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2010–11 season
Chairman	Peter Sidwell
Manager	John van't Schip
Stadium	AAMI Park
A-League	8th
Top goalscorer	John Aloisi (8)
Highest home attendance	25,897 vs. Melbourne Victory (4 October 2010)
Lowest home attendance	2,754 vs. Newcastle Jets (8 December 2010)
Average home league attendance	8,315
Biggest win	2–0 vs. Newcastle Jets (A) (31 October 2010) 2–0 vs. North Queensland Fury (H) (2 January 2011)
Biggest defeat	0–4 vs. Brisbane Roar (A) (25 September 2010)
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The 2010–11 season was the inaugural season in the history of Melbourne Heart FC since its establishment in 2009. The team played in the A-League for the first time with all of their home matches being played at AAMI Park. After being placed sixth for the better part of the season, the team would go on to finish eighth on the ladder. Former Australian international John Aloisi was the Heart's top goalscorer, with eight goals, in his final season in professional football.

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  AUS Clint Bolton 2 DF  AUS Michael Marrone 3 DF  AUS Brendan Hamill 4 DF  AUS Simon Colosimo 5 DF  AUS Michael Beauchamp 6 MF  AUS Matt Thompson 7 MF  NED Rutger Worm 8 MF  AUS Kristian Sarkies 9 FW  NED Gerald Sibon 10 MF  AUS Wayne Srhoj 11 FW  BRA Alex Terra 12 GK  AUS Peter Zoïs

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  AUS Kamal Ibrahim 15 FW  AUS John Aloisi 16 DF  AUS Aziz Behich 17 DF  AUS Jason Hoffman 18 MF  AUS Ante Tomić 19 FW  AUS Eli Babalj 20 MF  AUS Josip Skoko 21 FW  AUS Kliment Taseski 22 MF  AUS Nick Kalmar 23 DF  AUS Dean Heffernan 25 MF  AUS Adrian Zahra

Transfers

Transfers in

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Notes
19 November 2009	DF	Matt Thompson	Newcastle Jets	Free
24 November 2009	MF	Kristian Sarkies	Adelaide United	Free
24 November 2009	DF	Dean Heffernan	Central Coast Mariners	Free
26 December 2009	FW	Eli Babalj	AIS	Free
26 December 2009	MF	Kamal Ibrahim	AIS	Free
8 January 2010	FW	Jason Hoffman	Newcastle Jets	Free
16 February 2010	GK	Clint Bolton	Sydney FC	Free
23 February 2010	FW	Rutger Worm	N.E.C.	Free
6 March 2010	MF	Wayne Srhoj	Perth Glory	Free
19 March 2010	DF	Simon Colosimo	Sydney FC	Free
29 March 2010	FW	John Aloisi	Sydney FC	Free
31 March 2010	MF	Kliment Taseski	Melbourne Victory Youth	Free
23 April 2010	MF	Brendan Hamill	AIS	Free
30 April 2010	MF	Michael Marrone	Adelaide United	Free
10 May 2010	FW	Alex Terra	Rio Branco	Free
17 May 2010	DF	Michael Beauchamp	Al-Jazira Club	Free
18 May 2010	MF	Josip Skoko	Hajduk Split	Free
21 May 2010	FW	Gerald Sibon	Heerenveen	Free
22 May 2010	DF	Dean Heffernan	Huddersfield Town	Return from Loan
29 June 2010	MF	Nick Kalmar	Oakleigh Cannons	Free
26 July 2010	MF	Ante Tomić	Sydney United	Free
4 August 2010	GK	Peter Zoïs	South Melbourne	Free
25 October 2010	MF	Aziz Behich	Hume City	Free

Transfers out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
26 January 2010	DF	Dean Heffernan	Huddersfield Town	Free

Injury replacements

Injured player	Injury replacement	Injury	Replacement deal length	Fee
Kristian Sarkies	Aziz Behich	Broken fibula and tibia in right leg	Seven weeks*	Loan from Hume City
Kristian Sarkies	Adrian Zahra	Broken fibula and tibia in right leg	Four weeks	Loan from Melbourne Knights
Eli Babalj	Adrian Zahra	Hip and thigh problems	Unknown length*	Loan From Melbourne Knights

*Note: Both Behich and Zahra signed long-term deals at the completion of their replacement deal period.

