Sport | Association football |
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Competition | Australia Cup |
Awarded for | being the best performing player/s in an Australia Cup final |
Country | Australia |
Presented by | Football Australia |
History | |
First award | 2014 |
Editions | 9 (as of 2022) |
First winner | Sergio Cirio |
Most recent | Joe Lolley (2023) |
Website | australiacup.com.au/mark-viduka-medal |
The Mark Viduka Medal is an association football award that recognises the best adjudged player/s from the final of the Australia Cup (formally the FFA Cup) each year. Introduced in the first edition of the competition in 2014, the award is named after Mark Viduka, who captained the Australian national team during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Presented by Football Australia following the final, the recipient/s are determined by a panel of three judges consisting of Viduka, the Australian national team manager and Football Australia's national technical director.[1]
Final | Player | Nationality | Position | Team | Opponents | Score | Ref. |
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2014 | Sergio Cirio | Spain | Forward | Adelaide United | Perth Glory | 1–0 | [2] |
2015 | Kosta Barbarouses | New Zealand | Midfielder | Melbourne Victory | Perth Glory | 2–0 | [3] |
2016 | Bruno Fornaroli | Uruguay[a] | Forward | Melbourne City | Sydney FC | 1–0 | [5] |
2017 | Adrian Mierzejewski | Poland | Midfielder | Sydney FC | Adelaide United | 2–1† | [6] |
2018 | Craig Goodwin | Australia | Forward | Adelaide United | Sydney FC | 2–1 | [7] |
2019 | Al Hassan Toure | Australia | Forward | Adelaide United | Melbourne City | 4–0 | [8] |
2020 | Tournament cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | [9] | |||||
2021 | Jake Brimmer | Australia | Midfielder | Melbourne Victory | Central Coast Mariners | 2–1 | [10] |
Kye Rowles‡ | Australia | Defender | Central Coast Mariners | Melbourne Victory | |||
2022 | Ulises Dávila | Mexico | Midfielder | Macarthur FC | Sydney United 58 | 2–0 | [11] |
2023 | Joe Lolley | England | Midfielder | Sydney FC | Brisbane Roar | 3–1 | [12] |
Rank | Winner | Total wins | Years won |
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1 | Adelaide United | 3 | 2014, 2018, 2019 |
2 | Melbourne Victory | 2 | 2015, 2021 |
Sydney FC | 2 | 2017, 2023 | |
4 | Melbourne City | 1 | 2016 |
Central Coast Mariners | 1 | 2021 | |
Macarthur FC | 1 | 2022 |
Nationality | Number of wins |
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Australia | 4 |
England | 1 |
Mexico | 1 |
Poland | 1 |
Spain | 1 |
Uruguay | 1 |
Position | Number of wins |
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Midfielder | 5 |
Forward | 4 |
Defender | 1 |
Goalkeeper | 0 |