# 2012–13 Sydney FC season

The 2012–13 season is Sydney FC's eighth consecutive season in the A-League since its foundation season in 2005–2006. Sydney started the season under the management of Ian Crook until his departure on 11 November 2012, being replaced by assistant coach Steve Corica who took up a caretaker role from 12 to 27 November. On 28 November Frank Farina was appointed as manager and Steve Corica returned to assistant coach.

## Players
### Senior 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 | Ivan Necevski |
| 2 | DF | AUS | Sebastian Ryall |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Fabinho |
| 4 | DF | NED | Pascal Bosschaart |
| 5 | DF | AUS | Nathan Sherlock |
| 7 | MF | AUS | Brett Emerton (Vice-Captain) |
| 8 | DF | AUS | Adam Griffiths |
| 9 | MF | AUS | Paul Reid |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Alessandro Del Piero |
| 11 | FW | AUS | Jarrod Kyle |
| 12 | FW | AUS | Blake Powell |
| 13 | DF | BRA | Tiago |
| 14 | FW | AUS | Mitchell Mallia (Youth) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 15 | MF | NIR | Terry McFlynn (Captain) |
| 16 | MF | AUS | Joel Chianese |
| 17 | MF | AUS | Terry Antonis (Youth) |
| 18 | DF | AUS | Trent McClenahan |
| 19 | FW | CRO | Krunoslav Lovrek |
| 20 | GK | AUS | Vedran Janjetović |
| 21 | MF | PAN | Yairo Yau (on loan from Sporting San Miguelito) |
| 22 | MF | IRQ | Ali Abbas |
| 23 | MF | AUS | Rhyan Grant |
| 24 | MF | AUS | Hagi Gligor (Youth) |
| 25 | DF | AUS | Daniel Petkovski (Youth) |
| 29 | FW | AUS | Joel Griffiths |
| 32 | DF | AUS | Lucas Neill |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 13 | MF | AUS | Nick Carle (on loan to Baniyas SC until 30 June 2013) |

### Youth 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 |
| 24 | MF | AUS | Hagi Gligor |
| 25 | DF | AUS | Daniel Petkovski |
| 26 | MF | AUS | Peter Triantis |
| 27 | FW | AUS | Alec Urosevski |
| 28 | DF | AUS | Aaron Calver |
| 30 | GK | AUS | Anthony Bouzanis |
| — | GK | AUS | Ryan Norval |
| — | DF | AUS | Keifer Dotti |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | AUS | Roberto Speranza |
| — | DF | AUS | Luke Jenner |
| — | DF | AUS | Luke Clifford |
| — | MF | AUS | Lukas Stergiou |
| — | MF | AUS | Christopher Naumoff |
| — | FW | AUS | Nikola Taneski |
| — | FW | AUS | Josh MacDonald |
| — | FW | AUS | Tom Slater |

### Transfers
#### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Fábio Alves (from Melbourne Victory) |
| 6 | MF | AUS | Jason Čulina (from Newcastle Jets) |
| 8 | DF | AUS | Adam Griffiths (from Hangzhou Greentown) |
| 9 | MF | AUS | Paul Reid (from Police United) |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Alessandro Del Piero (from Juventus) |
| 12 | FW | AUS | Blake Powell (promoted from Sydney FC Youth) |
| 14 | FW | AUS | Mitchell Mallia (promoted from Sydney FC Youth) |
| 18 | DF | AUS | Trent McClenahan (from Central Coast Mariners) |
| 19 | FW | CRO | Krunoslav Lovrek (from Qingdao Jonoon) |
| 20 | GK | AUS | Vedran Janjetović (from Sydney United) |
| 21 | MF | PAN | Yairo Yau (from Sporting San Miguelito) |
| 22 | MF | IRQ | Ali Abbas (from Newcastle Jets FC) |
| 24 | MF | AUS | Hagi Gligor (promoted from Sydney FC Youth) |
| 25 | DF | AUS | Daniel Petkovski (promoted from Sydney FC Youth) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | AUS | Liam Reddy (to Esteghlal) |
| 3 | DF | AUS | Jamie Coyne (to Sriwijaya) |
| 5 | DF | AUS | Michael Beauchamp (to Western Sydney Wanderers) |
| 6 | MF | JPN | Hirofumi Moriyasu (to Gifu) |
| 8 | MF | SVK | Karol Kisel (to Slavia Prague) |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Bruno Cazarine (to Free Agent) |
| 11 | FW | AUS | Dimitri Petratos (to Kelantan FA) |
| 12 | MF | AUS | Shannon Cole (to Western Sydney Wanderers) |
| 13 | MF | AUS | Nick Carle (on loan to Baniyas until 30 June 2013) |
| 18 | FW | FIN | Juho Mäkelä (to HJK) |
| 19 | FW | AUS | Mark Bridge (to Western Sydney Wanderers) |
| 21 | MF | AUS | Scott Jamieson (to Perth Glory) |

#### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | FW | AUS | Joel Griffiths (from Shanghai Shenhua) |
| 11 | FW | AUS | Jarrod Kyle |
| 13 | DF | BRA | Tiago (from Newcastle Jets) |
| 32 | DF | AUS | Lucas Neill (from Al Wasl) |
| 33 | GK | AUS | Matthew Nash (from Newcastle Jets Injury Cover) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | MF | AUS | Jason Čulina (Released) |
| 33 | GK | AUS | Matthew Nash (Released, end of injury cover) |

## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | Started Round | Current position / round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
| A-League | — | — | 7th | 6 October 2012 | 28 March 2013 |
| National Youth League | — | — | 9th | 28 October 2012 | 23 February 2013 |
| W-League | — | — | 4th | 20 October 2012 | 12 January 2013 |
| W-League final series | Semi-finals | Grand final | Champions | 19 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 |

### 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 | 27 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | A |
| Result | L | L | W | W | L | L | L | L | D | W | L | L | W | L | D | W | W | L | D | W | W | L | L | W | D | D | L |
| Position | 9 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 27 | 18 | 3 | 6 | 41 | 21 | +20 | 57 | Qualification for 2014 AFC Champions League group stage and finals series |
| 2 | Central Coast Mariners (C) | 27 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 48 | 22 | +26 | 54 | Qualification for 2014 AFC Champions League group stage and finals series |
| 3 | Melbourne Victory | 27 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 48 | 45 | +3 | 44 | Qualification for 2014 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off and finals series |
| 4 | Adelaide United | 27 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 38 | 37 | +1 | 41 | Qualification for Finals series |
| 5 | Brisbane Roar | 27 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 33 | 29 | +4 | 35 | Qualification for Finals series |
| 6 | Perth Glory | 27 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 29 | 31 | −2 | 32 | Qualification for Finals series |
| 7 | Sydney FC | 27 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 41 | 51 | −10 | 32 | |
| 8 | Newcastle Jets | 27 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 30 | 45 | −15 | 31 | |
| 9 | Melbourne Heart | 27 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 31 | 40 | −9 | 27 | |
| 10 | Wellington Phoenix | 27 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 31 | 49 | −18 | 27 | |
* ↑ Since the winner of 2013 A-League Grand Final (Central Coast Mariners) qualified for the 2014 AFC Champions League group stage, the 3rd placed team qualified for the qualifying play-off of 2014 AFC Champions League.
* ↑ Wellington Phoenix cannot qualify for the AFC Champions League as they are not recognised as an AFC club.

### W-League
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Brisbane Roar | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 15 | +13 | 26 | Qualification to Finals series |
| 2 | Perth Glory | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 20 | +14 | 24 | Qualification to Finals series |
| 3 | Melbourne Victory | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 14 | +12 | 23 | Qualification to Finals series |
| 4 | Sydney FC (C) | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 30 | 24 | +6 | 20 | Qualification to Finals series |
| 5 | Canberra United | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 20 | +5 | 18 | |
| 6 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 23 | −4 | 13 | |
| 7 | Newcastle Jets | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 33 | −18 | 6 | |
| 8 | Adelaide United | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 40 | −28 | 6 | |

#### League goalscorers by round

| Total | Player | Player | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game | Goals per Game |
| Total | Player | Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | SF | GF |
| 9 | | Sam Kerr | 2 | | 1 | | | | 1 | | 1 | | | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | | Kyah Simon | | | | | | | 2 | | 1 | 3 | | | | 1 |
| 5 | | Emma Kete | | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | | | | |
| 3 | | Chloe Logarzo | | | | | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | | Alanna Kennedy | 1 | | | 1 | | | | | | 1 | | | | |
| 3 | | Caitlin Foord | | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | | |
| 2 | | Nicola Bolger | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | 1 |
| 1 | | Ellyse Perry | | | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 1 | | Renee Rollason | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | | |
| 1 | | Lillie Billson | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | |
| 1 | | Annalie Longo | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | |

