2018–19 Brisbane Roar FC season

Brisbane Roar
2018–19 season
Chairman	Rahim Soekasah
Manager	John Aloisi; (to 28 December 2018) ; Darren Davis (caretaker); (from 28 December 2018)
Stadium	Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
A-League	9th
FFA Cup	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: Adam Taggart (11 goals); All: Adam Taggart (11 goals)
Highest home attendance	15,129 vs Wellington Phoenix; (28 October 2018)
Lowest home attendance	6,084 vs Wellington Phoenix; (12 April 2019)
Average home league attendance	9,632
Home colours	Away colours
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The 2018–19 Brisbane Roar FC season was the club's 14th season participating in the A-League and in the FFA Cup for the fifth time.

ChairmanRahim Soekasah

ManagerJohn Aloisi
(to 28 December 2018)
Darren Davis (caretaker)
(from 28 December 2018)

StadiumSuncorp Stadium, Brisbane

A-League9th

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No.	Position	Player	Transferred from	Type/fee	Contract length	Date	Ref
9	FW	Adam Taggart	Perth Glory	Free transfer	2 years	1 May 2018	^[1]
23	FW	Dylan Wenzel-Halls	Western Pride	Free transfer	1 year	4 May 2018	^[2]
13	MF	Stefan Mauk	N.E.C.	€150,000^[3]	4 years	28 May 2018	^[4]
22	FW	Tobias Mikkelsen	Nordsjaelland	Free transfer	1 year	5 June 2018	^[5]
15	DF	Stefan Nigro		Free transfer	1 year	11 July 2018	^[6]
14	MF	Álex López		Free transfer	1 year	28 September 2018	^[7]
16	FW	Charles Lokolingoy		Free transfer	6 months	6 February 2019	^[8]
12	DF	Ruon Tongyik		Free transfer	6 months	6 February 2019	^[8]
92	FW	Eli Babalj		Free transfer	5 months	6 March 2019	^[9]

No.	Position	Player	Transferred to	Type/fee	Date	Ref
14	MF	Fahid Ben Khalfallah	Retired		20 April 2018	^[10]
9	FW	Massimo Maccarone		End of contract	24 April 2018	^[11]
13	DF	Jade North		End of contract	26 April 2018	^[12]
5	DF	Corey Brown		End of contract	27 April 2018	^[13]
11	FW	Corey Gameiro		End of contract	3 May 2018	^[14]
16	MF	Mitchell Oxborrow		End of contract	3 May 2018	^[14]
77	DF	Ivan Franjic		End of contract	28 May 2018	^[4]
25	MF	Rahmat Akbari	Melbourne Victory	Loan	19 October 2018	^[15]^[16]
6	DF	Avraam Papadopoulos	Olympiacos	Mutual contract termination	28 January 2019	^[17]
9	FW	Adam Taggart	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Undisclosed	14 February 2019	^[18]
20	FW	Shannon Brady	Gold Coast Knights	Free transfer	11 March 2019	^[19]

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Notes
34	DF		Aaron Reardon	19	Multi-year contract^[20]
38	DF		Izaack Powell	17	1 year scholarship contract^[21]

No.	Position	Name	Duration	Date	Notes
24	DF	Connor O'Toole	3 years	24 April 2018	^[22]
17	MF	Matt McKay	1 year	27 April 2018	^[23]
19	DF	Jack Hingert	2 years	27 April 2018	^[23]
4	DF	Daniel Bowles	1 year	4 May 2018	^[24]
8	MF	Jacob Pepper	1 year	4 May 2018	^[24]
1	GK	Brendan White	1 year	4 May 2018	^[24]
33	FW	Henrique	1 year	4 May 2018	^[24]
10	FW	Brett Holman	1 year	17 May 2018	^[25]
26	FW	Nicholas D'Agostino	1 year	17 May 2018	^[25]
23	FW	Dylan Wenzel-Halls	2 years	14 February 2019	^[26]

Position	Name
Manager	Darren Davies
Assistant Manager
Goalkeeping Coach	Jason Kearton

