Dream Big (TV series)

Dream Big is a Network Ten, Paramount and Amazon Prime Video sports docuseries. In the series, Australian A-League Men side Melbourne Victory's progress was charted through their 2021–22 season, seeking for improvements based on their last two seasons.

The series was directed by Christopher Gospel and produced by David Davutovic. Christopher Gospel and Tom Pollock. The four episodes were released on 16 December 2022.

Background

Melbourne Victory are one of the most successful clubs in Australia, being known for winning trophies and a consistency of a vast majority of fans in the stands. Their era under Kevin Muscat; the club's second-most successful head coach, won two further championships which reached a record four A-League Men championships at the time in 2018, along with a premiership and Australia Cup.

Since Muscat left the club, recruitments backfired, multiple head coach changes went ahead and saw a downfall to performances and fans in the stands throughout the next two seasons in 2019–20 and 2020–21; both of which they would finish in the bottom two. As a recovery, the club appointed Tony Popovic as head coach for the 2021–22 season and look for a massive rebuild promoted by the phrase "Dream Big".

Plot

Melbourne Victory started their league season with a win away against Western United, furtherly another win back at home against Brisbane Roar to the top of the table in the first two rounds. Their first loss would come at home against Perth Glory in Round 3, but keep satisfactory positions in the finals series spots with a few undefeated matches. Three consecutive losses followed, until then they would go on a record 15-match unbeaten streak towards the end of the regular season at the top of the table, until overtaken in the final matchweek by rivals Melbourne City by one point in the end at second place.

They started their finals series in the two-legged semi-finals against other rivals Western United. Despite Victory finishing the first leg winning 1–0, it all ended by losing 4–1 (4–2 on aggregate) one short of the Grand Final, as the season was over for Melbourne Victory.

Episodes

Cast

Players

First-team players

The following first-team players make appearances in the docuseries.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Non-playing staff

Note: Age as of 1 July 2021

Technical staff

Management team

Former players and staff

Production and release

Dream Big was announced on 13 December 2022 as a Melbourne Victory production in jointly with KEEPUP Studios and 10 Play, and all four episodes would release on 16 December 2022.