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Melbourne City

Australian professional soccer club

Australia · Foreign multi-club ownership reshapes the A-League, bringing capital with strings attached

More than half of the A-League's 12 men's clubs are now tied to international multi-club ownership groups, a model league chief executive Steve Rosich calls "only positive" for a competition short on local capital. But the risks are showing, from alienated supporters at Melbourne City to the Premier League's guilty findings against Manchester City, flagship of the same network.