2018–19 Brisbane Roar FC season

Players

Squad information

Transfers

Transfers in

Transfers out

From youth squad

Contract extensions

Technical staff

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

Pre-season and friendlies

Friendlies

Competitions

Overall

A-League

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

FFA Cup

References

External links

Related Articles

Timelines

Top Qs

Fact Checks

27 June 2018	Logan Lightning	0–4	Brisbane Roar	Logan
19:30 AEST		Report	Reardon 15' Duncan 36' Bauthéac 56', 85'	Stadium: Logan Metro Sports Park

12 July 2018	Magpies Crusaders United	0–5	Brisbane Roar	Mackay
19:00 AEST		Report	Bauthéac 12' (pen.) Henrique 49' (pen.), 83' Muratovic 78' Sawyer 85'	Stadium: BB Print Stadium Attendance: 3,122 Referee: Jarred Gillett

31 July 2018	Wellington Phoenix	1–2	Brisbane Roar	Gold Coast
	Burns	Report	Bauthéac Taggart	Stadium: Cbus Super Stadium Referee: Chris Beath

15 August 2018	Brisbane Roar	1–1	Sydney FC	Gold Coast
	Mauk 78'	Report	Buhagiar 17'	Stadium: Cbus Super Stadium Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors) Referee: Alex King

1 September 2018	Melbourne Victory	1–1	Brisbane Roar	Morwell
14:30 AEST	Broxham 20'	Report	Taggart 22'	Stadium: Latrobe City Sports & Entertainment Centre Attendance: 1,638 Referee: Kate Jacewicz

15 September 2018	Peninsula Power	2–3	Brisbane Roar	Brisbane
17:00 AEST	Plummer 16' Strickland 85'	Report	Taggart 20', 29' 47' (o.g.)	Stadium: A.J. Kelly Park

25 September 2018	Melbourne City	1–1	Brisbane Roar	Melbourne
	Vidosic 55' (pen.)	Report	Henrique 6'	Stadium: City Football Academy

29 September 2018	Brisbane Roar	3–0	BPL Select	Logan
	Taggart 14' Mikkelsen 75' Wenzel-Halls 78'	Report		Stadium: Logan Metro Sports Park

4 October 2018	Brisbane Roar	1–1	Australia U20	Logan
12:00 AEST		Report		Stadium: Logan Metro Sports Park Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors)

Competition	Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
A-League	—	9th	21 October 2018	25 April 2019
FFA Cup	Round of 32	Round of 32	7 August 2018	7 August 2018

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Total					A-League					FFA Cup
N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Apps	Goals				Apps	Goals				Apps	Goals
1	GK		Brendan White	4	0	0	0	0	3+1	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
2	FW		Dane Ingham	13	0	2	1	0	10+3	0	2	1	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
3	DF		Luke DeVere	5	1	2	0	0	5+0	1	2	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
4	DF		Daniel Bowles	15	0	9	0	1	12+2	0	8	0	1	1+0	0	1	0	0
7	MF		Thomas Kristensen	18	0	1	0	0	16+1	0	1	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
8	MF		Jacob Pepper	22	0	9	0	0	20+1	0	9	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
10	FW		Brett Holman	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
11	FW		Éric Bauthéac	25	7	10	2	0	24+0	7	10	2	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
12	DF		Ruon Tongyik	7	0	0	0	0	7+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
13	MF		Stefan Mauk	6	0	1	0	1	4+1	0	1	0	1	1+0	0	0	0	0
14	MF		Álex López	25	3	5	0	0	25+0	3	5	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
15	DF		Stefan Nigro	9	0	1	0	0	6+3	0	1	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
16	FW		Charles Lokolingoy	5	0	2	0	0	0+5	0	2	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
17	MF		Matt McKay	25	1	5	0	0	23+1	1	5	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
18	MF		Joe Caletti	13	0	0	0	0	6+6	0	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0
19	DF		Jack Hingert	17	0	4	0	0	16+0	0	4	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
21	GK		Jamie Young	25	0	1	0	0	24+0	0	1	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
22	FW		Tobias Mikkelsen	19	3	0	0	0	10+8	3	0	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
23	FW		Dylan Wenzel-Halls	20	5	1	0	0	11+9	5	1	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
24	DF		Connor O'Toole	16	0	1	0	0	15+0	0	1	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
26	FW		Nicholas D'Agostino	17	1	2	0	0	6+11	1	2	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
27	MF		Adam Sawyer†	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
31	GK		Macklin Freke†	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
32	MF		Zachary Duncan†	4	1	1	0	0	3+1	1	1	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
33	FW		Henrique	25	3	0	0	0	11+13	3	0	0	0	1+0	0	0	0	0
34	DF		Aaron Reardon	4	0	1	0	0	1+3	0	1	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
35	MF		Jay Barnett†	3	0	0	0	0	0+3	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
36	MF		Daniel Leck†	9	0	0	0	0	6+2	0	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0
37	FW		Bryce Bafford†	0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
38	FW		Izaack Powell†	6	0	2	0	0	4+2	0	2	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
92	FW		Eli Babalj	4	0	0	0	0	3+1	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
Players no longer at the club
6	DF		Avraam Papadopoulos	9	0	4	0	0	9+0	0	4	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0
9	FW		Adam Taggart	19	11	1	0	0	17+1	11	1	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0
20	FW		Shannon Brady	1	0	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0+0	0	0	0	0

