A-League Round 10 - Facts & Figures

The Long Trip East

Round 10 of the Hyundai A-League sees the longest road trip between Australian clubs when Perth Glory travels to Suncorp Stadium to take on Queensland Roar on Saturday.

Traditionally, it is thought that such a long away trip means an advantage to the home team.

However, based on the overall home team winning record in the first nine Hyundai A-League rounds, combined with the historical record of Australia's other major football leagues, the 4500km long trip from Perth to Brisbane may not be so advantageous for the Queensland club.

In the first nine Hyundai A-League rounds, home teams have won just 13 of the 36 games so far – compared with 16 victories for the away team.

In 19 encounters between Western Australian and Queensland clubs played in Queensland in the AFL/VFL since 1987, just nine matches were won by the home team.

And in all six matches played in Queensland between Western Australian and Queensland clubs in the NSWRL/Super League from 1995 to 1997, the Queensland-based team won just two.

The record is even more ominous for Queensland-based football teams in the old National League; remarkably, in eight trips by Western Australian clubs to Queensland between 1996 and 2004, no Brisbane-based team ever recorded a victory.

League’s Best Travellers to visit Home Fortress

Something is set to give this Friday at Olympic Park Stadium when the team with the best home record, Melbourne Victory, host the team with the best away record in Adelaide United.

After nine rounds the Victory are the only club to have avoided defeat at home winning three and drawing one of their four home matches.

Adelaide United have the best away record having claimed victory in four out of five matches away from Hindmarsh Stadium.

Stats Galore

Sportsdata, Australia’s leading real-time sports information service, collects a huge amount of statistical information on every player from every Hyundai A-League match.

Shots on and off target, attempted and completed passes, effective and ineffective tackles, and fouls won and conceded are just some of the events that each player who takes the field now has recorded by Sportsdata’s team of football analysts.

After Round 9, the leading players in a range of categories are:

• Most goals – ARCHIE THOMPSON (Melbourne Victory) – 6
• Most goal assists – ANTE MILICIC (Newcastle Jets), JAMIE COYNE (Perth Glory), Nick CARLE (Newcastle Jets) and TOM PONDELJAK (Central Coast Mariners) – 3
• Most attempts on target – ALEX BROSQUE (Queensland Roar) – 26
• Most attempts (on/off target) – ALEX BROSQUE (Queensland Roar) – 41
• Most goalkeeper saves – DANNY MILOSEVIC (New Zealand Knights) – 41
• Most clean sheets by a goalkeeper – DANIEL BELTRAME (Adelaide United), Eugene Galekovic (Melbourne Victory), Tom Willis (Queensland Roar) – 3
• Most completed passes – HYUK-SU SEO (Queensland Roar) – 373
• Most effective tackles – KEVIN MUSCAT (Melbourne Victory) – 41
• Most fouls conceded – STEVE PANTELIDIS (Melbourne Victory) – 26
• Most fouls received – ZENON CARAVELLA (New Zealand Knights) – 27
• Most off-sides conceded – DWIGHT YORKE (Sydney FC) – 15
• Most yellow cards – SASHO PETROVSKI (Sydney FC) – 4

Summaries of Sportsdata player statistics, updated weekly, are available on the Hyundai A-League’s official website www.a-league.com.au – select ‘Match Action’ and then ‘Player Statistics’.