2010–11 A-League
Encyclopedia
The 2010–11 A-League season (known as the Hyundai
Hyundai Motor Company
Hyundai Motor Company is a Korean multinational automaker based in Seoul, South Korea which, along with Kia, comprises the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, the world's fourth largest automaker as of 2009. As of 2011, it is the world's fastest growing automaker for two years running...

 A-League
A-League
The A-League is the top Australasian professional football league. Run by Australian governing body Football Federation Australia , it was founded in 2004 following the folding of the National Soccer League and staged its inaugural season in 2005–06. It is sponsored by Hyundai Motor Company...

 for sponsorship reasons) is the sixth season of the Australian football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 championship since its establishment in 2004. The home and away season began on 5 August 2010 and concluded on 13 February 2011. The addition of brought the total number of teams to 11. finished Premiers with two games remaining in the season following an Australian record unbeaten run, resulting in qualification for the 2012 AFC Champions League
2012 AFC Champions League
The 2012 AFC Champions League will be the 31st edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation , and the 10th under the current AFC Champions League title. The winner will participate in 2012 FIFA Club World Cup.-Allocation of entries per...

.

Rule changes

A new rule at the start of the season allows for two marquee players to be signed without salary cap restraints so long as one is Australian with certain amount of qualifications to be determined by FFA. This replaces the previous ruling of only one salary cap exempt player in previous seasons.

Clubs

Club Location Stadium Capacity1
Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

Hindmarsh Stadium
Hindmarsh Stadium
Hindmarsh Stadium is a rectangular stadium located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is the home of the Australian A-League team, Adelaide United....

17,000
Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

Suncorp Stadium 52,500
Gosford
Gosford, New South Wales
Gosford is a city located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, approximately 76 km north of the Sydney central business district...

Bluetongue Stadium 20,119
Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

Skilled Park 27,400
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

AAMI Park
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium is an outdoor sports stadium on the site of Edwin Flack Field on Olympic Boulevard in the Sports and Entertainment Precinct, in inner Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

30,050
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

AAMI Park
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium is an outdoor sports stadium on the site of Edwin Flack Field on Olympic Boulevard in the Sports and Entertainment Precinct, in inner Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....


Etihad Stadium
30,050
56,347
Newcastle
Newcastle, New South Wales
The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

EnergyAustralia Stadium
Port Macquarie Regional Stadium
Port Macquarie Regional Stadium
The Port Macquarie Regional Stadium was constructed in 1992 with funding assistance by NSW Sport & Recreation, NSW Country Rugby League and Hastings Council, making the venue become a primary location of rugby league in the New South Wales' North Coast region....

26,164
10,000
Townsville
Townsville, Queensland
Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland. Adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef, it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland. Townsville is Australia's largest urban centre north of the Sunshine Coast, with a 2006 census...

Dairy Farmers Stadium 26,500
Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

NIB Stadium 20,500
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

Sydney Football Stadium 45,500
Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...

Westpac Stadium
Westpac Stadium
Westpac Stadium, is a major sporting venue in Wellington, New Zealand. Due to its shape and silver coloured external walls, it is colloquially known as The Cake-Tin to the locals and other New Zealanders...

36,000

Transfers

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming manager Date of appointment Time
  Lawrie McKinna
Lawrie McKinna
Lawrie McKinna is a Scottish-Australian former football player and formerly managed Chengdu Blades in China Super League.-Club career:...

Reassigned 9 February 2010 8th (09–10)   Graham Arnold
Graham Arnold
Graham James Arnold is a former coach of the Australian national football team. He was appointed to work as an assistant to Frank Farina in 2000. The two replaced Raul Blanco, who was the interim coach in charge after Terry Venables decided not to renew his contract with Soccer Australia after...

10 February 2010 Pre-season
N/A (New Club)
  John van 't Schip
John van 't Schip
Johannes Nicolaas "John" van 't Schip is a former Dutch international footballer. He is the manager for the A-League team Melbourne Heart.- Early life :Born in Fort St...

12 October 2009 Pre-season
  Ian Ferguson Moved to Perth Glory as an assistant coach 6 April 2010 7th (09-10)   Frantisek Straka
František Straka
František Straka is a Czech former football player and manager.-Playing career:Straka played most notably for Sparta Prague. In 1988 he moved to Germany and spent the rest of his playing career there. He played for Czechoslovakia and was a participant in the 1990 FIFA World Cup...

