The 2018

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season was the fifth season under the new competition format for state-level

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in Victoria. The competition consists of seven divisions across the state of

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League Tables

2018 National Premier Leagues Victoria

The 2018 season was played over 26 rounds. As Premiers,

Heidelberg United Heidelberg United Alexander Football Club (founded as Alexander the Great-Melbourne Soccer Club) established in 1958 is a football (soccer) club based in the northern Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg West, Victoria, Australia. The team currently ...

qualified for the 2018 National Premier Leagues

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, competing with the other state federation champions in a final knockout tournament to decide the National Premier Leagues 2018 Champion.

Finals

Promotion/relegation play-off

2018 National Premier Leagues Victoria 2

The 2018

National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 The National Premier Leagues Victoria 2, commonly referred to as NPL Victoria 2, is a semi-professional soccer league in Victoria, Australia. The league is the second-highest in the Victorian league system, behind the National Premier Leagues Vict ...

season was played over 28 rounds with each team playing the teams in their conference twice and the other conference once. The top team at the end of the season was promoted to National Premier Leagues Victoria, while the second placed team entered the promotion play-off.

NPL 2 West

NPL 2 East

NPL 2 Grand Final

2018 State League 1

North-West

South-East

2018 State League 2

North-West

South-East

2018 State League 3

North-West

South-East

Promotion/relegation play-offs

2018 Women's National Premier League

The highest tier domestic football competition in Victoria for women is known for sponsorship reasons as the PS4 Women's National Premier League. This was the third season of the NPL Women's format. The 10 teams played each other 3 times for a total of 27 games.

Finals

Cup Competitions

2018 Dockerty Cup

Football Victoria soccer clubs competed in 2018 for the

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. The tournament doubled as the Victorian qualifiers for 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 the top four clubs progressing to the Round of 32. A total of 216 clubs entered the qualifying phase, with the clubs entering in a staggered format. The Cup was won by

Bentleigh Greens Bentleigh Greens Soccer Club is an Australian semi professional soccer club based in Cheltenham, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club was formed in 1986, by the Greek Cypriot community and currently competes in the National Premier Leagues ...

. In addition to the two

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clubs (

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and Melbourne City),

(as the 2018 National Premier Leagues Champion), the four semi-finalists ( Avondale,

Northcote City Northcote City Football Club (Iraklis) is a soccer club based on the border of Thornbury and Northcote, Victoria (Australia). Formed in 1960 by local Greek Australians, the club currently competes in the NPL Victoria 2. In 2011, Northcote w ...

and

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) competed in the final rounds of the

References

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