Sydney FC
The Sydney FC is an Australian football club based in Sydney. The club, founded in 2004 is privately owned. One of the main shareholder is the actor Anthony LaPaglia. The Sydney FC plays its home games at Allianz Stadium, inaugurated in 1988.
On 11 June 2005, the Sydney FC won the OFC Champions Cup and thus qualifying as representatives of the Oceania Football Confederation for the FIFA Club World Cup 2005 in Japan. On 5 March 2006, the club won with a 1-0 final victory against the Central Coast Mariners their first league title in the newly formed Australian A-League under the guidance of German coach Pierre Littbarski.
History
Began in early 2004, the Australian Football Association ASA (now FFA) with the plans for an Australian football professional league (A- League). It was then of Soccer New South Wales (now Football NSW) announced a license for a team from Sydney. One of the applicants for the license was the Sydney FC, which was founded for the application in April 2004. On November first of the same year the Sydney FC was officially proclaimed as a founding member of the A-League by the Football NSW. In February, the squad consisted of 16 players already on the maximum allowable 20 Among these players were internationals like Clint Bolton, Steve Corica and David Zdrilic. As a marquee player, the former Manchester United player Dwight Yorke has been committed. In the very first season won Sydney with a 1-0 win over the Central Coast Mariners A- League.
Littbarskis successor Terry Butcher was replaced in February 2007 after a disappointing season by Branko Culina. He led Sydney FC at first with only moderate success, the club already retired from the group stage through the matches of the Asian Champions League and was already the end of October 2007, after only two wins a former 60 times in nine league games, by John Kosmina, Australian international, who most recently worked at Adelaide United, replaced.
On 5 September 2012, the club engaged the Italian 2006 World Champion Alessandro Del Piero, who received a two- year contract.
Stadium
The Sydney FC plays its home games in the Allianz Stadium, originally known as Sydney Football Stadium and in the meantime Aussie Stadium, from. The club chose this place out of the venue because of the good transport links. On match days, shuttle buses transport fans from the train station to the stadium.
Squad 2013/14 season
Fans
In the first A-League season the average attendance was home matches of FC Sydney with 19,647 (without final round at 16,668, what is still a record for a club in the Australian Football League was at that time).
The most vocal fans are in the northern curve of the Aussie Stadium and are known under the name of " The Cove ". The name of the fans, " The Cove " is derived from the original name of the settlement of Sydney, Sydney Cove, from. On this original settlement now is the Circular Quay Ferry Terminal. While most members of the Cove visit every home game, but of these only a small group of fans traveling to away games in order to support the team.
On July 7, Jimmy Barnes took an Australian rock singer, with 25 members of the Cove, which formed the background choir, the club anthem " Sydney FC For Me " on. This was published before the start of the 2006/07 season.
Coach Chronicle
Status:. November 29, 2012 Only championship games with the final matches were taken into account. For wins and draws in finals no points are added.
Former Players
For a complete listing of all players of the Sydney FC, see list of players of the Sydney FC.
- Italy Benito Carbone
- Japan Kazuyoshi Miura
- Trinidad and Tobago Dwight Yorke
- Australia David Zdrilic