The 2017 A-League Grand Final was the twelfth

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, and was played on 7 May 2017, at Allianz Stadium in Sydney. The match was contested between

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and

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 ...

who finished the 2016–17 season first and second respectively. This was the third time the teams met in a final, previously playing each other in

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and

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. Both clubs qualified for the

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due to their league position and participation in the Grand Final. Sydney FC won the match, defeating Melbourne Victory 4–2 on penalties after the match finished 1–1 after extra time. This marked the third occasion Sydney FC had won an A-League Championship.

Teams

''In the following table, finals until 2004 were in the National Soccer League era, since 2006 were in the A-League era.''

Route to the final

Match

Summary

Details

Statistics

Broadcasting

As with the previous season, the 2017 A-League Grand Final was broadcast in Australia on

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and on

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TV, with SBS showing the game on a one-hour delay. The 2017 Grand Final was the most watched A-League match on Fox Sports ever, with an average of 367,000 viewers and a peak of 553,000. This number was a 10% increase on the previous highest A-League match, the 2014 Grand Final between

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and

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References

External links

Official A-League Website
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