Melbourne Victory FC

|- | colspan=" 2" style=" text-align: center; padding: 0.5em; " bgcolor=" #FFFFFF" | |- | Club founded in | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 2004 |- | Colors | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Navy blue and white |- | Stage | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Telstra Dome
(53 355 places)
|- | Seat | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Meanly Level,
Vodafone Arena, Swan Street,
Melbourne, Victoria |- |bgcolor=" white" | |bgcolor=" white" | |} Melbourne Victory FC (in French Victoire ) is an Australian club of Football based with Melbourne and founded in 2004. This club gained the second championship of Australia of the league in 2006-2007 after the success of Adelaide United FC in 2005-2006.

History of the club

Melbourne Victory was founded in 2004 after the advertisement of the creation of a new whole Championnat of Australia of football after cancellation by the Fédération of Australia of football (F) of the old national competition, the National Soccer League. Victory currently counts among only eight teams taking part in this new league.

The company Belgravia Leisure Pty Ltd financially supported the club as of the first season of the A-League at the request of F. The chairman of the group Belgravie Leisure, Geoff Lord, was thus appointed the first chairman of Melbourne Victory FC. Following this decision, F publicly confirmed that Melbourne Victory would belong to the new championship as a representative of Melbourne, second city of the country in terms of population.

The Scot Ernie Merrick was gotten of Victorian Institute off Sport (Institute of sport of Victoria) to direct the club as a trainer. archie Thompson, attacking of the team of Australia of football, which played until 2005 with the Lierse SK in Belgium, was the first player to be signed at the new club. Victory signed three other international thereafter - Kevin Muscat (Australia), Richard Kitzbichler (Austria) and Geoffrey Glaeys (Belgium).

The South Korean giant of electronics, Samsung, became, the October 27th 2005 principal sponsor of the club.

Stage

Following a new record of spectators (39,730), on September 2nd, 2006, for a home match against the Sydney FC, the club announced that he would play seven of the matches in remaining residence to play at the time of the season 2006-07 in Telstra Dome of Melbourne. Only a match would be played at stage of which the club was useful until there, the Olympic Park of Melbourne, against the New Zealand Knights FC, because of a concert of the English singer Robbie Williams which took place with the Dome.

A new record was beaten on December 8th, 2006 for the return on the lawn of Victory of the Sydney FC (50,333). The match was rather disappointing archie Thompson and Danny Allsopp missed both by beautiful occasions.

A project is in the course of planning for a new stage conceived for Victory, as well as the only club of Rugby to XIII of the city, the Melbourne Storm. The end of work is envisaged before the beginning of the season 2008-09, but for the records of spectators of the club of this last time, it seems that the capacity envisaged of 25,000 places will not be enough. A new project was thus conceived, according to which the Olympic Park would be increased and improved to accommodate with him only Storm, while a new stage of at least 35.000 places would be built for Victory.

Shirt

The shirts residence and outside of Melbourne Victory comprise a V, symbolizing the state of Victoria. The colors of the club are navy blue, white and gray.

Supporters

Melbourne Victory is the only football club of the A-League to being based in the state of Victoria and thus has a vast source of supporters. The club constantly has the greatest number of supporters in the Australian stages.

After having relocated in 2006 in Telstra Dome, figures of impressive spectators were observed weekly in Melbourne for the matches of the club. December 8th, 2006, 50.333 people attended the match Victory- Sydney FC (0-0), which is the Australian record for a match of the national competition of football.

The weekend of this meeting, there was only one football team playing anywhere in the world of which the number of spectators exceeded the figure of the match Victory- Sydney FC (Manchester United, England).

There exists around Melbourne Victory a rather great number of organizations supporters, of which each one has its way with him of supporting the team. They are in particular the BWB (brigades in blue and white), the M7C (band of May 7th), the SDC (band of southernmost death), BWB Youth (BWB Jeunesse), Frontline (frontline), OSS (Offside Set - band “off-side”) as well as a small number of supporters related to the very first group of supporters of Melbourne Victory- the “Union”.

Manpower 2006-2007

Guards

1 Michael Theoklitos
20 Eugene Galekovic

Defenders

2 Kevin Muscatel (Captain)
3 Daniel Piorkowski
4 Mark Byrnes
12 Rodrigo Vargas
15 Adrian Leijer
16 Simon Storey
18 Alessandro

Milieux

6 Steve Pantelidis
7 Michael Shoeing
8 Fred
11 Vince Bound
13 Kristian Sarkies
14 Adrian Caceres
17 Grant Brebner

Assailing

9 Daniel Allsopp
10 archie Thompson
19 Claudinho
21 James Robinson

Current manpower

Guards

1 Michael Theoklitos
20 Eugene Galekovic
30 Mitchell Langerak

Defenders

2 Kevin Muscatel (Captain)
3 Daniel Piorkowski
5 Ljubo Milicevic
12 Rodrigo Vargas

Mediums

6 Steve Pantelidis
7 Matthew Kemp
8 Grant Brebner
11 Joe Keenan
13 Kaz Patafta
14 Adrian Caceres
16 Carlos Hernández
17 Daniel Vasilevski
18 Leigh Broxham
19 Evan Berger

Attaquants

9 Daniel Allsopp
10 archie Thompson
15 Leandro Coils

External bonds

Official site of the club

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