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Team | Home city | Home ground |
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Adelaide City | Adelaide | Hindmarsh Stadium |
Brisbane Strikers | Brisbane | Suncorp Stadium |
Canberra Cosmos | Canberra | Bruce Stadium |
Morwell Falcons | Morwell | Falcons Park |
Marconi-Fairfield | Sydney | Marconi Stadium |
Melbourne Knights | Melbourne | Knights Stadium |
Newcastle Breakers | Newcastle | Breakers Stadium |
South Melbourne | Melbourne | Olympic Park Lakeside Stadium |
Sydney United | Sydney | Edensor Park |
UTS Olympic | Sydney | Leichhardt Oval |
West Adelaide | Adelaide | Hindmarsh Stadium |
Wollongong City | Wollongong | Brandon Park |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Marconi Fairfield | 33 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 58 | 35 | +23 | 60 | Qualification for the Finals series |
2 | Melbourne Knights (C) | 33 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 50 | 28 | +22 | 59 | |
3 | UTS Olympic | 33 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 55 | 41 | +14 | 59 | |
4 | Brisbane Strikers | 33 | 17 | 6 | 10 | 54 | 35 | +19 | 57 | |
5 | Adelaide City | 33 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 65 | 40 | +25 | 54 | |
6 | Sydney United | 33 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 47 | 33 | +14 | 54 | |
7 | West Adelaide | 33 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 49 | 43 | +6 | 53 | |
8 | South Melbourne | 33 | 14 | 4 | 15 | 50 | 56 | −6 | 46 | |
9 | Canberra Cosmos | 33 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 48 | 61 | −13 | 35 | |
10 | Morwell Falcons | 33 | 9 | 8 | 16 | 35 | 65 | −30 | 35 | |
11 | Wollongong City | 33 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 31 | 63 | −32 | 20 | |
12 | Newcastle Breakers | 33 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 35 | 77 | −42 | 17 |
Elimination finals | Semifinals | Preliminary final | Grand final | |||||||||||||||||||
1 | Melbourne Knights | 1 | 2 | (3) | Melbourne Knights | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Marconi Fairfield | 0 | 2 | (2) | Marconi Fairfield | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Marconi Fairfield | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | UTS Olympic | 0 | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||
Adelaide City | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Adelaide City | 2 | 1 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||
Adelaide City | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sydney United | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Brisbane Strikers | 0 | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | Sydney United | 2 | 2 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||
Melbourne Knights | 2 – 1 | Marconi-Fairfield |
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Marth 58' Cervinski 74' | (report) | Harper 78' |
The federation would, in accordance with its articles of association, launch a new competition called the Soccer Australia A League, to kick off on 30 September.
Following an exhaustive and acrimonious legal process in which the lawyers (as usual) were the only winners, a revamped national competition - to be known as the A-League - will kick-off next weekend.
Minor premier Marconi will now meet defending champion Melbourne Knights in the grand final in Melbourne next Sunday in their fifth clash this season.
MELBOURNE KNIGHTS 2 (A Marth 58th A Cervinski 75th) bt MARCONI 1 (A Harper 80th). Referee: E Lennie. Crowd: 14,258 at Olympic Park. For once the game matched the occasion as the Melbourne Knights confirmed their favouritism with a stylish 2-1 win over Marconi-Fairfield in yesterday's A-League grand final.
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