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2008–09 W-League Grand Final
The 2008–09 W-League grand final was the grand final of the inaugural season of the W-League, the premier league of football (soccer) in Australia. Top of the table in the regular season Queensland Roar hosted home-and-away third-placed Canberra United FC at Ballymore Stadium in Herston, Brisbane in the Saturday 17 January 2009 season decider. In a closely contested match, the Roar defeated United 2–0. Both the Roar's goals were scored in the first half of the match. __TOC__ Match details Match statistics See also * 2008–09 W-League * 2008–09 Queensland Roar FC (women) season * 2008–09 Canberra United FC (women) season References External linksOfficial W-League Website {{DEFAULTSORT:2008-09 W-League grand final Grand final Primarily in Australian sports, a grand final is a game that decides a sports league's premiership (or championship) winning team, i.e. the conclusive game of a finals (or play-off) series. Synonymous with a champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Eastern Daylight Time
Daylight saving time (DST) is currently observed in the Australian states of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria, as well as the Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay Territory and Norfolk Island. Other Australian jurisdictions – the states of Queensland and Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Australia's other external territories – do not observe daylight saving time. Each state and territory determines whether or not to use daylight saving time. During World War I and World War II all states and territories had daylight saving by federal law, under the defence power in section 51 of the constitution. In 1967, Tasmania was the first state since the war to adopt daylight saving. In 1971, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory also adopted daylight saving, while Western Australia and the Northern Territory did not. Queensland abandoned daylight saving in 1972. Queensland and Western A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Hopkins
Jeffrey Hopkins (born 14 April 1964) is a former Welsh international football defender and current Melbourne Victory Women head coach, who most notably played club football for Fulham and Reading in the Football League. Club career Hopkins started his career as a trainee with Fulham, going on to make over 200 first team appearances for the club. This was followed by a four-year spell at Crystal Palace, including a loan to Plymouth Argyle in 1991–92. He spent a few months at Bristol Rovers in 1992, before spending the remaining five years of his Football League career with Reading. While at Reading, he was part of the team that narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League in the 1994–95 season, losing 4–3 after extra time in the playoff final against Bolton Wanderers. After a move to Malaysian football with Selangor where he was made captain, Hopkins moved to Australia in October 1999 as a player-coach with Gippsland Falcons in the National Soccer League. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vedrana Popovic
Vedrana Popovic (born 10 January 1992 in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is an Australian football (soccer) player who last played for Australian W-League team Brisbane Roar. Playing career Popovic has played for Brisbane Roar, Melbourne Victory and Adelaide United in the Australian W-League. In 2013, Popovic made her debut for Australia. Honours With Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland. competing in Australia's premier men's competition, A-League Men, which is the top tier Australia's football pyramid. When Queensland Lions F.C. were ...: * W-League Premiership: 2008–09 * W-League Championship: 2008–09 References 1992 births Living people Australian women's soccer players 21st-century Australian sportswomen Brisbane Roar FC (women) players Melbourne Victory FC (women) players Adelaide United FC (women) players Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina People from Jajce Footballers from Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Blackburn
Ruth Blackburn (born 27 May 1992) is an Australian football (soccer) player who last played for Australian W-League team Brisbane Roar. Personal life Outside of her sports career, she has worked as a researcher. Her work has included research into the use of medical cannabis for children with epilepsy. Honours With Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland. competing in Australia's premier men's competition, A-League Men, which is the top tier Australia's football pyramid. When Queensland Lions F.C. were ...: * W-League Premiership: 2008–09 * W-League Championship: 2008–09 References External links * Australian women's soccer players 21st-century Australian sportswomen Living people Brisbane Roar FC (women) players Adelaide United FC (women) players 1992 births Soccer players from Brisbane Women's association football defenders Sportswomen from Queensland {{Australia-women-fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Beaumont
