Matthew Michael Acton (born 3 June 1992) is an Australian

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player who plays as a

goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i ...

for

Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland. competing in Australia's premier men's competition, A-League Men, which is the top tier Australia's football pyramid. When Queensland Lions F.C. were ...

. Besides Australia, he has played in Myanmar and the Philippines.

Club career

Acton played for

. He became the first Australian goalkeeper to join the

Myanmar National League The Myanmar National League (abbreviated MNL) is the premier national professional football league of Myanmar. In 2009, the league replaced the Myanmar Premier League, which consisted only of 14 Yangon-based football clubs, with eight profession ...

when Yangon United signed him in. He was a starting player in all of his 14 caps for Yangon where in five games he managed to keep a clean sheet. He assisted Yangon in their second-place finish. After his stint with Yangon he return Brisbane Roar then joined Olympic F.C. In December 2015, Kaya F.C. of the United Football League announced that they had signed Acton. On 25 November 2016,

Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory ...

signed Acton as an injury replacement for

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, after both had trialled with Melbourne Victory pre-season. After Lawrence Thomas was ruled out with injury, Acton made his debut for Melbourne Victory on 26 November 2016, in a 2–0 victory over the

Newcastle Jets Newcastle United Jets Football Club, commonly known as Newcastle Jets, is an Australian professional soccer club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier competition, the A-League, under licence from the Australi ...

. On 24 September 2020,

Re-signed Acton for extend three-year deal. On 3 July 2023,

announced that Matt Acton has signed once again for the club that he began at.

Personal life

Acton was born in Australia to an English-Finnish father and English mother. He acquired Finnish citizenship in 2011.

Career statistics

Notes ''CS = Clean Sheets'' ¹ - includes

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final series statistics
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statistics are included in season commencing during group stages (i.e. ACL 2015 and A-League season 2014–15 etc.)

Honours

Brisbane Roar * A-League Championship: 2013–14 * A-League Premiership: 2013–14 Melbourne Victory * A-League Championship: 2017–18 *

FFA Cup The Australia Cup (currently known as the Hahn Australia Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the national soccer knockout cup competition in Australia. This annual competition is organised by Football Australia (known as Football Federation Austra ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Australia U-20 * AFC U-20 Asian Cup: runner-up

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

References

External links

FFA profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Acton, Matt 1992 births Living people Australian men's soccer players Australian people of English descent Australian people of Finnish descent Men's association football goalkeepers A-League Men players National Premier Leagues players Myanmar National League players Philippines Football League players Brisbane Roar FC players Yangon United F.C. players Olympic FC (Australia) players Kaya F.C.–Iloilo players Melbourne Victory FC players Australian expatriate sportspeople in Myanmar Expatriate men's footballers in Myanmar Australian expatriate sportspeople in the Philippines Expatriate men's footballers in the Philippines Sportspeople from Townsville Soccer players from Queensland Naturalized citizens of Finland 21st-century Australian sportsmen