The 2014
Football Federation Victoria
Football Victoria is the state governing body for association football, soccer in Victoria, Australia. It is affiliated with Football Australia, the sport's national governing body.
History
Football Victoria began operation in 1884 under the n ...
season was the first season under the new competition format for state-level
football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
in Victoria. The competition consists of seven divisions across the state of
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India
* Victoria (state), a state of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital
* Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...
.
League Tables
2014 National Premier Leagues Victoria
The 2014
National Premier Leagues Victoria
The National Premier Leagues Victoria (NPL Victoria or NPL VIC) is a semi-professional soccer league in Victoria, Australia. The league is a part of the National Premier Leagues, and is the highest level within the Victorian soccer league syst ...
season was played over 26 rounds, from March to September 2014. The overall premier of this division qualified for the 2014 National Premier Leagues
finals series
Final, Finals or The Final may refer to:
*Final examination or finals, a test given at the end of a course of study or training
*Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which d ...
, competing with the other state federation champions in a final knockout tournament to decide the
National Premier Leagues
The National Premier Leagues (NPL) is a men's national association football competition in Australia which acts as the second tier of the sport in the country below the A-League. The NPL consists of the highest level state league in each state- ...
champion for 2014.
2014 National Premier Leagues Victoria 1
The 2014 National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 was played over 26 rounds, beginning on 14 March and concluding on 28 September 2014. The top two teams at the end of the season were promoted to National Premier Leagues Victoria. No teams were relegated as the league is set to expand to 20 teams and two parallel divisions for the next season.
2014 Victoria State League 1
North-West
South-East
2014 Victoria State League 2
North-West
South-East
2014 Victoria State League 3
North-West
South-East
Promotion play-off
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2014 Victoria State League 4
North
West
South
East
2014 Victoria State League 5
North
West
South
East
2014 Women's Premier League
Finals
Cup Competitions
2014 Dockerty Cup
Football Victoria soccer clubs competed in 2014 for the
Dockerty Cup
The Dockerty Cup is an annual association football single-elimination tournament, knock-out competition open to all Victorian clubs across the Australian soccer league system, Victorian football league system. The tournament is named after the fo ...
. The tournament doubled as the Victorian
Qualifying rounds for the 2014 FFA Cup, with the top four clubs progressing to the Round of 32. A total of 191 clubs entered the qualifying phase, with the clubs entering in a staggered format.
The Cup was won by
Melbourne Knights
Melbourne Knights Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sunshine North, Melbourne. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, the second-tier of the Australian soccer league ...
.
In addition to the two
A-League
A-League Men, also known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional soccer league in Australia and New Zealand and the highest level of the Australian soccer league system. Established in 2004 as the A-League by the ...
clubs (
Melbourne Victory
Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory ...
and
Melbourne City), the four semi-finalists (
Bentleigh Greens
Bentleigh Greens Soccer Club is an Australian semi professional soccer club based in Cheltenham, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club was formed in 1986, by the Greek Cypriot community and currently competes in the Victoria Premier League ...
,
Melbourne Knights
Melbourne Knights Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sunshine North, Melbourne. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, the second-tier of the Australian soccer league ...
,
St Albans Saints
St Albans Dinamo Soccer Club, formerly known as St Albans Saints Soccer Club between 1993 and 2023, is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in St Albans, Victoria. Established by local Croatian Australians as Dinamo, the club is ...
and
South Springvale) competed in the final rounds of the
2014 FFA Cup
The 2014 FFA Cup was the inaugural season of the FFA Cup, the main national soccer knockout cup competition in Australia. 631 teams in total from around Australia entered the competition. Only 32 teams competed in the competition proper (round ...
.
References
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2014 in Australian soccer
Soccer in Victoria (state)