# List of Melbourne Victory FC players

Melbourne Victory Football Club, an Australian association football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, was founded in 2004. They became the only Victorian team in the inaugural seasons of the A-League, a professional football competition which commenced in 2005. The club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions, and all players who have played in one or more such match are listed below.
Leigh Broxham holds the record for the greatest number of appearances for Melbourne Victory. From 2005 to date, the Australian defender has played 375 times for the club. As of 2020, fourteen other players have made more than 100 appearances for Melbourne. The club's goalscoring record is held by Archie Thompson, who scored 97 goals in all competitions between 2005 and 2016.

## 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 18 September 2020. Where a player left the club permanently after this date, his statistics are updated to his date of leaving.
Positions key :
| GK | Goalkeeper |
| DF | Defender |
| MF | Midfielder |
| FW | Forward |

### 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, AFC Champions League, FFA Cup, A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup and 2005 Australian Club World Championship Qualifying Tournament.

## Players

Table of players, including nationalities, positions and appearance details :
| Player | Nationality | Position | Club career | Starts | Subs | Total | Goals |
| Danny Allsopp | Australia | FW | 2005–2009 2011–2012 | 131 | 18 | 149 | 50 |
| Mark Byrnes | Australia | DF | 2005–2007 | 21 | 4 | 25 | 2 |
| Ricky Diaco | Australia | FW | 2005–2006 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 1 |
| Spase Dilevski | Australia | U | 2005 2012–2013 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 1 |
| Adrian Leijer | Australia | DF | 2005–2007 2009–2015 | 202 | 3 | 205 | 8 |
| Vince Lia | Australia | MF | 2005–2007 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 0 |
| Steve Pantelidis | Australia | U | 2005–2008 | 58 | 13 | 71 | 0 |
| Kristian Sarkies | Australia | MF | 2005–2007 | 28 | 16 | 44 | 3 |
| Simon Storey | Australia | DF | 2005–2007 | 32 | 6 | 38 | 0 |
| Chris Tadrosse | Australia | U | 2005–2006 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 0 |
| Michael Theoklitos | Australia | GK | 2005–2009 | 89 | 0 | 89 | 0 |
| Matthew Spiranovic | Australia | DF | 2005 2021- | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Leigh Broxham | Australia | U | 2005– | 318 | 62 | 380 | 7 |
| Daniel Visevic | Australia | MF | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Geoffrey Claeys | Belgium | U | 2005–2006 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| Michael Ferrante | Australia | MF | 2005–2007 | 24 | 7 | 31 | 1 |
| Eugene Galekovic | Australia | GK | 2005–2007 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| Richard Kitzbichler | Austria | MF | 2005–2006 | 20 | 2 | 22 | 5 |
| Daniel Piorkowski | Australia | DF | 2005–2007 | 38 | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Archie Thompson | Australia | FW | 2005–2016 | 226 | 36 | 262 | 97 |
| Carl Recchia | Australia | U | 2005–2006 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 0 |
| Kevin Muscat | Australia | DF | 2005–2011 | 151 | 0 | 151 | 35 |
| Andrew Vlahos | Australia | U | 2005–2006 | 14 | 7 | 21 | 0 |
| Ramazan Tavşancıoğlu | Australia | U | 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Grant Brebner | Scotland | MF | 2006–2012 | 109 | 26 | 135 | 6 |
| Adrian Caceres | Australia | U | 2006–2008 | 33 | 22 | 55 | 6 |
