Perth Glory FC

This article is about the men ‘s football club. For the women ‘s football club, see Perth Glory FC ( A-League Women )
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Perth Glory Football Club is an australian master soccer club based in Perth, Western Australia. It competes in the country ‘s premier men ‘s competition, A-League Men, under license from australian Professional Leagues ( APL ). [ 5 ]

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Founded in 1995, Perth Glory is one of three A-League clubs to survive from the now-defunct National Soccer League ( NSL ), playing their debut couple in this contest in October 1996 for the 1996–97 season. Perth established itself as a major side within australian soccer in the concluding seasons of this league, with managers Bernd Stange and Mich d’Avray leading the baseball club to three league Premierships and two Championships from four expansive final appearances within a five season period. Since entering the A-League as one of the eight original teams in 2004, the club has won a far premiership and appeared in two more distinguished finals under the management of Tony Popovic and Ian Ferguson. The clubhouse has besides appeared in the AFC Champions League once and appeared in two FFA Cup finals and two A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup finals. The club plays its home matches at Perth Oval, presently known as HBF Park for sponsorship purposes, a 20,500-seat stadium on Lord Street in Perth ‘s city center. Perth has used this stadium as their home flat coat since their origin. Perth ‘s main supporters ‘ group is known as the “ Glory Shed Supporters Club ”, named after “ The Shed ”, a patio at the golf club ‘s home ground. The club has rivalries with Wellington Phoenix, Gold Coast United, and the Melbourne Knights. The club ‘s all-time lead goalscorer is Bobby Despotovski, with 129 goals to his appoint in all competitions. Jamie Harnwell holds the record for most matches played, with 256 appearances for the Glory .

history [edit ]

Background ( 1977–95 ) [edit ]

Perth first showed interest in joining the National Soccer League ( NSL ) prior to its inaugural class in 1977. however, a series of logistic problems and fiscal concerns meant that the league was not bang-up to include a western Australian ( WA ) side. While the state congressman side continued to perform well in national and international cup competitions, WA continued to be unrepresented at a elder cabaret level until 1994. [ 6 ] In 1994, a group of businessmen led by Joe Claudio formed the Perth Kangaroos IFC. The cabaret competed in the 1994 Singapore Premier League along with the Darwin Cubs. At the prison term, there were visions of establishing an Asia-Pacific Super League which could become a clean and fiscal empire in the east. It turned out to be something of a forcemeat. The Kangaroos finished the league season undefeated and easily won the Singapore league title. however, with dwindling support and resources, the experiment proved to be a fiscal catastrophe and Perth Kangaroos IFC soon folded. [ 7 ]

early on seasons ( 1995–98 ) [edit ]

In 1995, another consortium led by Nick Tana made a bid for submission into the National Soccer League. Perth Glory was subsequently licensed to join the 1996–97 NSL temper and on 1 December 1995 the cabaret was formally launched. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 2 ] From a relatively unannounced beginning, the cabaret would develop beyond all expectations and help commercially re-establish Association football in a state where australian rules football dominates the media and Rugby league was commercially about to fail. Former Adelaide City player and Perth Kangaroos coach Gary Marocchi was appointed coach for the first base two seasons and won many fans with his bold, attacking style. initially believed to be nothing more than a nominal participant, Perth surprised many by merely merely missing the cut for the finals ; finishing 7th and 8th in 1996–97 and 1997–98 respectively. [ 10 ] The stimulate vogue of “ you score three, we score four ” draw fans – including many british expatriates .
In the Glory ‘s inauguration season, players such as NSL-title-winning sweeper Vinko Buljubašić, Perth-based striker Bobby Despotovski and youthful local asterisk Vas Kalogeracos were brought into the team and achieved cult condition. New Zealand international Gavin Wilkinson was besides signed while local midfielder Gareth Naven was appointed captain. [ 11 ] In their beginning meet in the NSL, Perth Glory lost to Sydney Olympic 4–1, with veteran Scot Alan MacKenzie scoring the first finish for Glory and Doug Ithier winning the first base Man-of-the-Match award. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Large crowd and good results soon followed with an exciting win over maintain champions, the Melbourne Knights, thrilling a huge crowd. glory needed merely a point in their final examination couple of the season but were defeated by the Knights and fell barely brusque of making the finals. [ 16 ] Glory midfielder Paul Strudwick was sent off during the meet in controversial circumstances while trouble oneself in the crowd besides marred the match. [ 10 ] In the 1997–98 temper, despite again narrowly missing the acme six and signing more high-profile players like Ernie Tapai, Danny Hay and Nigerians Samson Siasia and Peter Anosike, [ 17 ] it was a disappointing season for the Glory. [ 18 ]

Stange era ( 1998–2001 ) [edit ]

