Jump to content

List of Central Coast Mariners FC seasons

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian association football club based on the Central Coast of New South Wales. The club was formed in 2004 under the backing of the technical director Alex Tobin and Ian Kiernan who would be the first chairman of the club.[1] They played their first competitive match in the A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup against Queensland Roar on the 23 July 2005 with their first league match being on the 26 August 2005 against Perth Glory which they would win 1-0.[2] They would later go on to reach the first A-League Grand Final on 5 March 2006 before losing to Sydney FC by a single goal.[3]

The club was formed in 2004 to be one of the original teams in the A-League, which replaced the National Soccer League. The team had great early successes, winning the first A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup and coming second in the first A-League Championship. Lawrie McKinna was the club's first manager, for five seasons, in which time the team won an A-League Premiership and competed in the AFC Champions League.

Following McKinna's time in charge Graham Arnold was appointed as the club's head coach. Under Arnold, the side won another A-League Premiership and their first A-League Championship, as well as progressing past the group stage of the AFC Champions League for the first time.

In 2021, Nick Montgomery was appointed the head coach role, and under him the club would win another A-League Championship, as well as progressing to the Australia Cup final for the first time.

After Montgomery's tenure, Mark Jackson became the club's head coach, leading the club to a historic treble, winning the A-League Men Premiership. A-League Men Championship and AFC Cup in his first season.

The club has won the A-League Men Premiership three times, the A-League Men Championship three times, the A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup once and the AFC Cup once. This list shows the team's competitive records since their inaugural 2005-06 season. Top scorers in bold also won the A-League Men Golden Boot that season.

Seasons

[edit]
Season League Pre-Season Cup
(2005–08)
FFA / Australia Cup
(2014–present)
Oceania (2005) / Asia (2006–) Top scorer
Pld W D L GF GA Pts Position Finals Competition Result Player(s) Goals
2005–06 21 8 8 5 33 28 32 3rd Runners-up Champions OCL Australian Qualifying runners-up Stewart Petrie 9
2006–07 21 6 6 9 22 26 24 6th Runners-up Adam Kwasnik 9
2007–08 21 10 4 7 30 25 34 Premiers Runners-up 4th Sasho Petrovski 9
2008–09 21 7 7 7 35 32 28 4th 4th Group stage ACL Group stage Matt Simon 13
2009–10 27 7 9 11 32 29 30 8th Matt Simon 7
2010–11 30 16 9 5 50 31 57 2nd Runners-up Matt Simon 11
2011–12 27 15 6 6 40 24 51 Premiers 3rd ACL Group stage Patrick Zwaanswijk 8
2012–13 27 16 6 5 48 22 54 2nd Champions ACL Round of 16 Daniel McBreen 19
2013–14 27 12 6 9 33 36 42 3rd Semi-finals ACL Group stage Bernie Ibini-Isei 6
2014–15 27 5 8 14 26 50 23 8th Semi-finals ACL Qualifying play-off round Matt Sim 5
2015–16 27 3 4 20 33 70 13 10th Round of 32 Roy O'Donovan 8
2016–17 27 6 5 16 31 52 23 8th Round of 32 Roy O'Donovan 11
2017–18 27 4 8 15 28 49 20 10th Round of 32 Blake Powell, Connor Pain 4
2018–19 27 3 4 20 31 70 13 10th Round of 32 Matt Simon 7
2019–20 26 5 3 18 26 55 18 11th Semi-finals Milan Đurić 5
2020–21 26 12 6 8 35 31 42 3rd Elimination-finals Matt Simon 10
2021–22 26 12 6 8 49 35 42 5th Elimination-finals Runners-up Jason Cummings 10
2022–23 26 13 5 8 55 35 44 2nd Champions Round of 32 Jason Cummings 21
2023–24 27 17 4 6 49 27 55 Premiers Champions Round of 32 AFC Cup Champions Ángel Torres 15
2024–25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Round of 32 ACL Elite Group Stage Mikael Doka 2

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "And then there were eight ... who's likely to make the cut, who's not" (subscription required). The Sun-Herald. Sydney. 9 September 2004. Retrieved 27 June 2006.
  2. ^ "Spencer strike steals Glory". A-League. 27 August 2005. Archived from the original on 18 May 2011.
  3. ^ Lucas, Adam (5 March 2006). "Sydney FC prevails". Archived from the original on 3 September 2006.
[edit]