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Perth Glory	27	18	6	3	56	23	+33	60	Qualification for 2020 AFC Champions League group stage and Finals series^[a]
2	Sydney FC (C)	27	16	4	7	43	29	+14	52
3	Melbourne Victory	27	15	5	7	50	32	+18	50	Qualification for 2020 AFC Champions League preliminary round 2 and Finals series^[a]
4	Adelaide United	27	12	8	7	37	32	+5	44	Qualification for Finals series^[a]
5	Melbourne City	27	11	7	9	39	32	+7	40
6	Wellington Phoenix^[b]	27	11	7	9	46	43	+3	40
7	Newcastle Jets	27	10	5	12	40	36	+4	35
8	Western Sydney Wanderers	27	6	6	15	42	54	−12	24
9	Brisbane Roar	27	4	6	17	38	71	−33	18
10	Central Coast Mariners	27	3	4	20	31	70	−39	13

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
27	4	6	17	38	71	−33	18	3	3	7	19	36	−17	1	3	10	19	35	−16

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
Ground	H	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	H
Result	D	D	L	D	W	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	D	L	D	L	W	L	W	L	L	L	L	W	L	L
Position	4	7	8	8	6	6	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9

21 October 2018 1	Brisbane Roar	1–1	Central Coast Mariners	Brisbane
16:00 AEST	Taggart 65'	Report	Pain 4'	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 14,859 Referee: Chris Beath

28 October 2018 2	Brisbane Roar	0–0	Wellington Phoenix	Brisbane
16:00 AEST		Report		Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 15,129 Referee: Alex King

3 November 2018 3	Perth Glory	2–1	Brisbane Roar	Perth
19:00 AWST	Keogh 15' O'Toole 63' (o.g.)	Report	Taggart 84' (pen.)	Stadium: nib Stadium Attendance: 9,446 Referee: Daniel Elder

10 November 2018 4	Western Sydney Wanderers	2–2	Brisbane Roar	Mudgee
17:35	Riera 10', 17'	Report	López 37' Taggart 48' (pen.)	Stadium: Glen Willow Sporting Field Attendance: 5,067 Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

24 November 2018 5	Brisbane Roar	2–0	Melbourne City	Brisbane
18:50 AEST	Taggart 27', 66'	Report		Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 9,925 Referee: Ryuji Sato (Japan)

30 November 2018 6	Adelaide United	2–1	Brisbane Roar	Adelaide
19:20 ACDT	Halloran 43', 49'	Report	Henrique 67'	Stadium: Coopers Stadium Attendance: 8,005 Referee: Jarred Gillett