Fan defend was farther consolidated in the era of Bernd Stange. The former East german national bus became a media asterisk after replacing Gary Marocchi who was sacked. Mich d’Avray, a erstwhile England under-21 international was appointed as Stange ‘s adjunct passenger car. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] In his first season, Stange had taken Glory to their first-ever finals series and had fallen in the preliminary concluding against Sydney United. [ 21 ] With newly signings John Markovski and Con Boutsianis fitting uncoiled into the side, local player Jamie Harnwell started to develop into a identify defender and made the step to replace the injure Vinko Buljubašić. [ 22 ] unfortunately, a horror form slump at the stature of summer denied the Glory a top-two place but massive crowd still attended their two home finals at the WACA Ground against Adelaide City and Marconi Stallions. [ 21 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] In the keep up season, Glory recruited new players Ivan Ergić, Jason Petković and Olyroo Kasey Wehrman. [ 25 ] The club finished first in the regular temper and were crowned minor premiers for the first time, allowing them to enter the final series at the major semifinal. [ 26 ] In the finals serial, the Glory lost to Wollongong Wolves 1–0 at Brandon Park, the Wolves ‘ home ground, in the first gear branch of the major semifinal. The second leg of the major semifinal was held at Subiaco Oval, rather than their regular venue Perth Oval, to accommodate an ask larger crowd. In the match, Perth Glory won 2–0 over the Wolves, 2–1 on sum, to qualify for the thousand final. The crowd of 42,764 was an australian record for a clubhouse soccer match. [ 27 ] In the wake of the record herd, the western australian government announced a purpose-built stadium for the Glory in central Perth. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] The 1999/2000 august concluding is remembered as one of the most thrill matches in NSL history. Perth again faced the Wolves and led 3–0 at half prison term against a deplorable Wolves outfit ; thinking the bet on was won, Stange substituted winder Glory players Scott Miller, Bobby Despotovski and Ivan Ergić. Yet, the Wolves rallied wonderfully and Perth experienced a serial of defensive blunders to be pegged back to 3–3 at full-time. Perth subsequently lost on penalties, but this specify consequence galvanised the team and would be a motivation storm for years to come. James Afkos, a young defender and son of Glory co-owner Paul Afkos saw his punishment saved, which gave the win to the Wolves. [ 30 ] The Wolves side besides featured players such as Scott Chipperfield, Sašo Petrovski ampere well as Matt Horsley and Stuart Young who would go on to play with the Glory in late years. The loss was a crushing blow to Glory but the team had done well despite problems Stange had with stars such as Vas Kalogeracos and Con Boutsianis who had both left the club. [ 25 ] Stange had besides been told center through the season that his contract would not be renewed—but well-organised athletic supporter protest and media coerce forced Tana to change his mind and publicly announce the U-turn before a home match against the Canberra Cosmos. [ 31 ] In cattiness of the loss, Stange was democratic with the public but his time had come by the end of the 2000/01 season. glory was excessively discrepant during the season, suffering from more player disharmony involving Stange ‘s tactics, and falling just short circuit of a top-two blemish. aura had at times played dear attacking football but proved unable to do therefore systematically. [ 32 ] In the finals series, the Glory once again came up against the Melbourne Knights and drew 0–0 in Melbourne despite having Jamie Harnwell sent off. Following the match Melbourne Knights fans attacked the team and their bus as they tried to leave Sunshine Stadium. It is believed that the fans were angered by a serbian salute made by Bobby Despotovski towards Melbourne Knights fans, a club who traditionally has a large croatian subscribe base. [ 33 ] In the come back stage Glory were eliminated following a 2–2 draw. The Knights had gone into an early lead with goals in slippery conditions before two late goals to the Glory but it was n’t enough with the Knights winning through the away goal rule. [ 34 ] Despite signing high-profile recruits such as Damian Mori ( who had formed a prolific partnership with Bobby Despotovski upfront ) and Brad Maloney while besides holding onto young star Ljubo Miličević the Glory had underachieved and Stange was sacked by Nick Tana. [ 35 ] [ 36 ]

D’Avray earned run average and end of NSL ( 2001–04 ) [edit ]

Despite the flare of Stange ‘s reign, it would take the more tactical approach of Mich d’Avray to last win the NSL Championship. While less flamboyant than his harbinger, d’Avray successfully transformed the team with a different scheme to the former coaches. The attacking 5–3–2, which saw about as many goals conceded as scored, was replaced with a 4–4–2. Some may argue that the team began to play a less attractive form of the game, but cipher could argue with the results. In 2001/2, the team about went the entire temper undefeated with a side that only had former Adelaide City midfielder Brad Hassell as a major accession. [ 37 ] After scraping through in the moment branch of the major semi-final against Newcastle, Glory faced Sydney Olympic in the thousand final at a sold-out Subiaco Oval. While the 2000 Final was one of the great games of domestic Australian association football, the 2002 final examination was a tight and strain affair with Glory hardly getting a tear on target ascribable to the fact that they lacked any bite in the midfield and had their two strikers marked out of the game. Ante Milicic was on target for Olympic though and his goal early in the second half was enough for Olympic to win 1–0 and break the hearts of Glory fans once again. [ 38 ] Maloney left the club at the end of the 2002 season but his replacement proved to be a key in Glory last getting that elusive title. german midfielder Andre Gumprecht was brought into the club thanks to Stange and made an instantaneous impact. [ 39 ] With the NSL disintegrating around them, Glory and Olympic were the alone two semi-decent teams silent left in the league to galvanise their midfield and fought it out for top point all season. Glory missed out on the league title, finishing one point behind Olympic. In March 2003, the NSL stripped the club of three points after ruling that Gumprecht had been played before he had been registered. [ 40 ] aura picked up Socceroo Simon Colosimo halfway through the season and finally won the veracious to host the 2003 Grand Final after coming out on lead of a new, confusing and convoluted league table finals format that had dragged a poor temper out. In the Grand Final Glory took the game to Olympic and following a head goal from in the first half from Harnwell it was all over former in the equal when Mori saw his shoot drip over the line in dramatic manner. 2–0 was the end leave and d’Avray had delivered the Grand Final victory Glory had yearned for. [ 41 ] In the final NSL season in 2003–04, Glory only had Parramatta Power as a huge terror with the westerly Sydney club buying up big for the temper. Players like Fernando Rech, Michael Beauchamp and Ante Miličić were brought in along with Glory midfielders Gumprecht and Colosimo in what seemed to be a huge waste to the champions. In response to the plundering of their engine room d’Avray signed up Sydney Olympic championship winners Tom Pondeljak, Wayne Srhoj and Jade North while besides getting former Socceroo defender and West Australian Shaun Murphy back from the United Kingdom. [ 42 ] In a season where Glory again went lead to head with a team from Sydney, Parramatta beat the Glory at family 4–2 and then away 2–0 to host the final examination always NSL Grand Final. [ 43 ] Glory thrashed Adelaide United in the preliminary final and faced Parramatta at Parramatta Stadium to try and go for back to back victories. [ 44 ] In the pour rain, Parramatta were brought down to the level of their opponents and scrapped for every ball in a match barren of many chances. Mori wasted two sitters before young striker Nick Mrđa nailed a injection past Clint Bolton to claim the fortunate finish and win the meet for Glory and their second NSL style. [ 45 ] It was around 2001 that the league showed signs of significant deterioration. A combination of cardinal mismanagement, conflicts of matter to and poor sponsorship would finally lead to a politics inquiry and the removal of the leadership of Soccer Australia. [ 46 ] Eventually, the relaunched and renamed Football Federation Australia announced the creation of the A-League in 2005. The fiscal backing and business nous of chair Nick Tana had ensured the viability and success of the club during the earlier desperate times – and ensured it a place in the future of the bet on in Australia. [ 47 ]

decline and ownership troubles ( 2005–09 ) [edit ]

