The Sydney FC Gazette
Squad26 Oct 2026
Leandro Chaparro damages knee ligaments — 143 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 143 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Sydney FC
Joe Lolley 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.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sydney FC
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Sydney FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Takahiro Sekine 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A late step up for Leandro Chaparro
At 35 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Piero Quispe runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Patrick Miller joins the Sydney FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Miller is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Oct 2026
Ethan Hamilton steps up from the Sydney FC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ethan Hamilton 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
Sydney FC promote Patrick Moore from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Moore has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Bryce King joins the Sydney FC first team
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Víctor Campuzano
- Match Honours even between Sydney FC and Wellington Phoenix