Thursday 6 March 2025 
Novotel Melbourne Preston

Caroline Carnegie, Managing Director of Melbourne Victory Football Club. ​

Topic: Melbourne Victory: Sport, Business and Community.

Caroline began her role as Managing Director of Melbourne Victory in May 2021. She is also a Director and Company Secretary of the club, having first joined the Board in 2015 and a director and secretary of the Club’s not-for-profit Academy. MVFC is one of Australia’s premier football clubs, boasting four A-League Championships (and three Premierships), two FFA Cup titles and a seven-time qualifier for the ACL. Along with the A-League men, the Club is proud to compete in the NPL and A-League women's competitions and support the Afghan Women's National Team (AWT). Caroline was also an inaugural member of the FA (Football Australia) Women’s Council (WC) and represented the WC on the New Leagues Working Group, designed to agree and recommend the structure for the Australian professional football leagues moving forward (which took shape from the 2022/23 A-Leagues seasons.

Caroline has expertise in mergers, acquisitions and disposals (including trade sales, management buyouts and distressed sales), contract preparation and negotiation, asset sales and IT outsourcing agreements across various industry sectors. Caroline also has a sports law practice, which entails advising many sporting organisations on their league participation arrangements, sponsorships, governance programs and more and has acted for many premier sporting organisations. Furthermore, Caroline provides extensive advice to not-for-profit entities about corporate governance and structuring and was the primary legal advisor to the Australian Professional Leagues regarding unbundling from the FA and the capital raise project undertaken with Silver Lake, which resulted in a US$100m investment into football in this country.