User:Mtiges/League Championship Cup

This page is about the league championship cup competition in Australian rules football. For information and history of the competition, see Mtiges/League Championship Cup (disambiguation).

Australian Football League

Sport	Australian rules football
First season	2011
No. of teams	16
Country	Australia
Most recent champion(s)	N/A
Most titles	N/A
TV partner(s)	Fox Sports

The League Championship Cup will be a Australian rules football club knockout cup competition involving clubs from the various state league competitions from around Australia - plus the AFL's newest expansion side Greater Western Sydney Giants.

The purpose of the knockout competition is to support and promote the second-tier Australian rules football competitions and to provide another way of developing the lower-tier AFL players.

The competition will begin in 2011 and is set to run from March through to August. Matches will be played as curtain-raisers to AFL Saturday night games and are set to be screened on Foxtel in a late-afternoon slot between afternoon and night AFL matches.

Prizemoney in the competition will be about $250,000, with $40,000 going to the winner.

Mr Dillon said total prize-money for the 2012 FOXTEL Cup had increased by just under 20 per cent, with the winning team now able to collect a $60,000 prize for the four wins required to claim the title.

It is understood clubs would be required to play in the League Championship Cup during their byes, effectively meaning they forfeit their weeks off. The AFL and Foxtel would cover the travel costs of clubs but offer little prizemoney or payments for players.

Opposition to the proposal came from the top SANFL clubs. The SANFL on December 9, 2010 signed on to be part of the League Championship Cup despite opposition from its top three clubs Central District, Norwood and Woodville-West Torrens. The three clubs had until December 14, 2010 to reconsider. The SANFL was willing to extend invitations to its next best teams from 2010 - Glenelg, then Sturt etc - if the top 3 clubs refused to participate.

After the top five SANFL clubs released a joint statement on December 15, 2010 declining the invitation to participate in the League Championship Cup, their places were taken up by fellow SANFL clubs West Adelaide, North Adelaide and Port Adelaide Magpies.

The AFL gave the competition the go ahead on December 17, 2010 with the finalised fixture released to coincide with each of the State Leagues' fixtures.

Season 2012

Participating Clubs

The second season of the Foxtel Cup will involve 16 clubs.

NEAFL (4)

• Ainslie
• Morningside
• Mount Gravatt
• Northern Territory

SANFL (3)

• Port Adelaide Magpies
• South Adelaide
• West Adelaide

Sydney AFL (1)

• Sydney Hills Eagles

Werribee

Port Melbourne

Williamstown

Claremont

Subiaco

West Perth

Mt Gravatt

Morningside

NT Thunder

West Adelaide

Port Adelaide

South Adelaide

Ainslie

Sydney Hills

Burnie

Launceston

TFL (2)

• Burnie
• Launceston

VFL (3)

• Port Melbourne
• Werribee
• Williamstown

WAFL (3)

• Claremont
• Subiaco
• West Perth

Club details

Guernsey	Club	Nickname	Location	Qualified as
File:St Kilda Saints Jumper.svg	Ainslie Football Club	Tri- Colours	Ainslie, ACT	North East Australian Football League runners-up 2011 eastern conference champions 2011
	Burnie Football Club	Dockers	Burnie, Tasmania	Tasmanian Football League runners-up 2011
	Claremont Football Club	Tigers	Claremont, Western Australia	West Australian Football League premiers 2011
	Launceston Football Club	Blues	Riverside, Tasmania	Tasmanian Football League premiers 2011
File:St Kilda Saints Jumper.svg	Morningside Australian Football Club	Panthers	Hawthorne, Queensland	North East Australian Football League northern conference runners-up 2011
File:North Melbourne Kangaroos Jumper.svg	Mount Gravatt Australian Football Club	Vultures	Mount Gravatt,Queensland	North East Australian Football League northern conference 3rd place 2011
Northern Territory Jumper	Northern Territory Football Club	Thunder	Darwin, Northern Territory	North East Australian Football League premiers 2011 NT representative
	Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL)	Magpies	Alberton, South Australia	South Australian National Football League 6th place 2011 SA invitee
	Port Melbourne Football Club	The Borough	Port Melbourne, Victoria	Victorian Football League premiers 2011
	South Adelaide Football Club	Panthers	Noarlunga Downs, South Australia	South Australian National Football League 5th place, 2011 SA invitee
File:Subiaco Lions Jumper.svg	Subiaco Football Club	Lions	Subiaco, Western Australia	West Australian Football League 2nd place 2011
File:West Coast Eagles Jumper.svg	Sydney Hills Eagles Australian Football Club (formerly East Coast Eagles)	Eagles	Rouse Hill, NSW	Sydney AFL premiers 2011
File:Werribee Tigers Jumper.svg	Werribee Football Club	Tigers	Werribee, Victoria	Victorian Football League 3rd place 2011
	West Adelaide Football Club	Bloods	Richmond, South Australia	South Australian National Football League 7th place 2011 SA invitee
	West Perth Football Club	Falcons	Joondalup, Western Australia	West Australian Football League 3rd place 2011
	Williamstown Football Club	Seagulls	Williamstown, Victoria	Victorian Football League runners-up 2011