| Claudinho | Brazil | MF | 2006 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 1 |
| Fred | Brazil | MF | 2006–2007 | 25 | 0 | 25 | 4 |
| Rodrigo Vargas | Australia | DF | 2006–2012 | 166 | 1 | 167 | 8 |
| Alessandro | Australia | U | 2006–2007 | 11 | 10 | 21 | 0 |
| James Robinson | England | U | 2006–2007 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 |
| Antun Kovacic | Australia | DF | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Joe Keenan | England | U | 2007 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 1 |
| Matthew Kemp | Australia | U | 2007–2012 | 88 | 8 | 96 | 2 |
| Ljubo Milicevic | Australia | U | 2007 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Kaz Patafta | Australia | U | 2007–2008 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 1 |
| Carlos Hernández | Costa Rica | U | 2007–2012 | 125 | 16 | 141 | 39 |
| Daniel Vasilevski | Australia | U | 2007–2008 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 0 |
| Leandro Love | Brazil | FW | 2007–2008 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 0 |
| Sebastian Ryall | Australia | DF | 2007–2009 | 26 | 8 | 34 | 0 |
| Evan Berger | Australia | U | 2007–2011 | 31 | 24 | 55 | 0 |
| Steven Pace | Australia | DF | 2007–2008 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 0 |
| Nick Ward | Australia | MF | 2007–2010 | 46 | 16 | 62 | 5 |
| Mitchell Langerak | Australia | GK | 2008–2010 | 26 | 3 | 29 | 0 |
| Billy Celeski | Australia | MF | 2008–2013 | 85 | 16 | 101 | 2 |
| Tom Pondeljak | Australia | MF | 2008–2011 | 70 | 20 | 90 | 10 |
| Nathan Elasi | Australia | FW | 2008–2010 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0 |
| Ney Fabiano | Australia | FW | 2008–2009 | 20 | 14 | 34 | 7 |
| Michael Thwaite | Australia | U | 2008–2009 | 19 | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| José Luis López | Costa Rica | MF | 2008–2009 | 13 | 8 | 21 | 0 |
| Glen Moss | New Zealand | GK | 2009–2010 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Surat Sukha | Thailand | U | 2009–2011 | 39 | 7 | 46 | 0 |
| Matthew Foschini | Australia | U | 2009–2013 | 34 | 19 | 53 | 0 |
| Robbie Kruse | Australia | U | 2009–2011 2019– | 53 | 7 | 60 | 19 |
| Mate Dugandzic | Australia | U | 2009–2011 | 19 | 21 | 40 | 8 |
| Sutee Suksomkit | Thailand | U | 2009 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| Luke Pilkington | Australia | U | 2009–2011 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Marvin Angulo | Costa Rica | U | 2010–2011 | 26 | 20 | 46 | 0 |
| Aziz Behich | Australia | U | 2010 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Nik Mrdja | Australia | FW | 2010 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| Diogo Ferreira | Australia | U | 2010–2013 | 39 | 21 | 60 | 3 |
| Michael Petkovic | Australia | GK | 2010–2011 | 33 | 0 | 33 | 0 |
| Geoff Kellaway | England | MF | 2010 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 0 |
| Ricardinho | Brazil | U | 2010–2011 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 2 |
| Petar Franjic | Australia | DF | 2011–2012 | 26 | 4 | 30 | 0 |
| Isaka Cernak | Australia | MF | 2011–2012 | 12 | 13 | 25 | 2 |
| Tando Velaphi | Australia | GK | 2011–2012 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Ante Covic | Australia | GK | 2011–2012 | 24 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| Fabinho | Brazil | DF | 2011–2012 | 23 | 0 | 23 | 1 |
| Harry Kewell | Australia | U | 2011–2012 | 25 | 0 | 25 | 8 |
| Marco Rojas | New Zealand | FW | 2011–2013 2016–2017 2020– | 76 | 13 | 89 | 34 |
| Jean Carlos Solórzano | Costa Rica | FW | 2011–2012 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 0 |
