Western United FC

In August 2018, the Western Melbourne Group was part of the eight teams that the FFA had accepted in the official bidding phase, as part of the new expansion process.[3] Four months later, the bid's success was announced, along with the bid from Macarthur FC.[4] Western Melbourne will play its home games at Kardinia Park in Geelong for its first two seasons, while it builds its stadium and training centre in Tarneit, with completion expected in 2021.

On 11 January 2019, Western Melbourne Group announced John Anastasiadis as senior assistant coach for the club's debut season.[5] On 24 January 2019, the consortium announced that John Hutchinson would also join the club as an assistant coach.[6]

On 31 January 2019, Western Melbourne made its first player and marquee signing Panagiotis Kone ahead of its inaugural season.[7] On 12 February 2019, Socceroos defender Josh Risdon became Western Melbourne's first Australian signing.[8]

On 13 February 2019, it was announced that the club would be called Western United Football Club after a public vote was held through the Herald Sun newspaper.[9][10] The club's colours and identity were set to confirm the club's name and colours as it was announced as their inaugural name as "Western United Football Club" also wearing a green and black strip on their kits.[11] In mid-May, Western United announced partnership with sports brand Kappa.[12] Two months later, the club unveiled their inaugural jerseys for their first season in the A-League, featuring green and black stripes.[13]

On 2 June 2019 the Director of Football for Western United, Steve Horvat presented Geelong representative players with their kits for the 2019 Country Championships. Horvat additionally announced the club would set up a Geelong based academy by 2021.

The club has proposed building a 15,000 seated stadium in Tarneit, Victoria. The stadium would be the first major venue in the country to be exclusively owned and operated by an A-League club.[25] The proposal, to be funded entirely privately, has received planning approval from the Victorian Government, and the club has stated it expects construction to commence in mid-2021 with a view to completion by mid-2023.[26]

On 6 December 2019, Western United announced that site investigations had been completed and that construction is expected to commence in mid-2020.[27] On 18 September 2020, Western United announced that a training facility would be built adjacent to the new stadium development.[28] The training facility is planned to have two grass and one artificial football pitch, along with seating for 5,000 spectators. The main grass pitch, with the 5,000 seat stand would be used as the training base by Western United, while the other two pitches would have shared community use. The press release also revealed that the club has completed all of the site investigations required to develop a concept masterplan for the new stadium and that planning submission has been submitted to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) for approval. The release also states that construction on the new precinct will commence in early 2021, to be completed by early 2023.

As of 25 January 2021

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 GK  POL Filip Kurto 2 DF  AUS Aaron Calver 3 DF  AUS Brendan Hamill 4 DF  NZL Andrew Durante 5 DF  AUS Dylan Pierias 6 DF  JPN Tomoki Imai 7 FW  KVX Besart Berisha 8 FW  AUS Lachlan Wales 10 MF  AUS Steven Lustica 11 FW  AUS Connor Pain 12 FW  AUS Stefan Zinni (injury replacement) 13 DF  AUS Ivan Vujica

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  AUS Max Burgess 19 DF  AUS Josh Risdon 20 MF  ESP Víctor Sánchez 21 MF  AUS Sebastian Pasquali 22 DF  AUS Tomislav Uskok (vice-captain) 23 MF  ITA Alessandro Diamanti (captain) 25 MF  AUS Luke Duzel (scholarship) 26 MF  AUS Nicolas Milanovic (scholarship) 27 MF  AUS Jerry Skotadis 29 FW  AUS Ayom Majok (scholarship) 30 GK  AUS Ryan Scott 34 MF  ESP Iker Guarrotxena