# List of Sydney FC head coaches

Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in Moore Park, Sydney. The club was formed in 2004. They became the first New South Wales member admitted into the A-League in 2005.
There have been ten permanent and one caretaker managers of Sydney FC since 2004; Steve Corica has managed the club in two separate spells as permanent and caretaker manager. Corica is also the club's longest-serving manager. The most successful person to manage Sydney FC is Graham Arnold, who won two A-League premierships, one A-League championship and one FFA Cup between 2014 and 2018.
This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of Sydney FC since their foundation in 2004. Each manager's entry includes his dates of tenure and the club's overall competitive record (in terms of matches won, drawn and lost), honours won and significant achievements while under his care. Caretaker managers are included, where known, as well as those who have been in permanent charge.

## Managers

* Manager dates are sourced from WorldFootball.net for all managers. Statistics and nationalities are sourced from SFCStatistics.com for Littbarski to Corica. Names of caretaker managers are supplied where known, and periods of caretaker management are highlighted in italics and marked caretaker or caretaker, then permanent appointment, depending on the scenario. Win percentage is rounded to two decimal places.
* Only first-team competitive matches are counted. Wins, losses and draws are results at the final whistle; the results of penalty shoot-outs are not counted.
* Statistics are complete up to and including the match played on 8 O.
Key
* M = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Win % = percentage of total matches won
* † Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments.
* ‡ Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments promoted to full-time manager.
List of Sydney FC managers :
| Name | Nationality | From | To | M | W | D | L | GF | GA | Win % | Honours |
| Pierre Littbarski | Germany | 26 February 2005 | 3 March 2006 | 38 | 23 | 8 | 7 | 79 | 40 | 060.53 | A-League champions: 2006 OFC Club Championship winners: 2005 |
| Terry Butcher | England | 15 July 2006 | 2 February 2007 | 29 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 41 | 26 | 044.83 | |
| Branko Culina | Australia | 8 February 2007 | 22 October 2007 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 24 | 025.00 | |
| John Kosmina | Australia | 24 October 2007 | 30 January 2009 | 40 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 58 | 60 | 035.00 | |
| Vítězslav Lavička | Czech Republic | 1 February 2009 | 30 June 2012 | 95 | 35 | 25 | 35 | 123 | 126 | 036.84 | A-League premiers: 2009–10 A-League champions: 2010 |
| Ian Crook | England | 1 July 2012 | 11 November 2012 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 033.33 | |
| Steve Corica † | Australia | 12 November 2012 | 27 November 2012 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 000.00 | |
| Frank Farina | Australia | 28 November 2012 | 23 April 2014 | 46 | 19 | 7 | 20 | 70 | 69 | 041.30 | |
| Graham Arnold | Australia | 8 May 2014 | 30 June 2018 | 142 | 81 | 34 | 27 | 272 | 138 | 057.04 | A-League premiers: 2016–17, 2017–18 A-League champions: 2017 FFA Cup winners: 2017 |
| Steve Corica | Australia | 1 July 2018 | 7 November 2023 | 180 | 86 | 37 | 57 | 288 | 198 | 047.78 | A-League premiers: 2019–20 A-League champions: 2019, 2020 Australia Cup winners: 2023 |
| Ufuk Talay | Australia | 8 November 2023 | | 58 | 28 | 13 | 17 | 127 | 82 | 048.28 | |