Season | 2023–24 |
---|---|
Dates | 20 October 2023 – May 2024 |
AFC Champions League 2 | Sydney FC |
Matches played | 73 |
Goals scored | 254 (3.48 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Bruno Fornaroli (13 goals) |
Biggest home win | Melbourne City 8–1 Brisbane Roar (28 December 2023) |
Biggest away win | Adelaide United 1–5 Sydney FC (11 November 2023) |
Highest scoring | Melbourne City 8–1 Brisbane Roar (28 December 2023) |
Longest winning run | 3 games Central Coast Mariners Sydney FC |
Longest unbeaten run | 12 games Melbourne Victory |
Longest winless run | 6 games Western United |
Longest losing run | 6 games Western United |
Highest attendance | 28,152 Sydney FC 0–1 Western Sydney Wanderers (25 November 2023) |
Lowest attendance | 2,410 Western United 0–1 Newcastle Jets (11 November 2023) |
Total attendance | 508,746 |
Average attendance | 8,525 |
← 2022–23 2024–25 →
All statistics correct as of 14 January 2024. |
The 2023–24 A-League Men, known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons, is the 47th season of national level men's soccer in Australia, and the 19th since the establishment of the competition as the A-League in 2004. This season is expected to be the last as a 12 team competition, with expansion to 14 teams from 2024–25.
Melbourne City are the defending premiers and Central Coast Mariners are the defending champions.
Clubs
Stadiums and locations
Twelve clubs are participating in the 2023–24 season.
- Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.
Club | City | Home ground | Capacity |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide United | Adelaide | Coopers Stadium | 16,500 |
Brisbane Roar | Brisbane | Suncorp Stadium Ballymore Stadium |
52,500 8,000 |
Central Coast Mariners | Gosford | Industree Group Stadium | 20,059 |
Macarthur FC | Campbelltown | Campbelltown Sports Stadium | 17,500[1] |
Melbourne City | Melbourne | AAMI Park | 30,050 |
Melbourne Victory | Melbourne | AAMI Park | 30,050 |
Newcastle Jets | Newcastle | McDonald Jones Stadium | 33,000 |
Perth Glory | Perth | HBF Park | 20,500 |
Sydney FC | Sydney | Allianz Stadium | 42,500[2] |
Wellington Phoenix | Wellington Auckland Auckland |
Sky Stadium Go Media Mount Smart Stadium Eden Park |
35,000 30,000 50,000 |
Western Sydney Wanderers | Parramatta | CommBank Stadium | 30,000 |
Western United | Melbourne Ballarat Tarneit |
AAMI Park Mars Stadium Wyndham Regional Football Facility |
30,050 11,000 5,000 |
Personnel and kits
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position on table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brisbane Roar | Nick Green (caretaker) | End of contract | 2 May 2023 | Pre-season | Ross Aloisi | 2 May 2023[43] |
Wellington Phoenix | Ufuk Talay | End of contract[44] | 6 May 2023 | Pre-season | Giancarlo Italiano | 6 May 2023[45] |
Perth Glory | Ruben Zadkovich | Resigned[46] | 2 June 2023 | Pre-season | Kenny Lowe (caretaker) | 12 July 2023[47] |
Newcastle Jets | Arthur Papas | Resigned[48] | 19 June 2023 | Pre-season | Robert Stanton | 26 June 2023[49] |
Perth Glory | Kenny Lowe (caretaker) | End of contract | 3 August 2023 | Pre-season | Alen Stajcic | 3 August 2023[50] |
Central Coast Mariners | Nick Montgomery | Signed by Hibernian[51] | 11 September 2023 | Pre-season | Abbas Saad (caretaker) | 11 September 2023[52] |
Central Coast Mariners | Abbas Saad (caretaker) | End of caretaker spell | 27 September 2023 | Pre-season | Mark Jackson | 27 September 2023[53] |
Melbourne City | Rado Vidošić | Mutual termination | 1 November 2023 | 12th | Aurelio Vidmar | 1 November 2023[54] |
Sydney FC | Steve Corica | Mutual termination [55] | 7 November 2023 | 12th | Ufuk Talay | 8 November 2023[56] |
Brisbane Roar | Ross Aloisi | Signed by Shanghai Port[57][58] | 24 December 2023 | 5th | Luciano Trani (caretaker) | 24 December 2023 |
Brisbane Roar | Luciano Trani (caretaker) | End of caretaker spell | 1 January 2024 | 7th | Ben Cahn | 1 January 2024[59] |
Foreign players
The following do not fill a Visa position:
1Those players who were born and started their professional career abroad but have since gained Australian citizenship (or New Zealand citizenship, in the case of Wellington Phoenix);[60]
2Australian citizens (or New Zealand citizens, in the case of Wellington Phoenix) who have chosen to represent another national team;
3Injury replacement players, or National team replacement players;
4Guest players (eligible to play a maximum of fourteen games)
Regular season
The 2023–24 season will see each team play 27 games followed by a finals series for the top six teams.
