2010 A-League Grand Final

2010 A-League Grand Final
Event	2009–10 A-League
	Sydney won 4–2 on penalties
Date	20 March 2010
Venue	Etihad Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Man of the Match	Simon Colosimo, Sydney FC
Referee	Strebre Delovski
Attendance	44,560
	← 2009 2011 →

The 2010 A-League Grand Final took place at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia on 20 March 2010.

It was the final match in the A-League 2009–10 season, and was played between premiers Sydney FC and runners-up Melbourne Victory. Sydney FC won the match 4–2 on penalty shootout after drawing the game 1–1 and became the winners of the 2009–10 Championship in addition to their premiership.^[2]

The A-League National Youth League Grand Final was held at Etihad Stadium prior to the main game. After coming 4th in the 2009–10 season, Gold Coast United won the youth title in their inaugural season, coming from a goal down to defeat Perth Glory, 2–1.^[3]

Route to the final edit


Elimination finals			Semifinals				Preliminary final		Grand final



			1	Sydney FC	1	2			Melbourne Victory	1 (2)

			2	Melbourne Victory	2	2			Sydney FC (p.s.o.)	1 (4)

							Sydney FC	4
3	Gold Coast United	0 (5)
							Wellington Phoenix	2
6	Newcastle Jets (p.s.o.)	0 (6)
			Wellington Phoenix			3

			Newcastle Jets			1
4	Wellington Phoenix (p.s.o.)	1 (4)

5	Perth Glory	1 (2)

Match edit

Summary edit

An early knee injury forced key striker Archie Thompson, who scored 5 goals in the 2007 A-League Grand Final, off the field in the sixteenth minute. He was replaced by Costa Rican Marvin Angulo.

With both teams struggling to break the deadlock, Melbourne were left stunned when Mark Bridge scored a goal in the 63rd minute after a deflected cross. To add to Melbourne's misfortune, it was scored less than a minute after Rodrigo Vargas' headed goal was correctly disallowed by the assistant referee for offside.

Melbourne were able to find an equaliser through Adrian Leijer after Kevin Muscat delivered a set piece. Leijer's late header resulted in some frantic final minutes, but neither team were able to find the breakthrough goal in normal time. Extra time resulted in few opportunities and the game was decided by penalties for the first time in A-League history.

Details edit

20 March 2010
19:00 UTC+11

Melbourne Victory	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Sydney FC
Leijer 81'	Reports^[4]	Bridge 63'
Penalties
Muscat Brebner Angulo Broxham	2–4	Colosimo Cole Foxe Kisel Byun

Etihad Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 44,560^[5]

Referee: Strebre Delovski

Melbourne Victory

Sydney FC


GK	1	Mitchell Langerak
DF	2	Kevin Muscat (c)		62'
DF	5	Surat Sukha			71'
MF	6	Leigh Broxham
MF	8	Grant Brebner
FW	10	Archie Thompson			16'
DF	12	Rodrigo Vargas
MF	16	Carlos Hernández
FW	21	Robbie Kruse
MF	22	Nick Ward			76'
DF	23	Adrian Leijer	81'
Substitutes:
GK	20	Glen Moss
MF	11	Marvin Angulo			16'
DF	17	Matthew Foschini
DF	19	Evan Berger		100'	71'
FW	25	Aziz Behich			76'
Manager:
Ernie Merrick


GK	1	Clint Bolton
DF	2	Sebastian Ryall		26'
DF	3	Stephan Keller
DF	4	Simon Colosimo		51'
MF	6	Karol Kisel		84'
MF	8	Stuart Musialik			105'
FW	14	Alex Brosque			116'
MF	15	Terry McFlynn (c)
FW	16	Chris Payne			75'
FW	19	Mark Bridge	63'	31'
DF	22	Byun Sung-Hwan
Substitutes:
GK	20	Ivan Necevski
DF	5	Hayden Foxe			105'
MF	7	Brendan Gan
DF	12	Shannon Cole			75'
FW	31	Joey Gibbs			116'
Manager:
Vitezslav Lavicka

Joe Marston Medal:
Simon Colosimo (Sydney FC)

Assistant referees:
Ben Wilson
Matthew Cream
Fourth official:
Matthew Breeze

Match rules

90 minutes
30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.

A-League 2010 Champions

Sydney FC Second Title

Statistics edit

	Melbourne	Sydney
Attempts at goal	14	12
Attempts on target	6	6
Attempts off target	7	6
Attempts - woodwork	1	0
Keeper saves	3	4
Ball possession	51%	49%
Corners	8	5
Fouls committed	13	16
Offsides	3	3
Yellow cards	2	4
Red cards	0	0

References edit

^ "A-League Grand Final To Be Refereed By Strebre Delovski". Goal.com. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
^ "Sydney FC claim A-League title". ESPN. 20 March 2010. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
^ "Tahj secures glory for Gold Coast". A-League.com.au. Archived from the original on 7 November 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
^ "2010 A-League Grand Final". 27 February 2011. Archived from the original on 27 February 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ The stadium was configured into rectangular mode for the match

External links edit

Official A-League Website

[1] "A-League Grand Final To Be Refereed By Strebre Delovski". Goal.com. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2010.

[2] "Sydney FC claim A-League title". ESPN. 20 March 2010. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2010.

[3] "Tahj secures glory for Gold Coast". A-League.com.au. Archived from the original on 7 November 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2010.

[4] "2010 A-League Grand Final". 27 February 2011. Archived from the original on 27 February 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[5] The stadium was configured into rectangular mode for the match

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