2008–09 Sydney FC season

Sydney FC

2008-2009 season

Chairman

Andrew Kemeny

Manager

John Kosmina

A-League

5th

A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup

Group stage (3rd)

Top goalscorer

Alex Brosque 5 Goals

Highest home attendance

18,251 v Central Coast Mariners (Round 10)

Lowest home attendance

8,502 v Queensland Roar (Round 13)

Home colours

Away colours

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2009-10 →

The 2008–09 season is Sydney FC's fourth season of football (soccer) in Australia, and will compete in the A-League 2008-09 season.

2008-09 Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Clint Bolton
2	DF	Iain Fyfe
3	DF	Nikolas Tsattalios
4	MF	Simon Colosimo
5	MF	Mitchell Prentice
7	DF	Robbie Middleby
8	MF	Stuart Musialik
10	MF	Steve Corica (captain)
11	FW	Brendon Santalab
12	MF	Shannon Cole
14	FW	Alex Brosque
15	MF	Terry McFlynn
16	FW	Chris Payne
17	DF	Jacob Timpano
18	FW	Adam Casey

No.	Position	Player
19	FW	Mark Bridge
20	GK	Ivan Necevski
21	MF	Adam Biddle
22	MF	Michael Enfield
23	FW	John Aloisi
25	MF	Robbie Mileski
27	DF	Matthew Jurman
28	MF	Bobby Petta
29	DF	Beau Busch
30	GK	John Filan
31	DF	Anthony Golec
32	MF	Brendan Gan
34	MF	Rhyan Grant
35	FW	Kofi Danning
36	DF	Zachary Cairncross

Pre-season

Sydney commenced pre-season training on 28 April 2008, and have been actively promoting the club to the Sydney community in the lead up to the season.

A number of friendly matches against NSW Premier League opposition are expected to be arranged in May and June.

Sydney played their first pre-season match against NSW Premier League side Blacktown City Demons at Gabbie Stadium which ended in a 0–0 draw. The match was significant in which Michael Enfield played his first game in almost a season, and fellow American Matt Taylor played his first trial game for the club. Sydney lost their 2nd trial match against Sutherland a week later losing 2–1 on artificial turf. Jacob Timpano scored Sydney's goal late in the 1st half. It was his first goal for the club after almost a year and a half on the sidelines through injury. Sydney's 3rd and final Pre-season friendly ended up a 2–0 win over Manly United, with Newly signed 17yr old Chris Payne scoring the double for the Sky Blues against his former club. It is their last Pre-season friendly before starting in the annual pre-season cup which starts later this month.

A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup

Sydney have been drawn into Group B for the A-League Preseason Challenge Cup along with Queensland Roar, Central Coast Mariners !Central Coast Mariners and Wellington Phoenix !Wellington Phoenix.^[1]

Fixtures

Sydney FC !Sydney FC v Queensland Roar

Round 1
19 July 2008

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	2 – 1	Queensland Roar
Terry McFlynn 17' Chris Payne 54' Mitchell Prentice 59' Adam Casey 79' Simon Colosimo 86'	(Report)	Andrew Packer 44' Sergio van Dijk 49' Hyuk-Su Seo 57'

Campbelltown Stadium, Campbelltown, NSW
Attendance: 4,222
Referee: Matthew Breeze

Round 2
19 July 2008

Central Coast Mariners !Central Coast Mariners	3 – 0	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
David D’Apuzzo 32' Andrew Clark 34' Brad Porter 43' 70' Sasho Petrovski 56' 60' Nik Mrdja 69'	(Report)	Steve Corica 49' Alex Brosque 63' Iain Fyfe 68' Simon Colosimo 74' Chris Payne 77' Dez Giraldi 90'

Bluetongue Stadium, Gosford, NSW
Attendance: 7,107
Referee: Chris Beath

Round 3
2 August 2008

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	2 – 3	Wellington Phoenix !Wellington Phoenix
Alex Brosque 16' 69' Iain Fyfe 36' Dez Giraldi 61' Mitchell Prentice 61', 91' Ryan Walsh 61'	(Report)	Leo Bertos 24' Andrew Durante 35', 91' Troy Hearfield 57' Shane Smeltz 62' (pen) Adam Kwasnik 80' Leilei Gao 82'

