The 2019 Football Victoria season refers to the
soccer
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 ...
competitions contested under the organisation of
Football Victoria in 2019. Across seven senior men's and six senior women's
divisions, this was the 111th season of organised soccer in
Victoria and the sixth following the latest competition restructure in 2013.
Overall, the season was characterised by greater media attention and broadcasting efforts within the
NPL, but was somewhat-marred by disciplinary issues at both the NPL and State League levels. The first year under FV's newly-rebranded name, it also saw further restructures to the men's competition structure, changes to the National Club Identity Policy, as well as expansion of the NPL junior boys leagues.
League tables
2019 NPL Victoria
The 2019
National Premier Leagues Victoria season was played over 26 rounds. As premiers,
Heidelberg United qualified for the 2019 National Premier Leagues
finals series, competing with the other state federation champions in a final knockout tournament to decide the
National Premier Leagues 2019 champion.
Finals
Promotion/relegation play-off
2019 NPL Victoria 2
The 2019 National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 season was played over 28 rounds with each team playing the teams in their conference twice and the other conference once. The top teams in each conference at the end of the season were promoted to National Premier Leagues Victoria, while the second-placed teams played-off to qualify for the promotion/relegation play-off with the 12th-placed team from the NPL.
NPL 2 West
NPL 2 East
State League 1
North-West
South-East
State League 2
North-West
South-East
State League 3
North-West
South-East
2019 NPL Victoria Women
The highest tier domestic football competition in Victoria for women is the
National Premier Leagues Victoria Women. This was the fourth season of the NPL format. The 10 teams played each other 3 times for a total of 27 games.
Cup Competitions
2019 Dockerty Cup
Football Victoria soccer clubs competed in 2019 for the
Dockerty Cup. The tournament doubled as the Victorian qualifiers for the
2019 FFA Cup
The 2019 FFA Cup was the sixth 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 10 of the 11 A-League teams (with Western United no ...
, with the top four clubs progressing to the Round of 32. A total of 214 clubs entered the qualifying phase, with the clubs entering in a staggered format.
The Cup was won by
Hume City, their first title.
In addition to the two
A-League
A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...
clubs (
Melbourne Victory and
Melbourne City), the four semi-finalists (
Bulleen Lions,
Hume City,
Melbourne Knights and
Moreland Zebras) competed in the final rounds of the
2019 FFA Cup
The 2019 FFA Cup was the sixth 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 10 of the 11 A-League teams (with Western United no ...
.
References
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2019 in Australian soccer
Soccer in Victoria (state)