2019–20 Western United FC season

The 2019–20 season was the Western United Football Club's first season. Western United competed in the A-League for the first time, though they did not compete in the FFA Cup.[1]

Western United
2019–20 season
ChairmanJason Sourasis
Head CoachMarko Rudan
StadiumGMHBA Stadium
Mars Stadium
A-League5th
A-League FinalsSemi-finals
Top goalscorerLeague: Besart Berisha (19)
All: Besart Berisha (19)
Highest home attendance10,128
vs. Melbourne Victory
(8 December 2019)
A-League
Lowest home attendance2,973
vs. Brisbane Roar
(16 February 2020)
A-League
Average home league attendance5,583
Biggest win6–2
vs. Central Coast Mariners (H)
(1 March 2020)
A-League
5–1
vs. Adelaide United (A)
(7 March 2020)
A-League
Biggest defeat0–2 (3 times)
1–3 (twice)
← Inaugural

On 24 March 2020, the FFA announced that the 2019–20 A-League season would be postponed until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and New Zealand.[2] The season resumed on 17 July 2020.[3] Western United finished fifth in their inaugural A-League season, finishing at the semi-finals.

Players

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   POL Filip Kurto
2 DF   AUS Aaron Calver
3 DF   AUS Brendan Hamill
4 DF   NZL Andrew Durante
5 DF   AUS Dylan Pierias
6 DF   JPN Tomoki Imai
7 FW   AUS Valentino Yuel
9 FW   AUS Apostolos Stamatelopoulos
10 MF   AUS Steven Lustica
11 FW   AUS Connor Pain
13 DF   AUS Ivan Vujica
14 MF   AUS Max Burgess
15 DF   AUS Jonathan Aspropotamitis
17 MF   AUS Joshua Cavallo
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 FW   KOS Besart Berisha
19 DF   AUS Josh Risdon
20 GK   AUS James Delianov
21 MF   AUS Sebastian Pasquali
22 DF   AUS Tomislav Uskok
23 MF   ITA Alessandro Diamanti (captain)
24 MF   AUS Thiel Iradukunda (scholarship)
25 MF   AUS Luke Duzel (scholarship)
26 FW   AUS Patrick Antelmi
27 MF   AUS Jerry Skotadis
28 DF   AUS Oskar Dillon
30 GK   AUS Ryan Scott
MF   AUS Nicolas Milanovic (scholarship)

Transfers and contracts

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Transfers in

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No. Position Player Transferred from Type/fee Contract length Date Ref
8 MF   Panagiotis Kone Unattached Free transfer 2 years 1 February 2019 [4]
19 DF Josh Risdon Western Sydney Wanderers Free transfer 2 years 12 February 2019 [5]
6 MF Connor Chapman Unattached Free transfer 2 years 7 March 2019 [6]
2 DF Aaron Calver Sydney FC Free transfer 1 year 12 March 2019 [7]
21 MF Sebastian Pasquali   Jong Ajax Free transfer 3 years 16 March 2019 [8][9]
5 DF Dylan Pierias Melbourne City Free transfer 1 year 20 March 2019 [10]
9 FW Apostolos Stamatelopoulos Adelaide United Free transfer 1 year 20 March 2019 [10]
7 FW Valentino Yuel   Bentleigh Greens Free transfer 1 year 25 March 2019 [11]
15 DF Jonathan Aspropotamitis Central Coast Mariners Free transfer 1 year 15 April 2019 [12]
17 MF Joshua Cavallo Melbourne City Free transfer 1 year 15 April 2019 [12]
11 FW Connor Pain Central Coast Mariners Free transfer 1 year 15 April 2019 [12]
22 DF   Ersan Gülüm   Whittlesea United Free transfer 7 May 2019 [13]
10 FW Scott McDonald Unattached Free transfer 8 May 2019 [14]
20 GK James Delianov Melbourne City Free transfer 2 years 9 May 2019 [15]
1 GK   Filip Kurto Wellington Phoenix Free transfer 2 years 14 May 2019 [16]
3 DF Brendan Hamill Western Sydney Wanderers Free transfer 2 years 15 May 2019 [17][18]
14 MF Max Burgess Wellington Phoenix Free transfer 2 years 27 May 2019 [19]
4 DF   Andrew Durante Wellington Phoenix Free transfer 1 year 11 June 2019 [20]
13 DF Ivan Vujica Newcastle Jets Free transfer 23 June 2019 [21]
23 MF   Alessandro Diamanti Unattached Free transfer 24 July 2019 [22]
24 MF Thiel Iradukunda Unattached Scholarship 1 year 2 September 2019 [23]
12 MF   Dario Jertec Unattached Free transfer 1 year 10 September 2019 [24]
25 MF Luke Duzel Melbourne City Youth Scholarship 1 year[25] 24 September 2019 [26]
18 FW   Besart Berisha Unattached Free transfer 2 years[27] 27 September 2019 [28]
27 MF Jerry Skotadis Unattached Free transfer 1 year 5 October 2019 [29][30]
26 FW Kwabena Appiah Unattached Injury replacement 14 October 2019 [31]
30 GK Ryan Scott   Bentleigh Greens Injury replacement 3 months 8 November 2019 [32]
28 DF Oskar Dillon   Gold Coast Knights Free transfer 6 months 2 January 2020 [33]
22 DF Tomislav Uskok   Sydney United Free transfer 1.5 years 23 January 2020 [34]
6 DF   Tomoki Imai Unattached Free transfer 0.5 year 11 February 2020 [35]
10 MF Steven Lustica   Qizilqum Zarafshon Free transfer 0.5 year 21 February 2020 [36]
26 FW Patrick Antelmi   Sydney United Free transfer 2 months 17 July 2020 [37]
MF Nicolas Milanovic Western Sydney Wanderers Youth Scholarship 1 year 17 July 2020 [37]