| Lawrence Thomas | Australia | GK | 2011– | 149 | 2 | 151 | 0 |
| James Jeggo | Australia | MF | 2011–2014 | 19 | 15 | 34 | 3 |
| Mark Milligan | Australia | U | 2012–2015 2017–2018 | 93 | 4 | 97 | 20 |
| Ubay Luzardo | Spain | DF | 2012 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Julius Davies | Australia | U | 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Jonathan Bru | Mauritius | MF | 2012–2013 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 0 |
| Guilherme Finkler | Brazil | MF | 2012–2016 | 82 | 17 | 99 | 23 |
| Marcos Flores | Argentina | U | 2012–2013 | 23 | 1 | 24 | 4 |
| Adama Traoré | Ivory Coast | U | 2012–2014 2019– | 79 | 0 | 79 | 1 |
| Theo Markelis | Australia | U | 2012 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Andrew Nabbout | Australia | U | 2012–2015 2019–2020 | 39 | 34 | 73 | 16 |
| Nathan Coe | Australia | GK | 2012–2015 | 80 | 0 | 80 | 0 |
| Christopher Cristaldo | Australia | MF | 2012–2014 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| Sam Gallagher | Australia | DF | 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Nick Ansell | Australia | DF | 2012–2018 | 78 | 16 | 94 | 3 |
| Luke O'Dea | Australia | MF | 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Francesco Stella | Australia | MF | 2013 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| Scott Galloway | Australia | U | 2013–2016 | 51 | 14 | 65 | 1 |
| Connor Pain | Australia | U | 2013–2016 | 23 | 44 | 67 | 5 |
| Jesse Makarounas | Australia | FW | 2013–2016 | 15 | 39 | 54 | 3 |
| Daniel Mullen | Australia | DF | 2013 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Dylan Murnane | Australia | DF | 2013–2016 | 26 | 6 | 32 | 0 |
| Jason Geria | Australia | DF | 2013–2018 | 121 | 13 | 134 | 1 |
| Pablo Contreras | Chile | DF | 2013–2014 | 24 | 0 | 24 | 1 |
| Rashid Mahazi | Australia | MF | 2013–2017 | 45 | 46 | 91 | 0 |
| Mitch Nichols | Australia | U | 2013–2014 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 3 |
| James Troisi | Australia | MF | 2013–2014 2016–2019 | 118 | 8 | 126 | 32 |
| Kosta Barbarouses | New Zealand | U | 2013–2016 2017–2019 | 150 | 11 | 161 | 51 |
| Jordan Brown | Australia | MF | 2014 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Tom Rogic | Australia | U | 2014 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| Besart Berisha | Kosovo | FW | 2014–2018 | 137 | 0 | 137 | 86 |
| Matthieu Delpierre | France | DF | 2014–2016 | 55 | 1 | 56 | 2 |
| Carl Valeri | Australia | MF | 2014–2019 | 127 | 9 | 136 | 2 |
| Daniel Georgievski | Macedonia | DF | 2014–2017 | 67 | 16 | 83 | 4 |
| Fahid Ben Khalfallah | Tunisia | U | 2014–2017 | 77 | 9 | 86 | 14 |
| Kieran Dover | Australia | DF | 2014–2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| George Howard | Australia | FW | 2015–2017 | 3 | 16 | 19 | 3 |
| Thomas Deng | Australia | DF | 2015–2019 | 78 | 9 | 87 | 2 |
| Danny Vukovic | Australia | GK | 2015–2016 | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Joey Katebian | Australia | FW | 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Oliver Bozanic | Australia | MF | 2015–2017 | 56 | 7 | 63 | 7 |
| Giancarlo Gallifuoco | Australia | U | 2015–2016 2020– | 9 | 3 | 12 | 0 |
| Jai Ingham | New Zealand | MF | 2016–2019 | 23 | 44 | 67 | 4 |
| Stefan Nigro | Australia | MF | 2016–2018 | 21 | 10 | 31 | 0 |
| Mitch Austin | Australia | U | 2016–2017 | 17 | 12 | 29 | 5 |
| Alan Baró | Spain | U | 2016–2017 | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Sebastian Pasquali | Australia | MF | 2016 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| James Donachie | Australia | DF | 2016–2018 2019–2020 | 81 | 10 | 91 | 1 |