## Squad statistics

    As of 28 March 2012

### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | A League | A League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | AUS | Ivan Necevski | 11 | 0 | 11+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | AUS | Sebastian Ryall | 25 | 3 | 23+2 | 3 |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Fabinho | 18 | 0 | 17+1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | NED | Pascal Bosschaart | 6 | 1 | 6+0 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | AUS | Nathan Sherlock | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | AUS | Brett Emerton | 22 | 3 | 22+0 | 3 |
| 8 | DF | AUS | Adam Griffiths | 18 | 0 | 16+2 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | AUS | Paul Reid | 11 | 0 | 6+5 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Alessandro Del Piero | 24 | 14 | 23+1 | 14 |
| 12 | FW | AUS | Blake Powell | 18 | 3 | 9+9 | 3 |
| 13 | DF | BRA | Tiago | 9 | 0 | 9+0 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | AUS | Mitchell Mallia | 7 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | NIR | Terry McFlynn | 19 | 0 | 15+4 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | AUS | Joel Chianese | 13 | 1 | 2+11 | 1 |
| 17 | MF | AUS | Terry Antonis | 17 | 1 | 13+4 | 1 |
| 18 | DF | AUS | Trent McClenahan | 12 | 0 | 9+3 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | CRO | Krunoslav Lovrek | 5 | 0 | 5+0 | 0 |
| 20 | GK | AUS | Vedran Janjetović | 16 | 0 | 16+0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | PAN | Yairo Yau | 18 | 6 | 11+7 | 6 |
| 22 | MF | IRQ | Ali Abbas | 24 | 1 | 21+3 | 1 |
| 23 | MF | AUS | Rhyan Grant | 25 | 2 | 24+1 | 2 |
| 24 | MF | AUS | Hagi Gligor | 4 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | AUS | Daniel Petkovski | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | AUS | Peter Triantis | 14 | 1 | 13+1 | 1 |
| 27 | FW | AUS | Alec Urosevski | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | AUS | Aaron Calver | 3 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | AUS | Joel Griffiths | 8 | 3 | 8+0 | 3 |
| 32 | DF | AUS | Lucas Neill | 3 | 0 | 3+0 | 0 |
| Players away from the club on loan: ||||||||
| 13 | MF | AUS | Nick Carle | 0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| Players who appeared for Sydney FC no longer at the club: ||||||||
| 11 | FW | AUS | Dimitri Petratos | 1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | AUS | Jason Culina | 8 | 2 | 6+2 | 2 |

### Disciplinary record

| No. | Position | Name | | | |
| 1 | GK | Ivan Necevski | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Sebastian Ryall | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | Fabinho | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Pascal Bosschaart | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Nathan Sherlock | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | Jason Culina | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | Brett Emerton | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | DF | Adam Griffiths | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | Paul Reid | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | Alessandro Del Piero | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | Dimitri Petratos | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | Blake Powell | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | Tiago | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | Terry McFlynn | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | MF | Joel Chianese | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | Terry Antonis | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | Trent McClenahan | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | Krunoslav Lovrek | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | GK | Vedran Janjetović | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Yairo Yau | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | Ali Abbas | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | Rhyan Grant | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | Peter Triantis | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | Alec Urosevski | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | Aaron Calver | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | Joel Griffiths | 2 | 0 | 0 |

## End-of-season awards

On 10 April 2013, Sydney FC hosted their annual Sky Blue Ball and presented seven awards on the night.
| Award | Men's | Women's | Youth |
| Player of the Year | Alessandro Del Piero | N/A | N/A |
| Player's Player of the Year | Rhyan Grant | Teresa Polias | Peter Triantis |
| Member's Player of the Year | Alessandro Del Piero | N/A | N/A |
| Golden Boot | Alessandro Del Piero | N/A | N/A |
| Chairman's Award | Alen Stajcic W-League coach | Alen Stajcic W-League coach | Alen Stajcic W-League coach |