Melbourne Heart

2011–12 season
Chairman	Peter Sidwell
Manager	John van 't Schip
Stadium	AAMI Park
A-League	6th
Finals Series	Elimination-finals
Top goalscorer	Eli Babalj (9)
Highest home attendance	26,579 vs. Melbourne Victory (23 December 2011) A-League
Lowest home attendance	2,951 vs. Wellington Phoenix (4 December 2011) A-League
Average home league attendance	9,553
Biggest win	4–0 vs. Sydney FC (A) (29 December 2011) A-League
Biggest defeat	0–3 vs. Newcastle Jets (A) (11 February 2012) A-League 0–3 vs. Perth Glory (A) (1 April 2012) Finals Series
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 Melbourne Heart FC season was the club's second since its establishment in 2009. The club participated in the 2011–12 A-League season, finishing in 6th position, and qualifying for their first A-League finals series, where they were eliminated by Perth Glory in the elimination-finals.

From 1 April 2011, all A-League clubs were able to negotiate new kit supplier deals as the previous contract with Reebok had elapsed and as such, Melbourne Heart negotiated a one-year deal with ISC.^[1]

In conjunction with new apparel partner ISC, the club offered supporters the chance to submit designs for a ‘Third Jersey’. A design created by Red and White Unite co-founder Steven Forbes was judged the winner.^[2] The design was manufactured in a limited run of 150 and sold to the public.^[3]

On 7 July 2011, the club announced it would take part in the inaugural Hawaiian Islands Invitational from 23–25 February 2012. The squad is set to be made up of emerging youth players as the tournament overlaps with the 2011–12 A-League season. Taking part in the Invitational will be Japan's Yokohama FC, South Korea's Incheon United FC and reigning MLS Cup winners the Colorado Rapids.^[4]

The club was originally scheduled to compete in the first ever edition of the Mirabella Cup, along with fellow A-League side and fierce rival Melbourne Victory, but FFA forbade all A-League clubs from competing. The season saw the addition of a youth team to the club, which competed in the 2011–12 A-League National Youth League season.

Melbourne Heart, along with major sponsor Westpac will again stage the Westpac Community Football Festival. This will be three, three-day celebrations of football as well as a thank you to all of the club's regional supporters.^[5] The three regional centers will be set up in Albury-Wodonga on 4–6 August,^[6] in Morwell from 18–20 August^[7] and in Shepparton from 25–27 August^[8] with a practice match being played at each venue.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  AUS Clint Bolton 2 DF  AUS Michael Marrone 3 DF  AUS Brendan Hamill 4 DF  AUS Simon Colosimo 5 MF  BRA Fred 6 DF  AUS Matt Thompson 7 MF  NED Rutger Worm 8 MF  AUS Kristian Sarkies 9 FW  BRA Maycon 10 MF  AUS Wayne Srhoj 11 FW  BRA Alex Terra 13 DF  ARG Jonatan Germano 14 MF  AUS Kamal Ibrahim

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 FW  AUS David Williams 16 DF  AUS Aziz Behich 17 FW  AUS Jason Hoffman 18 DF  AUS Curtis Good 19 FW  AUS Eli Babalj 20 MF  AUS Adrian Zahra 21 MF  AUS Kliment Taseski 22 MF  AUS Nick Kalmar 23 MF  AUS Mate Dugandžić 24 GK  AUS Nikola Roganović 27 MF  AUS Craig Goodwin 30 GK  AUS Sebastian Mattei

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  AUS Chris Maynard 3 MF  AUS Kristian Konstantinidis 5 MF  AUS Craig Goodwin 7 FW  AUS Zac Walker 8 FW  AUS Brodie Patterson 9 MF  AUS Stipo Andrijasevic 10 FW  AUS Dusan Bosnjak 11 MF  AUS Josh Groenewald 12 MF  AUS Jeremy Walker

