FFA Cup 2015

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FFA Cup 2015
Cup winners Melbourne Victory (1st title)
Beginning July 29, 2015
final November 7, 2015
Final stadium AAMI Park , Melbourne
Teams 32
Games 31
Gates 105  (ø 3.39 per game)
spectator 113,752  (ø 3,669 per game)
Top scorer AustraliaAustralia Aaron Mooy
( Melbourne City FC )
Yellow card.svg yellow cards 120  (ø 3.87 per game)
Yellow-red card.svg Yellow and red cards 3  (ø 0.1 per game)
Red card.svg Red cards 3  (ø 0.1 per game)
← FFA Cup 2014

The FFA Cup 2015 was the second edition of the FFA Cup , the national Australian football cup competition for men. A total of 635 soccer teams took part in the competition. 32 teams reached the first main round, including the ten clubs of the 2014/15 A-League , the champions of the National Premier Leagues 2014 and 21 lower-class clubs that prevailed in the regional qualifying rounds. Defending champions Adelaide United were eliminated in the quarterfinals against eventual winners Melbourne Victory .

The cup winner was Melbourne Victory for the first time, defeating Perth Glory 2-0 in the final .

Qualifying rounds

Several hundred teams competed in the various regional preliminary rounds to qualify for one of 21 main round places to be awarded. The ten teams of the A-League ( Adelaide United , Brisbane Roar , Central Coast Mariners , Melbourne City FC , Melbourne Victory , Newcastle United Jets , Perth Glory , Sydney FC , Wellington Phoenix , Western Sydney Wanderers ) were set for the main round. In addition, the champion of the National Premier Leagues 2014 ( North Eastern MetroStars ) will receive a starting place. All nine regional associations of the Australian Football Association hold qualifying rounds, including teams from the Northern Territory for the first time . The number of player registrations was used to distribute the qualification places per regional association, which led to the following distribution:

Regional association Starting places Qualifiers (league level)
New South Wales 5 Balmain Tigers FC (IV), Blacktown City FC (II), Rockdale City Suns FC (II), Sydney Olympic (II), Sydney United (II)
Queensland 4th Brisbane Strikers (II), Queensland Lions (III), Palm Beach SC (II), Far North Queensland FC (II)
Victoria 4th Heidelberg United (II), Hume City FC (II), South Melbourne FC (II), Oakleigh Cannons (II)
Northern New South Wales 2 Broadmeadow Magic (II), Edgeworth FC (II)
Western Australia 2 Perth SC (II), Sorrento FC (II)
Australian Capital Territory 1 Gungahlin United (II)
South Australia 1 Croydon Kings (II)
Tasmania 1 South Hobart FC (II)
Northern Territory 1 Darwin Olympic (II)

Most regional associations use existing cup competitions to allocate the qualification places.

First main round

The first main round took place between July 29 and August 11, 2015. The matches were drawn on July 1, 2015. The brackets indicate the league level in which the club played in the 2014/15 season.

date Result
July 29, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Palm Beach SC (II) 1: 1 n.V.
(8: 7 p.e.) 		South Melbourne FC (II)
July 29, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Broadmeadow Magic (II) 1: 3 Heidelberg United (II)
July 29, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Blacktown City FC (II) 1: 2 North Eastern MetroStars (II)
July 29, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Hume City FC (II) 4: 3 a.d. Brisbane Strikers (II)
08/04/2015, 7:30 p.m. Balmain Tigers FC (IV) 0: 6 Melbourne Victory (I)
08/04/2015, 7:30 p.m. Gungahlin United (II) 0: 1 Sydney Olympic (II)
08/04/2015, 7:30 p.m. Sydney United (II) 3: 3 n.V.
(3: 1 in.E.) 		South Hobart FC (II)
08/04/2015, 7:30 p.m. Edgeworth FC (II) 1: 2 Melbourne City FC (I)
08/05/2015, 8:30 p.m. Sorrento FC (II) 0: 2 Sydney FC (I)
08/05/2015, 8:30 p.m. Darwin Olympic (II) 1: 6 Adelaide United (I)
08/05/2015, 8:30 p.m. Rockdale City Suns FC (II) 3: 1 Perth SC (II)
08/05/2015, 8:30 p.m. Croydon Kings SC (II) 1: 2 Queensland Lions (III)
08/11/2015, 7:30 p.m. Western Sydney Wanderers (I) 1-0 Brisbane Roar (I)
08/11/2015, 7:30 p.m. Newcastle United Jets (I) 2: 2 n.v.
(3: 4 in good condition) 		Perth Glory (I)
08/11/2015, 7:30 p.m. Central Coast Mariners (I) 0: 1 Wellington Phoenix (I)
08/11/2015, 7:30 p.m. Oakleigh Cannons (II) 1: 1 n.V.
(5: 4 p.e.) 		Far North Queensland FC (II)