7 June 2010 Pre-season
  Aurelio Vidmar
Aurelio Vidmar
Aurelio Vidmar is an Australian football player and former captain of the Australian national team. He is currently not tied to any A-league club...

Sacked and hired as Olyroos coach & Socceroos assistant coach 3 June 2010 10th (09–10)   Rini Coolen
Rini Coolen
Rini Coolen is a former football defender from the Netherlands, who played for Go Ahead Eagles, Heracles Almelo, De Graafschap and AZ Alkmaar.-Biography:...

5 July 2010 Pre-season
  David Mitchell Reassigned, moved to director. 12 October 2010 7th   Ian Ferguson 12 October 2010 Round 10
  Ernie Merrick
Ernie Merrick
Ernest 'Ernie' Merrick is the Scottish former head coach for the Australian A-League football team, Melbourne Victory.-Melbourne Victory:...

Sacked 12 March 2011 5th (10–11)   Mehmet Durakovic
Mehmet Durakovic
Mehmet Duraković is a retired Australian-Albanian soccer player and currently serving football manager. As of June 2011, he is the currently serving head manager of Melbourne Victory...

21 June 2011 Pre-Season

Home and away season

The 2010-11 A-League season had each team play 30 matches over 27 rounds. The regular season started on Thursday, 5 August 2010 and ended on Sunday, 13 February 2011. The opening game was played at the new Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium is an outdoor sports stadium on the site of Edwin Flack Field on Olympic Boulevard in the Sports and Entertainment Precinct, in inner Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

 (AAMI Park) and marked the A-League debut of the new franchise, . Mid week games were played to accommodate this extra team. The official 2010-11 fixture list was released on 18 May 2010.

Round 1

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Round 11

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Round 13

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Notes

Table of results

Finals series

Grand Final
2011 A-League Grand Final
The 2011 A-League Grand Final was the sixth A-League Grand Final taking place on 13 March 2011 at Suncorp Stadium. It was the final match in the A-League 2010–11 season, played between premiers and runners-up .-The match:...

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style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> BRISBANE ROAR:
GK 1   Michael Theoklitos
Michael Theoklitos
Michael Theoklitos is an Australian football player for the Brisbane Roar.-Early career:Theoklitos made several appearances in the Australian National Soccer League before moving away to Blackpool in England as a youngster, where he only played three games due to an injury sustained shortly after...

RB 5   Ivan Franjic
Ivan Franjic
Ivan Franjic is an Australian football player of Croatian descent currently playing for A-League club Brisbane Roar.-VPL:...

CB 2   Matt Smith
Matt Smith (footballer)
Matt Smith is an English-Australian professional football player, currently playing with the Brisbane Roar in the Hyundai A-League...

CB 23   Milan Susak
Milan Susak
Milan Susak is an Australian football player who plays as a defender for Adelaide United in the A-League.- Club career :...

 
LB 4   Shane Stefanutto
Shane Stefanutto
Shane Stefanutto is an Australian football defender who plays for .-Club career:Stefanutto trained at the Queensland Academy of Sport before playing for the Brisbane Strikers in the defunct National Soccer League from 1998–2004, before transferring Lillestrøm S.K. in Norway...

DM 6   Erik Paartalu
Erik Paartalu
Erik Endel Paartalu is an Australian football player who currently plays for Brisbane Roar FC in the Hyundai A-League.-NSL:...

 
CM 17   Mitch Nichols
Mitch Nichols
Mitchell Ian "Mitch" Nichols is an Australian football player for the Brisbane Roar of the A-League.-Brisbane Roar:...

 
CM 15   Matt McKay
Matt McKay
Matthew Graham "Matt" McKay is an Australian football player who plays for Scottish Premier League side Rangers and the Australia national team....

 (c)
RW 7   Kosta Barbarouses 
LW 22   Thomas Broich
Thomas Broich
Thomas Broich is a German football player with Brisbane Roar in the Australian A-League as an attacking midfielder. A documentary about Thomas Broich, titled "Tom meets Zizou" was released in 2011, after 9 years in the making....