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  AUS Billy Liolios 15 DF  AUS Philip Petreski 20 GK  AUS Thomas Dunn 30 GK  AUS Sebastian Mattei –– DF  AUS Charlie King –– DF  AUS Daniel Peluso –– DF  AUS Bradley Treloar –– MF  AUS Alon Blumgart

Name	Position	Moving from	Notes
Mate Dugandžić	Midfielder	Melbourne Victory	3 year contract[9]
Curtis Good	Defender	AIS	2 year contract[10]
Fred	Midfielder	D.C. United	2 year contract[11]
David Williams	Forward	Free Agent	Signed 3-year deal[11]
Maycon	Forward	Nova Iguacu FC	1 year contract[12]
Jonatan Germano	Midfielder	Estudiantes	2 year contract[13]
Nikola Roganovic	Goalkeeper	Green Gully Cavaliers	1 year contract[14]
Adrian Madaschi	Defender	Free Agent	Injury replacement contract[15]
Paul Reid	Midfielder	Free Agent	Injury replacement contract[16]

Name	Position	Moving to	Notes
John Aloisi	Striker	Retired	Retired[17]
Josip Skoko	Midfielder	Retired	Retired[17]
Ante Tomić	Midfielder	Sydney United	Released[18]
Peter Zois	Goalkeeper	Oakleigh	Returned as Goalkeeping coach[19]
Gerald Sibon	Striker	SC Heerenveen	Signed as free agent[20]
Dean Heffernan	Defender	Perth Glory	Released from contract[21]
M. Beauchamp	Defender	Sydney FC	Released from contract[22]
Adrian Madaschi	Defender	Jeju United	Injury replacement contract expired
Paul Reid	Midfielder	Free Agent	Injury replacement contract expired

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
A-League	8 October 2011	23 March 2012	Matchday 1	6th	27	9	10	8	35	34	+1	033.33
A-League Finals Series	1 April 2012		Elimination-final	Elimination-finals	1	0	0	1	0	3	−3	000.00
Hawaiian Islands Invitational	23 February 2012	25 February 2012	Semi-final	4th	2	0	1	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Total					30	9	11	10	35	38	−3	030.00

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Central Coast Mariners	27	15	6	6	40	24	+16	51	Qualification for 2013 AFC Champions League group stage and finals series[a]
2	Brisbane Roar (C)	27	14	7	6	50	28	+22	49	Qualification for 2013 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off and finals series
3	Perth Glory	27	13	4	10	40	35	+5	43	Qualification for Finals series
4	Wellington Phoenix	27	12	4	11	34	32	+2	40
5	Sydney FC	27	10	8	9	37	42	−5	38
6	Melbourne Heart	27	9	10	8	35	34	+1	37
7	Newcastle Jets	27	10	5	12	38	41	−3	35
8	Melbourne Victory	27	6	11	10	35	43	−8	29
9	Adelaide United	27	5	10	12	26	44	−18	25
10	Gold Coast United	27	4	9	14	30	42	−12	21

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
28	9	10	9	35	37	−2	37	5	5	4	17	15	+2	4	5	5	18	22	−4

The 2012 Hawaiian Islands Invitational took place from 23–25 February 2012 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. Taking part in the Invitational were to be Japan's Yokohama FC, South Korea's Busan IPark and reigning MLS Cup winners the Colorado Rapids. Due to the competitions scheduling, Melbourne Heart were forced to field their youth team due to the competition overlaps with the domestic A-League season.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Central Coast Mariners Academy (C)	18	11	3	4	41	16	+25	36
2	Brisbane Roar Youth	18	9	5	4	50	33	+17	32
3	Perth Glory Youth	18	9	5	4	36	31	+5	32
4	Gold Coast United Youth	18	7	5	6	33	30	+3	26
5	Melbourne Heart Youth	18	8	2	8	35	37	−2	26
6	Sydney FC Youth	18	7	4	7	40	31	+9	25
7	Adelaide United Youth	18	6	5	7	30	34	−4	23
8	Newcastle Jets Youth	18	5	5	8	27	29	−2	20
9	AIS Football Program	18	5	1	12	28	59	−31	16
10	Melbourne Victory Youth	18	4	3	11	15	34	−19	15

Players in italics left the club mid-season.

