | Joshua Ryan | |
| Chairman's Award | Spiridon Apostolopoulos (A-League Women’s kit manager and Volunteer) | Spiridon Apostolopoulos (A-League Women’s kit manager and Volunteer) |