Tomislav Uskok (born 22 July 1991) is an Australian professional

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who plays as a

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for

Macarthur FC Macarthur Football Club is an Australian professional association football, soccer club based in South Western Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in Australia's premier soccer competition, the A-League, under Professional sports league organi ...

in the

A-League A-League Men, also known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional soccer league in Australia and New Zealand and the highest level of the Australian soccer league system. Established in 2004 as the A-League by the ...

Career

Early years

Uskok came through the junior ranks at local club

Melbourne Knights Melbourne Knights Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sunshine North, Melbourne. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, the second-tier of the Australian soccer league ...

. He departed the club in 2009 in search of first team football, subsequently joining

Victorian Premier League The Victorian Premier League (VPL) is an Australian soccer league based in Victoria that was founded in 2023 and administered by Football Victoria. It consists of two divisions that were named after the VPL's breakaway of the National Premier L ...

side

Richmond SC Greater Dandenong Football Club is an Australian association football, soccer club from Dandenong, Victoria, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Greater Dandenong most recently competed in the Victorian State League Division 1, Victorian ...

. With first team opportunities scarce for the 18-year-old, he then joined

Victorian State League Division 1 The Victorian State League, known as VETO Sports State League for sponsorship purposes is an Australian soccer league based in Victoria that was founded in 1958 and administered by Football Victoria. It consists of five divisions (separated by ...

side

St Albans Saints St Albans Dinamo Soccer Club, formerly known as St Albans Saints Soccer Club between 1993 and 2023, is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in St Albans, Victoria. Established by local Croatian Australians as Dinamo, the club is ...

for the second half of the 2010 season.

Melbourne Knights

In 2011, Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights. In 2014, Uskok scored in a 2–0 win over traditional rivals

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, a win that saw the Knights qualify for the Round of 32 of the

2014 FFA Cup The 2014 FFA Cup was the inaugural season of the FFA Cup, the main national soccer knockout cup competition in Australia. 631 teams in total from around Australia entered the competition. Only 32 teams competed in the competition proper (round ...

. Uskok went on to score a 120th-minute winner in the 2014 Dockerty Cup final, as Melbourne Knights beat

South Springvale SC South Springvale FC is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in Springvale, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club was formed by local Greek Australians in 1968, as 'Sandown Dynamo'. The club currently competes in the Victorian ...

to claim their first piece of major since 1996. In February 2015, Uskok was handed the captaincy at his boyhood club, stating "It's a great honour and a privilege." Uskok departed Knights in September 2015, as he relocated to Sydney, and was set to join a club in the

National Premier Leagues NSW The National Premier Leagues NSW is a semi-professional soccer competition in New South Wales, Australia. The competition is conducted by Football NSW, one of the two organising bodies in New South Wales (the other being the National Premier L ...

in 2016, before his career took a turn.

Central Coast Mariners

Uskok signed for

club

Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League Men, under licence from the Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The Mar ...

on 23 November 2015, as the club sought a replacement to the recently released Eddy Bosnar. The contract was to end in June 2016 and was the 24-year-old's first shot at professional football. Uskok made his competitive first team debut for Central Coast Mariners in their home clash against Melbourne City on 3 December 2015. The former Knights captain made his starting debut in Round 15, playing the full 90 minutes as his side went down 3–1 to

Adelaide United Adelaide United Football Club is a professional men's soccer club located in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club was one of the eight founding members of the A-League Men and have competed in it concurrently since its formation, u ...

. Uskok was named in the A-League team of the week in Central Coast's 2–0 loss to

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 ...

, a match in which he made a very good showing, keeping marquee Victory striker

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quiet. On 11 April 2016, Uskok was released by the Mariners after making seven appearances in his time at the club.

Sydney United 58

On 15 April 2016,

club

Sydney United 58 Sydney United 58 Football Club is a semi-professional association football, soccer club and current NSW NPL Champions based in Edensor Park, New South Wales, Edensor Park, Sydney, New South Wales Australia. The club was formed as Sydney Croatia ...

announced that they had signed the imposing central defender for the remainder of the 2016 NPL NSW season. Uskok scored on debut for Sydney United in a 3–0 win over Blacktown Spartans on 16 April 2016, coming on as a substitute to tuck in the third goal. On 10 July 2016, Uskok claimed the 2016 Waratah Cup with United, achieving an 8.5 match rating from FourFourTwo Australia.

Return to Melbourne Knights

Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights for the 2018 season.

Return to Sydney United 58

Uskok departed Melbourne Knights midway through the 2019 season and re-signed with Sydney United in

Western United

Uskok joined

club

Western United FC Western United Football Club is an Australian professional Association football, soccer club. The club is based in the western Melbourne suburb of Tarneit, Victoria, Tarneit, the club aims to represent western Victoria, incorporating the wester ...

in January 2020 as their second signing for that month. Uskok scored his first A-League goal in a 2–1 derby win over

Melbourne Victory FC Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under North American professional sports leag ...

. Prior to his second season with Western United, he was named the club's vice-captain. Manager

Marko Rudan Marko Ante "Mark" Rudan (born 27 August 1975) is an Australian association football manager and former player, who last managed A-League Men club Western Sydney Wanderers. Rudan was one of the inaugural inductees into the Sydney FC Hall of Fa ...

commented: "Tomi came in halfway through the season and he was an exceptional leader for us, a great communicator. He’s one for the future as far as we’re concerned, we can build a club around Tomi. In a very short space of time he’s got the respect of all the players and the coaching staff as well."

Macarthur FC

Uskok joined

on a two-year contract in July 2021.

Honours

Melbourne Knights *

Dockerty Cup The Dockerty Cup is an annual association football single-elimination tournament, knock-out competition open to all Victorian clubs across the Australian soccer league system, Victorian football league system. The tournament is named after the fo ...

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Sydney United *

National Premier Leagues The National Premier Leagues (NPL) is a men's national association football competition in Australia which acts as the second tier of the sport in the country below the A-League. The NPL consists of the highest level state league in each state- ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Premiership:

Waratah Cup The Waratah Cup is a knockout cup competition in New South Wales, run by the governing body of football in NSW, Football NSW. Teams competing in the Waratah Cup come from the National Premier Leagues NSW, NSW League One, NSW League Two, and n ...

Macarthur *

Australia Cup The Australia Cup (currently known as the Hahn Australia Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the national association football, soccer single-elimination tournament, knockout cup competition in Australia. This annual competition is organised by Fo ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Uskok, Tomislav 1991 births Living people Australian people of Croatian descent Australian men's soccer players Soccer players from Melbourne Men's association football central defenders A-League Men players National Premier Leagues players Central Coast Mariners FC players Melbourne Knights FC players Greater Dandenong FC players St Albans Dinamo SC players Sydney United 58 FC players Western United FC players Macarthur FC players 21st-century Australian sportsmen