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FFA(?) Cup said:Football Federation Australia (FFA) today announced that the FFA Cup will return to the national football calendar in 2021 with some key adjustments intended to improve and enhance the excitement associated with Australia’s largest annual club-based sporting competition.
- FFA Cup Semi-Finals & Final earmarked to be on stand-alone weekends for the first time.
- Final to be played at neutral venue.
- FFA Cup Final Rounds will feature an open draw for the first time – generating more competitive tension and uncertainty.
- FFA Cup 2021 winner to be awarded a preliminary round slot representing Australia in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League*.
- FFA Cup Final Rounds Slot Allocation for A-League clubs and Member Federations to remain unchanged.
- FFA Cup Final Rounds Play-Off matches between the bottom four (4) placed A-League clubs from the A-League 2020/21 season will be played to determine the final two (2) A-League teams to enter the Round of 32.
- Wollongong Wolves (NPL 2019 Champions) will be granted entry into the FFA Cup 2021 Final Rounds. Wollongong missed out in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stand-alone Final and AFC Champions League prize to headline rebooted FFA Cup in 2021
Football Federation Australia (FFA) today announced that the FFA Cup will return to the national football calendar in 2021 with some key adjustments intended to improve and enhance the excitement associated with Australia’s largest annual club-based sporting competition. FFA CUP 2021 – KEY FEATURES:www.theffacup.com.au
It depends on what they mean by a neutral venue anyway. It could be nice to have, but I guess we will see.Happy with all that apart from the neutral venue for the final, that will just suck the atmosphere away from the match and you know its always gonna be in Sydney.
Melbourne City becomes Melbourne Team 11 City.
I regretfully say that if they build a stadium at Dandenong I'll surely be jumping ship. 5 minutes from their training ground, 20 from their stadium, it'd be insane not to. I'd rather be jumping ship to Team 11, but it looks as if that option is gone.
They were saying a good portion of the members joining are from around Casey. It will also be easier to pick up the talented immigrants/first generation/any other talented individuals that call the region home. We also have to be real, the facilities at Casey are going to include a 4000 seat stadium and probably is better and more central than at the back of a university (the current facility is likely to be expensive), the council also wants it. Yeah a few will switch sides because they are closer, but there will be people who haven't chosen a side yet or are more likely to pick the side because they are based in the same region.Find the whole closer argument weird.
I grew up in MtDruitt and lived 99% of the time west of Parra.
Didn’t jump ship when the Wanderboys joined. Never stopped following Balmain in the NRL
Giants are the only “closer” club I follow and that’s only because they are the reason I watch AFL.
It basically comes down to me despising travelling for 2+ hours for a game that is over in an hour and a half. I generally go alone so am not "making a day/night out of it'. I'm still relatively new to following soccer, so I am not overly attached to Victory. In fact the only reason I have a membership there is because they were the first club in Melbourne. If my City supporting friends were willing to attend games I would have signed up with them.Find the whole closer argument weird.
I grew up in MtDruitt and lived 99% of the time west of Parra.
Didn’t jump ship when the Wanderboys joined. Never stopped following Balmain in the NRL
Giants are the only “closer” club I follow and that’s only because they are the reason I watch AFL.
Said it before and I'll say it again. Melbourne City should have always been South Melbourne.
You're comparing different eras and different leaguesSth Melbourne never averaged what City get.
Hell the highest crowd the got was 8k.
Sth Melbourne never averaged what City get.
Hell the highest crowd the got was 8k.
You're comparing different eras and different leagues
They would be selling out Lakeside most games if they were in the A-League and would easily have more fans than City. The A-League have been horrible in their expansion attempts in Victoria.
They're still beyond comparison, south melbourne never played a derby vs melbourne victory, at the very least they have a geographical difference to victory which city realise they needed the whole time.Both were the main leagues of their time.
Besides being overly vocal, verging on psychotic, on social media they have not shown anything that would tell me they would get crowds that high.
They're still beyond comparison, south melbourne never played a derby vs melbourne victory, at the very least they have a geographical difference to victory which city realise they needed the whole time.
It is not a valid comparison at all.
No they wouldn’t.
They didn’t when they were in the top flight.
Both were the main leagues of their time.
Besides being overly vocal, verging on psychotic, on social media they have not shown anything that would tell me they would get crowds that high.
Just think City was the right choice backing wise, they just needed to work on their point of difference.