This article is about Adelaide United players with fewer than 25 appearances. For Adelaide United players with between 25 and 99 appearances, see List of Adelaide United FC players (25–99 appearances). For Adelaide United players with more than 100 appearances, see List of Adelaide United FC players. For a list of all Adelaide United players, major or minor, with a Misplaced Pages article, see Category:Adelaide United FC players.
Adelaide United Football Club, an association football club based in Adelaide, South Australia, was founded in 2003. They became the first southern member admitted into the A-League in 2005, having spent their first and last season participating in the National Soccer League. The club's first team have competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions, and all players who have played between 1 and 24 such matches, either as a member of the starting eleven or as a substitute, are listed below.
Key
- The list is ordered first by date of debut, and then if necessary in alphabetical order.
- Appearances as a substitute are included.
- Statistics are correct up to and including the match played on 31 July 2024. Where a player left the club permanently after this date, his statistics are updated to his date of leaving.
| GK | Goalkeeper |
|---|---|
| DF | Defender |
| MF | Midfielder |
| FW | Forward |
- Nationality
- Unless otherwise noted, the nationality of a player is determined by the country/countries which he has played for, or if said person has not played international football, their country of birth.
- Position
- Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time.
- Club career
- Club career is defined as the first and last calendar years in which the player appeared for the club in any of the competitions listed below.
- Total appearances and Total goals
- Total appearances and goals comprise those in the National Soccer League, A-League Men, FFA Cup, Pre-Season Challenge Cup, AFC Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup.
Players
Players highlighted in bold are still actively playing for Adelaide United.
| Player | Nationality | Pos | Club career | Starts | Subs | Total | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appearances | |||||||
| Elias Demourtzidis |  Australia
|
FW | 2003–2004 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 0 |
| Goran Lozanovski | Australia
|
MF | 2003–2004 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 0 |
| Adriano Pellegrino | Australia
|
MF | 2003–2004 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 1 |
| Mimi Saric | Australia
|
FW | 2003–2004 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 2 |
| David Scarsella | Australia
|
GK | 2003–2004 | 24 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| David Terminello | Australia
|
MF | 2003–2004 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 1 |
| Aaron Westervelt | Australia
|
MF | 2003–2004 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 1 |
| Shane Smeltz |  New Zealand
|
FW | 2003–2004 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| Shane Thompson | Australia
|
MF | 2003–2004 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 1 |
| Nick Budin | Australia
|
MF | 2003–2004 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 1 |
| Fred Agius | Australia
|
MF | 2004 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 1 |
| Michael Brooks | Australia
|
FW | 2004 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 3 |
| Louis Brain | Australia
|
MF | 2005–2006 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 3 |
| Chad Bugeja | Australia
|
FW | 2005–2006 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 0 |
| Michael Matricciani | Australia
|
FW | 2006 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Tony Hatzis | Australia
|
MF | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Romário |  Brazil
|
FW | 2006 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Dez Giraldi | Australia
|
FW | 2007–2008 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 1 |
| Les Anastasiou | Australia
|
DF | 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Isyan Erdogan | Australia
|
DF | 2007–2009 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 0 |
| Milan Susak | Australia
|
DF | 2007–2008 2011 |
18 | 5 | 23 | 0 |
| Paul Agostino | Australia
|
FW | 2007–2009 | 16 | 8 | 24 | 4 |
| Shaun Ontong | Australia
|
DF | 2007–2008 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 0 |
| Tomi Milardovic | Australia
|
MF | 2007 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Matthew Mullen | Australia
|
MF | 2007–2010 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Robert Younis | Australia
|
FW | 2008–2009 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 0 |
| Mark Birighitti | Australia
|
GK | 2008–2012 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Rostyn Griffiths | Australia
|
MF | 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Joe Costa | Australia
|
MF | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Francesco Monterosso | Australia
|
FW | 2009–2011 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Lloyd Owusu |  Ghana
|
FW | 2009–2010 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 1 |
| Shin In-seob |  South Korea
|
MF | 2009–2010 | 2 | 19 | 21 | 0 |
| Marko Rudan | Australia
|
DF | 2009–2010 | 19 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| Adam Griffiths | Australia
|
MF | 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Joe Keenan |  England
|
MF | 2010–2011 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 1 |
| Bradley Norton | Australia
|
DF | 2010–2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Andwele Slory |  Netherlands
|
FW | 2011 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
| Dario Bodrušić |  Croatia
|
DF | 2011 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Spase Dilevski | Australia
|
DF | 2011–2012 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 1 |