Second main round

The second main round took place on August 26th and September 1st, 2015. The matches were drawn on August 12, 2015. The brackets indicate the league level in which the club played in the 2014/15 season.

date Result
08/26/2015, 7:30 p.m. Adelaide United (I) 2: 1 a.d. Sydney FC (I)
08/26/2015, 7:30 p.m. Melbourne City FC (I) 5: 1 Wellington Phoenix (I)
08/26/2015, 7:30 p.m. Heidelberg United (II) 2-0 Sydney United (II)
08/26/2015, 7:30 p.m. Queensland Lions (III) 0: 1 a.d. Perth Glory (I)
09/01/2015, 7:30 p.m. Rockdale City Suns FC (II) 2: 3 Melbourne Victory (I)
09/01/2015, 7:30 p.m. Palm Beach SC (II) 0: 2 Western Sydney Wanderers (I)
09/01/2015, 7:30 p.m. North Eastern MetroStars (II) 0: 1 Oakleigh Cannons (II)
09/01/2015, 7:30 p.m. Hume City FC (II) 3: 1 Sydney Olympic (II)

Quarter finals

The quarter-finals took place on September 22nd and 29th, 2015. The matches were drawn on September 1, 2015. The brackets indicate the league level in which the club played in the 2014/15 season.

date Result
09/22/2015, 7:30 p.m. Melbourne Victory (I) 3: 1 Adelaide United (I)
09/22/2015, 7:30 p.m. Hume City FC (II) 3: 2 a.d. Oakleigh Cannons (II)
29.09.2015, 8:00 p.m. Heidelberg United (II) 0: 5 Melbourne City FC (I)
09/29/2015, 8:30 p.m. Perth Glory (I) 1: 1 n.V.
(4: 2 in good.) 		Western Sydney Wanderers (I)

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on October 21 and 28, 2015. The matches were drawn on September 29, 2015. The brackets indicate the league level in which the club played in the 2014/15 season.

date Result
October 21, 2015, 6:30 p.m. Perth Glory (I) 3: 1 Melbourne City FC (I)
October 28, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Hume City FC (II) 0: 3 Melbourne Victory (I)

final

Melbourne Victory Perth Glory
Melbourne Victory
final
November 7, 2015 in Melbourne ( AAMI Park )
Result: 2: 0 (2: 0)
Spectators: 15,089
Referee: Ben Williams
Match report
Perth Glory


Danny Vukovic - Jason Geria , Leigh Broxham , Matthieu Delpierre , Daniel Georgievski - Carl Valeri , Guilherme Finkler (84th Rashid Mahazi ), Oliver Bozanic - Kosta Barbarouses , Besart Berisha (88th Thomas Deng ), Fahid Ben Khalfallah (90th + 2nd ' Connor Pain ) Trainer: Kevin Muscat(C)Captain of the crew
 Ante Covic - Joshua Risdon , Dino Đulbić , Michael Thwaite , Marc Warren (86th Antony Golec ) - Nebojša Marinković , Diogo Ferreira , Hagi Gligor (61st Guyon Fernandez ) - Richard Garcia , Sidnei (74th Alex Grant ), Diego Castro
coach : Kenny Lowe ( England ) EnglandEngland 
goal1-0 Bozanic (35th)
goal2-0 Berisha (42nd)
yellow cards Broxham (33.), Khalfallah (40.), Valeri (77.) yellow cards Đulbić (15th), Sidnei (55th)
Yellow-red cards Valeri (86.)

List of goalscorers

Below are the top scorers of the cup season (without qualification). If the number of goals is the same, the players are sorted alphabetically.

space player team Gates
01. AustraliaAustralia Aaron Mooy Melbourne City FC 6th
02. AlbaniaAlbania Besart Berisha Melbourne Victory 5
03. AustraliaAustralia Marcus Schroen Hume City FC 4th
04th AustraliaAustralia Theo Markelis Hume City FC 3
UruguayUruguay Bruno Fornaroli Melbourne City FC 3
New ZealandNew Zealand Kosta Barbarouses Melbourne Victory 3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Howe: The story of the Westfield FFA Cup 2015 . In: The-FFACup.com . November 10, 2015. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ theffacup.com.au: NT to enter the fray in 2015 (Nov. 26, 2014)
  3. ↑ Westfield FFA Cup round of 32 draw revealed! . In: The-FFACup.com . July 1, 2015. Accessed July 2, 2015.
  4. ^ Westfield FFA Cup Round of 16 draw revealed . In: The-FFACup.com . August 12, 2015. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ FFA Cup quarter-final draw revealed . In: The-FFACup.com . September 1, 2015. Accessed September 2, 2015.
  6. ^ Westfield FFA Cup semi final draw revealed . In: The-FFACup.com . September 29, 2015. Retrieved October 2, 2015.