Central Coast Mariners FC
The Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League, under licence from Football Federation Australia. The club was founded in 2004 and is the first professional sports club from the Gosford region to compete in a national competition. The team record for matches played is held by John Hutchinson, who has appeared in 263 games for the Mariners. Matt Simon is the Mariners’ all-time leading goalscorer with 55 goals in all competitions.
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The Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League, under licence from Football Federation Australia. The club was founded in 2004 and is the first professional sports club from the Gosford region to compete in a national competition. The team record for matches played is held by John Hutchinson, who has appeared in 263 games for the Mariners. Matt Simon is the Mariners’ all-time leading goalscorer as of January 2020, with 55 goals in all competitions. The Mariners’ main supporters’ group is known as the Yellow Army, for the colour of the club’s home kit. Despite being considered one of the smallest-market clubs in the league, the Mariners have claimed one A- league Championship from four Grand Final appearances. The Club has also appeared in the AFC Champions League five times. The clubs share a rivalry with Newcastle Jets, known as The F3 Derby, after the previous name of the motorway that connects the cities of the teams. In 2006, Central Coast was defeated by Sydney FC 1–0 in front of a crowd of 41,689 at Central Coast Stadium, a 20,059-seat stadium in Gosfords. In 2009, the club signed former Northern Spirit coach Lawrie McKinna as manager and Ian Ferguson, a former Rangers and Northern Spirit player, as coach. In 2010, the team signed former Perth Glory striker Nik Mrdja, signing him later in the month as its star attacker.
He was the most prominent player in the last season of the National Soccer League, scoring the final goal to secure the goal to win the final final of the Perth Glory’s finals series. In 2012, the Club signed former Australian international player and club technical director Alex Tobin, as well as Clean Up Australia personality Ian Kiernan—who would act as inaugural club chairman—to act as club chairman. The decision made Central Coast the first Gosford-based professional sports team to play in anational competition. In 2013, the Mariners were the only regional bidder to make it into the league by default, and were the first team to be awarded a franchise by the FFA. In 2014, they were the second regional team to win a franchise, after Sydney FC. In 2015, they won a franchise to become part of FFA’s domestic competition, the Australian Football League (A-League) The club has won the pre-season Pre-Season Cup, defeating Perth Glory 1-0 in the 2005–07 season final. In the regular season the team reached the 2006 Grand Final after finishing third during theRegular season. In 2011, the side reached the regular-season Grand Final during the regularseason after finishing second in regular season. It has won two A-league Premiership titles and topped the table to win its division twice. The team has also reached the A League Premiership Grand Final four times, winning the Premiership in each of the last two seasons.
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