Welcome to SFC Statistics, an unofficial comprehensive source of information related to Sydney FC.

Site news

Match search back! (for now)

Quite a while ago, I mentioned that I had to take down the match search page (as well as related pages, like the player appearance lists) due to an inefficiency that was causing huge server load when the site was crawled by bots.

I’m happy to say that it is back up for the moment. I have to give some credit to a LLM, although it took quite a while and several attempts at complicated non-solutions before we finally arrived at the one-line (apparent) fix.

It seems to be working smoothly, but I will have to keep an eye on it just in case the problem returns. In the meantime you can now have a look at a list of Rhyan Grant‘s appearances in midweek ACL matches played in Sydney.

Tifo archive

An addition to my efforts of archiving fan-made content is a new tifo archive.

I’m fairly sure that there are some missing, especially from the early years of the club & Cove. So please get in touch if you have any additions or corrections to contribute.

Match search unavailable

Unfortunately I’ve had to take down the match search and player match search facilities. If you try to do these things (which includes clicking on links in a player stats table), you’ll just end up at a page with nothing useful on it. For now.

The backstory is that there is some big inefficiency in the way these searches are done. You might have noticed those pages being slow to load from time-to-time. When the various web crawlers find my site and start hitting all of these pages, it puts a huge load on the SQL server. The site has been taken down a couple of times because of this, and I’ve previously implemented a quick-fix of blocking the specific bots. A better solution will require me to fix up the inefficiency.

Hopefully that is not too difficult, but it may take me a little while to find the time. Thanks in advance for your patience.