CF 9   Jean Carlos Solórzano
Substitutes:
MF 8   Massimo Murdocca
Massimo Murdocca
Massimo Murdocca is an Australian football player who plays as a right or central midfielder for the in the A-League.-Club career:...

 
FW 10   Henrique
Henrique Andrade Silva
Henrique De Andrade Silva is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for Hyundai A-League club Brisbane Roar. He is nicknamed the Slippery Fish.-Biography:...

 
DF 12   Matt Mundy
Matt Mundy
Matt Mundy is an Australian football player who currently plays for Brisbane Roar.-Club career:He made his A-League debut for the Brisbane Roar on 4 October 2008 against Sydney FC.-Honors:With Brisbane Roar:...

FW 14   Rocky Visconte
Rocky Visconte
Rocky Visconte is an Australian professional football player who plays for Brisbane Roar.-Croydon Kings:In 2005 he made his first senior appearance for local South Australian Premier League club Croydon Kings...

 
GK 20   Andrew Redmayne
Andrew Redmayne
Andrew Redmayne is an Australian football player. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Brisbane Roar.-Club career:...

Manager:
  Ange Postecoglou
Ange Postecoglou
Angelos "Ange" Postecoglou is a former Australian football player and manager of Brisbane Roar.-Club career:Postecoglou played 193 games from 1984 to 1993 for South Melbourne in the National Soccer League, where he was involved in their 1984 and 1990–91 titles, the latter as captain, before moving...



Joe Marston Medal:   Matthew Ryan
Matthew Ryan (goalkeeper)
Mathew Ryan is an Australian football goalkeeper currently playing for A-League club Central Coast Mariners.-Club Career:...



Assistant Referees: Ben Wilson and Brad Hobson

Fourth Official: Strebre Delovski
Strebre Delovski
Strebre Delovski is an Australian association football referee in the A-League.He previously officiated in the Illawarra Premier League and during the A-League off-season has been refereeing in the NSW Premier League competition...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> CENTRAL COAST MARINERS: | GK 20   Matthew Ryan
Matthew Ryan (goalkeeper)
Mathew Ryan is an Australian football goalkeeper currently playing for A-League club Central Coast Mariners.-Club Career:...

RB 4   Pedj Bojić CB 18   Alex Wilkinson
Alex Wilkinson
Alexander Wilkinson is an Australian football player. He is currently plays for Central Coast Mariners in the A-League...

 (c) CB 6   Patrick Zwaanswijk
Patrick Zwaanswijk
Patrick Zwaanswijk is a Dutch professional footballer currently playing for Central Coast Mariners as a central defender.-Club career:Zwaanswijk played for 11 seasons in the Dutch Eredivisie including 5 years with NAC Breda....

LB 3   Joshua Rose
Joshua Rose
Joshua Rose is an Australian football player who currently plays for the Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...

DM 8   Rostyn Griffiths
Rostyn Griffiths
Rostyn John Griffiths is an Australian football player who currently plays for A-League team Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...

  CM 14   Michael McGlinchey
Michael McGlinchey
Michael Ryan McGlinchey is an association footballer currently playing for A-League club Central Coast Mariners....

CM 11   Oliver Bozanic
Oliver Bozanic
Oliver John Bozanic is an Australian football player who currently plays for Central Coast Mariners in the Australian A-League...

  AM 22   Mustafa Amini
Mustafa Amini
Mohammad Mustafa Amini is an Australian football player currently playing for the Central Coast Mariners on loan from Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga. He was signed from the AIS team which played in the 2009-10 Youth League season...

  CF 19   Matt Simon  CF 23   Adam Kwasnik
Adam Kwasnik
Adam Kwasnik is an Australian football player. He currently plays as a striker for the Australian A-League club the Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...

Substitutes: FW 2   Daniel McBreen
Daniel McBreen
Daniel James McBreen is a football player who plays for the Central Coast Mariners as a striker.-Club career:McBreen was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England but moved to Australia six weeks later after his father took up an offer to play football there...

  MF 7   John Hutchinson
John Hutchinson (footballer)
John Hutchinson is a Maltese-Australian football player. He currently plays as a central midfielder for the Australian A-League club Central Coast Mariners...

