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Mark Byrnes
Australian footballer
Mark John Byrnes (born 8 February 1982) is an Australian footballer who plays for APIA Leichhardt Tigers in the New South Wales Premier League.
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| Full name | Mark John Byrnes | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1982-02-08) 8 February 1982 (age 42) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre Back | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Concord High School | |||||||||||||||||
| Sydney Olympic | |||||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | NSWIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Parramatta Power | 22 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Austria Salzburg | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Vicenza Calcio | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Sydney Olympic | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Perth Glory | 44 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | FC Hämeenlinna | 11 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Melbourne Victory | 11 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Richmond SC | 15 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2013 | APIA Leichhardt Tigers | 83 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | → Gold Coast United (loan) | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Australia U-17 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Australia U-20 | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 October 2013 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 October 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
After a short stint with SV Salzburg in Austria, he won two NSL championship medals in a row with Perth Glory.
Due to the demise of the National Soccer League after the 2003/2004 season, in July of that year he signed with Finnish club, FC Hämeenlinna.[1] He returned to Australia to form part of Melbourne Victory's A-League 2005–06 squad,[2] but found his chances limited by the emergence of younger defenders Adrian Leijer and Daniel Piorkowski.[3][4][5] He was part of Melbourne's A-League championship winning side in 2006–2007. However at the end of the season, on 1 March 2007, he was released by the club.[6]
In 2007, he was announced as a short term signing for Victorian Premier League side Richmond Eagles for three matches.[7] In 2008, Byrnes went on trial with English lower league football clubs Port Vale and Luton Town. He impressed during an overseas pre-season tour to the extent that he would have been offered a contract had he not suffered a minor injury during the last tour match.[8][9]
On 23 September 2009 he was signed by Gold Coast United as a four-week injury replacement for Daniel Piorkowski.[10]
He was captain of the Australian Under-17 team which reached the final of the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship.
With Australia:
- FIFA U-17 World Championship: 1999 (Runners-up)
With Perth Glory:
NSL Championship: 2002–03, 2003–04
- (in Finnish) FC Hämeenlinna kohtaa MyPan
- Bleiberg signs injury cover for Piorkowski Archived 8 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine