Melbourne City FC Youth

The team was founded in 2011 as Melbourne Heart FC Youth, the season after their senior side Melbourne City (then known as Melbourne Heart FC), made their A-League debut. The inaugural manager was John Aloisi before he accepted the role as head manager at the end of the 2011/12 season. From 2012 onwards, Joe Palatsides has been the manager.

On 7 November 2014, it was confirmed that Melbourne City would compete in the NPL Victoria 1 competition from the 2015 season onwards. The team consists mainly of Melbourne City's youth team, which also competes in the National Youth League.[1] On top of this, Melbourne City opted to send a U-20 team to enter the concurrently-run development-level U-20 NPL league competition.[2]

The team finished on top of the table of the 2014–15 A-League National Youth League, tied with Brisbane Roar FC Youth on both points and goal difference but were awarded the title having scored a greater number of goals.[3]

After several seasons competing in the NPL, Melbourne City announced they were expanding their participation to also enter teams into the U-18 and U-15 competitions, with the U-18 side notably being managed by former manager John van 't Schip's brother Davey.[4]

As of 29 June 2019

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 9 FW  AUS Sam Morrison 16 MF  AUS Nicholas Theodosiou 19 DF  AUS Jade Waring 20 GK  AUS Luka Romic 22 DF  AUS Alec Mills 23 MF  AUS Giovanni Stellitano 25 DF  AUS Tim Boke 26 DF  AUS Harry Politidis 27 DF  AUS Dalibor Markovic

No. Pos. Nation Player 28 FW  AUS Thomas Pisani 29 DF  AUS Nick Kyranakis 30 MF  AUS Domenic Folino 32 MF  AUS Thomas Lambiris 33 DF  AUS Daniel Lucente 35 FW  AUS Raphael Rodrigues 36 MF  AUS Matthew Grimaldi 38 MF  AUS Emile Peios 42 GK  AUS Callum Rolfe

As of 30 June 2019

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1  AUS Alexander Kondoleon 2  AUS Kasey Bos 3  AUS Kai Adachi 4  AUS Rhys Dufton 5  AUS Kai Dimarco 6  AUS Domenic Folino 7  AUS Charbel Shamoon

No. Pos. Nation Player 8  AUS Matthew Grimaldi 10  AUS David Pompilio 11  AUS Alexander Menelaou (Captain) 14  AUS Abel Walatee 15  AUS Uros Babovic 17  AUS Liam Farrugia 18  AUS Rhys Bozinovski 21  AUS Zac Kocankovski

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

No. Pos. Nation Player —  AUS Dante Avian —  AUS Uros Babovic —  AUS Kasey Bos —  AUS Max Caputo —  AUS Lawrence Caruso —  AUS Christian Cogo —  AUS Joshua Damevski —  AUS Rhys Dufton —  AUS Ben Dunbar —  AUS Luca Durso —  AUS Emin Durakovic —  AUS Sebastian Esposito —  AUS Daniel Hudson —  AUS Joshua Inserra

No. Pos. Nation Player —  AUS Elioan Kifle —  AUS Danijel Lugonja —  AUS Benjamin Mazzeo —  AUS Jake Najdovski —  AUS Christian Naveen —  AUS Dimitri Palatsides —  AUS Olivier Peios —  AUS Christopher Petkaris —  AUS Harrison Shillington —  AUS Dante Siccita —  AUS Thomas Simic —  AUS Noah Spaseski —  AUS Zac Taweel —  AUS Mehmet Uysal —  AUS Alec Becvinovski