  DF 16   Trent Sainsbury
Trent Sainsbury
Trent Sainsbury in Perth, Western Australia, is an football player currently signed to the Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:He grew up in the hills district and graduated from Muirfield High School in North Rocks....

FW 24   Bernie Ibini-Isei
Bernie Ibini-Isei
Bernie Ibini-Isei is a Nigerian-Australian football player who plays for the A-League club Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...

  GK 30   Paul Henderson
Paul Henderson
Paul Henderson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A left winger, Henderson played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames...

Manager:   Graham Arnold
Graham Arnold
Graham James Arnold is a former coach of the Australian national football team. He was appointed to work as an assistant to Frank Farina in 2000. The two replaced Raul Blanco, who was the interim coach in charge after Terry Venables decided not to renew his contract with Soccer Australia after...




Hyundai A-League
2010-11 Winners
 
Brisbane Roar
First Title

Leading scorers

Updated to end of regular season.
Total Player Club Goals per Week
 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
16   Sergio van Dijk
Sergio van Dijk
Serginho "Sergio" van Dijk is a Dutch-born Indonesian footballer player, who currently plays for Adelaide United in the A-League...

 
2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 3
11   Matt Simon
Matt Simon
Matthew Simon is a football player. Simon currently plays as a striker for the Australian A-League club Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...

 
1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1
  Jean Carlos Solórzano  1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1
  Robbie Kruse
Robbie Kruse
Robbie Thomas Kruse is an Australian football player who currently plays as a forward for German side Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga and the Australian national team...

 
1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1
  Kosta Barbarouses  1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1
9   Robbie Fowler
Robbie Fowler
Robert Bernard Fowler is an English footballer who is currently player/manager for Thai Premier League club Muangthong United....

 
1 1 3 1 1 2
  Adam Kwasnik
Adam Kwasnik
Adam Kwasnik is an Australian football player. He currently plays as a striker for the Australian A-League club the Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...

 
1 2 1 1 2 1 1
  Bruce Djite
Bruce Djite
Bruce José Djite is an American-born Australian football striker who currently plays for Adelaide United F.C. in the A-League.-Club career:...

 
1 2 3 3
  Bruno Cazarine
Bruno Cazarine
Bruno Cazarine Constantin, also known as Bruno Cazarine , is a Brazilian footballer that plays for Australian A-League club Sydney FC...

 
1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1
8   Marcos Flores
Marcos Flores
Marcos Abel Flores Benard, is an Argentine footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for the Chinese Super League club Henan Jianye.-Biography:...

 
1 1 1 1 1 3
  John Aloisi
John Aloisi
John Aloisi is a retired Australian football player who played as a striker, and the current youth team manager at Melbourne Heart....

 
1 1 1 1 1 2 1
  Chris Greenacre
Chris Greenacre
Chris Greenacre is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Wellington Phoenix in the A-League.-Club career:...

 
2 1 1 1 1 1 1

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Penalty kick
A penalty kick is a type of direct free kick in association football, taken from twelve yards out from goal and with only the goalkeeper of the defending team between the penalty taker and the goal.Penalty kicks are performed during normal play...


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Assists

Updated to end of regular season.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; line-height: 90%; font-size:90%;"
|-
!|Total
! colspan="2"|Player
!|Club
|-
||12
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Thomas Broich
Thomas Broich
Thomas Broich is a German football player with Brisbane Roar in the Australian A-League as an attacking midfielder. A documentary about Thomas Broich, titled "Tom meets Zizou" was released in 2011, after 9 years in the making....

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
||8
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Marcos Flores
Marcos Flores
Marcos Abel Flores Benard, is an Argentine footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for the Chinese Super League club Henan Jianye.-Biography:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|rowspan="4"|7
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Carlos Hernández ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Lucas Pantelis
Lucas Pantelis
Lucas Pantelis is a Greek Australian football player. He currently plays for Wellington Phoenix in the Hyundai A-League.-Club career:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Marco Rojas
Marco Rojas
Marco Rodrigo Rojas is a New Zealand association football player who plays as a midfielder for A-League team Melbourne Victory, and for the New Zealand national team.-Wellington Phoenix:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Joshua Rose
Joshua Rose
Joshua Rose is an Australian football player who currently plays for the Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|rowspan="4"|6
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Mark Bridge
Mark Bridge
Mark Bridge is an Australian football player. He currently plays as a striker for Australian A-League club Sydney FC.-Newcastle United Jets FC:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Travis Dodd
Travis Dodd
Travis Dodd is an Indigenous Australian football player who plays for Perth Glory in the A-League. He plays as an attacking midfielder or winger.-Club career:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Michael McGlinchey
Michael McGlinchey
Michael Ryan McGlinchey is an association footballer currently playing for A-League club Central Coast Mariners....

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Kasey Wehrman
Kasey Wehrman
Kasey Wehrman is an Australian football midfielder who currently plays for the Newcastle Jets in Australia's Hyundai A-League. Wehrman is an Indigenous Australian...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|rowspan="8"|5
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Kosta Barbarouses ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Oliver Bozanic
Oliver Bozanic
Oliver John Bozanic is an Australian football player who currently plays for Central Coast Mariners in the Australian A-League...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Cássio ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Jason Culina
Jason Culina
Jason Culina is an Australian footballer who plays for the Australia national football team.- Club career :Culina started off with Sydney United under his father, Branko, before moving on to Ajax where he struggled in the reserves. Only after moving to FC Twente did Culina begin to shine at the...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Adriano Pellegrino
Adriano Pellegrino
Adriano Pellegrino is an Australian football player who plays as a right midfielder for Central Coast Mariners in the A-League.-Club career:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Patricio Pérez
Patricio Pérez
Patricio Pablo Pérez is an Argentine football midfielder who is currently playing for Club Atlético All Boys in the Argentine Primera División.-Argentina:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Tom Pondeljak
Tom Pondeljak
Tomislav Pondeljak is an Australian football player, who is currently playing for A-league club Melbourne Victory.-Club career:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Gerald Sibon
Gerald Sibon
Gerald Sibon is a Dutch football player who plays for Eredivisie club SC Heerenveen.-Europe:He featured for FC Twente in the 1993–94 season as a substitute but could only string together three games before deciding to sign for VVV-Venlo of the Eerste Divisie in the following season...

 ||style="text-align:left;"|
|}

Own goals

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; line-height: 90%; font-size:90%;"
|-
! colspan="2"|Player
!|Club
!|Against
!|Round
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Ben Kantarovski
Ben Kantarovski
Ben Kantarovski is an Australian football player currently playing for the Newcastle Jets.-Newcastle Jets:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| ||style="text-align:left;"| || 2
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Brett Studman
Brett Studman
Brett Studman is an Australian football player currently playing for Sydney Olympic.Studman was a part of the AIS before signing for Sydney Olympic...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 4
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Michael Marrone
Michael Marrone (footballer)
Michael Marrone is an Australian football player who currently plays for Melbourne Heart.-Club career:Marrone made his professional debut on 18 December 2008 in the FIFA Club World Cup fifth-placed match against Al-Ahly...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 4
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Daniel McBreen
Daniel McBreen
Daniel James McBreen is a football player who plays for the Central Coast Mariners as a striker.-Club career:McBreen was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England but moved to Australia six weeks later after his father took up an offer to play football there...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 9
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Shannon Cole
Shannon Cole
Shannon Cole is a midfielder who currently plays in the Australian football A-League for Sydney FC.-Early life:Shannon attended St Ambrose primary school, Concord West, and St Patrick's College, Strathfield...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 9
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Matt Smith
Matt Smith (footballer)
Matt Smith is an English-Australian professional football player, currently playing with the Brisbane Roar in the Hyundai A-League...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 10
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Naum Sekulovski
Naum Sekulovski
Naum Sekulovski is an Australian football player. He last played as a left winger for the A-League club Perth Glory.- A-League career statistics :...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 12
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Rodrigo Vargas
Rodrigo Vargas
Rodrigo Alejandro "Roddy" Vargas is a Australian football player. He currently plays as a central defender for the Australian A-League club Melbourne Victory.-Club career:...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 13
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Clint Bolton
Clint Bolton
Clint Brian Bolton is an Australian football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Melbourne Heart in the Australian A-League. He was one of the most experienced goalkeepers in the history of the National Soccer League, which preceded the A-League...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 15
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Alex Wilkinson
Alex Wilkinson
Alexander Wilkinson is an Australian football player. He is currently plays for Central Coast Mariners in the A-League...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 16
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Matthew Kemp ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 17
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Sebastian Ryall
Sebastian Ryall
Sebastian Ryall is an Australian football player who currently plays as a defender for Sydney FC.-Melbourne Victory:Ryall played junior football for West Pymble Soccer Club in Sydney...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 17
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Wayne Srhoj ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 18
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Sergio van Dijk
Sergio van Dijk
Serginho "Sergio" van Dijk is a Dutch-born Indonesian footballer player, who currently plays for Adelaide United in the A-League...

 ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 20
|-
|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Hayden Foxe
Hayden Foxe
Hayden Vernon Foxe is a former Australian football player. He last played with A-League club Sydney FC.-Europe:...

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|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Adrian Leijer
Adrian Leijer
Adrian Leijer is an Australian football player who currently plays as a centre back for A-League team Melbourne Victory and is also the Captain of the side.-Early years:...

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|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Tando Velaphi
Tando Velaphi
Tando Yuji Velaphi is an Australian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Melbourne Victory in the A-League. Before joining Victory in 2011, he spent several seasons at , eventually developing into their first-choice 'keeper....

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|   ||style="text-align:left;"| Nick Ward ||style="text-align:left;"| || style="text-align:left;"| || 26
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Attendance

These are the attendance records of each of the teams at the end of the home and away season. The table does not include finals series attendances.
Updated to the end of season.
  • A Gold Coast United match held on 19 December 2010 was postponed due to the poor playing surface of the pitch and torrential rain after the 21st minute of the game had been played. Spectators were allowed free entry prior to the postponement, of which there were 10,146 in attendance of the 21,000+ who applied for the free tickets. The abandoned game's attendance is not taken into account.

Top 10 Attendances

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Attendance !! Round !! Date !! Home !! Score !! Away !! Venue !! Weekday !! Time of Day
|-
| 50,168 || GF || 13 March 2011 || || 2 – 2 (4 – 2 pen.)|| || Suncorp Stadium
Suncorp Stadium
Lang Park is the original name of the site located in the Brisbane suburb of Milton, Queensland, Australia, now occupied by the major sports facility known by its sponsorship name, Suncorp Stadium...

 || Sunday || Afternoon
|-
| 32,321 || 24 || 22 January 2011 || || 2 – 2 || || Etihad Stadium || Saturday || Night
|-
| 25,897 || 9 || 8 October 2010 || || 2 – 1 || || AAMI Park
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium is an outdoor sports stadium on the site of Edwin Flack Field on Olympic Boulevard in the Sports and Entertainment Precinct, in inner Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

 || Friday || Night
|-
| 25,168 || SF Leg 2 || 26 February 2011 || || 2 – 2 || || Suncorp
Suncorp Stadium
Lang Park is the original name of the site located in the Brisbane suburb of Milton, Queensland, Australia, now occupied by the major sports facility known by its sponsorship name, Suncorp Stadium...

 || Saturday || Night
|-
| 23,059 || 18 || 11 December 2010 || || 1 – 3 || || AAMI Park
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium is an outdoor sports stadium on the site of Edwin Flack Field on Olympic Boulevard in the Sports and Entertainment Precinct, in inner Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

 || Saturday || Night
|-
| 21,083 || 27 || 11 February 2011 || || 2 – 1 || || Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Oval
The Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the Central Business District and North Adelaide...

 || Friday || Night
|-
| 20,831 || 27 || 12 February 2011 || || 4 – 0 || || Suncorp
Suncorp Stadium
Lang Park is the original name of the site located in the Brisbane suburb of Milton, Queensland, Australia, now occupied by the major sports facility known by its sponsorship name, Suncorp Stadium...

 || Saturday || Night
|-
| 20,358 || 2 || 14 August 2010 || || 0 – 2 || || AAMI Park
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium is an outdoor sports stadium on the site of Edwin Flack Field on Olympic Boulevard in the Sports and Entertainment Precinct, in inner Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

 || Saturday || Night
|-
| 18,558 || 22 || 9 January 2011 || || 1 – 4 || || AAMI Park
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium is an outdoor sports stadium on the site of Edwin Flack Field on Olympic Boulevard in the Sports and Entertainment Precinct, in inner Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

 || Sunday || Afternoon
|-
| 17,299 || 10 || 16 October 2010 || || 3 – 0 || || Etihad Stadium || Saturday || Night
|}

Discipline

The Fair Play Award will go to the team with the lowest points on the fair play ladder at the conclusion of the home and away season. It was awarded to Premiers Brisbane Roar who beat last year's Champions Sydney FC
Sydney FC
Sydney FC is a professional football club based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and competes in the country's premier football competition, the A-League...

 by 6 points.

