The Melbourne FC team of the century was announced on 24 June 2000 at Crown Palladium in front of 1400 guests.

The selection committee comprised Percy Beames (former player and journalist), Lynda Carroll (Club historian), Bill Guest (Director), Greg Hobbs (journalist), John Mitchell (former MFC President), Linda Pearce (journalist), Dudley Phillips (supporter), Stephen Phillips (media consultant), and Mike Sheahan (journalist) with CEO John Anderson as non-voting chairman.

B	John Beckwith	Tassie Johnson	Don Cordner
HB	Noel McMahen	Gary Hardeman	Don Williams
C	Brian Dixon	Allan La Fontaine	Robert Flower (vc)
HF	Hassa Mann	Ivor Warne-Smith	Garry Lyon
F	Jack Mueller	Norm Smith	Percy Beames
R	Denis Cordner	Ron Barassi (c)	Stuart Spencer
I	Frank Adams	Bert Chadwick	Wally Lock
	Laurie Mithen	Jim Stynes	Todd Viney
EM	Stan Alves	Robert B Johnson
	Ian Ridley	Greg Wells
Coach	Norm Smith