Melbourne City FC

This article is about the men's senior team. For the women's team, see Melbourne City FC (A-League Women). For the former Australian rules football team, see Melbourne City Football Club (VFA).
Not to be confused with Melbourne Football Club.

Melbourne City
Full nameMelbourne City Football Club
Nickname(s)City, Hearts, Heart, City Boys, City Blues
Founded12 June 2009; 15 years ago (2009-06-12) (as Melbourne Heart)
GroundAAMI Park
Capacity30,050
OwnerCity Football Group
ChairmanKhaldoon Al Mubarak
Head coachAurelio Vidmar
LeagueA-League Men
2023–246th of 12
Websitehttps://www.melbournecityfc.com.au/
Current season

Melbourne City Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the south–eastern Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne East but playing matches in Melbourne CBD, that competes in A-League, the highest division of soccer in Australia, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL).[1]

Founded in 2009 as Melbourne Heart, the club competed under that name from its inaugural 2010–11 season until they were rebranded in mid-2014 by the City Football Group (CFG), in partnership with Holding M.S. Australia.[2] In August 2015, City Football Group, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi United Group, bought out the Holding M.S. Australia consortium to have 100% ownership of the club.[3]

Since forming in 2009, Melbourne City has claimed three A-League Men premierships and one championship, as well as one Australia Cup title (in 2016).

Melbourne City is run from the City Football Academy, a facility located within the Casey Fields sports precinct, in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne East.[4] The club plays home matches at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, commercially known as AAMI Park, a 30,050 seat multi-use venue in Melbourne's City Centre. The club also has an affiliated youth team which competes in both the A-Leagues Youth (league has not been held since 2019) and in VPL1, which serves as the second tier of Victorian football, as well as a senior women's team which competes in the A-League Women.

  1. ^ "A-League owners to be offered far longer licences by Football Federation Australia". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 28 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Manchester City buy A-League's Melbourne Heart". The Guardian. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  3. ^ John Stensholt (2 August 2015). "Manchester City buy out wealthy Melbourne City investors". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Melbourne City FC to move into Casey Fields". casey.vic.gov.au. 15 December 2020.