Updated to End of Week 27 (End of Regular Season)
Notes

NAB Young footballer of the Year Award

The NAB Young Footballer of the Year Award will be awarded to the finest U/21 player talent throughout the Hyundai A-League 2010-11 competition. One nominee is announced per month and all nominees will qualify to be named the NAB Footballer of the Year at the conclusion of the season. On February 18, it was announced that young Central Coast Mariners Goalkeeper and December nominee Matthew Ryan
Matthew Ryan (goalkeeper)
Mathew Ryan is an Australian football goalkeeper currently playing for A-League club Central Coast Mariners.-Club Career:...

 was chosen as the NAB Young Footballer of the Year.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Month
! Player
! Club
|-
| August
| style="text-align:left;"|  Chris Payne
Chris Payne
Christopher 'Chris' Payne is an Australian football player currently signed with A League club Newcastle Jets.-Sydney FC:...


|
|-
| September
| style="text-align:left;"|  Mathew Leckie
Mathew Leckie
Mathew Leckie is an Australian football player who currently plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the German Bundesliga as a right winger or attacking midfielder.-Club career:...


|
|-
| October
| style="text-align:left;"|  Luke DeVere
Luke DeVere
Luke DeVere is an Australian football player who currently plays for K-League side Gyeongnam FC.He also plays for the Australia under-23 national team.-Early life:...


|
|-
| November
| style="text-align:left;"|  Mustafa Amini
Mustafa Amini
Mohammad Mustafa Amini is an Australian football player currently playing for the Central Coast Mariners on loan from Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga. He was signed from the AIS team which played in the 2009-10 Youth League season...


|
|-
| December
| style="text-align:left;"|  Matthew Ryan
Matthew Ryan (goalkeeper)
Mathew Ryan is an Australian football goalkeeper currently playing for A-League club Central Coast Mariners.-Club Career:...


|
|-
| January
| style="text-align:left;"|  Aziz Behich
Aziz Behich
Aziz Behich is an Australian football player who currently plays for Melbourne Heart in the A-League and the Australia Under-23 national team. He was the first player to play for both Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Heart having being transferred in 2010.-Green Gully:Behich played in the junior...


|
|-
| February
| style="text-align:left;"|  Marco Rojas
Marco Rojas
Marco Rodrigo Rojas is a New Zealand association football player who plays as a midfielder for A-League team Melbourne Victory, and for the New Zealand national team.-Wellington Phoenix:...


|
|}

End of Season Awards

  • Johnny Warren Medal -   Marcos Flores
    Marcos Flores
    Marcos Abel Flores Benard, is an Argentine footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for the Chinese Super League club Henan Jianye.-Biography:...

  • NAB Young Footballer of the Year -   Matthew Ryan
    Matthew Ryan (goalkeeper)
    Mathew Ryan is an Australian football goalkeeper currently playing for A-League club Central Coast Mariners.-Club Career:...

  • Golden Boot Award -   Sergio Van Dijk
    Sergio van Dijk
    Serginho "Sergio" van Dijk is a Dutch-born Indonesian footballer player, who currently plays for Adelaide United in the A-League...

  • Goalkeeper of the Year -   Michael Theoklitos
    Michael Theoklitos
    Michael Theoklitos is an Australian football player for the Brisbane Roar.-Early career:Theoklitos made several appearances in the Australian National Soccer League before moving away to Blackpool in England as a youngster, where he only played three games due to an injury sustained shortly after...

  • Manager of the Year -   Ange Postecoglou
    Ange Postecoglou
    Angelos "Ange" Postecoglou is a former Australian football player and manager of Brisbane Roar.-Club career:Postecoglou played 193 games from 1984 to 1993 for South Melbourne in the National Soccer League, where he was involved in their 1984 and 1990–91 titles, the latter as captain, before moving...

