Steve Corica

**Stephen Christopher Corica** (; born 24 March 1973) is an Australian soccer manager and former player. He is the current manager of Australian club Auckland FC.

### Club

|rowspan=2|Club|rowspan=2|Season|colspan=3|League|colspan=2|Cup|colspan=2|League Cup|colspan=2|Continental|colspan=2|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=6|Marconi Stallions|1990–91|rowspan=5|National Soccer League|17|0|–|–|–|–|–|–||
|1991–92|17|2|–|–|–|–|–|–||||||
|1992–93|27|4|–|–|–|–|–|–||||||
|1993–94|24|4|–|–|–|–|–|–||||||
|1994–95|18|3|–|–|–|–|–|–||||||
|rowspan=2|Leicester City|1995–96|First Division|16|2|2|0|0|0|–|–|||
|rowspan=6|Wolverhampton Wanderers|1995–96|rowspan=5|First Division|17|0|1|0|0|0|–|–||
|1996–97|36|2|2|0|4|0|–|–||||||
|1997–98|1|0|0|0|0|0|–|–||||||
|1998–99|31|2|1|0|1|0|–|–||||||
|1999-00|15|1|0|0|1|0|–|–||||||
|rowspan=3|Sanfrecce Hiroshima|2000|rowspan=2|J1 League|21|3|2|2|2|1|–|–||
|2001|22|11|2|1|1|0|–|–||||||
|rowspan=5|Walsall|2001–02|rowspan=4|Football League One|13|3|0|0|0|0|–|–||
|2002–03|41|4|2|0|3|0|–|–||||||
|2003–04|19|2|2|0|2|0|–|–||||||
|2004–05|0|0|0|0|0|0|–|–||||||
|rowspan=6|Sydney FC|2005–06|rowspan=5|A-League|21|5|4|1|–|–|5|3||
|2006–07|18|3|5|0|–|–|6|4||||||
|2007–08|20|4|2|0|–|–|–|–||||||
|2008–09|21|4|3|0|–|–|–|–||||||
|2009–10|26|7|–|–|–|–|–|–||||||

### National team

|colspan=3|Australia national team||
| --- | --- | --- |
|1993|4|0|
|1994|0|0|
|1995|6|1|
|1996|2|0|
|1997|1|0|
|1998|0|0|
|1999|0|0|
|2000|8|2|
|2001|10|2|
|2002|0|0|
|2003|0|0|
|2004|0|0|
|2005|0|0|
|2006|1|0|

### International goals

|#|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|Minute|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|21 July 1993|Nijmegen, Netherlands|NEC Nijmegen|0-**1**|0-1 Win|Friendly||
|2|15 February 1995|Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney||**2**-1|2-1 Win|Friendly|41'|
|3|9 February 2000|Estadio Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile||1-**1**|2-1 Loss|Friendly|15'|
|4|19 June 2000|Papeete, Tahiti||0-**13**|0-17 Win|Oceania Nations Cup|70'|
|5|28 February 2001|Nemesio Camacho Stadium, Bogotá, Colombia||3-**1**|3-2 Loss|Friendly|77'|
|6|14 April 2001|BCU International Stadium, Coffs Harbour||**1**-0|2-0 Win|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)|22'|

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|Nat|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="5"|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Sydney FC (caretaker)||align=left|12 November 2012|align=left|27 November 2012||||
|align=left|Sydney FC||align=left|16 May 2018|align=left|7 November 2023||||
|align=left|Auckland FC||align=left|14 March 2024|align=left|_Present_||||

### Player

**With Australia:**
- OFC Nations Cup: 2000
**With Sydney FC:**
- A-League Premiership: 2009–10
- A-League Championship: 2006, 2010
- Oceania Club Championship: 2004–05
**With Marconi-Fairfield:**
- NSL Championship: 1992–1993

**Individual**
- Sydney FC Member's Player of the Year: 2006–07, 2007–08
- NSL Papasavas Medal (U-21): 1992–93
- PFA A-League Team of the Decade: 2005–2015
- Sydney FC Hall of Fame: 2015

**Honourable distinctions**
- First A-League Finals goalscorer: Sydney FC v Adelaide United – 12 February 2006
- First A-League Grand Final goalscorer: Sydney FC v Central Coast Mariners – 5 March 2006
- First AFC Champions League goalscorer: Sydney FC v Shanghai Shenhua – 7 March 2007

### Club

- Sydney FC
- A-League Premiership: 2019–20
- A-League Championship: 2019, 2020

- Australia Cup: 2023

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Steve Corica
- **image**: Steve Corica (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Corica playing for Sydney FC in 2008
- **fullname**: Stephen Christopher Corica
- **birth place**: Innisfail, Queensland, Innisfail, Queensland, Australia
- **height**: 1.74 m
- **position**: Midfielder
- **youthclubs1**: Innisfail United
- **youthyears2**: 1990
- **youthclubs2**: Australian Institute of Sport, AIS
- **years1**: 1990–1995
- **clubs1**: Marconi Stallions
- **caps1**: 103
- **goals1**: 14
- **years2**: 1995–1996
- **clubs2**: Leicester City F.C., Leicester City
- **caps2**: 16
- **goals2**: 2
- **years3**: 1996–2000
- **clubs3**: Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., Wolverhampton Wanderers
- **caps3**: 100
- **goals3**: 5
- **years4**: 2000–2001
- **clubs4**: Sanfrecce Hiroshima
- **caps4**: 43
- **goals4**: 14
- **years5**: 2002–2004
- **clubs5**: Walsall F.C., Walsall
- **caps5**: 73
- **goals5**: 9
- **years6**: 2005–2010
- **clubs6**: Sydney FC
- **caps6**: 106
- **goals6**: 23
- **totalcaps**: 441
- **totalgoals**: 67
- **nationalyears1**: 1989
- **nationalteam1**: Australia national under-17 football team, Australia U-17
- **nationalcaps1**: 2
- **nationalgoals1**: 1
- **nationalyears2**: 1990–1991
- **nationalteam2**: Australia national under-20 football team, Australia U-20
- **nationalcaps2**: 6
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 1992–1996
- **nationalteam3**: Australia national under-23 football team, Australia U-23
- **nationalcaps3**: 7
- **nationalgoals3**: 0
- **nationalyears4**: 1993–2006
- **nationalteam4**: Australia men's national soccer team, Australia
- **nationalcaps4**: 32
- **nationalgoals4**: 5
- **manageryears1**: 2010–2018
- **managerclubs1**: Sydney FC Youth, Sydney FC (youth, assistant)
- **manageryears2**: 2012
- **managerclubs2**: Sydney FC (caretaker)
- **manageryears3**: 2018–2023
- **managerclubs3**: Sydney FC
- **manageryears4**: 2024–
- **managerclubs4**: Auckland FC