In January 2005, former Liverpool and England leading Steve McMahon was appointed as coach. [ 48 ] The club changed its name from the Perth Glory Soccer Club to the Perth Glory Football Club with a modern logo being unveiled at a season plunge in February. [ 49 ] The 2005–06 season saw a dispatch overhaul of the play police squad, with Simon Colosimo and former Sunderland and Leeds striker Brian Deane as key signings. other celebrated signings included future young stars Nick Ward and Billy Celeski. early results in friendlies against local confrontation were not great, but Perth became the first team to defeat Sydney FC, winning 1–0 in the semi-final of the 2005 A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup before losing in the final 0–1 to the Central Coast Mariners. [ 50 ] Perth ‘s woebegone recruit scheme was soon apparent with the early passing of star significance Brian Deane after seven games. Another McMahon recruit, Northern Ireland junior international Neil Teggart, quit the clubhouse prior to the get down of the regular season. Deane was replaced by Damian Mori, a former Perth Glory striker. originally on a three-game temp contract, after some impressive performances Mori stayed for the rest of the season and finished with seven goals. [ 51 ] however, the club continued to be dogged by problems which would only be late revealed to the public. Steve McMahon was subject to ceaseless media criticism over his coach style and was accused of nepotism by signing his son, Steve McMahon Jr, who was of questionable endowment. Rumours besides surfaced that players were planning to stage a revolt against the coach. On 7 December, the baseball club reported that the parties had “ amicably ” choose to go separate ways. [ 52 ] On 9 December 2005, the club announced that assistant bus Alan Vest would move into the promontory coach function for the end of the season, with striker Damian Mori taking on a double role as player-coach after being named as his assistant. [ 53 ] The coach ‘s departure was merely a symptom of profoundly troubles. Poor performances saw Perth miss out on qualification for the finals for the foremost time since 1998. Dwindling support from chair Nick Tana, as he looked to sell his 75 percentage interest in the club, seemed to underpin a general decline in club fortunes. [ 54 ] After the Round 20 meet against Sydney FC, Alan Vest hinted that the current player group were incapable of achieving anything better and stated that “ cliques ” had been formed sabotage club harmony. To cap off a bad season, western QBE announced they were withdrawing as major sponsor after being associated with the club for 8 years. On 1 May 2006, Football Federation Australia relieved owner Nick Tana of ownership and management of Perth Glory. [ 55 ] The 2006–07 season saw a host of changes. In July 2006, australian international Stan Lazaridis signed a biennial deal. [ 56 ] This was quickly followed by the date of Ron Smith as head bus and Michelle Phillips as CEO on 26 July. [ 57 ] unfortunately, star youth actor Nick Ward did not honour his biennial sign and defied the advice of the FFA and left for Queens Park Rangers in England. [ 58 ] In a major bonus for the Glory, longtime collaborator and sponsor Western QBE Insurance gave a usher of religion and signed on as the cabaret ‘s major presenter in round 18, until the end of the 2007–2008 season. western QBE had previously been sponsor of the club since 1998, but decided against resigning a share at the start of the 2006–2007 season, leaving the Glory in a very tough situation- without any sponsor or owners. But in December 2006, signs were shown that owners had been found by the FFA, and thus western QBE were reinstated. The FFA ( holders of the Perth Glory license ) announced on 23 February 2007 that the Glory was to be handed over to a triumvirate of owners : Tony Sage, Brett McKeon and John Spence. This announcement ended about a year of uncertainty. [ 59 ] The newfangled glory owners were ambitious in their plans, bringing fresh hope to a club that was slightly poor, both off the sphere and on, in 2006–07 season. The 2007–08 season saw the arrivals of new, promise additions to the slope. The glory signed Anthony Danze, Billy Celeski, Dino Djulbic, AIS calibrate Jimmy Downey, Naum Sekulovski, former Perth Soccer Club and Young Socceroos goalkeeper Tando Velaphi, Nikita Rukavytsya, Sydney FC musician Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Milton Keynes Dons winger Nick Rizzo, croatian striker Mate Dragičević, Hayden Foxe, Mitchell Prentice and striker James Robinson. [ 60 ] credibly the biggest coup for the Glory for the 2007–08 season was the sign of a annual sponsorship cope with Singapore listed sword manufacturer Delong Holdings, worth A $ 750,000, one of the biggest in the A-League, who featured on the binding of the Glory jersey. [ 61 ] In the 2007 A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup, the Glory surprised many by making it to their moment final examination, despite not playing a single game in western Australia, which they lost 1–2 against Adelaide United. [ 62 ] The new league temper started ill for the Glory, winless after 12 rounds and attracting lone four-figure attendances. As a result, Ron Smith came under increasing pressure from fans and the media to deliver results. The team struggled to score goals, with Mate Dragičević in particular becoming a digit of derision. Glory legend Bobby Despotovski publicly called for Smith to be replaced, and on 4 November, Smith was sacked as director. [ 63 ] David Mitchell was handed the caretakers function for the rest of the season. [ 63 ] The bluff new era of Perth Glory began the same day, when it was announced the Glory were forming a strategic confederation with English Premier League club Manchester City. [ 64 ] A 4–1 thrash of Newcastle in Mitchell ‘s debut meet bode well for times ahead, [ 65 ] with Glory ‘s first gain at home in a year against Melbourne and Glory ‘s first-ever league succeed over Sydney. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] Mitchell won four and drew two of the remaining 10 games of the 2007–08 season, with the club finishing 7th overall. [ 68 ] The 2008–09 season preparations began much earlier than past seasons, with Perth Glory going on a three-game go of China in March, consisting of matches against Changchun Yatai, Guangzhou City and Guangzhou Football Club. [ 69 ] [ 70 ] Perth Glory besides made multiple newfangled signings, including released Eugene Dadi, Adriano Pellegrino, Adrian Trinidad, Josip Magdić, Naum Sekulovski, brazilian international midfielder Amaral, [ 71 ] child Scott Bulloch and former Glory midfielder Wayne Srhoj. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] Perth finished the season in 7th home, with 22 points. Glory once again started the season poor, though they did however finish the second half of the season strongly, winning 4 matches and drawing 3, securing 15 points in the final 11 rounds since November. [ 74 ] In November, head coach Dave Mitchell signed a condense annex securing his services till the end of the 2010/11 season. [ 75 ] Mitchell ‘s contract extension, despite Glory ‘s slow begin, showed the modern steering Glory ‘s club was heading, of sight, but built on stable foundations. Promising signs on and off the field were shown this season and things progressed further with Tony Sage taking sole possession of the club at season ‘s end. [ 76 ]

