Anthony Di Pietro

In February 2017, Di Pietro spoke publicly regarding A-league expansion, governance and broadcast distribution. Di Pietro highlighted that the time for change was 'now upon us and decisions made now will affect the future of football in Australia in the years to come'.

Di Pietro voiced his advocacy for an 'Australian-led Asian food boom' and was a key participant in the Victorian Government's 2013 Food Trade initiatives into Asia.

Di Pietro oversaw the visit of English Premier League heavyweight Liverpool F.C. to Melbourne in July 2013. The game attracted a record crowd for a football (soccer) match of 95,446 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Di Pietro was a Director of the Sovereign Hotel Group from 2007 to 2010, whose flagship business was Federation Square’s Transport Hotel, Taxi Dining Room and Transit Cocktail Lounge.

Di Pietro was appointed to the Board of Melbourne Victory FC in 2006 during its formative years and became chairman in January 2011. Di Pietro oversaw a number of key achievements, including 2017–18 Championship, making Melbourne Victory FC the most successful club in A-League history and the only club to have won three Premiership and four Championship titles, as well as winning the FFA Cup title in 2015.

Anthony Di Pietro (born 15 February 1969) is a businessman from Melbourne, Australia. Di Pietro is most known for his current and longest standing chairmanship of Melbourne Victory FC, a professional association football (soccer) club that participates in the Hyundai A-League. Alongside sport, Di Pietro is also the Chief Executive Officer and a board member of industry leading fruit & vegetable producers and marketers, the LaManna Premier Group.

Di Pietro was born in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston in 1969, and is of Italian descent. Di Pietro completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at The University of Melbourne in 1990, and occasionally addresses graduating students in the University's Business and Economics faculty, first appearing in 2013.