2019–20 Western United FC season

The 2019–20 season is Western United FC's first season since its establishment in 2018. The club competed in the A-League for the first time though it did not compete in the FFA Cup.

Western United

2019–20 season
Chairman	Jason Sourasis
Manager	Mark Rudan
Stadium	GMHBA Stadium, Geelong Mars Stadium, Ballarat VU Whitten Oval, Footscray, Netstrata Jubilee Stadium, Carlton
A-League	5th
A-League Finals	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Besart Berisha (19 goals) All: Besart Berisha (19 goals)
Highest home attendance	10,128 vs Melbourne Victory (8 December 2019)
Lowest home attendance	2,973 vs Brisbane Roar (16 February 2020)
Average home league attendance	5,653
Home colours Third colours

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.[1] The season resumed on 17 July 2020.[2]

Players

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  KVX 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

Transfers in

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

Transfers out

No.	Position	Player	Transferred to	Type/fee	Date	Ref
6	MF	Connor Chapman	Daejeon Citizen	Undisclosed	29 December 2019	[33]
10	FW	Scott McDonald	Brisbane Roar	Free transfer	17 January 2020	[34]
26	FW	Kwabena Appiah	Unattached	End of contract	20 January 2020
22	DF	Ersan Gülüm	Unattached	Mutual contract termination	22 January 2020	[35]
12	MF	Dario Jertec	Unattached	Mutual contract termination	7 April 2020	[36]
8	FW	Panagiotis Kone	Unattached	Mutual contract termination	13 July 2020	[37]

Contract extensions

No.	Name	Position	Duration	Date	Notes
27	Jerry Skotadis	Defensive midfielder	2 years	24 January 2020	[25]
30	Ryan Scott	Goalkeeper	2 years	25 June 2020	[38]
10	Steven Lustica	Central midfielder	1 year	29 June 2020	[39]
23	Alessandro Diamanti	Attacking midfielder	2 years	3 July 2020	[40]
25	Luke Duzel	Midfielder	1 year	17 July 2020	[21]

Club

Kits

The kit supplier is Kappa. At the start of the inaugural season, Probuild were announced as Western United's main kit sponsor,[41] with Hyundai sponsoring the sleeves.

Technical staff

Football Department

Position	Name
Head Coach	Mark Rudan[42]
Assistant Coach	John Anastasiadis[43]
Assistant Coach	John Hutchinson[44]
Director of Football	Steve Horvat[45]
Goalkeeping Coach	Frank Juric[46]

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

As of 28 December 2019

No.	Pos.	Player	A-League		Total
Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Filip Kurto	12	0	12	0
2	DF	Aaron Calver	7+2	1	9	1
3	DF	Brendan Hamill	3+2	0	5	0
4	DF	Andrew Durante	12	1	12	1
5	DF	Dylan Pierias	1+7	0	8	0
7	FW	Valentino Yuel	0+3	0	3	0
8	MF	Panagiotis Kone	10	2	10	2
9	FW	Apostolos Stamatelopoulos	0+3	0	3	0
11	FW	Connor Pain	12	1	12	1
12	MF	Dario Jertec	11+1	0	12	0
13	DF	Ivan Vujica	0	0	0	0
14	MF	Max Burgess	1+9	0	10	0
15	DF	Jonathan Aspropotamitis	0+3	0	3	0
17	MF	Joshua Cavallo	0	0	0	0
18	FW	Besart Berisha	10+1	6	11	6
19	DF	Josh Risdon	9	0	9	0
20	GK	James Delianov	0	0	0	0
21	MF	Sebastian Pasquali	0	0	0	0
23	MF	Alessandro Diamanti	12	2	12	2
24	MF	Thiel Iradukunda†	0	0	0	0
25	MF	Luke Duzel†	0	0	0	0
26	FW	Kwabena Appiah	3+3	1	6	1
27	DF	Jerry Skotadis†	4	0	4	0
28	DF	Oskar Dillon	0	0	0	0
30	GK	Ryan Scott	0	0	0	0
Players no longer at the club
6	MF	Connor Chapman	8	0	8	0
10	FW	Scott McDonald	8+1	1	9	1
22	DF	Ersan Gülüm	9	0	9	0

† = Scholarship or NPL/Y-League-listed player

Pre-season

Friendlies

22 August 2019	Caroline Springs George Cross	0–4	Western United	Melbourne, Australia
19:00 AEST		Report	Yuel  35' Pain  45' Pierias  54' Stamatelopoulos  87'	Stadium: City Vista Pavilion and Sports Field Attendance: 3,267

29 August 2019	Western United	5–0	Preston Lions	Melbourne, Australia
19:00 AEST	Yuel  49' Cavallo  68' Stamatelopoulos  70', 75' Pierias  79'	Report		Stadium: City Vista Pavilion and Sports Field Attendance: 2,532

