Mark Viduka Medal

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The Mark Viduka Medal is an award given to the player of the match in the FFA Cup Final each year. Introduced in the first season of the FFA Cup in 2014, the medal is named after Mark Viduka, who captained the Australia men's national soccer team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

List of winners[]

Year Player Club Reference
2014 Spain Sergio Cirio Adelaide United [1]
2015 New Zealand Kosta Barbarouses Melbourne Victory [2]
2016 Uruguay Bruno Fornaroli Melbourne City [3]
2017 Poland Adrian Mierzejewski Sydney FC [4]
2018 Australia Craig Goodwin Adelaide United [5]
2019 Australia Al Hassan Toure Adelaide United [6]
2021 Australia Jake Brimmer
Australia Kye Rowles[a]
Melbourne Victory
Central Coast Mariners
[7]

By club[]

# Club Medals Years
1 Adelaide United 3 2014, 2018, 2019
2 Melbourne Victory 2 2015, 2021
3 Melbourne City 1 2016
Sydney FC 1 2017
Central Coast Mariners 1 2021

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Player on the losing team

References[]

  1. ^ "Adelaide United's Sergio Cirio winner of the FFA Cup 'treble'". Fox Sports. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  2. ^ Lynch, Michael (7 November 2015). "Melbourne Victory get better of Perth Glory to win FFA Cup". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. ^ "Fornaroli claims medal for FFA Cup show". SBS. 30 November 2016.
  4. ^ Kemp, Emma (21 November 2017). "Mierzejewski awarded Mark Viduka Medal". ESPN FC.
  5. ^ Gatt, Ray (30 October 2018). "FFA Cup final: Craig Goodwin strikes gold for Reds". The Australian.
  6. ^ "Dream comes true for Al Hassan Toure as Adelaide lift FFA Cup again". The Guardian. 23 October 2019.
  7. ^ Harrington, Anna (5 February 2022). "Popovic delights in Victory FFA Cup glory". Seven News. For the first time, the Mark Viduka Medal for player of the match was a tie, with Victory midfielder Jake Brimmer and Mariners defender Kye Rowles, who only returned from his first Socceroos call-up on Friday, sharing the honour.
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