9 December 2018 7	Newcastle Jets	2–0	Brisbane Roar	Newcastle
17:00 AEDT	Sheppard 45+1' Jair 58'	Report		Stadium: McDonald Jones Stadium Attendance: 9,719 Referee: Kurt Ams

14 December 2018 8	Brisbane Roar	2–4	Melbourne Victory	Brisbane
18:50 AEST	Taggart 27' (pen.) Toivonen 42' (o.g.)	Report	Barbarouses 13', 45+2' Toivonen 32' Honda 40' (pen.)	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 10,289 Referee: Adam Fielding

22 December 2018 9	Wellington Phoenix	4–1	Brisbane Roar	Wellington
19:35 NZDT	Papadopoulos 35' (o.g.) Williams 75' Krishna 80' (pen.) Singh 90+3'	Report	Henrique 45+1'	Stadium: Westpac Stadium Attendance: 6,841 Referee: Kurt Ams

29 December 2018 10	Sydney FC	2–1	Brisbane Roar	Sydney
19:50 AEDT	Le Fondre 16', 55'	Report	McKay 35'	Stadium: Jubilee Oval Attendance: 12,216 Referee: Alex King

2 January 2019 12	Newcastle Jets	2–2	Brisbane Roar	Newcastle
19:50 AEDT	D. Petratos 5' O'Donovan 67'	Report	Taggart 65' Bauthéac 87'	Stadium: McDonald Jones Stadium Attendance: 8,519 Referee: Shaun Evans

6 January 2019 11	Brisbane Roar	2–4	Perth Glory	Brisbane
18:00 AEST	Taggart 22', 40'	Report	Kilkenny 59' (pen.), 81' (pen.) Reardon 85' (o.g.) Keogh 87'	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 9,429 Referee: Adam Kersey

11 January 2019 13	Melbourne City	1–0	Brisbane Roar	Melbourne
19:50 AEDT	De Laet 52'	Report		Stadium: AAMI Park Attendance: 6,348 Referee: Stephen Lucas

15 January 2019 15	Brisbane Roar	0–5	Melbourne Victory	Brisbane
18:50 AEST		Report	Toivonen 15' Barbarouses 48' (pen.), 72', 87' Roux 65'	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 7,131 Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

20 January 2019 14	Central Coast Mariners	1–1	Brisbane Roar	Gosford
19:00 AEDT	Millar 3'	Report	DeVere 45+1'	Stadium: Central Coast Stadium Attendance: 4,873 Referee: Matthew Conger

25 January 2019 16	Brisbane Roar	2–2	Western Sydney Wanderers	Brisbane
18:50 AEST	Mikkelsen 90+2' Taggart 90+6'	Report	Bonevacia 18' Yeboah 42'	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 8,053 Referee: Adam Fielding

2 February 2019 17	Adelaide United	4–3	Brisbane Roar	Adelaide
19:20 ACDT	Isaías 45+2' Goodwin 67' Blackwood 75' Mileusnic 90+7'	Report	Henrique 19' Wenzel-Halls 38' Taggart 43'	Stadium: Coopers Stadium Attendance: 7,071 Referee: Alex King

8 February 2019 18	Brisbane Roar	2–1	Sydney FC	Brisbane
18:50 AEST	Mikkelsen 77' Wenzel-Halls 90'	Report	De Silva 55'	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 8,356 Referee: Jonathan Barreiro

16 February 2019 19	Perth Glory	4–0	Brisbane Roar	Perth
19:00 AWST	Davidson 19' Keogh 35', 45+3' Castro 54'			Stadium: HBF Park Attendance: 10,831 Referee: Shaun Evans

22 February 2019 20	Central Coast Mariners	3–5	Brisbane Roar	Gosford
19:50 AEDT	Pain 38' O'Neill 45+2' Murray 82'	Report	Bauthéac 31' López 36', 54' Mikkelsen 45' Wenzel-Halls 74'	Stadium: Central Coast Stadium Referee: Stephan Lucas