  • Fair Play Award - Brisbane Roar
  • Referee of the Year - Matthew Breeze
    Matthew Breeze
    Matthew Christopher Breeze is an Australian association football referee. He is also a barrister and a former police prosecutor.-Domestic career:He officiates in the Australian A-League football competition....

  • Foreign Player of the Year -   Marcos Flores
    Marcos Flores
    Marcos Abel Flores Benard, is an Argentine footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for the Chinese Super League club Henan Jianye.-Biography:...

  • Solo Goal of the Year -   Erik Paartalu
    Erik Paartalu
    Erik Endel Paartalu is an Australian football player who currently plays for Brisbane Roar FC in the Hyundai A-League.-NSL:...


All-Star Team

Formation: 4-3-3

{| class="wikitable" class="sortable" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%;"
|-
! class="unsortable" style="width:24px;"|Nat.
!class="unsortable" |Position
! class="unsortable" style="width:170px;"|Name
!class="unsortable" |Club
|-
|  
| GK
| Michael Theoklitos
Michael Theoklitos
Michael Theoklitos is an Australian football player for the Brisbane Roar.-Early career:Theoklitos made several appearances in the Australian National Soccer League before moving away to Blackpool in England as a youngster, where he only played three games due to an injury sustained shortly after...


| Brisbane Roar
|-
|  
| RB
| Ivan Franjic
Ivan Franjic
Ivan Franjic is an Australian football player of Croatian descent currently playing for A-League club Brisbane Roar.-VPL:...


| Brisbane Roar
|-
|  
| CB
| Luke DeVere
Luke DeVere
Luke DeVere is an Australian football player who currently plays for K-League side Gyeongnam FC.He also plays for the Australia under-23 national team.-Early life:...


| Brisbane Roar
|-
|  
| CB
| Joshua Rose
Joshua Rose
Joshua Rose is an Australian football player who currently plays for the Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...


| Central Coast Mariners
|-
|  
| LB
| Cássio
| Adelaide United
|-
|  
| RM
| Marcos Flores
Marcos Flores
Marcos Abel Flores Benard, is an Argentine footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for the Chinese Super League club Henan Jianye.-Biography:...


| Adelaide United
|-
|  
| CM
| Matt McKay
Matt McKay
Matthew Graham "Matt" McKay is an Australian football player who plays for Scottish Premier League side Rangers and the Australia national team....


| Brisbane Roar
|-
|  
| LM
| Thomas Broich
Thomas Broich
Thomas Broich is a German football player with Brisbane Roar in the Australian A-League as an attacking midfielder. A documentary about Thomas Broich, titled "Tom meets Zizou" was released in 2011, after 9 years in the making....


| Brisbane Roar
|-
|  
| RF
| Kosta Barbarouses
| Brisbane Roar
|-
|  
| ST
| Sergio Van Dijk
Sergio van Dijk
Serginho "Sergio" van Dijk is a Dutch-born Indonesian footballer player, who currently plays for Adelaide United in the A-League...


| Adelaide United
|-
|  
| LF
| Robbie Kruse
Robbie Kruse
Robbie Thomas Kruse is an Australian football player who currently plays as a forward for German side Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga and the Australian national team...


| Melbourne Victory
Melbourne Victory
Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, that plays in the A-League....


|-
|  
| Coach
| Ange Postecoglou
Ange Postecoglou
Angelos "Ange" Postecoglou is a former Australian football player and manager of Brisbane Roar.-Club career:Postecoglou played 193 games from 1984 to 1993 for South Melbourne in the National Soccer League, where he was involved in their 1984 and 1990–91 titles, the latter as captain, before moving...


| Brisbane Roar
|}








Team season articles

  • Adelaide United season 2010–11
  • Brisbane Roar season 2010–11
  • Central Coast Mariners season 2010–11
  • Gold Coast United season 2010–11
  • Melbourne Heart season 2010–11
  • Melbourne Victory season 2010–11

  • Newcastle Jets season 2010–11
  • North Queensland Fury season 2010-11
  • Perth Glory season 2010–11
  • Sydney FC season 2010–11
  • Wellington Phoenix season 2010–11
  • Official season draw
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