List of Sydney FC managers

Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional association football club based in Moore Park, Sydney. The club was formed in 2004. They became the first New South Wales member admitted into the A-League in 2005.

There have been nine permanent and one caretaker managers of Sydney FC since 2004; Steve Corica has managed the club in two separate spells as permanent and caretaker between 2012 and 2020. The most successful person to manage Sydney FC is Graham Arnold, who won two A-League premierships, one A-League championship and one FFA Cup between 2014 and 2018. Arnold is the club's longest-serving manager.

This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of Sydney FC since their foundation in 2004. Each manager's entry includes his dates of tenure and the club's overall competitive record (in terms of matches won, drawn and lost), honours won and significant achievements while under his care. Caretaker managers are included, where known, as well as those who have been in permanent charge.

Managers
  • Manager dates are sourced from WorldFootball.net[1] for all managers. Statistics and nationalities are sourced from SFCStatistics.com[2] for Littbarski to Corica. Names of caretaker managers are supplied where known, and periods of caretaker management are highlighted in italics and marked caretaker or caretaker, then permanent appointment, depending on the scenario. Win percentage is rounded to two decimal places.
  • Only first-team competitive matches are counted. Wins, losses and draws are results at the final whistle; the results of penalty shoot-outs are not counted.
  • Statistics are complete up to and including the match played on 16 January 2021.

Key

  • M = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Win % = percentage of total matches won
  •    Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments.
  •    Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments promoted to full-time manager.
List of Sydney FC managers
Name NationalityFromToMWDLGFGAWin %HonoursNotes
Pierre Littbarski  Germany 26 February 2005 3 March 2006 38 23 8 7 79 40 060.53 A-League champions: 2006
OFC Club Championship winnners: 2005
Terry Butcher  England 15 July 2006 2 February 2007 29 13 9 7 41 26 044.83
Branko Culina  Australia 8 February 2007 22 October 2007 20 5 7 8 19 24 025.00
John Kosmina  Australia 24 October 2007 30 January 2009 40 14 11 15 58 60 035.00
Vitezslav Lavicka  Czech Republic 1 February 2009 30 June 2012 95 35 25 35 123 126 036.84 A-League premiers: 2009–10
A-League champions: 2010
Ian Crook  England 1 July 2012 11 November 2012 6 2 0 4 9 16 033.33
Steve Corica  Australia 12 November 2012 27 November 2012 3 0 1 2 3 6 000.00
Frank Farina  Australia 28 November 2012 23 April 2014 46 19 7 20 70 69 041.30
Graham Arnold  Australia 8 May 2014 30 June 2018 142 80 35 27 272 138 056.34 A-League premiers: 2016–17, 2017–18
A-League champions: 2017
FFA Cup winners: 2017
Steve Corica  Australia 1 July 2018 Present 82 44 15 23 139 78 053.66 A-League premiers: 2019–20
A-League champions: 2019, 2020

References

Specific

  1. "Sydney FC: Manager history". WorldFootball.net.
  2. "Managers – SFC Statistics". SFCStatistics.com.
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