WIN Stadium, Wollongong, NSW
Attendance: 6,124
Referee: Strebre Delovski

On a freezing cold night at Campbelltown Sydney came victorious against Queensland Roar 2–1. After a scoreless 1st half, Queensland scored first through their new Dutch import, before Sydney hit back minutes later through newly signed 17-year-old Chris Payne, late in the 2nd Half Alex Brosque was fouled near the penalty area and former Perth Glory midfielder Mitchell Prentice took a shot that fired into the top right corner of the net. Sydney next travel up to Gosford To play the Central Coast Mariners.

Sydney played the Mariners up at Bluetongue Stadium on 27 July. Central Coast had recently been in the News with former Socceroos and Manchester United goalkeeper Mark Bosnich reportedly signing a 2-year contract. Sydney dominated the first 15 minutes until Brad Porter scored 2 minutes before half time. Sydney had several excellent chances early in the 2nd through Alex Brosque and Terry McFlynn but Bosnich denied any Sydney goal. 2 late goals for Central Coast through former Sydney player Sasho Petrovski and Nik Mrdja. Sydney had a 70th minute Steve Corica penalty stopped by Bosnich. Sydney now will hope to get through to the Pre-Season final with a win over Wellington Phoenix at WIN Stadium next Saturday Night.

Sydney played Wellington at WIN stadium, needing a victory and the Central Coast Mariners beeting the Queensland Roar in order to get into the Pre-Season cup final. Sydney started off well with early goals from Alex Brosque and Iain Fyfe both operning up their goal tally's for the season, and sydney looked to have the game under control by half time. Until 15 minutes into the 2nd half Wellington got a goal back through Troy Hearfield. A last-man sliding tackle by Dez Giraldi earnt Wellington a Penalty, as well as Giraldi's marching orders. The penalty was converted past Sydney's 2nd keeper Ivan Necevski leveling the scores at 2–2. with 9 minutes to go till full-time a defensive mistake cost Sydney the game when Jacob Timpano but a terrible pass-back to Necevski and Wellington's Chinese import Leilei Gao intercepted it, and slotted the ball past a stunned Necevski.
Sydney now go into the start of the 4th A-League season short on players with Alex Brosque, Dez Giraldi, Mitchell Prentice, and Simon Colosimo all out on Suspension, and John Aloisi, Brendon Santalab, and Michael Enfield all injured, as well as Mark Bridge, and Stuart Musialik out on Olyroo duties for the Beijing Olympics.

A-League

Main article: A-League 2008-09

Sydney will again compete in the A-League competition.^[2]

Home-and-Away fixtures

Round 1

16 August 2008
19:00 UTC+10

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	0 – 0	Melbourne Victory !Melbourne Victory
	Report Summary

Sydney Football Stadium
Attendance: 16,227
Referee: Mark Shield

Round 2

23 August 2008
19:00 UTC+10

Central Coast Mariners !Central Coast Mariners	2 – 3	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
Petrovski 13' (Pen), 67'	Report Summary	Corica 6', 14' Musialik 69' Cole 81'

Bluetongue Stadium
Attendance: 10,932
Referee: Ben Williams

Round 3

31 August 2008
15:00 UTC+10

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	5 – 2	Perth Glory !Perth Glory
Brosque 3' Corica 21' (Pen) Bridge 39' Cole 43' Topor-Stanley 88' (o.g.)	Report Summary	Dadi 12', 67' (Pen) Djulbic 20', 20'

Sydney Football Stadium
Attendance: 11,732
Referee: Peter Green

Round 4

13 September 2008
19:00 UTC+10

Newcastle Jets !Newcastle Jets	0 – 0	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
	Report Summary	Prentice 83', 87'

EnergyAustralia Stadium
Attendance: 11,535
Referee: Peter O’Leary

Round 5

20 September 2008
17:00 UTC+10

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	3 – 0	Adelaide United !Adelaide United
McFlynn 2' Brosque 34' Santalab 79'	Report Summary

