The 2018
Capital Football
Capital Football is the trading name for the ACT Football Federation Incorporated, the state governing body for association football, soccer in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), but also has affili ...
season was the sixth season under the new competition format in the
Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory (commonly abbreviated as ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a landlocked federal territory of Australia containing the national capital Canberra and some surrounding townships. ...
. The league premier for the new structure qualifies for the
National Premier Leagues finals series, competing with the other state federation premiers in a final knockout tournament to decide the
National Premier Leagues Champion for 2018.
League Tables
2018 National Premier League ACT
The 2018 National Premier League ACT season was played over 18 rounds from March to August 2018. The league ran with nine teams after the
FFA cut funding to the
FFA Centre of Excellence
The FFA Centre of Excellence (formerly the Australian Institute of Sport Football Program) was a football talent identification and player development program run by Football Federation Australia (FFA) and was based at the Australian Institute o ...
, which wound up following the conclusion of the 2017 season.
Finals
Top Scorers
Reference:
2018 ACT Capital League
The 2018 ACT Capital League is the sixth edition of the
Capital League as the second level domestic
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
competition in the
ACT. There were 18 rounds in total with five matches contested per round. The season started on 7 April 2018 and ran until 12 August 2018.
Finals
2018 Capital Football Division 1
The 2018 ACT Capital Football Division 1 is the fourth edition of the
Capital League Division 1 as the third level domestic
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
competition in the
ACT. The 2018 season consisted of 18 rounds with four matches played per round. The season started on 7 April 2018 and ran until 11 August 2018.
Finals
2018 Women's National Premier League ACT
The highest tier domestic football competition in the ACT is known as the ACT Women's National Premier League (WNPL). Each team played each other three times for a total of 21 rounds, plus a finals series for the top 4 teams.
Finals
Cup Competitions
2018 Federation Cup
2018 was the 56th edition of the
Capital Football Federation Cup
The Federation Cup is a soccer competition established in 1962 that is held between clubs who are affiliated with Capital Football in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding areas of New South Wales. It is the premier cup competiti ...
. The Federation cup acts as the
preliminary rounds for the
FFA Cup in the ACT with the Cup winner entering the subsequent FFA Cup round of 32. In 2018, the Federation Cup, which is open to all senior men's teams registered with Capital Football, consisted of two rounds, quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final. NPL clubs entered the tournament in the second round. The Cup ran from 18 March 2018 (first round) till 16 June 2018 (final). Canberra FC secured its 18th cup title and qualification to the
2018 FFA Cup
The 2018 FFA Cup was the fifth season of the FFA Cup, the main national soccer knockout cup competition in Australia. 32 teams contested the competition proper (from the Round of 32), including the 10 A-League teams and 21 Football Federation Au ...
with a 3–2 victory over Gungahlin with former
Sydney FC
Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was fo ...
player
Kofi Danning
Duke Kofi Appiah Danning (born 2 March 1991) is a Ghanaian-born Australian footballer who plays for National Premier Leagues club Belconnen United.
Biography
Early life
Danning was born in Kumasi in southern central Ghana. Kofi's mother initi ...
scoring the winning goal at
Woden Park
Woden Park (also known as Woden Park Athletics Field) is a multi-use association football stadium and athletics centre located within Woden Valley, Canberra. It is the home ground of Woden Weston FC in the NPL Capital Football as well as ACT ...
.
;Notes:
* † = After Extra Time
2018 Charity Shield
2018 was the third edition of the annual ACT Charity Shield contested to kick off the 2018 Capital Football season. Money raised from the event goes towards a nominated
charity, which in 2018 was
Ronald McDonald House Canberra.
Canberra Olympic
Canberra Olympic FC is an Australian semi-professional Association football club based in the suburb of O'Connor in the north of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The club was founded in 1956, and currently competes in the National Premi ...
and
Tuggeranong United
Tuggeranong United FC are an association football club based in the southern Canberra region of Tuggeranong, ACT, Australia. The club competes in the highest level of football in the ACT, NPL Capital Football.
Tuggeranong United is one of the ...
contested the Shield in 2018. Olympic claimed its second consecutive Charity Shield title with a 3–1 victory.
See also
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Soccer in the Australian Capital Territory
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Sport in the Australian Capital Territory
Sport in the Australian Capital Territory refers to the various sports played in the Australian Capital Territory. Teams represent the ACT in the national leagues of several sports, although the rugby league and rugby union teams receive far more ...
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2018 National Premier Leagues Capital Football Grand Final
References
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Capital Football
Capital Football is the trading name for the ACT Football Federation Incorporated, the state governing body for association football, soccer in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), but also has affili ...