| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Dylan Jacob Macallister | ||
| Date of birth | 17 May 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Manly, Australia | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Gold Coast United | ||
| Number | 12 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Manly United | |||
| Sydney Olympic | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1999–2001 | Sydney Olympic | 40 | (10) |
| 2002–2003 | Northern Spirit | 30 | (5) |
| 2004–2005 | SK Brann | 30 | (4) |
| 2006–2007 | Lyn | 13 | (1) |
| 2006 | → Sparta Sarpsborg (loan) | 9 | (2) |
| 2008–2010 | Central Coast Mariners | 36 | (5) |
| 2010–2011 | Wellington Phoenix | 22 | (7) |
| 2011– | Breiðablik | 6 | (3) |
| 2011– | Gold Coast United | 8 | (2) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1999 | Australia U-17 | 16 | (6) |
| 2004 | Australia U-23 | 7 | (6) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 November 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Dylan Jacob Macallister (born 17 May 1982 in Manly, New South Wales) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a forward for A-League club Gold Coast United. He previsouly played for Australian clubs Sydney Olympic, Northern Spirit and Central Coast Mariners, New Zealand club Wellington Phoenix and Norwegian clubs SK Brann, Lyn and Sparta Sarpsborg.
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As a youth, Macallister played for his local Manly Warringah Dolphins before moving on to Sydney Olympic (then known as the Olympic Sharks). He marked his professional debut for the club in 1999 by scoring in his first appearance.
Having won the 2001–02 National Soccer League with the Sharks, Macallister proceeded to join another club from Sydney, the now defunct Northern Spirit. Macallister was then supposed to have left for Switzerland and FC Aarau in August, but immediately regretted signing the contract. The transfer was eventually called off and Macallister instead continued playing for Northern Spirit until he was bought by the Norwegian club Brann in February 2004.
After some initial success – he scored two goals against Molde in the second round of the 2004 season – Dylan figured mostly as a substitute. He scored 10 goals in 38 appearances which equates to approximately 20 matches in terms of playing time. Macallister's first season was blighted by a fatigue injury and after a good start to his second season he suffered a training injury, sidelining him for eight weeks.
Macallister was sold to Lyn on 29 March 2006 and debuted in the season opener against Start. He appeared in the starting line-up in his third and fourth matches, scoring a fine goal in the fourth, but failed to become a regular.
Following the end of the transfer dispute over John Obi Mikel and subsequent return of Lyn's other Nigerian players, Chinedu Ogbuke and Ezekiel Bala, Dylan Macallister was one of three non-EU players on the team at a time when Norwegian clubs were only allowed two non-EU players in their matchday squads. He was therefore loaned out to the First Division club Sparta Sarpsborg, from 16 August until the end of the season.
During his stay at Sparta he made nine appearances, scoring two goals. Sparta retained their spot in the league, but Macallister's season ended on a dull note as he was sent off in his last game. He returned to Lyn for the 2007 season, but made just five league appearances for the club, scoring no goals.
His contract with Lyn originally lasted to the end of the 2008 season, but it was announced on 28 March that he was released of his contract, and had signed with Australian A-League club Central Coast Mariners. He scored two goals on debut for the Mariners against the Queensland Roar.
On 13 May 2010, it was announced that he had signed a contract with the Wellington Phoenix in the Hyundai A league Australian Competition, bringing him to the capital to play as a target-man. In the highly publicized 2010 pre-season game v Argentina's Boca Juniors in the capital, Macallister scored the opening goal in the 24th minute. Phoenix went on to win 2-1.[1][2]
Macallister signed for Icelandic champions Breiðablik on 16 May 2011. He made his debut on 22 May in a 3-1 win against Fylkir.
On 20 July 2011, Macallister scored Breiðablik's first ever goal in a European Competition, in a 2-0 win against Norwegian champions Rosenborg.
On 11 August 2011 it was announced he had signed a contract with A-League outfit Gold Coast United.
Dylan Macallister has made several appearances for Australia's various age-specific teams. He participated in the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship, scoring three goals for his national side. Australia would go on to finish as runners-up behind Brazil. He later played for the U-20 team in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship. In the qualifiers for the 2004 Olympic Football Tournament he became Australia's top scorer with six goals in seven matches.
Macallister earned his first call-up to the Socceroo squad in 2009.[3] He was an unused substitute in an Asian Cup qualifier against Indonesia in Jakarta on 28 January 2009.
Correct as of 21 July 2011
| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
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| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Australia | League | Cup | League Cup | Oceania/Asia | Total | |||||||
| 1999–00 | Sydney Olympic | National Soccer League | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2000–01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 | ||
| 2001–02 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 6 | ||
| 2002–03 | Northern Spirit FC | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | |
| 2003–04 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | ||
| Total | Australia | 70 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 15 | |
| Norway | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
| 2004 | SK Brann | Tippeligaen | 14 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 |
| 2005 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 8 | ||
| 2006 | FC Lyn | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | |
| 2006 | Sparta Sarpsborg (loan) | Adeccoligaen | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
| 2007 | FC Lyn | Tippeligaen | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| Total | Norway | 52 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 70 | 17 | |
| Australia | League | Cup | League Cup | Oceania/Asia | Total | |||||||
| 2008–09 | Central Coast Mariners | A-League | 19 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 5 |
| 2009–10 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | ||
| 2010–11 | Wellington Phoenix F.C. | 22 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | |
| Total | Australia | 58 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 65 | 13 | |
| Iceland | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
| 2011 | Breiðablik | Úrvalsdeild | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 |
| Total | Iceland | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | |
| Career total | 186 | 37 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 215 | 49 | ||
With Australia:
With SK Brann:
With Sydney Olympic:
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