back to Glory ( 2009–13 ) [edit ]

Perth vanadium North Queensland Former Perth Glory co-owner Brett McKeon sold his shareholding in the clubhouse to Tony Sage in February 2009, making Sage the exclusive owner of the baseball club. [ 77 ] Following this sage has invested money into the club for the 2009–10 season including a number of wholesale changes to operations, selling, players and staff. [ 78 ] As part of Glory ‘s pre-season political campaign, the baseball club hosted English Premier League clubs Wolverhampton Wanderers FC and Fulham FC deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as new A-League franchise North Queensland Fury for friendly matches in Perth in July. Although Glory went down 1–0 and 5–0 to Wolverhampton and Fulham respectively the consequence was a success attracting an average of 13,000 fans to Perth Oval for both matches. Perth Glory continued their pre-season in Mandurah with a 1–0 victory against North Queensland Fury featuring Fury ‘s pavilion bless Robbie Fowler. For season 2009–10, Perth Glory had undertaken an pass of the club badge and playing kit, which includes vertical white and imperial stripes on their home kit for the first gear prison term in the club ‘s history. [ 79 ] Tony Sage ‘s promise to invest in the club by spending the full sum of money on players allocated under the A-League ‘s wage cap dominion had eventuated with the club making key signings. Victor Sikora was signed in February 2009 [ 80 ] following a short term least sandpiper at Glory on loan from FC Dallas during the latter function of the 2008–09 A-League temper. far external players were added to the squad with serbian striker Branko Jelić signed on a 3-year deal from Energie Cottbus [ 81 ] and Englishman Andy Todd joining from Derby County. [ 82 ] Following up on an early season promise by Tony Sage to sign Socceroo players, Perth Glory had successfully secured the services of Jacob Burns. [ 83 ] In June 2009, in a boldface move to attract attention for 2010 FIFA World Cup choice, Mile Sterjovski joined the club on a pavilion narrow, [ 84 ] while Chris Coyne besides announced his intentions by returning to his hometown club. [ 85 ] Perth Glory ‘s first peer of the 2009–10 A-League season was played away at Hindmarsh Stadium against Adelaide United on 7 August 2009. This was the first base season that Perth made the finals series in the A-League, finishing 5th on the ladder. [ 86 ] The Glory were knocked out in the elimination final against Wellington Phoenix on penalties. [ 87 ] Perth v North Queensland At the get down of the 2010–11 season, Perth signed ex-North Queensland Fury director Ian Ferguson as the adjunct coach, despite rumours circulating that Ferguson and new Glory bless Robbie Fowler had a bad working relationship whilst at North Queensland Fury. Glory signed veteran Jamie Harnwell to a modern annual consider for the 2010–11 temper. The club besides went on to sign Perth products Jamie Coyne and Todd Howarth to abridge extensions, before signing left-back Josh Mitchell and hitter Michael Baird, who had played together for romanian golf club Universitatea Craiova. [ 88 ] On 27 April 2010, it was announced that Fowler had agreed to become separate of Glory ‘s squad for the 2010–11 A-League temper. [ 89 ] Fowler reportedly rejected offers from Middle East clubs to stay in Australia after enjoying his time in the country. [ 90 ] After an initial strong start to the season as equal-top after a 5-game undefeated stripe, Glory lost four matches in a row, forcing David Mitchell to step down as coach, with assistant coach Ian Ferguson becoming his substitute on 12 October 2010. [ 91 ] [ 92 ] After the managerial change, Glory lost another 3 games, to make it 7 losses consecutively. Glory finished second last in the season, after losing their death 5 games .
Perth Glory ‘s 2011–12 season featured respective high-profile signings with Ian Ferguson signing a large numeral of oversea and local players, including erstwhile Adelaide United musician Travis Dodd, former Gold Coast United players Bas avant-garde hideout Brink and Shane Smeltz, Brazilian player Andrezinho, Irish external Liam Miller and former Ireland Under 21s player Billy Mehmet. respective players were permit go, including Robbie Fowler and Jamie Coyne. [ 93 ] In the pre-season, Perth played scots giants celtic FC in front of 15,000 fans, with the Glory losing the friendly 0–2. [ 94 ] Perth Glory ‘s beginning match of the season was against Adelaide United at nib Stadium, which they won 1–0. [ 95 ] They former went on to defeat Wellington Phoenix 1–0, to make it three wins in a row. [ 96 ] Glory again slumped in form, winning one out of their final 9 matches including 7 defeats. With atmospheric pressure mounting on coach Ian Ferguson, on 19 December 2011, Glory Owner Tony Sage threatened to leave the club at the end of the season. [ 97 ] however, after apologising and dismissing his threats as an emotional effusion, [ 98 ] Glory went out to win 9 of their last 15 and finished third on the ladder, qualifying for the finals series for the second time in their A-League history. [ 99 ] Glory ‘s finals series kicked off with a 3–0 victory over Melbourne Heart in a match at nib stadium. [ 100 ] The semifinal was against their rivals Wellington at nib stadium, which the Glory won 3–2 in extra time. [ 101 ] Perth then went to Bluetongue Stadium to play Central Coast Mariners in the preliminary concluding, the match the Glory won 1–1 ( 5–3, on penalties ) to qualify for their first A-League Grand Final. [ 102 ] Against the Brisbane Roar, in front of 50,334 people at Suncorp Stadium, Perth went up 1–0 in the 53rd moment of the equal. however, Brisbane ‘s Besart Berisha equalised in the 84th hour and finally scored the winner in the dying seconds of the game through a controversial penalty. [ 103 ] [ 104 ] Jacob Burns was awarded the Joe Marston Medal for musician of the match after it was by chance awarded to Brisbane actor, Thomas Broich. [ 105 ] For the 2012–13 season the Perth Glory owner, Tony Sage, put several players on abridge deals in order to save money. [ 106 ] however, some players, such as Andrezinho and Scott Neville, did not accept the offers. Perth Glory besides embarked on signing youth, [ 107 ] players Chris Harold and hadrian Zahra were signed, while Brandon O’Neill and Ndumba Makeche were promoted from the youth police squad. Perth Glory besides won the Grand Final re-match, One goal to Nil, in Round One of the season to hand “ retaliation ” [ 108 ] to the Rado Vidošić led Brisbane Roar. A string of poor operation throughout the season saw Ian Ferguson sacked and replaced by former Perth Glory player, Alistair Edwards. The club would then produce a string of good performances to make the finals before being eliminated at the hands of Melbourne Victory, losing 1–2. [ 109 ] At the beginning of the 2013–14 season, the club decided to dedicate the count 12 shirt to the fans by not registering it to a player and having it listed as ‘Glory Fans ‘ when the police squad is announced on meet days. [ 110 ] Alistair Edwards was sacked as Manager on 17 December 2013, and replaced on an interim footing by Kenny Lowe. [ 111 ] many fans blamed Jacob Burns for the dismissal of Alistair Edwards ( with rumours of him being the leader of the rise against Edwards ). [ 112 ] The club would finish 8th in another disappointing season, with at one stage, the club was sitting at the bottom of the table .