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wellington Phoenix[lower-alpha 1] | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 15 | +7 | 24 | Qualification for Finals series[lower-alpha 2] |
2 | Melbourne Victory | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 25 | 14 | +11 | 24 | Qualification for AFC Champions League Elite and Finals series |
3 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 12 | +8 | 21 | Qualification for Finals series[lower-alpha 2] |
4 | Central Coast Mariners | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 18 | +5 | 18 | |
5 | Adelaide United | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 23 | +4 | 18 | |
6 | Melbourne City | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 19 | +4 | 18 | |
7 | Macarthur FC | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 22 | 23 | −1 | 18 | |
8 | Brisbane Roar | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 27 | −7 | 17 | |
9 | Sydney FC (X) | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 20 | 24 | −4 | 15 | Qualification for AFC Champions League 2 and 2024 Australia Cup play-offs |
10 | Newcastle Jets | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 23 | −3 | 13 | Qualification for 2024 Australia Cup play-offs |
11 | Perth Glory | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 28 | −7 | 8 | |
12 | Western United | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 28 | −17 | 7 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) head-to-head results; 5a) head-to-head points; 5b) head-to-head goal difference; 6) Fair Play points; 7) away goal difference; 8) away goals per match; 9) home goal difference; 10) home goals per match; 11) toss of a coin in an event of a tie of two clubs.[61][62]
(X) Assured of qualification for AFC Champions League 2 by winning the 2023 Australia Cup but may still qualify for all other permutations.
Notes:
- ↑ Wellington Phoenix cannot qualify for Asian Football Confederation competitions as they are based in New Zealand, which is under the Oceania Football Confederation.
- 1 2 The top two teams enter the finals series at the semi-finals, while the teams ranked third to sixth enter the finals series at the elimination-finals.
Fixtures and results
Regular season statistics
Top scorers
- As of 14 January 2024.[63]
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Bruno Fornaroli | Melbourne Victory | 13 |
2 | Kosta Barbarouses | Wellington Phoenix | 8 |
Apostolos Stamatelopoulos | Newcastle Jets | ||
Adam Taggart | Perth Glory | ||
5 | Hiroshi Ibusuki | Adelaide United | 7 |
Jamie Maclaren | Melbourne City | ||
7 | Valère Germain | Macarthur FC | 6 |
Joe Lolley | Sydney FC | ||
Jay O'Shea | Brisbane Roar | ||
Ángel Torres | Central Coast Mariners |
Hat-tricks
Player | For | Against | Result | Date | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bruno Fornaroli4 | Melbourne Victory | Newcastle Jets | 5–3 (H) | 29 October 2023 | [64] |
Oskar Zawada | Wellington Phoenix | Brisbane Roar | 5–2 (H) | 4 November 2023 | [65] |
Bruno Fornaroli4 | Melbourne Victory | Western Sydney Wanderers | 3–4 (A) | 10 December 2023 | [66] |
Ángel Torres | Central Coast Mariners | Melbourne City | 3–3 (A) | 17 December 2023 | [67] |
Jamie Maclaren | Melbourne City | Brisbane Roar | 8–1 (H) | 28 December 2023 | [68] |
Ulises Dávila | Macarthur FC | Western United | 3–3 (N) | 12 January 2024 | [69] |
Hiroshi Ibusuki | Adelaide United | Sydney FC | 4–3 (N) | 13 January 2024 | [70] |
Key | |
---|---|
4 | Player scored four goals |
(H) | Home team |
(A) | Away team |
(N) | Neutral ground |
Clean sheets
- As of 14 January 2024
Rank | Goalkeeper | Club | Clean sheets[71] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Alex Paulsen | Wellington Phoenix | 5 |
Lawrence Thomas | Western Sydney Wanderers | ||
3 | Paul Izzo | Melbourne Victory | 4 |
4 | Ryan Scott | Newcastle Jets | 3 |
Danny Vukovic | Central Coast Mariners | ||
Jamie Young | Melbourne City | ||
7 | Macklin Freke | Brisbane Roar | 2 |
Joe Gauci | Adelaide United | ||
Filip Kurto | Macarthur FC | ||
10 | Cameron Cook | Perth Glory | 1 |
Daniel Margush | Western Sydney Wanderers |
See also
- 2023–24 A-League Women
- 2023–24 Adelaide United FC season
- 2023–24 Brisbane Roar FC season
- 2023–24 Central Coast Mariners FC season
- 2023–24 Macarthur FC season
- 2023–24 Melbourne City FC season
- 2023–24 Melbourne Victory FC season
- 2023–24 Newcastle Jets FC season
- 2023–24 Perth Glory FC season
- 2023–24 Sydney FC season
- 2023–24 Wellington Phoenix FC season
- 2023–24 Western Sydney Wanderers FC season
- 2023–24 Western United FC season
Notes
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