			A-League				A-League Finals Series				Total
Nation	No.	Name	GS	App.	Min.		GS	App.	Min.		GS	App.	Min.
Goalkeepers
	1	Bolton	25	25	2250	0	1	1	90	0	26	26	2340	0
	24	Roganovic	2	2	180	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	180	0
Defenders
	2	Marrone	27	27	2430	0	1	1	90	0	28	28	2520	0
	3	Hamill	17	22	1480	1	1	1	90	0	18	23	1570	1
	4	Colosimo	13	16	1149	0	0	0	0	0	13	16	1149	0
	16	Behich	22	23	2000	1	1	1	90	0	23	24	2090	1
	18	Good	18	23	1091	1	1	1	90	0	19	24	1181	1
	25	Madaschi	8	9	726	0	0	0	0	0	8	9	726	0
	27	Goodwin	3	4	298	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	298	0
Midfielders
	5	Fred	17	18	1357	1	1	1	90	0	18	19	1447	1
	6	Thompson	24	25	2056	4	1	1	46	0	25	26	2102	4
	7	Worm	14	19	1131	0	0	1	44	0	14	20	1175	0
	8	Sarkies	5	6	460	2	0	0	0	0	5	6	460	2
	10	Srhoj	16	16	1334	0	1	1	90	0	17	17	1424	0
	13	Germano	18	21	1577	3	1	1	90	0	19	22	1667	3
	26	Reid	2	4	207	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	207	0
	14	Ibrahim	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	20	Zahra	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	21	Taseski	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	22	Kalmar	0	2	74	0	0	1	9	0	0	3	83	0
	23	Dugandžić	21	22	1788	7	1	1	81	0	22	23	1869	7
Forwards
	9	Maycon	5	13	489	1	0	0	0	0	5	13	489	1
	11	Terra	11	23	1099	3	0	0	0	0	11	23	1099	3
	15	Williams	7	15	773	1	0	0	0	0	7	15	773	1
	17	Hoffman	5	15	636	1	0	0	0	0	5	15	636	1
	19	Babalj	17	21	1501	9	1	1	90	0	18	22	1591	9

Total	Player		Goals per round
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	F
9		Babalj								1		1			1	1								1	1		1	1	1	0
7		Dugandzic	2					1			1		1		1													1		0
4		Thompson							1				1	2																0
3		Germano							1			1								1										0
3		Alex Terra												1	1						1									0
2		Sarkies															1	1												0
1		Williams		1																										0
1		Maycon				1																								0
1		Hamill					1																							0
1		Fred						1																						0
1		Behich						1																						0
1		Hoffman													1															0
1		Good																								1				0
35	Total		2	1	0	1	1	3	2	1	1	2	2	3	4	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	2	1	0

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Player
10	MF		Wayne Srhoj	9	0	0
4	DF		Simon Colosimo	5	1	0
6	MF		Matt Thompson	5	0	0
19	FW		Eli Babalj	4	0	0
16	DF		Aziz Behich	4	0	0
7	FW		Rutger Worm	4	0	0
18	DF		Curtis Good	3	1	0
5	MF		Fred	3	0	0
13	MF		Jonatan Germano	3	0	0
2	DF		Michael Marrone	3	0	0
3	DF		Brendan Hamill	2	0	0
17	FW		Jason Hoffman	2	0	0
26	MF		Paul Reid	2	0	0
1	GK		Clint Bolton	1	0	0
23	MF		Mate Dugandzic	1	0	0
25	DF		Adrian Madaschi	1	0	0
9	FW		Maycon	1	0	0
24	GK		Nikola Roganovic	1	0	0
8	MF		Kristian Sarkies	1	0	0
11	FW		Alex Terra	1	0	0
15	FW		David Williams	1	0	0

• Official website