| Evgeniy Levchenko |  Ukraine
|
MF | 2011–2012 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| Ricardo da Silva | Australia
|
MF | 2011–2012 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Teeboy Kamara | Australia
|
FW | 2011–2012 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Jacob Melling | Australia
|
MF | 2012–2014 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0 |
| Daniel Bowles | Australia
|
DF | 2012–2014 | 20 | 3 | 23 | 1 |
| Jake Barker-Daish | Australia
|
MF | 2012–2014 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 2 |
| Steven Lustica | Australia
|
MF | 2013–2014 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 1 |
| Brent McGrath | Australia
|
FW | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Michael Zullo | Australia
|
FW | 2013 | 23 | 1 | 24 | 0 |
| Anthony Costa | Australia
|
FW | 2014–2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Ryan Griffiths | Australia
|
FW | 2014 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| John Hall | Australia
|
GK | 2015–2017 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| Miguel Palanca |  Spain
|
FW | 2015 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 1 |
| Dylan Smith | Australia
|
MF | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Eli Babalj | Australia
|
FW | 2015–2016 2017 |
3 | 13 | 16 | 2 |
| Mate Dugandzic | Australia
|
FW | 2015–2016 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 1 |
| Antoni Trimboli | Australia
|
FW | 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Daniel Margush | Australia
|
GK | 2016–2018 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Jesse Makarounas | Australia
|
MF | 2016–2017 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 1 |
| Sergi Guardiola | Spain
|
FW | 2016–2017 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 3 |
| Henrique | Brazil
|
FW | 2016–2017 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 3 |
| James Holland | Australia
|
MF | 2016–2017 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Danny Choi | South Korea
|
FW | 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Marc Marino | Australia
|
FW | 2016–2017 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Kim Jae-sung | South Korea
|
MF | 2017 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 1 |
| Johan Absalonsen |  Denmark
|
FW | 2017–2018 | 13 | 3 | 16 | 8 |
| Karim Matmour |  Algeria
|
MF | 2017 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 0 |
| Ersan Gülüm |  Turkey
|
DF | 2017–2018 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| Apostolos Stamatelopoulos | Australia
|
FW | 2017–2019 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 4 |
| Kristin Konstandopoulos | Australia
|
FW | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Pacifique Niyongabire |  Burundi
|
FW | 2018–2021 | 1 | 23 | 24 | 1 |
| Džengis Čavušević |  Slovenia
|
FW | 2018 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Ken Ilsø | Denmark
|
MF | 2018–2019 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 3 |
| Carlo Armiento | Australia
|
FW | 2018–2019 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Jordy Thomassen | Netherlands
|
FW | 2019 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| Michaël Maria |  Curaçao
|
DF | 2019–2020 | 21 | 3 | 24 | 0 |
| Kristian Opseth |  Norway
|
FW | 2019–2020 | 15 | 9 | 24 | 6 |
| Isaac Richards | Australia
|
GK | 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Yared Abetew | Australia
|
DF | 2019–2021 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| James Troisi | Australia
|
MF | 2019–2020 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
| Noah Smith | Australia
|
DF | 2020–2021 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Taras Gomulka | Australia
|
MF | 2020 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Yaya Dukuly | Australia
|
FW | 2020–2022 2024– |
7 | 13 | 20 | 3 |
| George Timotheou | Australia
|
DF | 2021–2022 | 19 | 3 | 22 | 0 |
| Jacob Tratt | Australia
|
DF | 2021–2022 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 1 |
| Arbi Mollas |  Albania
|
MF | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Steven Hall | Australia
|
GK | 2022–2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Asad Kasumovic | Australia
|
FW | 2022–2023 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| Harry Van der Saag | Australia
|
DF | 2022–2024 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 2 |
| Panashe Madanha | Australia
|
MF | 2022– | 7 | 13 | 20 | 0 |
| Musa Toure | Australia
|
FW | 2022–2024 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 1 |
| Joshua Mori | Australia
|
FW | 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Luke Duzel | Australia
|
MF | 2023– | 2 | 18 | 20 | 0 |
| Jay Barnett | Australia
|
MF | 2023– | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| Giuseppe Bovalina | Australia
|
DF | 2023–2024 | 18 | 5 | 23 | 1 |
| Fabian Talladira | Australia
|
MF | 2023– | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Jake Porter | Australia
|
FW | 2023– | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ryan Tunnicliffe | England
|
MF | 2023– | 10 | 13 | 23 | 1 |
| Austin Ayoubi | Australia
|
FW | 2024– | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| Panagiotis Kikianis | Australia
|
DF | 2024– | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| Ethan Cox | Australia
|
GK | 2024– | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Dylan Pierias | Australia
|
FW | 2024– | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ryan White | Australia
|
MF | 2024– | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Harry Crawford | Australia
|
FW | 2024– | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
References
General
- "Complete Player Listing". aleaguestats.com.
- "Adelaide United: All Players". Ultimate A-League.
- "Australia's Premier Football Player Archive". ozfootball.net. Aussie Footballers.
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