The Sydney FC Gazette
Match24 Oct 2026
Sydney FC run riot against Wellington Phoenix
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Al Hassan Touré runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Apostolos Stamatelopoulos scores twice — 8.62
Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Sydney FC
Takahiro Sekine was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Tate Phillips at Sydney FC
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tate Phillips is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Graduation day at Sydney FC
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Craig Goodwin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Alessandro Lopane
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Alex Russell joins the Sydney FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alex Russell is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Jake Shaw steps up from the Sydney FC academy
- Squad Ben Garuccio dropped after a run of poor form
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Sydney FC