Ellen Lee Beaumont (born 14 July 1985) is an Australian association football player who played for Australian W-League team Brisbane Roar. Honours With Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland. competing in Australia's premier men's competition, A-League Men, which is the top tier Australia's football pyramid. When Queensland Lions F.C. were ...: * W-League Premiership: 2008–09 * W-League Championship: 2008–09 References 1985 births Living people Brisbane Roar FC (women) players Australian women's soccer players 21st-century Australian sportswomen Women's association football midfielders Soccer players from Brisbane Sportswomen from Queensland {{Australia-women-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Colthorpe
Lauren Elizabeth Colthorpe (born 25 October 1985) is an Australian women's football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder. Club career Colthorpe joined the Brisbane Roar for the inaugural season of the Westfield W-League in 2008, winning the double in the first season. Colthorpe has featured in all three seasons of the league. International career Colthorpe went along with the U-19s national side to Thailand to participate in 2004 FIFA U-19s Women's World Championships. Colthorpe then made her first full debut for the Matilda's in November 2005 in Gosford, New South Wales when Australia defeated China 3–1 in a friendly match.AUS Player Profile . Accessed 16 June 2011. Colthorpe was a part of The Matilda's side that reached the q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Kellond-Knight
Elise Kellond-Knight (born 10 August 1990) is an Australian former Association football, football player, who played as a Midfielder#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder or Defender (association football), defender. From 2007 to 2023 she played 115 games for Australia women's national soccer team, before retiring from international football in 2024. Kellond-Knight is a left footed set piece specialist. Personal life Kellond-Knight was born on 10 August 1990, and raised on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast where she attended Coombabah State School (primary) and then St Hilda's School (secondary). She played junior football for Runaway Bay in the local Gold Coast competition. Kellond-Knight graduated from Griffith University with a Master of Business Administration in December 2023, after previously completing a Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science at the same university. Club career At the annual Westfield W-League awards dinner in 2009, Kellond-Knight was joint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooke Spence
Brooke Louise Spence (born 4 March 1988) is an Australian football (soccer) player who played for Australian W-League team Brisbane Roar. Honours Club Brisbane Roar: * W-League Premiership: 2008–09 * W-League Championship: 2008–09 International Australia * AFF Women's Championship: 2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ... References Australian women's soccer players 21st-century Australian sportswomen Brisbane Roar FC (women) players 1988 births Living people Women's association football defenders Soccer players from Brisbane Sportswomen from Queensland {{Australia-women-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Polkinghorne
Clare Elizabeth Polkinghorne (born 1 February 1989) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a defender. On 2 October 2024 she announced her retirement from international football, and played her last game for the Matildas in a friendly against Chinese Taipei on 7 December 2024. She became Australia's most capped footballer in February 2023, and as of her final game, she extended this record with 169 appearances since her debut in 2006. She retired at Damallsvenskan club Kristianstads DFF. Polkinghorne was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2025 Australia Day Honours for "service to football". Early life and education Clare Elizabeth Polkinghorne was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 1 February 1989. Club career INAC Kobe Leonessa For the 2014 season, Polkinghorne was loaned to INAC Kobe Leonessa in Japan. Portland Thorns Polkinghorne signed for Portland Thorns in the National Women's Soccer League after the 2015 World Cup. Portland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karla Reuter
Karla Reuter (born 14 June 1984) is an Australian retired Association football, soccer player, who played for Queensland Sting and for Brisbane Roar FC (W-League), Brisbane Roar in the Australian W-League (Australia), W-League. Playing career International career Reuter made her debut for Australia women's national soccer team, Australia in the lead-up to the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup. Having made only four appearances for the national team - all in a pre-World Cup tour - Reuter made her World Cup debut against China in the second match of the tournament, replacing Sacha Wainwright who suffered an injury in the first match. Honours With Queensland Sting: * Women's National Soccer League Championship: 2001–02, 2002–03 With Brisbane Roar FC (W-League), Brisbane Roar: * W-League Premiership: 2008–09 W-League, 2008–09 * W-League Championship: 2008–09 W-League, 2008–09 With Australia women's national soccer team, Australia * AFC Women's Asian Cup Winners: 2010 AFC W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