Transfers out

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No. Position Player Transferred to Type/fee Date Ref
6 MF Connor Chapman   Daejeon Citizen Undisclosed 29 December 2019 [38]
10 FW Scott McDonald Brisbane Roar Free transfer 17 January 2020 [39]
26 FW Kwabena Appiah Unattached End of contract 20 January 2020 [citation needed]
22 DF   Ersan Gülüm Unattached Mutual contract termination 22 January 2020 [40]
12 MF   Dario Jertec Unattached Mutual contract termination 7 April 2020 [41]
8 FW   Panagiotis Kone Unattached Mutual contract termination 13 July 2020 [42]

Contract extensions

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No. Name Position Duration Date Notes
27 Jerry Skotadis Defensive midfielder 2 years 24 January 2020 [30]
30 Ryan Scott Goalkeeper 2 years 25 June 2020 [43]
10 Steven Lustica Central midfielder 1 year 29 June 2020 [44]
23   Alessandro Diamanti Attacking midfielder 2 years 3 July 2020 [45]
25 Luke Duzel Midfielder 1 year 17 July 2020 [25]

Kits

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Supplier: Kappa / Sponsor: Probuild / Sleeve sponsor: Hyundai

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Kit information

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The kit supplier is Kappa. At the start of the inaugural season, Probuild was announced as Western United's main kit sponsor,[46] with Hyundai sponsoring the sleeves.

Technical staff

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Football Department

Position Name
Head Coach   Marko Rudan[47]
Assistant Coach   John Anastasiadis[48]
Assistant Coach   John Hutchinson[49]
Director of Football   Steve Horvat[50]
Goalkeeping Coach   Frank Juric[51]

Pre-season and friendlies

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  Win   Draw   Loss

22 August 2019 Caroline Springs George Cross   0–4   Western United Melbourne
19:00 AEST Report
Stadium: City Vista Pavilion and Sports Field
Attendance: 3,267
29 August 2019 Western United   5–0   Preston Lions Melbourne
19:00 AEST
Report Stadium: City Vista Pavilion and Sports Field
Attendance: 2,532
3 September 2019 Western United   2–0   North Geelong Warriors Melbourne
19:00 AEST
Report Stadium: City Vista Pavilion and Sports Field
Attendance: 2,135
10 September 2019 Melbourne City   1–2   Western United Melbourne
Report
Stadium: City Football Academy
Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)
15 September 2019 Western United   0–6   Melbourne Victory Melbourne
13:00 AEST Report
Stadium: City Vista Pavilion and Sports Field
Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)
21 September 2019 Western United   0–0   Adelaide United Ballarat
15:00 AEST Report Stadium: Morshead Park
27 September 2019 Western United   1–2   Sydney FC Ballarat
15:00 AEST
Report
Stadium: Morshead Park
5 October 2019 Western United   1–1   Western Sydney Wanderers Geelong
13:00 AEST
Report
Stadium: GMHBA Stadium
Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

