List of Adelaide United FC players

• 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 23 January 2021. Where a player left the club permanently after this date, his statistics are updated to his date of leaving.

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 A-League, A-League Finals, National Soccer League, FFA Cup, Pre-Season Challenge Cup, AFC Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup

Isaías has the most appearances for a non-Australian player with 180.

Early player Angelo Costanzo has played 107 times.

Cássio has the highest number of appearances for a Brazilian player with 158, scoring 11 goals.[1]

Eugene Galekovic has the most appearances as a goalkeeper for Adelaide United with 285 games played.[2]

From 2007 to 2013, Fabian Barbiero played 116 times for Adelaide United with 9 goals.

Players highlighted in bold are still actively playing at Adelaide United.

List of Adelaide United FC players with 100 or more appearances

Player	Nationality	Pos	Club career	Starts	Subs	Total	Goals
				Appearances
Angelo Costanzo	Australia	DF	2005–2009	102	5	107	0
Travis Dodd	Australia	FW	2005–2011	166	17	183	41
Robert Cornthwaite	Australia	DF	2005–2011	109	29	138	8
Lucas Pantelis	Australia	MF	2005–2011	97	32	129	15
Bruce Djite	Australia	FW	2006–2008 2011–2016	132	33	165	44
Cássio	Brazil	DF	2007–2014	145	13	158	11
Eugene Galekovic	Australia	GK	2007–2017	285	0	285	0
Fabian Barbiero	Australia	MF	2007–2013	78	38	116	9
Michael Marrone	Australia	DF	2008–2010 2014–	146	42	188	4
Osama Malik	Australia	DF	2008–2009 2011–2016	93	17	110	2
Nigel Boogaard	Australia	DF	2010–2015	108	6	114	4
Cameron Watson	Australia	MF	2011–2015	77	34	111	1
Marcelo Carrusca	Argentina	MF	2012–2017	111	12	123	27
Ryan Kitto	Australia	FW	2013–2015 2016–	60	44	104	10
Jordan Elsey	Australia	DF	2013–	98	20	118	5
Isaías Sánchez	Spain	MF	2013–2019	179	1	180	10
Sergio Cirio	Spain	FW	2013–2017	110	4	114	30
Tarek Elrich	Australia	DF	2013–2018	107	7	114	3
Nikola Mileusnic	Australia	FW	2016–	79	24	103	19

Eight players have captained Adelaide United since it was founded in 2003, first being Ross Aloisi, who captained the team for Adelaide United's first two seasons. The club's longest-serving captain is Eugene Galekovic, who captained the club for 7 years between 2011 and 2017. The current captain is Stefan Mauk, who took over from Michael Jakobsen in 2020.

Years[3]	Captain
2005–07	Ross Aloisi (AUS)
2007–08	Michael Valkanis (AUS)
2008–11	Travis Dodd (AUS)
2011	Jonathan McKain (AUS)
2011–17	Eugene Galekovic (AUS)
2017–19	Isaías (ESP)
2019–20	Michael Jakobsen (DEN)
2020–	Stefan Mauk (AUS)

General

• "Complete Player Listing". aleaguestats.com.
• "Adelaide United: All Players". Ultimate A-League.

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