Sydney Football Stadium
Attendance: 12,462
Referee: Ben Williams

Round 6

28 September 2008
17:00 UTC+12

Wellington Phoenix !Wellington Phoenix	2 – 1	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
Smeltz 42' Brown 76'	Report Summary	Brosque 20'

Westpac Stadium
Attendance: 6,729
Referee: Chris Beath

Round 7

Sydney FC !Sydney FC v Queensland Roar

4 October 2008
19:00 UTC+10

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	1 – 1	Queensland Roar
Musialik 90+3'	Report Summary	Miller 49'

Sydney Football Stadium
Attendance: 12,403
Referee: Matthew Breeze

Round 8

19 October 2008
14:00 UTC+8

Perth Glory !Perth Glory	2 – 1	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
Harnwell 5', 47'	Report Summary	Santalab 11' Fyfe 90+1'

Members Equity Stadium
Attendance: 7,759
Referee: Peter O’Leary

Round 9

25 October 2008
19:00 UTC+11

Melbourne Victory !Melbourne Victory	0 – 1	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
	Report Summary	Bridge 20'

Telstra Dome
Attendance: 31,564
Referee: Ben Williams

Round 10

1 November 2008
19:00 UTC+11

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	3 – 3	Central Coast Mariners !Central Coast Mariners
Bridge 28' Casey 39' McFlynn 57'	Report Summary	Simon 63', 81' Mrdja 78'

Sydney Football Stadium
Attendance: 18,251
Referee: Srebre Delovski

Round 11

7 November 2008
20:00 UTC+11

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	1 – 2	Wellington Phoenix !Wellington Phoenix
Musialik 77'	Report Summary	Bertos 34' Smeltz 89' (Pen)

Sydney Football Stadium
Attendance: 12,856
Referee: Craig Zetter

Round 12

22 November 2008
18:30 UTC+10:30

Adelaide United !Adelaide United	2 – 0	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
Ognenovski 45+2' T. Dodd 78'	Report Summary	McFlynn 29', 61'

Hindmarsh Stadium
Attendance: 9,509
Referee: Ben Williams

Round 13

Sydney FC !Sydney FC v Queensland Roar

28 November 2008
20:00 UTC+10

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	1 – 1	Queensland Roar
Corica 64'	Report Summary	McKay 12'

Sydney Football Stadium
Attendance: 8,502
Referee: Matthew Breeze

Round 14

7 December 2008
17:00 UTC+11

Newcastle Jets !Newcastle Jets	1 – 2	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
Wheelhouse 11'	Report Summary	Fyfe 15' Gan 78'

EnergyAustralia Stadium
Attendance: 7,872
Referee: Srebre Delovski

Round 15

13 December 2008
19:00 UTC+11

Central Coast Mariners !Central Coast Mariners	2 – 1	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
Macallister 11' Jedinak 90+1' (Pen)	Report Summary	Aloisi 65' (Pen)

Bluetongue Stadium
Attendance: 11,220
Referee: Peter Green

Round 16

21 December 2008
17:00 UTC+11

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	1 – 4	Perth Glory !Perth Glory
Musialik 61'	Report Summary	Pellegrino 11' Golec 36' (o.g.) Srhoj 49' Middleby 69' (o.g.)

Sydney Football Stadium
Attendance: 12,165
Referee: Ben Williams

Round 17

27 December 2008
19:00 UTC+11

Melbourne Victory !Melbourne Victory	3 – 2	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
Thompson 14' Ward 71' Ney Fabiano 80'	Report Summary	Cole 1' Gan 4'

Telstra Dome
Attendance: 25,398
Referee: Matthew Breeze

Round 18

3 January 2009
19:30 UTC+10:30

Adelaide United !Adelaide United	2 – 0	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
Cássio 45+1' Alemão 83'	Report Summary	Jurman 90+3'

Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 23,002
Referee: Chris Beath

Round 19

11 January 2009
18:00 UTC+11

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	1 – 0	Wellington Phoenix !Wellington Phoenix
Danning 85'	Summary	Hearfield 64'