3 September 2019	Western United	2–0	North Geelong Warriors	Melbourne, Australia
19:00 AEST	McDonald  28' Yuel  85' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: City Vista Pavilion and Sports Field Attendance: 2,135

10 September 2019	Melbourne City	1–2	Western United	Melbourne, Australia
	Najjarine  47'	Report	Delbridge  30' (o.g.) Yuel  58'	Stadium: City Football Academy Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)

15 September 2019	Western United	0–6	Melbourne Victory	Melbourne, Australia
13:00 AEST		Report	Toivonen  ?' (pen.), ?' Nabbout  ?' Athiu  ?' Kamsoba  ?' Kirdar  ?'	Stadium: City Vista Pavilion and Sports Field Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)

21 September 2019	Western United	0–0	Adelaide United	Ballarat, Australia
15:00 AEST		Report		Stadium: Morshead Park

27 September 2019	Western United	1–2	Sydney FC	Ballarat, Australia
15:00 AEST	Diamanti  61'	Report	Ninković  27', 71'	Stadium: Morshead Park

5 October 2019	Western United	1–1	Western Sydney Wanderers	Geelong, Australia
13:00 AEST	McDonald  2'	Report	Adam  80'	Stadium: GMHBA Stadium Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

Competitions

Overview

Competition	Record
	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
A-League	26	12	3	11	46	37	+9	046.15
Total	26	12	3	11	46	37	+9	046.15

Updated to match played 6 March 2020
Source: Competitions

A-League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sydney FC (C)	26	16	5	5	49	25	+24	53	Qualification to Finals Series and 2021 AFC Champions League group stage[lower-alpha 1]
2	Melbourne City	26	14	5	7	49	37	+12	47	Qualification to Finals Series and 2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs[lower-alpha 1]
3	Wellington Phoenix[lower-alpha 2]	26	12	5	9	38	33	+5	41	Qualification to Finals Series[lower-alpha 1]
4	Brisbane Roar	26	11	7	8	29	28	+1	40	Qualification to Finals Series and 2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs[lower-alpha 1]
5	Western United	26	12	3	11	46	37	+9	39	Qualification to Finals Series[lower-alpha 1]
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-League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion.
Notes:

1. 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.
2. Wellington Phoenix cannot qualify for the 2021 AFC Champions League as they are not recognised as an AFC club.

Results summary

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

Last updated: 28 December 2019.
Source: ultimatealeague.com

Result by round

Round	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	28	29
Ground	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	B	H	H	A	B	H	A	H	A	B	A	H	A	H	A	A
Result	W	D	L	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	D	L	L	✖	W	L	D	✖	L	L	W	W	✖	W	W	W	L	W	L
Position	3	3	5	4	2	4	5	5	4	3	3	4	5	5	5	5	6	7	7	8	7	6	6	–	–	–	–	–	5

Updated to match(es) played on 6 March 2020. Source: ultimatealeague.com
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

13 October 2019 1	Wellington Phoenix	0–1	Western United	Wellington
16:00 AEDT		Report	Berisha  34'	Stadium: Westpac Stadium Attendance: 8,254 Referee: Kurt Ams

19 October 2019 2	Western United	1–1	Perth Glory	Geelong
17:15 AEDT	Kone  49'	Report	K. Popovic  76'	Stadium: GMHBA Stadium Attendance: 6,888 Referee: Alireza Faghani

27 October 2019 3	Western United	1–2	Melbourne City	Geelong
18:00 AEDT	Berisha  66'	Report	Maclaren  32', 85'	Stadium: GMHBA Stadium Attendance: 7,042 Referee: Adam Kersey

2 November 2019 4	Melbourne Victory	2–3	Western United	Melbourne
19:30 AEDT	Toivonen  6' Dobras  7'	Report	Diamanti  16' Berisha  29' McDonald  51'	Stadium: Marvel Stadium Attendance: 20,865 Referee: Alireza Faghani

9 November 2019 5	Western United	2–1	Western Sydney Wanderers	Geelong
19:30 AEDT	Durante  13' Appiah  58'	Report	Duke  5'	Stadium: GMHBA Stadium Attendance: 4,558 Referee: Alex King

16 November 2019 6	Western United	0–1	Newcastle Jets	Geelong
19:30 AEDT		Report	Thurgate  36'	Stadium: GMHBA Stadium Attendance: 5,668 Referee: Alireza Faghani

24 November 2019 7	Central Coast Mariners	1–0	Western United	Gosford
16:00 AEDT	Gallifuoco  49'	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	le Fondre  27', 45+4'	Stadium: GMHBA Stadium Attendance: 4,187 Referee: Stephen Lucas

