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2021 Football West State Cup
Western Australian soccer clubs competed in 2021 for the Football West State Cup. Clubs entered from the National Premier Leagues WA, the two divisions of the State League, a limited number of teams from various divisions of the 2021 Amateur League, Metropolitan League and Masters League competitions, and from regional teams from the Goldfields, South West and Great Southern regions. This knockout competition was won by Floreat Athena, their eighth title. The competition also served as the Western Australian Preliminary Rounds for the 2021 FFA Cup. The two finalists – ECU Joondalup and Floreat Athena – qualified for the final rounds, entering at the Round of 32 A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc .... Format Preliminary rounds A total of 65 teams took par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floreat Athena FC
Floreat Athena Football Club is an association football (soccer) club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club competes in the National Premier Leagues Western Australia. The club's founders were of Greek heritage. Floreat Athena has been crowned the Western Australian State Champions five times, League Premiers seven times, State Cup Winners eight times, and Night Series Champions nine times. In 1997, the club won all three trophies to claim its first ever treble. History Early years The club was formed in 1951 as the Athena Club by Greek-Australians as place for the local Greek community to unite around football. The club entered the third division of WA's state league football in 1953. 1960s In 1960 the club withdrew from the Western Australian Soccer Football Association (WASFA) to form WA's first official semi-professional league under the Western Australia Soccer Federation. It was also in 1960 that Athena played their first season in the state league's top tier, end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Football West State Cup
Western Australian soccer clubs competed in 2019 for the Football West State Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the Belt Up State Cup. Clubs entered from the National Premier Leagues WA, the two divisions of the State League, a limited number of teams from various divisions of the 2019 Amateur League, Metropolitan League and Masters League competitions, and from regional teams from the South West and Great Southern regions. This knockout competition was won by Floreat Athena, their seventh title. The competition also served as the Western Australian Preliminary Rounds for the 2019 FFA Cup. The two finalists – Bayswater City and Floreat Athena – qualified for the final rounds, entering at the Round of 32. Format Preliminary rounds A total of 56 teams took part in the competition, from Perth-based and regional-based competitions. Final The 2019 State Cup Final was played on 20 July 2019, at the neutral venue of Dorrien Gardens Dorrien Gardens is a sports groun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Football West State Cup
Western Australian soccer clubs competed in 2022 for the Football West State Cup. Perth-based clubs entered from the National Premier Leagues WA, the two divisions of the State League, a limited number of teams from various divisions of the 2022 Amateur League and 2022 Metropolitan League competitions. There were also regional teams from the South West and Great Southern regions. This knockout competition was won by Cockburn City, their seventh title (five of the first six having been won by the predecessor club Spearwood Dalmatinac). The competition also served as the Western Australian Preliminary rounds for the 2022 Australia Cup. The two finalists – Armadale SC and Cockburn City – qualified for the final rounds, entering at the Round of 32. Format Preliminary rounds A total of 58 teams took part in the competition, from Perth-based and regional-based competitions. Final The 2022 Men's State Cup Final was played at the neutral venue of Inglewood Stadium. Earlie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football West State Cup
The Football West State Cup is a soccer competition held between clubs in the Australian state of Western Australia, known as the Belt Up Cup for sponsorship reasons. It serves as preliminary rounds for the Australia Cup, previously known as the FFA Cup, with the 2 finalists also entering the final stages of that competition. History Several knockout competitions have been held since 1895 in various forms,Kreider, R.N. (2012) Paddocks to Pitches. The Definitive History of Western Australian Football. Published by SportsWest Media with one of the two major Western Australian knockout cup competitions initially called the Challenge Cup, from 1903 to 1959 as the Challenge Cup and Shield, between 1960 and 1995 as the D’Orsogna Cup, and since that time with a number of naming rights sponsors. The other major knockout competition in Western Australia was the Charity Cup, held between 1903 and 1961. This was considered the pre-eminent cup competition prior to the Second World War. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Premier Leagues Western Australia
The National Premier Leagues Western Australia is a regional Australian semi-professional soccer league comprising teams from Western Australia. The league name is often abbreviated to NPL Western Australia or NPL WA. As a subdivision of the National Premier Leagues, the league is the highest level of the Western Australian league system (Level 2 of the overall Australian league system). The competition is administered by Football West, the governing body of the sport in the state. In 2014, the league – formerly known as the Football West State League Premier Division – was rebranded into what exists today. History NPL WA traces its origin to the formation of a league by the Perth British Football Association in 1896. By the 1950s, the association was known as the Western Australian Soccer Football Association (WASFA). In, 1960 eight teams formed their own association, the Soccer Federation of Western Australia (SFWA). The WASFA and SFWA ran rival leagues between 1960 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 FFA Cup Preliminary Rounds