Sydney Football Stadium
Attendance: 9,605
Referee: Ben Williams

Round 20

Queensland Roar v Sydney FC !Sydney FC

17 January 2009
19:00 UTC+10

Queensland Roar	3 – 1	Sydney FC !Sydney FC
Van Dijk 16', 28', 90+3'	Summary	Danning 25' Cairncross 87'

Suncorp Stadium
Attendance: 19,111
Referee: Craig Zetter

Round 21

25 January 2009
17:00 UTC+11

Sydney FC !Sydney FC	4 – 0	Newcastle Jets !Newcastle Jets
Brosque 13', 41' Milligan 77' (o.g.) Bridge 86'	Report Summary

Sydney Football Stadium
Attendance: 9,551
Referee: Kevin Docherty

Player details

Scorers

Total	Player		Goals per Round
Total	Player		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
5		Alex Brosque			1		1	1															2
4		Mark Bridge			1						1	1											1
4		Steve Corica		2	1										1
3		Shannon Cole		1	1														1
3		Stuart Musialik							1				1					1
2		John Aloisi									1						1
2		Kofi Danning																			1	1
2		Brendan Gan														1			1
2		Brendon Santalab					1			1
2		Terry McFlynn					1					1
1		Adam Casey										1
1		Iain Fyfe														1

A goal was scored from a penalty kick

Two goals were scored from penalty kicks

Transfers

The later parts of the 2007–08 season saw the departure of Mark Rudan to Japanese second division side Avispa Fukuoka and the club released David Zdrilic, Ruben Zadkovich and Patrick da Silva at season's end. Ufuk Talay joined his former team mate Mark Rudan and coach Pierre Littbarski at Avispa Fukuoka the end of the season.

New signings for the 2008–09 season started in earnest in March with the official announcements of Simon Colosimo from Perth, Mark Bridge and Stuart Musialik from Jets and a new marquee player in John Aloisi from the Mariners reportedly with a pay packet of up to A$1.4m a season.^[3] With Aloisi joining as the marquee and other signings being under the salary cap, Sydney were unable to retain Brazilian Juninho at the club and he was unceremoniously released during the off-season. Ruben Zadkovich was snatched up by Newcastle but ended up heading over to England on a reported 2-year contract with relegated Premier League team Derby County. Manly United young gun Chris Payne caught Kosmina's eye during a pre-season trial and signed the youngster on a 2-year youth contract. And in Mid-July Kosmina signed Wollongong Wolves striker Dez Giraldi on an 8-week loan spell to replace the injured Brendon Santalab.

In

Player	From	League	Fee	Date
Simon Colosimo	Perth Glory (released)	A-League	Free	3 March 2008^[4]
Mark Bridge	Newcastle United Jets FC	A-League	Free	3 March 2008^[5]
John Aloisi	Central Coast Mariners	A-League	Free	3 March 2008^[5]
Stuart Musialik	Newcastle United Jets	A-League	Free	11 March 2008^[6]
Mitchell Prentice	Perth Glory (released)	A-League	Free	3 May 2008^[7]
Chris Payne	Manly United	NSW Premier League	$3000	20 May 2008
Shannon Cole	Sydney Olympic	NSW Premier League	Free	14 August 2008

Out

Player	To	League	Fee	Date
Ufuk Talay	Avispa Fukuoka	J.League 2nd Division	Free	12 February 2008^[5]
Ruben Zadkovich	Derby County (released)	Premier League	–	3 March 2008^[5]
David Zdrilić	Released	–	–	3 March 2008^[5]
Patrick da Silva	Released	–	–	3 March 2008^[5]
Ben Vidaic	Sydney United	NSW Premier League	Free	18 March 2008^[8]
Juninho Paulista	Released	–	–	12 April 2008 ^[9]
Mark Milligan	Released	–	–	28 April 2008

Short-term signings

Player	Team	Start Date	End Date	Reason
Matt Taylor	Hollywood United F.C.	26 June 2008	3 July 2008	Trial
Dez Giraldi	Wollongong FC	25 July 2008	29 September 2008	On loan to replace Injured Brendon Santalab
Ryan Walsh	Blacktown City Demons	14 August 2008	21 August 2008	Suspension Replacement
John Filan	Wigan Athletic	28 August 2008	1 November 2008	Suspension Replacement
Bobby Petta	Para Hills Knights	25 October 2008		On loan to replace Injured Michael Enfield
Beau Busch	Manly United	25 October 2008		Suspension Replacement