Competitions

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Overall record

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Competition First match Last match Starting round Final position Record
Pld W D L GF GA GD Win %
A-League 13 October 2019 19 August 2020 Matchday 1 5th 26 12 3 11 46 37 +9 046.15
A-League Finals 23 August 2020 26 August 2020 Elimination-finals Semi-finals 2 1 0 1 1 2 −1 050.00
Total 28 13 3 12 47 39 +8 046.43

Last updated: complete
Source: Competitions

A-League

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Sydney FC (C) 26 16 5 5 49 25 +24 53 Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League group stage and Finals series[a][52][b]
2 Melbourne City 26 14 5 7 49 37 +12 47 Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs and Finals series[a][b]
3 Wellington Phoenix[c] 26 12 5 9 38 33 +5 41 Qualification for Finals series[b]
4 Brisbane Roar 26 11 7 8 29 28 +1 40 Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs and Finals series[a][b]
5 Western United 26 12 3 11 46 37 +9 39 Qualification for Finals series[b]
6 Perth Glory 26 10 7 9 43 36 +7 37
7 Adelaide United 26 11 3 12 44 49 −5 36
8 Newcastle Jets 26 9 7 10 32 40 −8 34
9 Western Sydney Wanderers 26 9 6 11 35 40 −5 33
10 Melbourne Victory 26 6 5 15 33 44 −11 23
11 Central Coast Mariners 26 5 3 18 26 55 −29 18
Source: A-Leagues
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions
Notes:
  1. ^ a b All Australian teams withdrew from the 2021 AFC Champions League on 4 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e 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.
  3. ^ Wellington Phoenix cannot qualify for the 2021 AFC Champions League as they are not recognised as an AFC club.

Results summary

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Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
26 12 3 11 46 37  +9 39 5 1 7 26 24  +2 7 2 4 20 13  +7

Results by round

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Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223282925242627
GroundAHHAHHAHHAAHABHHABHAHABNNNNNN
ResultWDLWWLLLWWDLLBWLDBLLWWBWLWWWL
Position33542455433455566778766555645
Points344710101010131617171717202021212121242727303033363939
Source: Ultimate A-League
A = Away; H = Home; N = Neutral; B = Bye; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

