The A-League is Australia’s premier national football competition, having replaced the defunct NSL in 2004. Kicking off its inaugural season in 2005-06, the A-League currently features nine teams from Australia and one from New Zealand.
The A-League commenced its seventh season in October 2011, with the league scaled back to ten teams after the removal of North Queensland Fury, two years after expansion saw both the Fury and Gold Coast United enter the A-League, and Melbourne Heart following the year after. Previous winners of the A-League include Sydney (twice), Melbourne Victory (twice), Newcastle Jets and Brisbane Roar. Currently, the two highest-ranked teams gain entry into the group phase of the Asian Champions League.
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While the word “pride” featured prominently in the discourse about the desired culture of the new Western Sydney franchise, for a while yesterday it seemed the FFA had the word “culture” confused with the word “name”. That was the only conclusion to draw after The World Game yesterday reported that Pride was among the FFA’s [...]
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For Holger Osieck, the pool of players Australian football has for him contains few surprises these days. Well into his second year as coach of the Socceroos, the German tactician has taken a close look many times over at the full spectrum of players at his disposal and has now settled on a core group. [...]
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THE ROAR ON