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For the current Sydney first-team squad, see Sydney FC § Current squad.

Terry McFlynn, who holds the record for most caps at 214, with 7 goals for Sydney FC from 2005–2014.

This is a list of football (soccer) players who have played for Sydney FC. It includes players that have played at least 25 matches as either a starting player or a substitute for Sydney FC in any professional competitive match. Professional matches include but are not limited to league, domestic cup and continental cup matches. Players of note in this list include Dwight Yorke, Alessandro Del Piero, Alex Brosque and Terry McFlynn.

Sydney FC is an Australian association football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club was founded in 2004 when the National Soccer League (Australia) was disbanded to form the A-League. The A-League is the premier football competition in Australia. Sydney FC were one of the eight inaugural clubs to participate in the new competition. The A-League competition consists of a regular season and a finals series of the top four teams, with the premiership being awarded to the club who finishes on top of the table in the regular season, and the championship to the winner of the Grand Final. Sydney have won two finals, which came in the 2005–06 and 2009–10 seasons. The club has also won the Premier's plate once, also in 2009–10. Overall the club has made the finals series playoffs six times out of nine seasons.

As of 25 February 2015, 134 players have made a competitive appearance for the club. Of this, 54 players have played 25 or more competitive matches for the club. Terry McFlynn has been capped more than any other player with 214 appearances overall, including a club-record 178 in the A-League. Alex Brosque has the all-time record for most goals with 39, including a club-record 32 in the A-League.

Notable players

Sydney have had a number of internationally-capped players represent them in their two seasons since forming prior to the 2005–06 A-League season. This has included 10 members of the Australian national team. Sydney have also had one contracted Trinidad and Tobago international, Dwight Yorke, alongside Kazuyoshi Miura of Japan and Jeremy Brockie of New Zealand.

• Clint Bolton (2005–2010), who has played four international matches for Australian national team.

• Alvin Ceccoli (2005–2007), who has played six international matches for Australian national team and scored one goal.
• David Carney (2005–2007), who has played 46 international matches for Australian national team.

• Steve Corica (2005–2010), who has played 32 international matches for Australian national team and scored 5 goals.

• Sasho Petrovski (2005–2007), who has played two international matches for Australian national team and scored one goal. Debuting in 2001 against Japan, he has scored one goal for the national team.

• Dwight Yorke (2005–2006), who has played 58 international matches for Trinidad and Tobago national team and scored 16 goals.

• Matthew Bingley (2005–2006), who has played 14 international matches for Australian national team and scored 5 goals.
• Mark Milligan (2005–2008), who is a current member of the Australian national team.

• David Zdrilić (2005–2008), who has played 30 international matches for Australian national team and scored 21 goals.
• Kazuyoshi Miura (2005 – loaned from Yokohama FC), who has played 91 international matches for Japan national team and scored 56 goals.

• Robbie Middleby (2005–2010), who has played 5 international matches for Australia national team.
• Alex Brosque (2006–2011) (2014–present), who has played 4 international matches for Australia national team.

• Jeremy Brockie (2006–2007), who has played 7 international matches for New Zealand national team.

• Tony Popović (2007–2008) who has played 58 international matches for Australia national team and scored 8 goals.
• Juninho Paulista (2007–2008) who has played 50 international matches for Brazil national team and scored 5 goals.
• John Aloisi (2008–2010) who has played 55 games for the Australia national football team, and scored 27 goals.
• Karol Kisel (2009–2012) who has played 27 games for the Slovakia national football team, and scored 1 goal.
• Nick Carle (2010–2012) (2013–present) who has played 13 games for the Australia national football team, and scored no goals.
• Brett Emerton (2011–2014) who has played 95 games for the Australia national football team, and scored 20 goals.
• Alessandro Del Piero (2012–2014) who has played 91 games for the Italy national football team, and scored 27 goals.
• Lucas Neill (2013) who has played 96 games for and captained the Australia national football team, and scored 1 goal.
• Yairo Yau (2012–2014) who has played 9 games for the Panama national football team, and scored 1 goal.