Pre-season and friendlies

8 July 2010	Melbourne Heart	1–2	Newcastle Jets	Morwell
19:30 UTC+10	Sibon 68'	Report	Bridges 6' Abbas 27'	Stadium: LaTrobe City Stadium, Attendance: 3,000

14 July 2010	Everton	2–0	Melbourne Heart	Melbourne
19:30 UTC+10	Rodwell 34' Saha 60'			Stadium: Etihad Stadium Attendance: 19,261

22 July 2010	Loddon Mallee Lightning	1–9	Melbourne Heart	Bendigo
16:00 UTC+10	Hargreaves ?'		Behich 23', ?' Alex Terra 27', 55', 57' Hoffman ?', ?', ?' Tolli 17'	Stadium: Epsom Huntly Recreation Reserve

Competitions

A-League

League table

1. First place qualifies for the 2012 AFC Champions League group stage.
   Winning the 2011 A-League Grand Final automatically earns qualification for the 2012 AFC Champions League group stage, unless first place are champions.
   Second place qualifies for the 2012 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off, unless they qualify for the 2011 A-League Grand Final alongside first place or become A-League Champions, subsequently third place then qualify for the 2012 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off.

Results summary

Last updated: 12 January 2024.
Source: Ultimate A-League

Results by matchday

Matches

5 August 2010 1	Melbourne Heart	0–1	Central Coast Mariners	Melbourne
Thursday 19:30 EST	Heffernan  71' Hamill  83' Behich  86'	Report Statistics	Bojić  1' Wilkinson 16' Hutchinson  36' Simon  72'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 11,050 Referee: Chris Beath

13 August 2010 2	Newcastle Jets	1–1	Melbourne Heart	Newcastle
Friday 20:00 EST	Abbas  45' Bridges  50' Brockie 60' Kantarovski  66'	Report Statistics	Kantarovski 79' (o.g.)	Stadium: EnergyAustralia Stadium Attendance: 8,735 Referee: Ryan Shepheard

20 August 2010 3	Adelaide United	3–2	Melbourne Heart	Adelaide
Friday 19:30 CST	Leckie 2' Fyfe  5' Ramsay 52', 88'	Report Statistics	Worm 42'  45+1' Srhoj  65' Babalj 74' Hoffman  75' Beauchamp  84'	Stadium: Hindmarsh Stadium Attendance: 7,370 Referee: Ben Williams

29 August 2010 4	Melbourne Heart	2–2	Perth Glory	Melbourne
Sunday 17:00 EST	Sibon 5' (pen.) Kalmar 37' Srhoj  52' Thompson  82' Heffernan  88' Hamill  89'	Report Statistics	Sekulovski  4' Marrone 19' (o.g.) Fowler 90+4' (pen.)	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 5,878 Referee: Kurt Ams

4 September 2010 5	Melbourne Heart	1–0	North Queensland Fury	Melbourne
Saturday 17:15 EST	Kalmar 11' Alex  41' Srhoj  66'	Report Statistics		Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 4,184 Referee: Gerard Parsons

10 September 2010 6	Central Coast Mariners	1–0	Melbourne Heart	Gosford
Friday 20:00 EST	McBreen 20' Hutchinson  75' Kwasnik  78'	Report Statistics	Heffernan  22' Beauchamp  52'	Stadium: Bluetongue Stadium Attendance: 6,326 Referee: Peter Green

19 September 2010 7	Melbourne Heart	2–1	Wellington Phoenix	Melbourne
Sunday 15:00 EST	Aloisi 50' Alex 66'	Report Statistics	Muscat  45+2' T. Brown 75'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 5,698 Referee: Peter Green

25 September 2010 8	Brisbane Roar	4–0	Melbourne Heart	Brisbane
Saturday 17:15 EST	Barbarouses 23' Paartalu 37' Reinaldo 48' (pen.)  55' Nichols 76'  77' Stefanutto  90'	Report Statistics	Heffernan  47'  54'    Alex  80'    Skoko  81'	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 6,342 Referee: Chris Boyle

8 October 2010 9	Melbourne Heart	2–1	Melbourne Victory	Melbourne
Saturday 19:30 EDT	Aloisi 10'  40' Terra 56' Behich  48'  74'	Report Statistics	Leijer  22' Kruse 37' Muscat  43' Brebner  55' Celeski  65' Ricardinho  68'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 25,897 Referee: Ben Williams

17 October 2010 10	Wellington Phoenix	2–2	Melbourne Heart	Wellington
Sunday 17:00 NZDT	Greenacre 6' Bertos 59' Ifill  79'	Report Statistics	Aloisi 14' (pen.) M. Thompson 36' Colosimo  44'	Stadium: Westpac Stadium Attendance: 5,211 Referee: Matthew Breeze

23 October 2010 11	Melbourne Heart	0–0	Gold Coast United	Melbourne
Saturday 19:00 EDT	Srhoj  52' Worm  74'	Report Statistics	van den Brink  35' Curtis  88' J. Brown  90'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 6,150 Referee: Chris Beath