Lowe era ( 2013–18 ) [edit ]

Perth Glory training prior to a home game in 2015 The 2014–15 season showed much signs of predict. irish international Andy Keogh, Dutch international Youssouf Hersi and returning goalkeeper Danny Vukovic joined the police squad in what would be Kenny Lowe ‘s first full season as coach. Glory started the season on a eminent, promptly becoming league leaders and managing a run in the inaugural address 2014 FFA Cup that reached the concluding. [ 113 ] Although they lost the cup concluding 1–0 to Adelaide United, it did not diminish their efforts in the league. however, the season cursorily turned off when Fairfax Media reported Glory had gone over the wage cap. [ 114 ] Football Federation Australia investigated the claims before finding that the club had breached the wage cap by $ 400,000. [ 115 ] As a consequence of the wage hood violations the club received a $ 269,000 very well and was disqualified from the 2015 finals series ( resulting compulsory 7th-place finish despite ending the season in third base place ). [ 116 ] On 16 April 2015, Perth ‘s chief administrator Jason Brewer announced his resignation. [ 117 ] He was replaced by Peter Filopoulos. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] The 2015–16 season was largely a success, with the newly signed Diego Castro winning the Johnny Warren Medal for the A-League best player. [ 120 ] The cabaret finished 5th, [ 121 ] before losing 2–0 to the third place Melbourne City FC away from home. [ 122 ] In the FFA Cup the Glory again made the final, before going down 2–0 to Melbourne Victory FC. [ 123 ] The 2016–17 season started well with the signings of defender Rhys Williams from English club Middlesbrough and promising 19-year-old midfielder Brandon Wilson, ampere well as the resign of reigning Johnny Warren Medalist Diego Castro. [ 124 ] After an discrepant temper the golf club finished 5th, with Castro sharing the club Golden Boot with Andy Keogh and Adam Taggart. They again faced Melbourne City in the elimination final, with the club shock winners 2–0 away from home to set up a semi-final with the newly crowned A-League Premiers Sydney FC. [ 125 ] Sydney took a 3–0 halftime lead which they never relinquished, the Glory falling one game short circuit of their second A-League Grand Final. [ 126 ] The 2017–18 season got off to a very bad start, the clubhouse losing 1–0 in the first round of the FFA Cup to NPL Victoria club Heidelberg United, despite match spanish signings of Andreu Guerao and Xavi Torres, equally well as Mitch Nichols and Scott Neville. After slumping to a 6–0 frustration mid-season at the hands of Sydney FC the Glory, and with wax atmospheric pressure on passenger car Kenny Lowe after entering into a conflict for bottom spot on the ladder, the Glory signed Neil Kilkenny from Melbourne City whose arrival provided a lot needed persuasiveness in the midfield and coincided with a incontrovertible reversal in shape. After defeating eventual Grand Finalists Melbourne Victory FC and Newcastle Jets FC in the close rounds, the Glory entered the concluding round with a succeed against the Brisbane Roar at home netting them the last spot in the finals. The Glory went devour 2–3, slumping to 8th put on the run. Following a largely abortive season coach Kenny Lowe was removed as coach [ 127 ] and CEO Peter Filopoulos resigned to move back to Victoria to take up the CEO character with Football Federation Victoria, but not before ( aboard Head of Football, Jacob Burns ) overseeing the appointee of modern head bus, Tony Popovic. During Peter ‘s time as CEO, membership grew by 50 %, the club moved into a newly coach and presidency HQ sharing with westerly Force and the clubhouse business operations improved significantly. [ 128 ] Kenny Lowe took up a function as technical conductor of the club ‘s junior academy. In May 2018, Tony Pignata replaced Peter Filopoulos as CEO of the club. [ 129 ] In November, it was confirmed that erstwhile player Steven McGarry will become the Technical Director within Glory ‘s youth structure, at the lapp time leading the Under-18 team. Former actor Richard Garcia was besides confirmed as assistant coach of both the senior team and head passenger car of the youth team. [ 130 ]