Other players of note who have not been fully internationally capped:

• Mark Rudan (2005–2007)
• Andrew Packer (2005–2006)
• Ufuk Talay (2005–2008)
• Benito Carbone (2006)
• Nikolai Topor-Stanley (2006–2007), although he later made his international debut after leaving Sydney
• Patrick da Silva (2007–2008)
• Michael Bridges (2007–2008 – loaned from Hull City)
• Terry McFlynn (2005–2014)
• Byun Sung-hwan (2009–2011)
• Bruno Cazarine (2010–2012)
• Pascal Bosschaart (2011–2013)
• Fabinho (2012–2013)
• Tiago (2013)
• Nikola Petkovic (2013–present)
• Milos Dimitrijevic (2013–present)
• Ranko Despotovic (2013–2014)

Marquee players

Season	First MarqueeA	Second MarqueeB
2005–06	Dwight Yorke
2006–07
2007–08	Juninho Paulista
2008–09	John Aloisi
2009–10
2010–11	Nick Carle
2011–12		Brett Emerton
2012–13	Alessandro Del Piero
2013–14
2014–15	Marc Janko	Alex Brosque
2015–16	Filip Hološko
2016–17		Bobô
2017–18	Miloš Ninković

^A First Marquee was occasionally referred to as "International Marquee" during the years when one of the two marquees were required to be of Australian nationality.

^B Second Marquee originally introduced as Australian only marquee from 2010–11 to 2014–15 seasons inclusive.

List of players

For players with fewer than 25 appearances, see List of Sydney FC players (fewer than 25 appearances).

• Appearances and goals are for professional games only. These include A-League (regular season and finals grouped together), FFA Cup (domestic cup), Asian and Oceanian Champions Leagues (continental championships), A-League Preseason Cup, Club World Cup, Pan-Pacific Championships, and the OFC Club Championships Qualification tournament.
• Current players are in bold.

Table headers

• Cap – number allocated to player based on first senior debut for Sydney FC. Where players debuted in the same match, players are listed by playing number (with the exception of captain ordered first).
• Nationality – If a player played international football, the country/countries he played for are shown. Otherwise, the player's nationality is given as their country of birth.
• Position – see key below
• Sydney FC career – The year of the player's first appearance for Sydney FC to the year of his last appearance.
• Appearances – All appearances made for Sydney FC in competition type, both as starter and substitute.
• Substitute – Matches as substitute only.
• Goals – All goals in competition type.