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13 October 2019 1 Wellington Phoenix 0–1 Western United Wellington
18:00 NZDT Report
Stadium: Sky Stadium
Attendance: 8,254
Referee: Kurt Ams
19 October 2019 2 Western United 1–1 Perth Glory Geelong
17:00 AEDT
Report
Stadium: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 6,088
Referee: Alireza Faghani
27 October 2019 3 Western United 1–2 Melbourne City Geelong
18:00 AEDT
Report
Stadium: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 7,042
Referee: Adam Kersey
2 November 2019 4 Melbourne Victory 2–3 Western United Melbourne
19:30 AEDT
Report
Stadium: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 20,865
Referee: Alireza Faghani
9 November 2019 5 Western United 2–1 Western Sydney Wanderers Geelong
19:30 AEDT
Report
Stadium: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 4,588
Referee: Alex King
16 November 2019 6 Western United 0–1 Newcastle Jets Geelong
19:30 AEDT Report
Stadium: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 5,688
Referee: Alireza Faghani
24 November 2019 7 Central Coast Mariners 1–0 Western United Gosford
18:00 AEDT
Report Stadium: Central Coast Stadium
Attendance: 5,075
Referee: Alex King
1 December 2019 8 Western United 0–2 Sydney FC Geelong
16:00 AEDT Report
Stadium: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 4,187
Referee: Stephen Lucas
8 December 2019 9 Western United 3–1 Melbourne Victory Geelong
16:00 AEDT
Report
Stadium: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 10,128
Referee: Adam Kersey
13 December 2019 10 Brisbane Roar 0–2 Western United Brisbane
18:30 AEST Report
Stadium: Suncorp Stadium
Attendance: 8,582
Referee: Chris Beath
20 December 2019 11 Western Sydney Wanderers 1–1 Western United Sydney
19:30 AEDT
Report
Stadium: Bankwest Stadium
Attendance: 11,988
Referee: Alireza Faghani
28 December 2019 12 Western United 1–3 Wellington Phoenix Ballarat
17:00 AEDT
Report
Stadium: Mars Stadium
Attendance: 5,084
Referee: Shaun Evans
3 January 2020 13 Melbourne City 3–2 Western United Melbourne
19:30 AEDT
Report
Stadium: AAMI Park
Attendance: 8,577
Referee: Adam Kersey
19 January 2020 15 Western United 3–0 Central Coast Mariners Geelong
16:00 AEDT
Report Stadium: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 6,020
Referee: Jonathon Barreiro
26 January 2020 16 Western United 3–4 Adelaide United Melbourne
18:00 AEDT
Report
Stadium: Whitten Oval
Attendance: 5,988
Referee: Kurt Ams
1 February 2020 17 Newcastle Jets 0–0 Western United Newcastle
17:00 AEDT Report Stadium: McDonald Jones Stadium
Attendance: 5,458
Referee: Jonathon Barreiro
16 February 2020 19 Western United 0–1 Brisbane Roar Ballarat
16:00 AEDT Report
Stadium: Mars Stadium
Attendance: 2,973
Referee: Alireza Faghani
21 February 2020 20 Wellington Phoenix 2–0 Western United Wellington
19:15 NZDT
Report Stadium: Sky Stadium
Attendance: 7,281
Referee: Shaun Evans
1 March 2020 21 Western United 6–2 Central Coast Mariners Geelong
16:00 AEDT
Report
Stadium: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 3,629
Referee: Ben Abraham
7 March 2020 22 Adelaide United 1–5 Western United Adelaide
16:30 ACDT
Report
Stadium: Coopers Stadium
Attendance: 8,473
Referee: Stephen Lucas
Season postponement due to COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
25 July 2020 28 Melbourne Victory 1–2 Western United Sydney
18:35 AEST
Report
Stadium: Bankwest Stadium
Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)
Referee: Alireza Faghani
Note: Match originally scheduled for 18 April 2020 at AAMI Park, but postponed and relocated due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. It was rescheduled to 25 July 2020 at Bankwest Stadium.
2 August 2020 29 Newcastle Jets 1–0 Western United Newcastle
18:30 AEST
Report Stadium: McDonald Jones Stadium
Attendance: 2,570
Referee: Alex King
Note: Match originally scheduled for 24 April 2020, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. It was rescheduled to 2 August 2020.
7 August 2020 25 Western United 5–3 Western Sydney Wanderers Sydney
18:30 AEST
Report
Stadium: Netstrata Jubilee Stadium
Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)
Referee: Alireza Faghani
Note: Match originally scheduled for 29 March 2020 at Mars Stadium, but postponed and relocated due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. It was rescheduled to 7 August 2020 at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium.
12 August 2020 24 Perth Glory 0–2 Western United Sydney
16:35 AEST Report
Stadium: Bankwest Stadium
Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)
Referee: Chris Beath
Note: Match originally scheduled for 21 March 2020 at HBF Park, but postponed and relocated due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. It was rescheduled to 12 August 2020 at Bankwest Stadium.
15 August 2020 26 Sydney FC 1–2 Western United Sydney
16:00 AEST
Report
Stadium: Leichhardt Oval
Attendance: 1,863
Referee: Alex King
Note: Match originally scheduled for 3 April 2020, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. It was rescheduled to 15 August 2020.
19 August 2020 27 Western United 1–3 Melbourne City Sydney
18:30 AEST
Report
Stadium: Netstrata Jubilee Stadium
Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)
Referee: Tim Danaskos
Note: Match originally scheduled for 10 April 2020 at Mars Stadium, but postponed and relocated due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. It was rescheduled to 19 August 2020 at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium.