Popovic era and the recurrence of success ( 2018–20 ) [edit ]

The 2018–19 temper showed many signs of promise. New players were brought into the team including three-time A-League ace Ivan Franjic, [ 132 ] early Socceroo Tomislav Mrcela, [ 133 ] Western Sydney ‘s all-time exceed goal scorer Brendon Santalab, [ 134 ] Champions League achiever Matthew Spiranovic, [ 135 ] erstwhile Premier League player Jason Davidson, [ 136 ] Socceroo Chris Ikonomidis [ 137 ] and erstwhile La Liga musician Juande. [ 138 ] The temper started with a pre-season friendly loss against Chelsea, with the equal ending 0–1. [ 139 ] Popovic ‘s beginning competitive game in charge was an FFA Cup repair in the Round of 32 against Melbourne Victory, where the Glory lost 0–1. [ 140 ] Perth started the unconstipated A-League season powerfully not losing their open eight fixtures, the only team to do indeed that season. With two games to spare, Perth Glory confirmed their plaza at the top of the A-League, becoming the 2018–19 Premiers with a 1–0 win over Newcastle Jets, ending a 15-year trophy drought. [ 141 ] The regular season ended with Perth winning 18 out of 27 matches in the league and lone losing three games entire, with lone one away from home, earning a club phonograph record of 60 points overall. This besides secured them a smudge in their foremost continental competition, the 2020 AFC Champions League. [ 141 ] Perth Glory besides reached their moment A-League Grand Final ever, after defeating Adelaide United in the semi-final. The semi-final visualize Perth achieve a 2–0 moderate in the 74th minute, with two goals from Diego Castro, followed by a come back from Adelaide, to make the game go into extra time. In extra time, Scott Neville scored a header for Perth, which was followed by a goal from Michael Marrone to make the score 3–3 after extra prison term. The penalty shoot-out saw Liam Reddy save four penalties to win it for Perth 5–4. [ 142 ] The Grand Final, played against 2nd-placed Sydney, was hosted in Perth for the first gear time in the A-League era and the one-fourth meter overall, with a record-breaking attendance of 56,371. [ 143 ] Despite many chances for Perth to score and a controversial goal disallowed for being offside for Sydney, [ 143 ] the game went scoreless after extra-time. The penalty shoot-out ended 4–1 in Sydney ‘s privilege. [ 144 ] For the 2019–20 temper, new, promising players were brought into the team. In March 2019, Perth confirmed they had signed Melbourne City FC striker Bruno Fornaroli on a biennial deal. [ 145 ] Perth besides signed Brisbane Roar pair Dane Ingham and Nicholas D’Agostino, [ 146 ] Sydney FC fan favored Jacob Tratt, [ 147 ] defender Kim Soo-beom, [ 148 ] former Melbourne City defender Osama Malik, [ 149 ] Swiss international Gregory Wüthrich [ 150 ] and Socceroo James Meredith. [ 151 ] Pre-season involved a friendly against Premier League giants, Manchester United. Despite Perth ‘s hard defense in the first one-half of the match, United were excessively much for them in the second with their new police squad, with goals from Marcus Rashford and James Garner sealing a 2–0 get the better of. [ 152 ] In the FFA Cup, Perth went down 1–2 in the circle of 32 against the western Sydney Wanderers. [ 153 ] Following a hapless start to the season, the Glory went on a ten-spot match undefeated streak, which included a 6–2 winnings against the Newcastle Jets, [ 154 ] moving into 2nd rate after a 1–1 draw against Brisbane Roar in round 20. [ 155 ] [ 156 ] In February, Tony Sage confirmed that a majority of his stake in the club was set to be sold to the London Football Exchange, a football-based cryptocurrency switch over, a cope that finally fell through due to growing guess over the legitimacy of the sale. [ 157 ] A spend in shape occurred before the season was temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 outbreak, [ 158 ] [ 159 ] american samoa well as a 0–1 loss in the Glory ‘s debut in the AFC Champions League against FC Tokyo. [ 160 ] After the restart of the season, the Glory lost key players, such as Wuthrith and Castro, due to the ending of contracts and the inability of the club to meet engage demands due to the loss of tax income caused by the pandemic. [ 161 ] [ 162 ] The club was besides in poor imprint, conceding a eminent count of goals and losing 0–4 to Melbourne Victory and 3–5 to Adelaide United, [ 163 ] [ 164 ] finally barely finishing in a finals situation, in 6th plaza. [ 165 ] The finals series saw the Glory win 1–0 against the 3rd placed Wellington Phoenix, following a brace from Joel Chianese in the first half of the elimination concluding. [ 166 ] The Glory ‘s ambition of going one further from the previous season ended after losing 0–2 against the premiers and eventual champions, Sydney FC, in the semi-final. [ 167 ] [ 168 ] A few days after this equal, the club confirmed that Tony Popovic had left the club to take up a management role in the greek club Xanthi, [ 169 ] [ 170 ] ending his successful biennial tenure with the club, a tenure that saw the break of respective records and the Glory winning its first part of A-League silverware. [ 141 ] [ 143 ]

Garcia era ( 2020–present ) [edit ]

