Central Coast Mariners vs Brisbane Roar Prediction and Betting Tips | December 30th 2025

Central Coast Mariners will host Brisbane Roar at the Central Coast Stadium on Tuesday in the 10th round of the 2025-26 Australian A-League campaign. The hosts will be desperate to return to winning ways and push up from the bottom of the league table.

Central Coast continued their poor start to the season with a lackluster performance in their 3-1 loss away at Wellington Phoenix last time out, marking their fifth defeat in just nine games. The Mariners won two and drew one of their opening four league matches this season, but have since struggled to pick up points, suffering four losses in their last five, and currently sit at the bottom of the Australian top-flight league table.

Brisbane have had a much better season compared to Tuesday’s hosts, but ended up with no points in their 2-1 loss to Macarthur two weeks ago after conceding two second-half penalties. The visitors have four wins from nine games so far and are on course for playoff qualification, but will need to bounce back with a win this weekend to avoid slipping off the top half of the table.

Central Coast Mariners vs Brisbane Roar Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• The two sides have met on 65 previous occasions going into the weekend. Central Coast have won 14 of those meetings, 16 have ended in draws, while Brisbane Roar have won the remaining 35.
• The hosts have scored an impressive 20 goals across the last 10 meetings between the sides.
• The visitors have lost seven of the last 10 editions of this fixture.
• Central Coast have the joint-second worst defensive record in the Australian top flight with 15 goals conceded across nine games.
• Brisbane Roar have the third-worst offensive record but the best defensive record in the division, having scored only nine goals and conceded five across nine games.

Central Coast Mariners vs Brisbane Roar Prediction

The Mariners are underdogs going into this midweek fixture despite having the home advantage, and will need to be at their rarely-seen best to avoid defeat.

The Lions are favorites to get the win this week and will only need to improve on their poor goalscoring record to get all three points on the road.

Prediction: Central Coast Mariners 1-2 Brisbane Roar

Central Coast Mariners vs Brisbane Roar Betting Tips

Tip 1 - Result: Brisbane Roar to win

Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Over 2.5 goals (Four of the hosts' last five games have produced more than 2.5 goals)

Tip 3 - Both teams to score: Yes (Both teams have gotten on the scoresheet in each of the hosts' last five games)

Edited by Peter P