page_title: Gold Coast United FC
section_title: Top goalscorers
hierarchical_section_title: Gold Coast United FC / Records / Top goalscorers
caption_attribution_description: English: Shane Smeltz at a Wellington Phoenix warm up game.
context_page_description: Gold Coast United FC is an association football club based on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The earliest incarnation of the club formed in 1966 and its home ground was at Nikiforides Family Park in Broadbeach. The first era of Gold Coast United senior teams competed in the Brisbane leagues until the club disbanded after the 1979 season, allowing Broadbeach United Soccer Club to form its first senior team in 1980 at the same grounds.
  Twenty-eight years later the club was revived and was officially announced as a professional expansion team for the A-League's 2009–2010 season on 28 August 2008. It was the second bid accepted by the league, with an unrelated bid known as Gold Coast Galaxy FC preceding it. The club was owned by Clive Palmer, the wealthiest man in Queensland, until the FFA took over the club's A-League licence in February 2012, and officially folding on 25 March 2012 and its intellectual property being surrendered to Football Federation Australia.
  In their first two A-League seasons, Gold Coast were one of the strongest clubs in the A-League, finishing in the top four on both occasions and making the finals series.
caption: Shane Smeltz is Gold Coast Untied's top goalscorer with 28 goals in 38 games.
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