Loan out

Player	Team	League	Start Date	End Date
Adam Biddle	Blacktown City Demons	NSW Premier League	1 March 2008	26 April 2008^[10]
Ivan Necevski	Blacktown City Demons	NSW Premier League	1 March 2008	26 April 2008^[10]
Nikolas Tsattalios	Penrith Nepean United	NSW Premier League	1 March 2008	26 April 2008^[10]
Ben Vidaic	Sydney United	NSW Premier League	1 March 2008	18 March 2008^[10]

References

↑ 2008 Pre-Season Cup Draw, Football Federation Australia, 2 May 2008
↑ Hyundai A-League 2008/09 Season Draw, Football Federation Australia, 2 May 2008
↑ Cockerill,M (4 March 2008). "Aloisi is football's gold standard but Sydney play down bling envy". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2008-03-06.
↑ Announced 27 January 2008; will join the club for preseason in April; "Sydney FC signs Simon Colosimo to two year deal". sydneyfc.com. 27 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "Sydney FC scores hat trick with Aloisi Bridge and Colosimo". sydneyfc.com. 3 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
↑ "Bling FC attracts Musialik". theworldgame.com.au. 10 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
↑ "Prentice Cat Out Of Sydney Bag". au.fourfourtwo.com. 5 May 2008. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
↑ "Vidaic released by Sydney". FourFourTwo Australia. 18 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
↑ "Sydney have no room for Juninho". FoxSports Australia. 12 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
1 2 3 4 "Four Sydney FC players to help boost NSW Premier League". sydneyfc.com. 29 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-04.

Soccer in Australia

Football Federation Australia

National teams	Men's Men's U-23 Men's U-20 Men's U-17 Men's Beach Men's Paralympic Women's Women's U-20 Women's U-17

Current competitions	A-League Youth League W-League National Premier Leagues FFA Cup FFA State Institute Challenge Kanga Cup

Defunct competitions	National Soccer League NSL Cup National Youth League (1984–2004) Women's National Soccer League Australia Cup

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A-League

Seasons	2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Grand Finals	2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Current clubs	Adelaide United Brisbane Roar Central Coast Mariners Melbourne City Melbourne Victory Newcastle Jets Perth Glory Sydney FC Wellington Phoenix Western Sydney Wanderers

Former clubs	Gold Coast United New Zealand Knights North Queensland Fury

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Rivalries	The Big Blue F3 Derby Melbourne Derby Sydney Derby

Competition	Players (Foreign) Head coaches Records (All-time table Golden Boot Young Footballer of the Year Hat-tricks Highest scoring games Attendance Clubs in Asia) Honours Stadiums Expansion

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Sydney FC

Players Seasons Honours Records Youth Women Current season

Club	History International competition

Grounds	Sydney Football Stadium

Players	25+ appearances 1-24 appearances

Seasons (11)	2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Managers	Littbarski (2005–06) Butcher (2006–07) Culina (2007) Kosmina (2007–09) Lavička (2009–12) Crook (2012) Farina (2012–14) Arnold (2014–)

Captains	Rudan (2005–07) Popovic (2007–08) Corica (2008–10) McFlynn (2010–13) Del Piero (2013–14) Brosque (2014–)

Rivalries	League record by opponent The Big Blue Sydney Derby

Supporters	The Cove Lokomotiv Cove

2008–09 in Australian soccer

« 2007–08 2009–10 »

Domestic leagues	A-League (Pre-Season Challenge Cup, Grand Final) National Youth League W–League (Grand Final)

International competitions	AFC Champions League ('08, '09) 2008 FIFA Club World Cup

National team	Results ('08, '09)

Club seasons

A-League	Adelaide United Central Coast Mariners Melbourne Victory Newcastle Jets Perth Glory Queensland Roar Sydney FC Wellington Phoenix

W-League	Adelaide United Canberra United Central Coast Mariners Melbourne Victory Newcastle Jets Perth Glory Queensland Roar Sydney FC

A-League transfers

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