31 October 2010 12	Newcastle Jets	0–2	Melbourne Heart	Port Macquarie
Sunday 15:00 EDT	Miličević  88'	Report Statistics	Kalmar 53' Srhoj  76' Sibon 90+4' (pen.)	Stadium: Port Macquarie Regional Stadium Attendance: 3,114 Referee: Kris Griffiths-Jones

3 November 2010 13	Perth Glory	0–0	Melbourne Heart	Perth
Wednesday 19:00 WST	Baird  10' B. Griffiths  38' Todd  72' Fondyke  77' Fowler  77'	Report Statistics	Marrone  67' Worm  72'	Stadium: nib Stadium Attendance: 5,745 Referee: Chris Beath

10 November 2010 14	North Queensland Fury	2–3	Melbourne Heart	Townsville
Wednesday 20:00 EST	Daal 12' Spagnuolo  74' Talay 85' (pen.)	Report Summary	Marrone  24' Srhoj  31' Babalj 50',  90+1' Sibon 59' Zahra 64' Colosimo  83'	Stadium: Dairy Farmers Stadium Attendance: 2,866 Referee: Jarred Gillett

14 November 2010 15	Melbourne Heart	1–2	Brisbane Roar	Melbourne
Sunday 17:00 EDT	Sibon 11' Skoko  53' Srhoj  73' M. Thompson  76'	Report Statistics	Barbarouses 65' Solórzano 88' Broich  90'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 7,034 Referee: Ryan Shepheard

19 November 2010 16	Melbourne Heart	0–2	Adelaide United	Melbourne
Friday 20:00 EDT	Worm  36'	Report Statistics	Cornthwaite 5' Bolton 73' (o.g.) van Dijk  87'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 6,538 Referee: Chris Beath

24 November 2010 17	Wellington Phoenix	2–0	Melbourne Heart	Wellington
Wednesday 19:30 NZDT	Daniel  28' Ifill 62', 73' Sigmund  83'	Report Statistics	M. Thompson  57'  70'	Stadium: Westpac Stadium Attendance: 4,700 Referee: Jarred Gillett

27 November 2010 18	Melbourne Heart	0–0	Sydney FC	Melbourne
Saturday 20:15 EDT	Colosimo  17' Behich  35' Srhoj  38' Marrone  71' Kalmar  82'	Report Statistics	Musialik  27' Bridge  47' Byun  90+2'  90+3'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 5,128 Referee: Alan Milliner

5 December 2010 19	Gold Coast United	3–0	Melbourne Heart	Gold Coast
Sunday 16:00 EST	van den Brink 41'  84' Culina 58' (pen.), 77'	Report Statistics	Beauchamp  57' Zahra  65'	Stadium: Skilled Park Attendance: 1,658 Referee: Jarred Gillett

8 December 2010 20	Melbourne Heart	0–2	Newcastle Jets	Melbourne
Wednesday 19:00 EDT		Report Statistics	Wheelhouse  8' Jeffers 12'  62' Jesic 18' Zadkovich  41'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 2,754 Referee: Peter Green

11 December 2010 21	Melbourne Heart	1–3	Melbourne Victory	Melbourne
Saturday 19:00 EDT	Sibon 17' Kalmar  42' Marrone  46' Zahra  69' Srhoj  90+2'	Report Statistics	Kruse 12', 28' Celeski  38' Srhoj 54' (o.g.) Hernández  68' Ferreira  90+3'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 23,059 Referee: Chris Beath

17 December 2010 22	Adelaide United	1–2	Melbourne Heart	Adelaide
Friday 19:30 CDT	van Dijk 45+1' Galeković  89' Keenan  90+1'	Statistics	M. Thompson  27' Hoffman  65' Colosimo 89' Aloisi 90+2'	Stadium: Hindmarsh Stadium Attendance: 10,011 Referee: Ryan Shepheard

23 December 2010 23	Sydney FC	0–1	Melbourne Heart	Sydney
Thursday 19:00 EDT	Cazarine  44'	Report Summary	Srhoj  1' Zahra 86'	Stadium: Sydney Football Stadium Attendance: 6,639 Referee: Ben Williams

2 January 2011 24	Melbourne Heart	2–0	North Queensland Fury	Melbourne
Sunday 17:00 EDT	Aloisi 58' Sibon 83'	Report Statistics	M. Hughes  90+4'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 6,482 Referee: Peter Green

15 January 2011 25	Perth Glory	1–1	Melbourne Heart	Perth
Saturday 18:45 WST	Howarth 34'	Report Statistics	Alex 70'	Stadium: nib Stadium Attendance: 7,962 Referee: Gerard Parsons

