{"id":5148,"date":"2026-05-05T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/5148\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:24:06","slug":"rawlins-departs-victory-for-overseas-transfer-melbourne-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/5148\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlins\u00a0departs\u00a0Victory for overseas transfer\u00a0 | Melbourne Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Victory can confirm that Joshua Rawlins has completed a transfer to Dundee United following the conclusion of the 2025\/26 Isuzu UTE A-League campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old defender has signed a pre-contract with the Tangerines in advance of the 2026\/27 Scottish Premiership season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rawlins, since signing from\u00a0Utrecht\u00a0in June 2024, has made 49 appearances in all competitions for Victory, across the A-League and the Australia Cup, whilst continuing his national team journey, most recently\u00a0representing\u00a0Australia at the 2026 AFC U23 Asian Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of his move to Tannadice, Rawlins reflected on his time at Victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a privilege to represent Melbourne Victory over the last two seasons, pushing me to better myself as a footballer and a young person, and I want to thank everyone at the Club for supporting and accelerating my development. To the Members and fans, your support has been incredible, and for this, I am very grateful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I am looking forward to a new opportunity and environment, but I will never forget this period in my career, everything it has taught me, and I am proud of what I helped the team to achieve.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne Victory Director of Football, John Didulica, added:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank Josh for his\u00a0important\u00a0contributions in helping the Club reach two Finals series, including a Grand Final in 2025, and look forward to seeing his career continue overseas.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud that\u00a0our program\u00a0is\u00a0able to again support a young professional\u2019s\u00a0transition\u00a0into an exciting European league, and its testament to the\u00a0hard\u00a0work of everybody at the\u00a0Club.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ticketbooth.com.au\/event\/liberty-a-league-women-s-melbourne-city-fc-v-mvfcutxvkzpq6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"357305\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/melbournevictory.com.au\/home\/herosliderblockguide_alwfinals1920x640\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/melbournevictory.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/HeroSliderBlockGuide_ALWFinals1920x640.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,640\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HeroSliderBlockGuide_ALWFinals1920x640\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HeroSliderBlockGuide_ALWFinals1920x640.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HeroSliderBlockGuide_ALWFinals1920x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-357305\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Victory can confirm that Joshua Rawlins has completed a transfer to Dundee United following the conclusion of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[341,1998,6422,260,332,6423],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-a-league","tag-isuzu-ute-a-league","tag-joshua-rawlins","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-victory","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}