| Maximilian Beister | Germany | FW | 2016–2017 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 1 |
| Matt Acton | Australia | GK | 2016– | 18 | 2 | 20 | 0 |
| Cameron McGilp | Australia | DF | 2017–2018 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Christian Theoharous | Australia | FW | 2017–2018 | 3 | 22 | 25 | 1 |
| Rhys Williams | Australia | DF | 2017–2018 | 32 | 0 | 32 | 2 |
| Josh Hope | Australia | MF | 2017– | 13 | 27 | 40 | 2 |
| Leroy George | Netherlands | U | 2017–2018 | 32 | 2 | 34 | 12 |
| Matías Sánchez | Argentina | MF | 2017–2018 | 14 | 11 | 25 | 0 |
| Kenny Athiu | South Sudan | FW | 2017– | 18 | 33 | 51 | 4 |
| Dino Djulbic | Australia | DF | 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Terry Antonis | Australia | MF | 2018–2019 | 48 | 5 | 53 | 5 |
| Pierce Waring | Australia | FW | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Birkan Kirdar | Australia | MF | 2018– | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| Corey Brown | Australia | DF | 2018–2019 | 31 | 6 | 37 | 1 |
| Storm Roux | New Zealand | DF | 2018– | 50 | 9 | 59 | 3 |
| Raúl Baena | Spain | MF | 2018–2019 | 18 | 6 | 24 | 1 |
| Keisuke Honda | Japan | MF | 2018–2019 | 22 | 2 | 24 | 8 |
| Georg Niedermeier | Germany | DF | 2018–2019 | 16 | 3 | 19 | 2 |
| Ola Toivonen | Sweden | FW | 2018– | 43 | 6 | 49 | 29 |
| Rahmat Akbari | Australia | MF | 2018–2019 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 0 |
| Elvis Kamsoba | Burundi | MF | 2019– | 16 | 33 | 49 | 2 |
| Anthony Lesiotis | AustraliaF | MF | 2019– | 15 | 16 | 31 | 0 |
| Jack Palazzolo | Australia | FW | 2019– | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Benjamin Carrigan | Australia | DF | 2019– | 9 | 4 | 13 | 0 |
| Aaron Anderson | Australia | DF | 2019– | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Brandon Lauton | Australia | DF | 2019– | 7 | 9 | 16 | 0 |
| Jakob Poulsen | Denmark | MF | 2019–2020 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 0 |
| Kristijan Dobras | Austria | MF | 2019–2020 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
| Migjen Basha | Albania | MF | 2019– | 24 | 5 | 29 | 2 |
| Tim Hoogland | Germany | MF | 2019– | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| Jay Barnett | Australia | MF | 2019– | 6 | 6 | 12 | 0 |
| So Nishikawa | Australia | DF | 2020– | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Luis Lawrie-Lattanzio | Australia | MF | 2020– | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Lleyton Brooks | Australia | FW | 2020– | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Joshua Varga | Australia | MF | 2020– | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |

## International representatives

Players that represented their national team while contracted to Melbourne Victory.
| Name | National team | Notes |
| Adrian Leijer | Australia | |
| Archie Thompson | Australia | |
| Billy Celeski | Australia | |
| Carlos Hernandez | Costa Rica | |
| Connor Pain | Australia | Made his Socceroos debut whilst playing for Melbourne |
| Daniel Allsopp | Australia | |
| Elvis Kamsoba | Burundi | |
| Harry Kewell | Australia | |
| José Luis López | Costa Rica | |
| Kevin Muscat | Australia | |
| Leigh Broxham | Australia | |
| Marco Rojas | New Zealand | |
| Mark Milligan | Australia | |
| Marvin Angulo | Costa Rica | |
| Matthew Kemp | Australia | |
| Mitch Nichols | Australia | |
| Nishan Velupillay | Australia | |
| Robbie Kruse | Australia | |
| Rodrigo Vargas | Australia | |
| Surat Sukha | Thailand | |
| Sutee Suksomkit | Thailand | |
| Tom Pondeljak | Australia | |