FFA Cup 2017

FFA Cup 2017
Cup winners	Sydney FC (1st title)
Beginning	July 26, 2017
final	22nd November 2017
Final stadium	Allianz Stadium , Sydney
Teams	32
Games	31
Gates	117  (ø 3.77 per game)
spectator	85,474  (ø 2,757 per game)
Top scorer	Bobô (Sydney FC)
yellow cards	154  (ø 4.97 per game)
Yellow and red cards	3  (ø 0.1 per game)
Red cards	1  (ø 0.03 per game)
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The 2017 FFA Cup was the fourth edition of the Australian men's soccer cup. The season began on July 26, 2017 and ended with the finale on November 22, 2017. Defending champions Melbourne City FC were eliminated in the quarter-finals against eventual winners Sydney FC .

A total of 735 soccer teams took part in the competition. 32 teams reached the first main round, including the ten clubs of the A-League 2016/17 , the champions of the National Premier Leagues 2016 and 21 lower-class clubs that prevailed in the regional qualifying rounds.

Sydney FC won for the first time with a 2-1 win over Adelaide United after extra time . The top scorer was the Brazilian Bobô from Sydney FC with eight goals.

Attendees

Several hundred teams competed in the various regional qualifying rounds to qualify for one of 21 main round places to be awarded. The ten teams of the A-League 2016/17 were set for the main round. The champion of the National Premier Leagues 2016 received another direct starting place .

All nine regional associations of the Australian Football Association held qualifying rounds. The distribution of qualification places per regional association remained unchanged compared to the previous year. New South Wales got five, Queensland and Victoria four each, Northern New South Wales and Western Australia two each, the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, South Australia and Tasmania one each.

A-League the 10 clubs of the 2016/17 season		National Premier Leagues champions of the 2016 season
Adelaide United Brisbane Roar Central Coast Mariners Melbourne City FC ( TV ) Melbourne Victory	Newcastle United Jets Perth Glory Sydney FC Wellington Phoenix Western Sydney Wanderers	Sydney United
Winner of the qualifying rounds 21 winners of the 9 national associations of the FFA
Australian Capital Territory Canberra Olympic FC (II) New South Wales APIA Leichhardt Tigers (II) Bankstown Berries (III) Blacktown City FC (II) Hills United (III) Maccabi Hakoah (II) Northern New South Wales Broadmeadow Magic (II) Edgeworth FC (II)	Northern Territory Darwin Rovers (II) Queensland Far North Queensland FC (II) Gold Coast City FC (II) Moreton Bay United (II) Peninsula Power (III) South Australia North Eastern MetroStars (II)	Tasmania Olympia FC Warriors (II) Victoria Bentleigh Greens SC (II) Heidelberg United (II) Hume City FC (II) South Melbourne FC (II) Western Australia Sorrento FC (II) Western Knights SC (III)

First main round

The matches of the first main round were drawn on June 29, 2017. The brackets indicate the league level in which the club played in the 2016/17 season.

date		Result
07/26/2017, 8:00 p.m.	South Melbourne FC (II)	1: 0 (0: 0)	Edgeworth FC (II)
07/26/2017, 8:00 p.m.	Hills United (III)	3: 6  n.V. (3: 3, 2: 1)	Maccabi Hakoah (II)
07/26/2017, 8:00 p.m.	Bankstown Berries (III)	2: 1 (2: 0)	North Eastern MetroStars (II)
07/26/2017, 8:30 p.m.	Sorrento FC (II)	1: 0 (1: 0)	Canberra Olympic FC (II)
08/01/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Heidelberg United (II)	1: 0 (0: 0)	Perth Glory (I)
08/01/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Peninsula Power (III)	0: 2 (0: 1)	Melbourne City FC (I)
08/01/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Olympia FC Warriors (II)	0: 5 (0: 2)	APIA Leichhardt Tigers (II)
08/01/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Western Sydney Wanderers (I)	1: 0  a.d.	Wellington Phoenix (I)
08/02/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Blacktown City FC (II)	3: 2 (2: 1)	Central Coast Mariners (I)
08/02/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Moreton Bay United (II)	4: 2  n.V. (2: 2, 0: 1)	Broadmeadow Magic (II)
08/02/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Gold Coast City FC (II)	3: 1 (1: 0)	Western Knights SC (III)
08/02/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Darwin Rovers (II)	0: 8 (0: 3)	Sydney FC (I)
09.08.2017, 7:30 p.m.	Hume City FC (II)	1: 1  n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1) (1: 4 in.E. )	Bentleigh Greens SC (II)
09.08.2017, 7:30 p.m.	Brisbane Roar (I)	1: 5 (0: 2)	Melbourne Victory (I)
09.08.2017, 7:30 p.m.	Sydney United (II)	7: 2 (2: 1)	Far North Queensland FC (II)
09.08.2017, 7:30 p.m.	Adelaide United (I)	1: 0 (0: 0)	Newcastle United Jets (I)

