Melbourne Victory FC Player of the Season

The Melbourne Victory Player of the Season, also known as the Victory Medal, is an award presented to the Melbourne Victory coaching staff's player of the season.

Victory Medal
SportAssociation football
History
First award2006
Editions14 (as of 2019)
First winner Kevin Muscat
Most wins Kevin Muscat
(3 times)
Most recent Leigh Broxham

The first winner of the award was Kevin Muscat in 2006, who became the first player to win it twice in 2007. Since then, three other players have won the award more than once: Danny Allsopp (2007 and 2009), Archie Thompson (2008 and 2010) and Leigh Broxham (2019 and 2020). Muscat won again in 2009 to become first player to receive the award thrice.

Voting takes place on a 3-2-1 basis, as allocated by the Melbourne Victory coaching staff.

Other end-of-season awards given by Melbourne Victory include the Players' Player of the Year Award and the Goal of the Season Award. The prizes for all awards are given at an annual awards night, which is held near the end of the league season.

Winners

Players in bold are still playing for Melbourne Victory

Season Name Nationality Position Notes Ref.
2005–06 Kevin Muscat AustraliaDefender[1]
2006–07 Danny Allsopp AustraliaForward[2]
Kevin Muscat AustraliaDefenderFirst player to win the award on two occasions
2007–08 Archie Thompson AustraliaForward [3]
Rodrigo Vargas AustraliaDefender
2008–09 Danny Allsopp AustraliaForward[4]
Kevin Muscat AustraliaDefenderFirst player to win the award on three occasions
2009–10 Archie Thompson AustraliaForward[5]
2010–11 Grant Brebner ScotlandMidfielderFirst winner from outside Australia[6]
2011–12 Ante Covic AustraliaGoalkeeperFirst goalkeeper to win the award[7]
2012–13 Mark Milligan AustraliaMidfielder[8]
2013–14 Adama Traoré Ivory CoastDefenderFirst winner from Africa[9]
2014–15 Fahid Ben Khalfallah TunisiaForward[10]
2015–16 Matthieu Delpierre FranceDefender[11]
2016–17 Carl Valeri AustraliaMidfielder[12]
2017–18 Leroy George NetherlandsMidfielder[13]
2018–19 Leigh Broxham AustraliaMidfielder[14]
2019–20 Leigh Broxham AustraliaMidfielder[15]

Statistics

Players with multiple wins
Winner Total wins Year(s)
Kevin Muscat 32006, 2007, 2009
Danny Allsopp 22007, 2009
Archie Thompson 22008, 2010
Leigh Broxham 22019, 2020

Wins by playing position
Position Number of wins
Goalkeeper 1
Defender 6
Midfielder 6
Forward 5

Wins by nationality
Nationality Number of winners
 Australia 13
 France 1
 Ivory Coast 1
 Netherlands 1
 Scotland 1
 Tunisia 1

References
  1. "Muscat picks up Victory medal". The World Game. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  2. "Triumphant skipper, striker share spoils of Victory medal". The Age. 24 February 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  3. Lynch, Michael (8 March 2008). "Roddy and Archie share honour". FTBL.com.au. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  4. "Muscat, Allsopp tie for Victory Medal". ABC News. 7 March 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  5. "Medal consolation for Archie". A-League. 28 March 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  6. "Brebner claims Victory Medal". FTBL.com.au. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  7. "Covic claims Victory medal". Melbourne Victory FC. 28 April 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  8. "Milligan beats Rojas to club honour". Melbourne Victory FC. 27 April 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  9. "Traore wins Victory Medal". The World Game. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  10. Nicholson, Larissa (22 May 2015). "Top Melbourne Victory award for Fahid Ben Khalfallah". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  11. Lynch, Michael (14 May 2016). "Matthieu Delpierre takes out Victory Medal in final season with club". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  12. Lynch, Michael (13 May 2017). "Melbourne Victory captain Carl Valeri awarded the Victory medal as club's best". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  13. McKay, Ben (13 May 2018). "Leroy Gorge claims Victory A-League medal". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  14. Lynch, Michael (25 May 2019). "Broxham crowns career by winning Victory Medal". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  15. Lynch, Michael and Bossi, Dominic (4 September 2020). "A-League wage talks grind on as Broxham wins Victory Medal". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 September 2020.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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