The
A-League Men
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 ...
is the premier professional men's
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 ...
league in Australia. It is currently consists of twelve teams; ten based in Australia and one based in New Zealand. The league has been contested since 2005, when it was founded as the A-League. In its most recent form, the league includes a 26-round
regular season
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and an end-of-season finals series
playoff
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tournament involving the highest-placed teams, culminating in the Grand Final match. The winning team of the Grand Final is crowned A-League champion, while the regular season winners are dubbed ‘premiers’.
List of seasons
The following is a list of all A-League seasons. It contains the number of teams, the number of regular season matches played, the premier, the champions, teams who have gained
Asian qualification and the top scorer(s) in regular season matches—winner of the
Golden Boot.
Grand Finals
The A-League Men Grand Final is the final match of the A-League Men season, the culmination of the finals series, determining the champions of the tournament.
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COVID-19 pandemic
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See also
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List of A-League honours
This is a list of A-League Men honours achieved since the inaugural season of the league. The following details honours won by A-League Men clubs and those awarded to players, managers and referees of the competition.
Club honours
Premiers
Th ...
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A-League all-time records
Notes
References
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