The 2021 FFA Cup preliminary rounds were the qualifying competition to decide 23 of the 32 teams to take part in the 2021 FFA Cup. The competition commenced in February and was completed in November. Schedule The fixtures for the competition were as follows. * Some round dates in respective Federations overlap due to separate scheduling of Zones/Sub-Zones. Format There were changes to the make-up of the entrants compared to the 2019 edition, with South Australia increasing from 1 to 2 qualifying places, and NSW losing one place. Additionally, the top eight placed A-League clubs for the 2020–21 A-League season gained automatic qualification to the Round of 32. The remaining four teams were subject to a play-off series for the remaining two positions. The preliminary rounds structures were as follows, and refer to the different levels in the unofficial Australian association football league system: *Qualifying round: :*55 Victorian clubs from level 9 and from regional le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 FFA Cup
The 2021 FFA Cup was the eighth season of the FFA Cup, the main national Association football, soccer single-elimination tournament, knockout cup competition in Australia. Thirty-two teams contested the competition proper from the round of 32, including 10 of the 12 A-League Men, A-League teams (with two teams not qualifying), 21 Football Australia (FA) member federation teams determined through individual state qualifying rounds, as well as the 2019 National Premier Leagues champions (Wollongong Wolves FC, Wollongong Wolves from New South Wales). This year's competition was the final season the competition is referred to as the "FFA Cup". Following the rebranding of Football Australia from the Football Federation Australia (FFA), it was changed to "Australia Cup". This edition also marked the first season that the winner would qualify for the AFC Champions League in the following year. However, certain teams were excluded, such as Wellington Phoenix FC, Wellington Phoenix, thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ECU Joondalup SC
Perth RedStar Football Club is an Australian soccer club from Joondalup, Western Australia currently playing in the National Premier Leagues Western Australia and National Premier Leagues WA Women. Their home ground is the RedStar Arena at the Joondalup campus of Edith Cowan University. History The club was formed in 1992 as Joondalup City Soccer Club and played at the Gumblossom Park in Quinns Rocks. They moved to the Arena Joondalup in 1995 and in their first season in the Semi-pro league finished third in the Professional Soccer Federation of WA third division a great start to top-flight football in the state. In the first season of the Soccer West Coast Division One, City won promotion to the Premier League as Champions in 1996. Joondalup City's first season in the top flight in 1997 was a moderately successful one, where they finished in a mid-table position and improved to third place in 1998. In 1999 the club changed its name to ECU Joondalup SC. A successful season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inglewood Stadium (Western Australia)
Inglewood Stadium, also known as Walter Road Reserve, is a sporting facility in Inglewood, Western Australia, currently used for soccer. It is currently known as the Perth Plasterboard Centre Stadium under a sponsorship arrangement. It has been previously known as Inglewood Oval, Kiev Sports Park and, under former sponsorship arrangements, National Stadium, Clipsal Stadium, 6PR Stadium and Intiga Stadium. Usage Inglewood Stadium is used primarily by Inglewood United FC, who compete in the National Premier Leagues Western Australia. Inglewood have been based at the ground since 1963. The ground has previously been used by Perth Glory FC Youth and Perth Glory Women, in the A-League National Youth League and W-League respectively. Inglewood Stadium is surrounded by a series of football pitches used by junior and senior teams who compete in Football West Football West is the state governing and censoring body for soccer in Western Australia (WA). It is affiliated with Footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football West
Football West is the state governing and censoring body for soccer in Western Australia (WA). It is affiliated with Football Australia (FA), the sport's national governing body, and through FA's affiliation to FIFA. Football West's premier competition is the National Premier Leagues (NPL) WA, which is the highest league in WA and one tier below the national A-League. NPL WA is a division within the National Premier Leagues. Football West is also responsible for running Western Australia's National Training Centre in conjunction with FA and the WA Government's Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC). Football West also runs the Football West State Cup knock-out cup. Since 2014 the two State Cup finalists also qualify for the Australia Cup. History The Western Australian Soccer Association was established in July 2004 to represent the all levels of competition and the game of soccer in Perth metropolitan and regional Western Australia. The body was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