8 December 2019 9	Western United	3–1	Melbourne Victory	Geelong
16:00 AEDT	Berisha  17' Kone  24' Berisha  43'	Report	Nabbout  14'	Stadium: GMHBA Stadium Attendance: 10,128 Referee: Adam Kersey

13 December 2019 10	Brisbane Roar	0–2	Western United	Brisbane
19:30 AEDT		Report	Pain  11' Berisha  45'	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 8,582 Referee: Chris Beath

20 December 2019 11	Western Sydney Wanderers	1–1	Western United	Sydney
19:30 AEDT	Ziegler  79'	Report	Calver  87'	Stadium: Bankwest Stadium Attendance: 11,988 Referee: Alireza Faghani

28 December 2019 12	Western United	1–3	Wellington Phoenix	Ballarat
17:15 AEDT	Diamanti  89' (pen.)	Report	Ball  41' McCowatt  55' Dávila  80'	Stadium: Mars Stadium Attendance: 5,084 Referee: Shaun Evans

3 January 2020 13	Melbourne City	3–2	Western United	Melbourne
19:30 AEDT	Maclaren  5', 44' Luna  36'	Report	Berisha  75' (pen.) Diamanti  79' (pen.)	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 8,577 Referee: Adam Kersey

19 January 2020 15	Western United	3–0	Central Coast Mariners	Geelong
16:00 AEDT	Berisha  6', 21' Rowles  18' (o.g.)			Stadium: GMHBA Stadium Attendance: 6,020 Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

26 January 2020 16	Western United	3–4	Adelaide United	Footscray
18:00 AEDT	Berisha  12', 43' Diamanti  54'	Report	Mileusnic  9', 15' McGree  18' Konstandopoulos  79'	Stadium: VU 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: Jonathan Barreiro

16 February 2020 19	Western United	0–1	Brisbane Roar	Ballarat
16:00 AEDT		Report	Muratovic  61'	Stadium: Mars Stadium Attendance: 2,973 Referee: Alireza Faghani

21 February 2020 20	Wellington Phoenix	2–0	Western United	Wellington
17:15 AEDT	Cacace  29' Ball  90'	Report		Stadium: Westpac Stadium Attendance: 7,281 Referee: Shaun Evans

1 March 2020 21	Western United	6–2	Central Coast Mariners	Geelong
16:00 AEDT	Berisha  9', 89' Burgess  25', 30', 43' Durante  61'		Harold  19' Stensness  45'	Stadium: GMHBA Stadium Attendance: 3,629 Referee: Ben Abraham

7 March 2020 22	Adelaide United	1–5	Western United	Adelaide
17:00 AEDT	McGree  25'	Report	Berisha  18', 56' Diamanti  32' Burgess  40' Pain  48'	Stadium: Coopers Stadium Attendance: 8,473 Referee: Stephen Lucas

25 July 2020 28	Melbourne Victory	1–2	Western United	Sydney
19:35 AEDT	Roux  83'	Report	Uskok  38' Burgess  57'	Stadium: Bankwest Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Alireza Faghani

2 August 2020 29	Newcastle Jets	1–0	Western United	Newcastle
19:30 AEDT	O'Donovan  29'	Report		Stadium: McDonald Jones Stadium Attendance: 2,570 Referee: Alex King

7 August 2020 25	Western United	5–3	Western Sydney Wanderers	Sydney
19:30 AEDT	Risdon  6' Berisha  19' Diamanti  52', 87' Burgess  84'	Report	Duke  69', 82' Mourdoukoutas  76'	Stadium: Netstrata Jubilee Oval Attendance: 0 Referee: Alireza Faghani

12 August 2020 24	Perth Glory	0–2	Western United	Sydney
17:35 AEDT		Report	Berisha  27', 52' (pen.)	Stadium: Bankwest Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Chris Beath

15 August 2020 26	Sydney FC	1–2	Western United	Sydney
17:00 AEDT	le Fondre  52'	Report	Berisha  21' Lustica  90'	Stadium: Leichhardt Oval Attendance: 1,863 Referee: Alex King

19 August 2020 27	Western United	1–3	Melbourne City	Sydney
19:30 AEDT	Berisha  70' (pen.)	Report	Najjar  12' Maclaren  57' (pen.), 86'	Stadium: Netstrata Jubilee Oval Attendance: 0 Referee: Tim Danaskos

Finals series

23 August 2020 Elimination-final	Brisbane Roar	0–1	Western United	Sydney
18:00 AEDT		Report	Diamanti  21'	Stadium: Bankwest Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Chris Beath

26 August 2020 Semi-final	Melbourne City	2–0	Western United	Sydney
17:00 AEST	Maclaren  68' (pen.) Imai  84' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Bankwest Stadium Attendance: 1,897 Referee: Alireza Faghani

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