19 January 2011 26	Melbourne Heart	1–1	Gold Coast United	Melbourne
Wednesday 20:00 EDT	Alex 17' Beauchamp  58'	Report Statistics	Djite 40' Perchtold  43'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 5,187 Referee: Strebre Delovski

22 January 2011 27	Melbourne Victory	2–2	Melbourne Heart	Melbourne
Saturday 19:00 EDT	Allsopp 10'  38' Hernández 31'  89' Ferreira  43' Kemp  50' Angulo  54' K. Muscat  60'  79' Petkovic  90+2'	Report Statistics	Aloisi 45+2', 51' Skoko  48' M. Thompson  76'	Stadium: Etihad Stadium Attendance: 32,231 Referee: Chris Beath

28 January 2011 28	Brisbane Roar	2–1	Melbourne Heart	Brisbane
Friday 19:30 EST	Solórzano 5'  90+2' Nichols  45' Meyer 62'	Report Statistics	Sibon  45+1' 75' M. Thompson  46'	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 4,213 Referee: Matthew Breeze

4 February 2011 29	Melbourne Heart	1–1	Central Coast Mariners	Melbourne
Friday 20:00 EDT	M. Thompson 49'	Report Statistics	McBreen 50' McGlinchey  55' Amini  90+3'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 3,667 Referee: Strebre Delovski

12 February 2011 30	Melbourne Heart	2–2	Sydney FC	Melbourne
Saturday 19:00 EDT	Srhoj  20' Sibon  29'  44' Skoko  34' Worm 41' Aloisi 62'  62'	Report Statistics	Carle 34' (pen.), 88' McFlynn  45+1'	Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 6,019 Referee: Ben Williams

Statistics

Overall

Players with no appearances not included in the list.

No.	Nat.	Name	Pos.	Starts	Sub.	Total	Goals
				1		Clint Bolton	GK	30	0	30	0
2		Michael Marrone	DF	29	0	29	0
3		Brendan Hamill	DF	5	7	12	0
4		Simon Colosimo	DF	22	4	26	1
5		Michael Beauchamp	DF	19	4	23	0
6		Matt Thompson	MF	29	0	29	2
7		Rutger Worm	MF	22	4	26	2
8		Kristian Sarkies	MF	2	4	6	0
9		Gerald Sibon	FW	24	3	27	7
10		Wayne Srhoj	MF	25	1	26	0
11		Alex Terra	FW	14	6	20	4
12		Peter Zois	GK	0	0	0	0
14		Kamal Ibrahim	MF	1	2	3	0
15		John Aloisi	FW	17	3	20	8
16		Aziz Behich	DF	23	4	27	0
17		Jason Hoffman	DF	3	9	12	0
18		Ante Tomić	MF	0	0	0	0
19		Eli Babalj	FW	1	12	13	2
20		Josip Skoko	MF	21	1	22	0
21		Kliment Taseski	FW	0	4	4	0
22		Nick Kalmar	MF	17	12	29	3
23		Dean Heffernan	DF	9	4	13	0
25		Adrian Zahra	MF	17	2	19	2

Disciplinary record

Players with no cards not included in the list.

Nat.	Name				Points
							Wayne Srhoj	11	0	0	11
	Matt Thompson	5	1	0	7
	Michael Beauchamp	3	0	1	6
	Dean Heffernan	3	1	0	5
	Rutger Worm	4	0	0	4
	Aziz Behich	2	1	0	4
	Michael Marrone	4	0	0	4
	Josip Skoko	4	0	0	4
	Simon Colosimo	3	0	0	3
	Gerald Sibon	1	1	0	3
	Brendan Hamill	2	0	0	2
	Alex Terra	2	0	0	2
	Nick Kalmar	2	0	0	2
	Adrian Zahra	2	0	0	2
	Jason Hoffman	2	0	0	2
	John Aloisi	2	0	0	2
	Eli Babalj	1	0	0	1
Total		53	4	1	64

Goal-scorers

Players with no goals not included in the list.

Total	Player		Goals per Game
			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	30
8		John Aloisi							1		1	1												1		1			2			1
7		Gerald Sibon				1								1		1	1						1			1				1
4		Alex Terra							1		1																1	1
3		Nick Kalmar				1	1							1
2		Eli Babalj			1											1
2		Adrian Zahra														1									1
2		Matt Thompson										1																			1
2		Rutger Worm			1																											1
1		Own goal		1
1		Simon Colosimo																						1
30	Total		0	1	2	2	1	0	2	0	2	2	0	2	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	1	1	2	1	1	2

References

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External links

• Official website

• Melbourne City FC seasons
• 2010–11 A-League season by team