The tradition of producing high calibre players can be tracked back to Australia's most prominent World Cup campaign in 1974, when a young Billy Vojtek represented club and country in helping the Australian National Squad qualify for the World Cup, and Jimmy Mackay scored the qualifying goal to get us to Germany that year - the following is a testimony to its players' success:

This is a record which many Australian clubs would be envious of, and demonstrates a continous tradition that Melbourne Knights can be proud of.

The tradition is underpinned by a strong youth development program in place at the club which in the past few decades has seen a progression of no less than twenty youth team players, some as young as 16, to the senior ranks and being representative in the senior NSL fixtures.

Currently young stars who learnt their trade at the Melbourne Knights have stepped up to the new national soccer competition, the A-League. Players such as Ivan Franjic, Mate Dugandzic and Andrew Barisic are not only cementing their places as senior squad players, and national representative players, but are also expected to spread their wings offshore in the international arena.

The following list shows individual honours of our champions:

• Best Result in the NSL: W 8-1 v Wollongong Macedonia at Knights Stadium(h) 7.3.91
• Best Result in State Competitions: W 29-1 V Brunswick Latvia at Corio Oval(h) 29.8.59
• Best Regular season NSL Crowd (home): 11,415 v South Melbourne at Knights Stadium 5.3.00
• Best Finals Series NSL Crowd: 23,318 vs South Melbourne (1990/91 Grand Final) at Olympic Park
• Biggest Unbeaten Streak: 21 games - 20/08/1960 - 31/03/1962 (Preston Croat)
• Biggest Winning Streak: 15 games - (SC Croatia) 31/03/1962 - 07/07/1962 & (Preston Croat) 27/08/1960 - 22/07/1961
• Biggest Winning Streak in the NSL: 7 games - 23/10/1994 - 4/12/1994
• Biggest Unbeaten Streak in the NSL: 12 games - 13/05/1984 - 26/08/1984
• Biggest Losing Streak in the NSL: 4 games - 12/4/98 - 30/10/98 & 3/10/99 - 22/10/99
• Biggest Streak Without a Win in the NSL: 8 games - 13/12/98 - 7/02/99 & 12/12/99 - 30/01/00
• Biggest Unbeaten Streak in the VPL: 19 games - 17-02/2008 - 29/06/2008
• Most Goals in a Season (as a club): 81 goals in 1959
• Most Wins in a Season: 21 wins in 1983
• Most Points in a Season: 66 points in 1995/96
• Most Goals in a Match (NSL): Ivan Kelić 6 goals v Wollongong Macedonia at Knights Stadium(h) 7.3.91
• Most Matches in the NSL: Josip Biskic 282 matches, Andrew Marth 269 matches
• Most Matches All-Time: Josip Biskic 328 matches
• Most Goals in the NSL: Ivan Kelić 78 goals, Adrian Cervinski 58 goals
• Most Goals in a Season: 21 Mark Viduka 94/95, 21 David Brogan 1983
• Best Games to Goal Ratio: 0.83 Mark Viduka 40 goals/48 games
• Most Games Coached in the NSL: Mirko Bažić
• Most Games Coached All-Time: Mijo Kis
• Most Seasons at the Club: Josip Biskic 14, Billy Vojtek 13, Andrew Marth 13, Horst Rau 12, George Hannah 11, Mirko Kovacek 10

Club History compiled by Davor Ovčarić and Pave Jusup