On the 18th of September, Richard Garcia was appointed as Perth Glory coach, signing on for 2 seasons. [ 171 ] His beginning competitive games in appoint was at the 2020 AFC Champions League group phase whose concluding stages were held in Qatar due to an initial delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. here, Glory earned their first ever target in continental contest after a 3–3 tie with Shanghai Shenhua. [ 172 ] Perth were eliminated in the group stage in their debut AFC Champions League season, after finishing 4th in their group with one detail to their name. [ 173 ] Garcia ‘s first temper in charge was chiefly a disappointment. inconsistent performances led to the Glory missing out on finals for the first clock time in two seasons and finishing in 9th, their second-lowest complete position in their history. [ 174 ] [ 175 ]

list, colours and badge [edit ]

Perth ‘s home kit as of the 2020–21 season is chiefly purple, with orange stripes on the collar and arms. The kit besides consists of purple shorts with orange shave and purple socks. The aside kit consists of a egg white jersey with orange and imperial stripes throughout, including on the collar and arms, and a big empurpled strip behind the BHP sponsorship in the in-between of the kit. The shorts are blank with orange and purple trimming and the socks are white. [ 176 ] In what was seen as something of a tribute to Glory ‘s past, the clean used for the 2009–10 season had upright stripes, alike to what can be found on Glory ‘s new jersey of 1996–97. [ 177 ] On 23 October 2011, Perth Glory wore a predominantly bluing jersey in recognition of the 125-year anniversary of their major patronize, QBE Insurance, in a equal against Wellington Phoenix. [ 178 ] The Glory ‘s original badge, used for the entire NSL earned run average of the golf club, features sunlight rays that appear just above the parole ‘Glory ‘, that utilises a soccer ball to represent the ‘O ‘ in the give voice. The word ‘Perth ‘ is besides incorporated into the badge, in an arch above the soccer ball. [ 179 ] In 2005 when the A-League was launched, the golf club decided a new badge was needed for the newfangled earned run average of Perth Glory. This badge has a like layout to the original, retaining most of its elements, such as the soccer ball, the orange and purple colours and the sunbeam. [ 49 ] In April 2009, a newly shield badge for the cabaret was unveiled, which features a soccer ball, sunbeams that protrude the sketch of the badge and the color of the original badge angstrom well as a grey tinge. [ 180 ] Though completely divergent from previous designs, the raw badge was received well in the general public. The deepen was viewed as the measure to a new era of Perth Glory, attempting to appeal to fans. The golf club ‘s 15th and 20th year anniversaries were celebrated with one-off logos, in the 2011–12 temper and the 2016–17 season respectively. [ 181 ] [ 182 ]

Kit evolution [edit ]

Home

1996–1997

1998–2000
2000–2001

2002–2003

2003–2004

2005–2006

2007–2009

2009–2011
2011–2013

2013–2017
2017–2019

2019–2020

Away

1996–1997

stadium [edit ]

Perth Glory have played their home games at Perth Oval ( known as HBF Park for sponsorship purposes ) since their origin, a stadium that holds 20,500 spectators. [ 4 ] The baseball club played their first equal in the National Soccer League at the ground in October 1996. [ 14 ] For the beginning several seasons of the NSL, the club ground-shared with East Perth Football Club, a local australian rules football club. A phone number of project permanent wave homes for the Glory were suggested in the belated 1990s. As character of Multiplex ‘s contract to build the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, the construction ship’s company was required to build a rectangular stadium. The company was released from their contractual necessity after then-Glory chair Nick Tana decided to proceed with a renovation of Leederville Oval. [ 196 ] The Leederville Oval option was ultimately unsuccessful in the boldness of residential district resistance. In 2002, East Perth agreed to move to Leederville Oval and the state government agreed to turn Perth Oval into a dedicate rectangular venue. [ 197 ] [ 198 ] The record attendance for an A-League couple is 17,868 set in the semi-final against Adelaide United in the 2018–19 finals series, besting the previous read of 17,856, set when Glory hosted Melbourne Victory merely a few weeks prior in round 23. [ 142 ] [ 199 ] The largest average temper attendance in the A-League for the Glory is 10,533 in the 2016–17 season, while the largest attendance for any association football equal at the ground was in November 1998 when 18,067 fans turned up to see a top-table clash with arch-rival South Melbourne FC. [ 200 ] With the arrival of the Western Force, in the Super 14 Rugby rival at the time, there was a crusade to have a 30,000+ capacity orthogonal stadium in Perth. western Force and Perth Glory joined forces to lobby the western australian Government for a land of this size. The Force previously played games out of the 40,000-seat egg-shaped AFL prime Subiaco Oval, which hosted several Glory games before, by and large NSL Finals games, most notably the 1999–2000 season NSL Grand Final when an all-time NSL record push of 43,242 fans saw Wollongong Wolves beat the Glory on penalties following a 3–3 attract. [ 201 ] [ 30 ] With the Force moving to nib Stadium prior to the 2010 Super 14 Season, a small increase in capacity was made to the reason, increasing capacity from around 18,000 to 20,500. [ 202 ] A major renovation occurred at Perth Oval starting in June 2012, with the southerly and eastern stands being replaced with permanent wave structures. During the renovation, capacity was reduced during the 2012–13 A-League season. It was completed in September 2013, with a capacity of 20,441. There are plans to add a breed on the southern bandstand at a late stage. [ 203 ]

support and rivalries [edit ]