Second main round

The matches of the second main round were drawn on August 9, 2017. The brackets indicate the league level in which the club played in the 2016/17 season.

date		Result
23.08.2017, 7:30 p.m.	Sydney United (II)	1: 1  n.V. (0: 0) (3: 4 p.e. )	Heidelberg United (II)
23.08.2017, 7:30 p.m.	Adelaide United (I)	3: 0 (0: 0)	Melbourne Victory (I)
23.08.2017, 7:30 p.m.	Moreton Bay United (II)	0: 1  a.d.	Gold Coast City FC (II)
23.08.2017, 7:30 p.m.	South Melbourne FC (II)	4: 1 (2: 0)	Sorrento FC (II)
August 29, 2017, 7:30 p.m.	Bentleigh Greens SC (II)	0: 4 (0: 1)	Western Sydney Wanderers (I)
August 29, 2017, 7:30 p.m.	Blacktown City FC (II)	3: 1 (1: 1)	APIA Leichhardt Tigers (II)
August 29, 2017, 7:30 p.m.	Bankstown Berries (III)	0: 3 (0: 1)	Sydney FC (I)
August 29, 2017, 7:30 p.m.	Maccabi Hakoah (II)	2: 3 (1: 2)	Melbourne City FC (I)

Quarter finals

The quarter-finals were drawn on August 29, 2017. The brackets indicate the league level in which the club played in the 2016/17 season.

date		Result
09/13/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Sydney FC (I)	2: 0 (1: 0)	Melbourne City FC (I)
09/13/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Heidelberg United (II)	0: 3 (0: 2)	Adelaide United (I)
09/20/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Blacktown City FC (II)	2: 2  n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1) (2: 4 in.E. )	Western Sydney Wanderers (I)
09/20/2017, 7:30 p.m.	Gold Coast City FC (II)	0: 6 (0: 3)	South Melbourne FC (II)

Semifinals

The semi-final matches were drawn on September 20, 2017. The brackets indicate the league level in which the club played in the 2016/17 season.

date		Result
11.10.2017, 7:30 p.m.	South Melbourne FC (II)	1: 5 (0: 2)	Sydney FC (I)
October 24, 2017, 7:30 p.m.	Western Sydney Wanderers (I)	1: 2 (0: 1)	Adelaide United (I)

final

Sydney FC		Adelaide United
	final November 21, 2017 in Sydney ( Allianz Stadium ) Result: 2: 1 n.v. (1: 0, 1: 1) Spectators: 13,452 Referee: Kris Griffiths-Jones Match report
	Andrew Redmayne - Luke Wilkshire (105th Sebastian Ryall ), Jordy Buijs , Alex Wilkinson , Michael Zullo - Joshua Brillante , Brandon O'Neill - Adrian Mierzejewski , Alex Brosque (71st Matt Simon ), Miloš Ninković (62nd David Carney ) - Bobô Trainer: Graham Arnold	Paul Izzo - Michael Marrone , Jordan Elsey , Ersan Gülüm (78th Ben Warland ), Ben Garuccio - Isaías , Daniel Adlung - Nikola Mileusnic , Karim Matmour , Ryan Kitto (88th Mark Ochieng ) - Baba Diawara (73rd George Blackwood ) trainers : Marco Kurz ( Germany )
	1: 0 Ninković (19th) 2: 1 Bobô (111.)	1: 1 Mileusnic (67th)
	Brosque (23rd), Wilkshire (43rd), Carney (117th), Mierzejewski (120th + 3 ')	Adlung (83.), Ochieng (104.), Gülüm (109.), Elsey (119.)
		Marrone (115.)

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.

rank	Nat	player	society	Gates
01		Bobô	Sydney FC	8th
02		Joey Gibbs	Blacktown City FC	4th
		Milos Lujic	South Melbourne FC	4th
		Nikola Mileusnic	Adelaide United	4th
		Oriol Riera	Western Sydney Wanderers	4th
06th		David Carney	Sydney FC	3
		Jarrod Kyle	Gold Coast City FC	3
		Sean Symons	APIA Leichhardt Tigers	3

Web links

• Official website for the competition

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Westfield FFA Cup Round of 32 draw revealed . In: The-FFACup.com . June 29, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
2. ↑ Revealed: Westfield FFA Cup Round of 16 draw . In: The-FFACup.com . August 9, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
3. ^ Draw for Westfield FFA Cup quarter finals revealed . In: The-FFACup.com . August 29, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
4. ↑ Westfield FFA Cup Semi Final fixtures confirmed . In: The-FFACup.com . September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017.