Melbourne Victory F.C.
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| Full name | Melbourne Victory Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Victory |
| Short name | MVFC |
| Founded | 1 November 2004 |
| Ground | AAMI Park, Etihad Stadium |
| Capacity | 30,050 and 53,359 |
| Chairman | Anthony Di Pietro |
| Head Coach | Kevin Muscat |
| League | A-League |
| 2015–16 | A-League, 6th |
| Website | Club home page |
| Active teams of Melbourne Victory | ||
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| Football (Men's) | Youth & NPL team (Men's) | W-League team (Women's) |
Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. It competes in the country's premier competition, the A-League, under licence from Football Federation Australia. Victory entered the competition in the inaugural season as the only Victorian-based club in the newly revamped domestic Australian league. The club has won three A-League Championships, three A-League Premierships, one Pre-Season Challenge Cup and one FFA Cup, the only club to have won all four Australian soccer trophies. They have also competed in the AFC Champions League on five occasions.
The club plays matches at both multi-use venues, Melbourne Rectangular Stadium and Docklands Stadium, with seated capacities of 30,050 and 56,347 respectively. A youth team competes in the National Youth League. A women's team competes in the W-League. The youth and women matches are played at various locations across Melbourne, including Lakeside Stadium, Kingston Heath Soccer Complex as well as Melbourne Rectangular Stadium.
-DNQ denotes that the club Did Not Qualify for the particular fixture
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-TBD denotes that the final outcome has not occurred
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Melbourne Victory's club colours are navy blue, silver and white, which encompass the traditional state sporting colours of Victoria. In the Victory's inaugural A-League season, only the club badge displayed a chevron, known colloquially as the "Big V", a symbol traditionally used by the Victoria Australian rules football team. From the 2006–07 season the away strip was changed to a grey jersey with a white chevron on the front. This was an immediate hit with the club's supporters, and from the 2007–08 season onwards Melbourne's home jersey also sported the white chevron on the front. A new kit was introduced for the 2008 AFC Champions League due to AFC rules requiring kits to have player numbers on the front of the uniform as well as the back, which would not fit well with the 'V' on the Victory's regular kit. For the 2009–10 season, Melbourne changed their away jersey to be a reverse of their home jersey; a white shirt with a blue chevron. In 2010, Melbourne wore the TAC 'seatbelt' shirt against Perth Glory in a charity event to raise awareness for the necessary use of seat belts in cars. On 16 June 2011, the current kits were announced via the club's YouTube channel, which features a change to a fluoro yellow away jersey. Adidas were announced as the club's official kit manufacturer for five years. For their 2013–14 kits, Melbourne Victory received backlash from supporters following the releasing of the kits, as the away kits had a large resemblance to rivals Sydney FC.
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