Adelaide United
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Adelaide United Football Club | ||
| Seat | Adelaide , Australia | ||
| founding | 2003 | ||
| president | Piet van der Pol | ||
| Website | adelaideunited.com.au | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Hindmarsh Stadium | ||
| Places | 16,500 | ||
| league | A-League | ||
| 2018/19 | 4th place (season) elimination semi-finals (playoffs) |
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The Adelaide United FC is a football club from the Australian city of Adelaide . The club was founded in 2003 and plays in the A-League , the Australian professional league.
history
In August 2003, the Adelaide City club withdrew from the National Soccer League (NSL), the top division at the time. The city of Adelaide was without an NSL team for the first time since the league was founded in 1977. A month later, the Adelaide United Football Club was founded. Within a few weeks, the club put together a team that could take part in the NSL. After the 2003/04 season, the NSL stopped playing.
The club was one of the eight founding members of the A-League . In addition to Perth Glory and the Newcastle United Jets , Adelaide United is one of the three NSL clubs that were accepted into the A-League. When putting together the squad, the focus was mainly on players from Adelaide and the surrounding area. In the autumn of 2006, the club signed the Brazilian ex-star Romário for four games. At the end of the 2006/07 season Adelaide United reached the Grand Final and lost to Melbourne Victory 6-0.
Disparaging remarks about the refereeing team led by FIFA referee Mark Shield at the Grand Final led to the replacement of captain Ross Aloisi and the resignation of coach John Kosmina. The assistant coach and former Australian international Aurelio Vidmar was appointed as his successor on an interim basis.
Adelaide United took part in the AFC Champions League in 2007 and 2008 and became the first Australian team to reach the final in 2008. There they were defeated by the Japanese representative Gamba Osaka 3-0 and 2-0, but still qualified for the FIFA Club World Cup 2008 , as Osaka occupied the place for the Japanese participating team. Adelaide United cooperates with the US second division club Fort Lauderdale Strikers .
Stadion
Adelaide United play their home games at Hindmarsh Stadium . The stadium offers 15,500 seats. At some games, a further 1,000 standing places could be offered by filling open spaces. The stadium is one of the best and most comfortable football stadiums in Australia. Since it is also the smallest in the A-League, the government of South Australia has offered the club expansion plans if the average attendance is consistently above 14,000. These plans envisage expanding the back straight to the size of the main grandstand, so that the capacity would increase to around 22,000 seats. In the following seasons, the average attendance was between 10,000 and 12,000.
Squad of the 2018/19 season
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Trainer
| Surname | nationality | from | to | statistics | ||||
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| Games | G - U - V | |||||||
| John Kosmina |
 - AUS
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September 2003 | February 2007 | 9 | 5 - 2 - 2 | |||
| Aurelio Vidmar |
- AUS
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February 2007 | June 2010 | 43 | 14-11-18 | |||
| Phil Stubbins (interim) |
- AUS
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June 2010 | July 2010 | |||||
| Rini cool |
 - NED
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July 2010 | December 2011 | 43 | 18 - 9 - 16 | |||
| John Kosmina |
- AUS
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December 2011 | January 2013 | 43 | 18-10-15 | |||
| Michael Valkanis (interim) |
- AUS
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January 2013 | April 2013 | 10 | 2 - 3 - 5 | |||
| Josep Gombau |
 - ESP
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July 2013 | July 2015 | 57 | 25 - 12 - 20 | |||
| Guillermo Amor |
- ESP
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July 2015 | May 2017 | 63 | 22-17-24 | |||
| Marco Kurz |
 - GER
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June 2017 | April 2019 | 61 | 28-14-19 | |||
| Gertjan Verbeek |
- NED
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July 2019 | April 2020 | 25th | 13 - 0 - 12 | |||
successes
- Australian champion : 2015/16
- Australian Cup Winner : 2014 , 2018
- A-League runner-up in 2006/07, 2008/09
- Winner of the A-League Premiership 2005/06, 2015/16
- Winner of the A-League Pre-Season Cup 2006/07
Asia cup balance
| season | competition | round | opponent | total | First leg | Return leg |
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| 2007 | AFC Champions League | Group stage |
 Shandong Luneng Taishan
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2: 3 | 0: 1 (H) | 2: 2 (A) |
 Đồng Tâm Long An
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5-0 | 2: 0 (A) | 3: 0 (A) | |||
 Seongnam FC
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2: 3 | 2: 2 (H) | 0: 1 (A) | |||
| 2008 | AFC Champions League | Group stage |
Pohang Steelers
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3-0 | 2: 0 (A) | 1: 0 (H) |
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Changchun Yatai
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0-0 | 0: 0 (H) | 0: 0 (A) | |||
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Becamex Bình Dương
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6: 2 | 2: 1 (A) | 4: 1 (H) | |||
| Four-part finals |
 Kashima Antlers
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2: 1 | 1: 1 (A) | 1: 0 (H) | ||
| Semifinals |
 Bunyodkor Tashkent
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3: 1 | 3: 0 (H) | 0: 1 (A) | ||
| final |
Gamba Osaka
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0: 5 | 0: 3 (A) | 0: 2 (H) | ||
| 2010 | AFC Champions League | Group stage |
Pohang Steelers
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1-0 | 1: 0 (H) | 0: 0 (A) |
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Shandong Luneng Taishan
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2: 1 | 2: 0 (A) | 0: 1 (H) | |||
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Sanfrecce Hiroshima
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3: 3 | 3: 2 (H) | 0: 1 (A) | |||
| Round of 16 |
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
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2: 3 | ||||
| 2012 | AFC Champions League | Qualifying round |
 Persipura Jayapura
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3-0 | ||
| Group stage |
Bunyodkor Tashkent
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2: 1 | 2: 1 (A) | 0: 0 (H) | ||
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Gamba Osaka
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4-0 | 2: 0 (H) | 2: 0 (A) | |||
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Pohang Steelers
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1: 1 | 0: 1 (A) | 1: 0 (H) | |||
| Round of 16 |
Nagoya Grampus
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1-0 | ||||
| Quarter finals |
Bunyodkor Tashkent
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4: 5 | 2: 2 (H) | 2: 3 a.d. (A) | ||
| 2016 | AFC Champions League | Play-off round |
Shandong Luneng Taishan
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1: 2 | ||
Overall record : 36 games, 17 wins, 8 draws, 11 defeats, 47:31 goals (goal difference +16)