Finals series

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23 August 2020 Elimination-finals Brisbane Roar 0–1 Western United Sydney
17:00 AEST Report
Stadium: Bankwest Stadium
Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)
Referee: Chris Beath
26 August 2020 Semi-finals Melbourne City 2–0 Western United Sydney
17:00 AEST
Report Stadium: Bankwest Stadium
Attendance: 1,897
Referee: Alireza Faghani

Statistics

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Appearances and goals

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Includes all competitions. Players with no appearances not included in the list.[53]

No. Pos. Nat. Name A-League Total
Regular season Finals series
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK   Filip Kurto 26 0 2 0 28 0
2 DF   Aaron Calver 10+4 1 2 0 16 1
3 DF   Brendan Hamill 3+2 0 0 0 5 0
4 DF   Andrew Durante 25 2 1 0 26 2
5 DF   Dylan Pierias 2+17 0 0+2 0 21 0
6 DF   Tomoki Imai 9+1 0 2 0 12 0
7 FW   Valentino Yuel 2+7 0 0 0 9 0
9 FW   Apostolos Stamatelopoulos 2+8 0 0+2 0 12 0
10 MF   Steven Lustica 8 1 2 0 10 1
11 FW   Connor Pain 25 2 2 0 27 2
14 MF   Max Burgess 12+10 6 2 0 24 6
15 DF   Jonathan Aspropotamitis 3+6 6 0 0 9 6
17 MF   Joshua Cavallo 2+6 0 0+1 0 9 0
18 FW   Besart Berisha 23+2 19 2 0 27 19
19 DF   Josh Risdon 21 1 2 0 23 1
21 MF   Sebastian Pasquali 6+1 0 2 0 9 0
23 MF   Alessandro Diamanti 23+2 7 2 1 27 8
24 MF   Thiel Iradukunda 1+3 0 0 0 4 0
25 MF   Luke Duzel 1+2 0 0 0 3 0
26 FW   Patrick Antelmi 0+1 0 0 0 1 0
27 MF   Jerry Skotadis 11+5 0 0 0 16 0
28 DF   Oskar Dillon 7 0 0 0 7 0
30 GK   Ryan Scott 1 0 0 0 1 0
Player(s) transferred out but featured this season
6 MF   Connor Chapman 8 0 0 0 8 0
8 MF   Panagiotis Kone 15 1 0 0 15 1
10 FW   Scott McDonald 8+1 1 0 0 9 1
12 MF   Dario Jertec 13+2 0 0 0 15 0
22 DF   Ersan Gülüm 9 0 0 0 9 0
26 FW   Kwabena Appiah 3+3 1 0 0 6 1

Disciplinary record

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Includes all competitions. The list is sorted by squad number when total cards are equal. Players with no cards not included in the list.

Rank No. Pos. Nat. Name A-League Total
Regular season Finals series
                       
1 4 DF   Andrew Durante 5 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 0
11 FW   Connor Pain 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0
27 MF   Jerry Skotadis 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0
4 19 DF   Josh Risdon 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
5 12 MF   Dario Jertec 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
23 MF   Alessandro Diamanti 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
7 6 DF   Tomoki Imai 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0
8 MF   Panagiotis Kone 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
22 DF   Ersan Gülüm 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
22 DF   Tomislav Uskok 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0
28 DF   Oskar Dillon 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
12 2 DF   Aaron Calver 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
10 MF   Steven Lustica 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
17 MF   Joshua Cavallo 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0
15 1 GK   Filip Kurto 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
3 DF   Brendan Hamill 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
5 DF   Dylan Pierias 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
7 FW   Valentino Yuel 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
9 FW   Apostolos Stamatelopoulos 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
10 FW   Scott McDonald 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
14 MF   Max Burgess 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
15 DF   Jonathan Aspropotamitis 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
18 FW   Besart Berisha 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
26 FW   Kwabena Appiah 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Total 58 0 0 4 0 0 62 0 0

Clean sheets

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Includes all competitions. The list is sorted by squad number when total clean sheets are equal. Numbers in parentheses represent games where both goalkeepers participated and both kept a clean sheet; the number in parentheses is awarded to the goalkeeper who was substituted on, whilst a full clean sheet is awarded to the goalkeeper who was on the field at the start of play. Goalkeepers with no clean sheets not included in the list.

Rank No. Nat. Goalkeeper A-League Total
Regular season Finals series
1 1   Filip Kurto 5 1 6

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