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2025 A-League Men Finals Series
The 2025 A-League Men A-League Men finals series, finals series was the 20th annual edition of A-League finals series, the playoffs tournament staged to determine the champions of the 2024–25 A-League Men season. The series was played over four weeks culminating in the 2025 A-League Men Grand Final. Qualification Auckland FC qualified first for the Finals series, doing so in Round 25. Melbourne City FC, Melbourne City qualified a round later, in Round 26. Western United qualified next following a draw between Brisbane Roar and Adelaide United in a postponed match played between Round 27 and Round 28. Melbourne Victory FC, Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers FC, Western Sydney Wanderers both qualified in Round 28, and Adelaide United qualified in Round 29. Venues Auckland FC and Melbourne City FC, Melbourne City are both guaranteed a top two finish, and have each secured a home semi-final. Western Sydney Wanderers FC, Western Sydney Wanderers and Western United FC, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A-League Men Finals Series
The A-League Men finals series is a Playoffs, playoff tournament held at the end of each A-League Men season to determine the champion. The top six teams qualify for the finals based on the home-and-away season results, culminating in the A-League Men Grand Final. Inception Finals series began back in the National Soccer League era from the 1984 National Soccer League, 1984 season onwards, and has been consistently played (except the 1987 National Soccer League, 1987 season) in every Australian national league season to date. With the A-League Men starting with eight teams, top four play-offs were used for the first three seasons, before changing to top six play-offs as more clubs entered the competition. Systems The A-League Men has used four different finals tournament systems in its history: * 2006–2009 (top four) – Page playoff system * 2010–2012 (top six) – Top-six play-offs#The A-League system, Top-six play-offs (four weeks, double chance) * 2013–2021 (top six) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AAMI Park
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, currently known as AAMI Park for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium located in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in the suburb of East Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Built in 2010, it is a rectangular sporting stadium with a capacity of 30,050, and is the home of various rugby league, rugby union and association football teams. Upon its completion, it became Melbourne's inaugural large, purpose-built rectangular stadium. Prior to this project, the primary venues were the oval-configured Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and Docklands Stadium, primarily suited for Australian rules football and cricket. The city's former largest rectangular stadium, Olympic Park Stadium (Melbourne), Olympic Park, had been repurposed from a track and field facility. Notably, the stadium's main occupants include the National Rugby League team, the Melbourne Storm and two A-League Men teams, namely Melbourne Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semi-finals
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion(s). Some match-ups may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in North American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progresses to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elimination Finals
Elimination may refer to: Science and medicine *Elimination reaction, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product *Bodily waste elimination, discharging feces, urine, or foreign substances from the body via defecation, urination, and emesis *Drug elimination, clearance of a drug or other foreign agent from the body *Elimination, the destruction of an infectious disease in one region of the world as opposed to its eradication from the entire world *Hazard elimination, the most effective type of hazard control *Elimination (pharmacology), processes by which a drug is eliminated from an organism Logic and mathematics * Elimination theory, the theory of the methods to eliminate variables between polynomial equations. * Disjunctive syllogism, a rule of inference * Gaussian elimination, a method of solving systems of linear equations * Fourier–Motzkin elimination, an algorithm for reducing systems of linear inequalities * Process of elimi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top-six Play-offs
After a top-five play-off system was used, a play-off structure involving the top six teams was used to determine the winners of the Super League competition in British rugby league from 2002 through to 2008. Apart from the grand final, all matches were staged at the home ground of the team placed higher in the final league table. A similar system was used by the Australian National Soccer League. The A-League uses the same system to determine its champions, but with a subtle difference outlined below. From week two on, the top-six play-offs system reflects exactly the Page playoff system. With the expansion of Super League from 12 teams to 14 for 2009, the number of teams making the play-offs increased from 6 to 8. For details of the new system, see Super League play-offs. How it worked Week one * Elimination semi-final A: 3rd vs 6th * Elimination semi-final B: 4th vs 5th Week two * Qualification final: 1st vs 2nd * Elimination final: winners of elimination semi-final A v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Sydney Stadium
Western Sydney Stadium, currently known as CommBank Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in the suburb of Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It replaced the demolished Parramatta Stadium (1986) which in turn was built on the site of the old Cumberland Oval, home ground to the Parramatta Eels since 1947. The current stadium opened in April 2019 and has a 30,000-seat capacity. The stadium is owned by the NSW Government and built at a cost of $300 million. The stadium hosts games across the major rectangular field sports in Sydney. The primary uses of the stadium are to host rugby league, association football, rugby union as well as concerts and special events. The foundation teams are National Rugby League club Parramatta Eels and A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers. Other tenants include NRL team Wests Tigers who have used the stadium as an alternate venue between 2019 and 2023 and again for the 2025 NRL season onwards. Location history T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ironbark Fields
Wyndham City Stadium is a proposed soccer stadium in Tarneit, Victoria, Australia. It is scheduled to open in 2026 as the home ground of Western United FC. History As part of its successful bid to enter the A-League in 2019, Western United FC committed to build a 15,000 seat soccer-specific stadium in Tarneit to the west of Melbourne. It will be the first major venue in Australia to be exclusively owned and operated by an A-League club, being funded through value capture. A training facility will be built adjacent to the new stadium. Early works on the site commenced in October 2021. It is scheduled for completion in 2024. On 29 May 2022, Western United chief executive Chris Pehlivanis revealed the current timeline for the stadium is for it to be ready in time for the 2025–26 A-League season. Pehlivanis also confirmed that Western United would begin to play home games at their training base from the 2023–24 A-League season, once the 5,000 seat training facility is built, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Smart Stadium
Mount Smart Stadium, currently known as Go Media Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in the suburb of Penrose, Auckland, New Zealand. It is the main home ground of the New Zealand Warriors of the National Rugby League and Auckland FC of the A-League Men, and occasionally hosts rugby union and international rugby league matches. Built within the quarried remnants of the Rarotonga / Mount Smart volcanic cone, it is located 10 kilometres south of the city centre, in the suburb of Penrose. History The Mount Smart Domain Board was established in 1943 with the purpose of transforming the former quarry site into a public reserve. In 1953, a plan was approved for a sports stadium which was officially opened in 1967. In 1978, it hosted 3 matches of the World Series Cricket tour of New Zealand. The stadium hosted track and field events including the highly successful Pan Am series during the early 1980s. During the 1988 Great Britain Lions tour the Aucklan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, currently known as AAMI Park for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium located in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in the suburb of East Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Built in 2010, it is a rectangular sporting stadium with a capacity of 30,050, and is the home of various rugby league, rugby union and association football teams. Upon its completion, it became Melbourne's inaugural large, purpose-built rectangular stadium. Prior to this project, the primary venues were the oval-configured Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and Docklands Stadium, primarily suited for Australian rules football and cricket. The city's former largest rectangular stadium, Olympic Park Stadium (Melbourne), Olympic Park, had been repurposed from a track and field facility. Notably, the stadium's main occupants include the National Rugby League team, the Melbourne Storm and two A-League Men teams, namely Melbourne Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
