The Sydney FC Gazette
Match24 Oct 2026
Cruel end for Wellington Phoenix as Sydney FC pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Sydney FC scored in the 95th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Marin France
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
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
Words at Sydney FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Apostolos Stamatelopoulos is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match24 Oct 2026
Apostolos Stamatelopoulos sends Sydney FC past Wellington Phoenix
It finished 2‑1, and it was Apostolos Stamatelopoulos’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sydney FC.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Abel Walatee
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
Liam Johnson steps up from the Sydney FC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Liam Johnson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Noah Taylor joins the Sydney FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Noah Taylor is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Apostolos Stamatelopoulos in the eights
A performance of 8.20 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Takahiro Sekine
- Squad Tempers go at Sydney FC
- Player ratings Ben Garuccio beats them one at a time