Stadia

Adelaide	Darwin	Gold Coast
AAMI Stadium Capacity: 51,515	TIO Stadium Capacity: 15,000	Gold Coast Stadium Capacity: 25,000
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Hobart	Melbourne	Melbourne
Bellerive Oval Capacity: 16,000	Etihad Stadium Capacity: 56,347	Melbourne Cricket Ground Capacity: 104,000
Perth	Sydney	Sydney
Patersons Stadium Capacity: 43,500	Blacktown International Sportspark Capacity: 10,000	Sydney Cricket Ground Capacity: 46,000

Fixture

Round of 16

Game #1 (AFL Rd 1) 26 March 2011 17:05 EST	Morningside (Qld)	– curtain raiser to Brisbane v Fremantle	Northern Territory Thunder	Gabba, Brisbane

Game #2 (AFL Rd 2) 2 April 2011 14:35 WST	East Perth (WA)	– curtain raiser to Fremantle v Geelong	North Ballarat (Vic)	Patersons Stadium, Perth

Game #3 (AFL Rd 3) 9 April 2011 15:05 WST	Swan Districts (WA)	– curtain raiser to West Coast v Sydney	Williamstown (Vic)	Patersons Stadium, Perth

Game #4 (AFL Rd 4) 16 April 2011 16:05 CST	West Adelaide (SA)	– curtain raiser to Port Adelaide v Adelaide	Ainslie (ACT)	AAMI Stadium, Adelaide

Game #5 (AFL Rd 5) 23 April 2011 19:35 EST	Clarence (Tas)	–	Claremont (WA)	Bellerive Oval, Hobart

Game #6 (AFL Rd 6) 30 April 2011 16:05 EST	Northern Bullants (Vic)	– curtain raiser to Richmond v Brisbane	Greater Western Sydney (NSW)	Melbourne Cricket Ground

Game #7 (AFL Rd 8) 14 May 2011 16:45 EST	East Coast Eagles (NSW)	– curtain raiser to Sydney v Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Magpies (SA)	Sydney Cricket Ground

Game #8 (AFL Rd 9) 21 May 2011 16:45 EST	Labrador (Qld)	– curtain raiser to Brisbane v North Melbourne	North Adelaide (SA)	Gabba, Brisbane

Quarter Finals

QF #1 (AFL Rd 10) 28 May 2011	Winner Game #1	– curtain raiser to Richmond v Port Adelaide	Winner Game #2	TIO Stadium, Darwin

QF #2 (AFL Rd 11) 4 June 2011	Winner Game #3	– curtain raiser to Brisbane v Sydney	Winner Game #4	Gabba, Brisbane

QF #3 (AFL Rd 12) 11 June 2011	Winner Game #5	– curtain raiser to Gold Coast v North Melbourne	Winner Game #6	Gold Coast Stadium

QF #4 (AFL Rd 13) 18 June 2011	Winner Game #7	– curtain raiser to Brisbane v Richmond	Winner Game #8	Gabba, Brisbane

Semi Finals

SF #1 (AFL Rd 16) 9 July 2011	Winner QF #1	– curtain raiser to Gold Coast v Sydney	Winner QF #2	Gold Coast Stadium

SF #2 (AFL Rd 17) 16 July 2011	Winner QF #3	– curtain raiser to St Kilda v West Coast	Winner QF #4	Etihad Stadium, Melbourne

Grand Final

GF (AFL Rd 20) 6 August 2011	Winner SF #1	– curtain raiser to Essendon v Sydney	Winner SF #2	Etihad Stadium, Melbourne

References

External links

• AFL.com.au
• Official AFL Canberra website
• AFL Northern Territory
• AFL Queensland State Site
• South Australian National Football League – official website
• Official Sydney AFL Site
• Tasmanian Football League Website
• Victorian Football League - official website
• Western Australian Football League - official website