Correct as at 8 August 2015

Cap	Name	Nat	Pos	Sydney FC career	League[A]			Cup[B]			Asia[C]			Other[D]			Total			Ref
					A	S	G	A	S	G	A	S	G	A	S	G	A	S	G
1	David Zdrilic		FW	2005–2008	50	24	5	0	0	0	11	0	9	16	5	0	77	29	14
2	Clint Bolton		GK	2005–2010	109	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	22	0	0	142	0	0
3	Iain Fyfe		DF	2005–2009	88	4	4	0	0	0	11	0	1	23	0	1	122	4	6
4	Alvin Ceccoli		DF	2005–2007	43	0	2	0	0	0	11	0	1	23	0	1	61	0	3
5	Ufuk Talay		MF	2005–2008	59	0	8	0	0	0	10	0	3	16	1	2	85	9	11
6	Matthew Bingley		MF	2005–2006	28	9	1	0	0	0	5	0	1	4	0	0	37	9	2
7	Sasho Petrovski		FW	2005–2007	43	14	14	0	0	0	4	0	4	14	2	8	61	16	26
8	David Carney		MF	2005–2007	38	4	7	0	0	0	10	0	2	14	1	4	62	5	13
9	Andrew Packer		DF	2005–2006	20	7	1	0	0	0	5	0	1	6	1	1	31	8	3
10	Terry McFlynn		MF	2005–2014	178	19	7	0	0	0	11	1	0	25	1	0	214	21	7
11	Mark Milligan		DF	2005–2008	42	0	2	0	0	0	5	0	0	11	0	0	58	0	2
12	Steve Corica		MF	2005–2010	107	7	21	0	0	0	11	3	7	21	4	1	139	14	29
13	Robbie Middleby		MF	2005–2010	67	17	2	0	0	0	8	0	0	20	8	1	95	25	3
14	Jacob Timpano		DF	2005–2009	26	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	4	0	37	8	0
15	Mark Rudan		DF	2005–2007	50	6	5	0	0	0	7	0	0	14	3	1	71	9	6
22	Dwight Yorke		MF	2005–2006	22	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	2	27	2	9
25	Ruben Zadkovich		MF	2005–2008	41	11	2	0	0	0	3	1	0	2	1	1	46	13	3
27	Alex Brosque		FW	2006–2011, 2014–present	131	8	39	3	2	1	6	0	1	14	0	5	154	10	46
29	Nikolai Topor-Stanley		DF	2006–2007	14	1	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	6	2	1	26	3	1
40	Brendon Santalab		FW	2007–2009	23	14	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	28	14	4
45	Tony Popovic		DF	2007–2009	27	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	0	33	2	1
47	Shannon Cole		DF	2008–2012	95	20	7	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	1	0	99	22	7
52	Matthew Jurman		DF	2008–2011, 2013–present	60	17	2	3	1	0	6	0	1	0	0	0	69	18	2
55	Ivan Necevski		GK	2007–2015	45	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	49	2	0
57	Simon Colosimo		DF	2008–2010	34	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	36	1	0
60	Mark Bridge		FW	2008–2012	80	12	17	0	0	0	5	1	1	0	0	0	85	13	18
61	Stuart Musialik		MF	2008–2011	69	3	4	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	75	3	4
63	John Aloisi		FW	2008–2010	40	14	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40	14	12
67	Brendan Gan		MF	2008–2011	31	23	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	31	23	5
68	Rhyan Grant		DF	2008–present	95	31	4	1	0	0	5	3	0	0	0	0	101	34	4
69	Kofi Danning		FW	2008–2011	23	15	3	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	27	19	3
71	Stephan Keller		DF	2009–2011	53	2	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	58	2	0
72	Karol Kisel		MF	2009–2010, 2011–2012	52	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	52	0	7
73	Byun Sung-Hwan		DF	2009–2011	40	14	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40	14	12
74	Sebastian Ryall		DF	2009–present	131	20	9	4	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	138	21	9
75	Hayden Foxe		DF	2010–2011	25	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25	11	0
78	Liam Reddy		GK	2010–2012	37	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	43	0	0
79	Nicky Carle		FW	2010–2015	63	7	8	2	0	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	70	7	9
80	Scott Jamieson		DF	2010–2012	48	4	1	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	54	4	1
81	Hirofumi Moriyasu		MF	2010–2012	36	8	2	0	0	0	6	1	0	0	0	0	42	9	2
82	Bruno Cazarine		FW	2010–2012	50	11	7	0	0	0	6	0	3	0	0	0	56	11	20
83	Terry Antonis		MF	2010–present	69	19	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	72	21	5
84	Dimitri Petratos		FW	2010–2012	30	16	5	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	0	0	34	19	5
88	Joel Chianese		FW	2011–2014	40	16	11	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	41	17	11
90	Pascal Bosschaart		DF	2011–2013	33	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33	0	1
91	Michael Beauchamp		MF	2011–2012	28	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	0	1
92	Brett Emerton		MF	2011–2014	57	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	57	3	7
97	Alessandro Del Piero		FW	2012–2014	48	2	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	48	2	24
100	Yairo Yau		FW	2012–2014	26	15	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	26	15	6
101	Ali Abbas Al-Hilfi		MF	2012–present	59	4	3	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	62	4	6
107	Vedran Janjetovic		GK	2012–present	73	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	76	0	0
108	Peter Triantis		MF	2012–2015	23	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25	8	1
115	Nikola Petkovic		DF	2013–2015	54	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	57	0	0
119	Chris Naumoff		MF	2013–present	34	14	2	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	36	15	4
123	Milos Dimitrijevic		FW	2013–present	37	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	38	2	2
130	Bernie Ibini-Isei		FW	2014–2015	28	0	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	30	0	7
131	Marc Janko		FW	2014–2015	24	1	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25	1	16

References

• "Squad Statistics: 2005/06 Australian A-League". ESPNsoccernet. Retrieved 2007-06-22. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
• "Squad Statistics: 2006/07 Australian A-League". ESPNsoccernet. Retrieved 2007-06-22. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)