The independent active hold area in the stadium is ‘The Shed’, a breed terrace standing area at the northern end of the earth. [ 204 ] The original Shed was located on the mound at the northeast of the ground and was relocated closer to the playing airfoil during renovation in 2003. [ 202 ] The Shed is home to the supporters ‘ group, the ‘Glory Shed Supporters Club (GSSC)’. [ 205 ] [ 206 ] [ 207 ] [ 208 ] The Glory developed a competition against Wellington Phoenix after the side was established in 2007, titled ‘The Distance Derby’. It is based upon the two teams being considered as having one of the longest away trips in the world for a domestic league ( 5,255 km/3,270 security service ). [ 209 ] The two teams have had three tense finals games in the A-League, most recently with Perth Glory winning a finals match in the 2019–20 season. [ 87 ] [ 101 ] [ 166 ] The competition was formally resurrected in the 2015–16 A-League season by means of awarding a new trophy called the ‘Long Distance Derby Cup’, based on the accumulative results from the 3 league games for the temper. [ 210 ] Perth Glory won this cup in its inaugural year. The clubhouse besides has a competition with former A-League side Gold Coast United, named the ‘Iron Ore Cup’. This competition was established due to a media-generated conflict which occurred before the two teams ‘ meet for the first clock. [ 211 ] The competition was named in such a way due to the owner of Perth, Tony Sage, and the owner of Gold Coast, Clive Palmer, having key involvements in the mine diligence. [ 212 ] The two sides have not played each other since Gold Coast was omitted from the league at the end of the 2011–12 A-League season. [ 213 ] Perth besides developed a competition with former National Soccer League side Melbourne Knights. This competition started forming when the two sides competed against each other in a critical league match to qualify for finals during Glory ‘s inauguration temper, which featured crowd violence and Perth player Paul Strudwick being sent off. Glory finally lost the game 1–3, ending their hopes of finals in their first season. [ 10 ] [ 16 ] In May 2001, a finals match played in Melbourne between the two sides featured Perth player, Bobby Despotovski, performing a serbian salute towards the predominantly croatian herd, prompting Knights fans to assault Despotovski and Glory coach Bernd Stange prior to them boarding the Perth team bus. This prompted Glory fans to plan retaliatory attacks against Melbourne ‘s team bus prior to the second leg of the match. [ 33 ] [ 214 ] [ 215 ] The two sides have not played each other since the death of the NSL in 2004. [ 216 ]

Players [edit ]

First-team police squad [edit ]

As of 3 December 2021[217]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

young person [edit ]

Players to have been featured in a first-team matchday squad for Perth Glory.

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

possession and finances [edit ]

presently, the club is 100 % owned by Tony Sage. [ 3 ] In 1995, a consortium led by Nick Tana aimed to have a football team in Perth for the National Soccer League, subsequently Perth Glory were licensed to join the 1996/97 NSL season. In January 2004, Nick Tana announced he was planning to sell Perth Glory at the end of the season. [ 218 ] On 30 April 2006, Tana and Football Federation Australia reached an agreement for FFA to take control of the club on 1 May 2006 to assume interim ownership of the club. [ 55 ] On 23 February 2007, Football Federation Australia announced triumvirate of local businessmen, Tony Sage, Brett McKeon and John Spence would take ownership of the club, with a commitment to make the baseball club the powerhouse it was in the NSL. [ 219 ] In 2008, Spence walked away from the club leaving Tony Sage and Brett McKeon as co-owners. [ 77 ] On 18 February 2009, co-owner Brett McKeon quit the club as owner, making Tony Sage sole owner after buying out McKeon ‘s shares. [ 77 ] [ 220 ] On 19 December 2011, Tony Sage threatened to leave the club, [ 97 ] however after apologising and dismissing his threats as an emotional outburst, he re-affirmed his commitment to the cabaret. [ 98 ] In February 2020, Tony Sage confirmed that a majority of his stake in the baseball club was set to be sold to the London Football Exchange, a football-based cryptocurrency exchange. This deal, however, finally fell through due to growing meditation over its legitimacy. [ 157 ]

Captaincy history [edit ]

referee : [ 221 ] [ 222 ] [ 223 ]

baseball club officials [edit ]

Advisory Board [edit ]

Position

Name

Chairman

Tony Sage

Board Member

Ross Levin

Board Member

John Boardman

referee : [ 1 ]
referee : [ 1 ]

management and administration [edit ]

Position

Name

Chief Executive Officer

Tony Pignata

Football Operations

Terry McFlynn
referee : [ 1 ]

Managers [edit ]

Records [edit ]

Jamie Harnwell holds the team record for the most number of games played with 256 appearances to his name. Bobby Despotovski has the second most appearances for the club, with 241 matches and Scott Miller has the third most appearances with 227 matches. [ 234 ] Bobby Despotovski is the all-time highest goalscorer in all competitions for the club with 113 goals. Damian Mori has scored the second most goals with 93 and Andy Keogh has scored the third gear most, with 64 goals to his name. [ 234 ] [ 235 ] Perth Glory ‘s highest attendance for a home league match is 18,067, recorded on 15 November 1998 against South Melbourne. [ 200 ] The club ‘s highest home attendance for any peer is 56,371, recorded for the 2019 A-League Grand Final against Sydney FC. It is the highest serve grand final in A-League history. [ 143 ]

Honours [edit ]

Perth Glory won its first patch of major silverware in the 1999–2000 season, with the premiership being won, and won their second premiership in the 2001–02 season. [ 26 ] [ 37 ] Despite reaching the distinguished final examination in both respective seasons, the glory lost both, 3–3 ( 6–7 on penalties ) against Wollongong Wolves and 0–1 against Olympic Sharks respectively. [ 30 ] [ 38 ] In the Glory ‘s third grand final attack in 2003, the club won their first australian championship, after defeating Olympic Sharks 2–0. [ 41 ] In the follow temper, the last season of the National Soccer League, Perth won their beginning and lone double. This consisted of the win of their third premiership and second championship, after defeating Parramatta Power through the seduce of a aureate finish in extra time in the 2004 expansive final. [ 45 ] [ 236 ] Perth had a decline in form after the start of the A-League, failing to reach the finals series for respective seasons. [ 68 ] [ 74 ] [ 237 ] [ 238 ] Despite reaching the 2012 fantastic final examination, [ 104 ] a well as two FFA Cup finals [ 113 ] [ 123 ] and two A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup finals, [ 50 ] [ 62 ] the Glory failed to win silverware in the A-League era until the 2018–19 season. In this season, the club won its fourth premiership, with Tony Popovic as the coach of the side, ending a 15-year silverware drought and equalling the record for the most domestic premierships won, held by the Melbourne Knights at the time. [ 141 ] Perth besides hosted their first grand final since 2003 in the like season, finally losing on penalties to Sydney. [ 144 ]