Friday, March 6, 2015

The First Melbourne Victory Home game

10 years ago in September 2005, the first Melbourne Victory home game in the A-League was played against Perth Glory with the final score being a 2-2 draw. On that historic day, Austrian import Richard Kitzbichler and current coach Kevin Muscat were the scorers.


However, it is a much lesser known fact that Melbourne Victory’s FIRST EVER home game was also against Perth Glory! This historic game was played as part of the pre-season challenge cup on the 30th July 2005 at MV’s first home ground – Olympic Park.


And I am very proud to say that I was one of the small crowd of 4,528 who attended the game!


The starting eleven on that night was …


1 Michael Theoklitos

2 Kevin Muscat (captain)

4 Mark Byrnes

5 Geoffrey Claeys

6 Steve Pantelidis

7 Michael Ferrante

9 Daniel Allsopp

10 Archie Thompson

12 Carl Recchia

13 Kristian Sarkies

17 Richard Kitzbichler


And the score was 1-0 to Melbourne Victory with Archie Thompson scoring the winning goal in the 60th minute ! It was a great night and I have been a loyal Melbourne Victory fan ever since.


Here are some pictures I took on the night. Apologies in the advance for the very poor photos! Bear in mind this was in 2005 – consumer compact digital cameras at the time was pretty basic and terrible at night photos. Not to mention my photographic skills are pretty non-existent!


Hope you enjoy this little trip down memory lane. I will gladly take the same 1-0 scoreline for tomorrow’s A League match between Melbourne Victory and Perth Glory at AAMI Park !


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Ed: This post was originally posted at the Melbourne Ahoy website - The First Melbourne Victory Home game
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