2013 Foxtel Cup Explained

Competition:Foxtel Cup
Year:2013
Teams:10
Premiers:West Adelaide
Prevseason:2012
Nextseason:2014

The 2013 Foxtel Cup was the third season of the Australian rules football knock-out cup competition involving clubs from the various state league competitions from around Australia.

The Cup's purpose is to support and promote the second-tier Australian rules football competitions and to provide another way of developing lower-tier Australian Football League (AFL) players.

All matches, as in previous years, were broadcast by Fox Footy.

The format of the competition saw four significant changes from the first two years of the competition:

For the first time, the highest-ranked qualifiers from each state all elected to compete in the competition; in the previous two years, the top South Australian clubs had declined to participate. However, both the VFL premiers and the NEAFL premiers in 2012 were reserves teams for AFL clubs (and respectively), so neither was invited to participate.

The competition began in April 2013 and concluded with the Grand Final in August 2013, in which West Adelaide defeated East Fremantle by four points at AAMI Stadium in a low scoring thriller. It was the Bloods' first trophy of any sort since their last SANFL premiership in 1983.

West Adelaide onballer (and former AFL player for the Crows and Lions) Chris Schmidt was awarded the Coles Medal as best-on-ground in the Grand Final for his unrelenting performance that included 26 disposals and nine clearances. He also operated at 81 per cent disposal efficiency.[3]

2013 season

Participating clubs

NEAFL Eastern Conference (1)
NEAFL Northern Conference (2)
SANFL (2)
TFL (1)
VFL (2)
WAFL (2)

Club details

GuernseyClubNicknameLocationQualified as
Burnie Football Club[4] Burnie, Tasmania
Claremont Football Club[5] Claremont, Western Australia
East Fremantle Football Club[6] East Fremantle, Western Australia
Northern Territory Football Club[7] Darwin, Northern Territory
Norwood Football Club[8] Norwood, South Australia
Port Melbourne Football Club[9] Port Melbourne, Victoria
Queanbeyan Football Club[10] Queanbeyan, New South Wales
Southport Australian Football Club[11] Southport, Queensland
Werribee Football Club[12] Werribee, Victoria
West Adelaide Football Club[13] Richmond, South Australia

Stadiums

AdelaideCanberraGold Coast
AAMI Stadium
Capacity: 51,224
Manuka Oval
Capacity: 13,550
Metricon Stadium
Capacity: 25,000
MelbourneMelbournePerth
Etihad Stadium
Capacity: 56,347
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Capacity: 100,000
Patersons Stadium
Capacity: 43,500

Fixture

The AFL released the fixture on 3 December 2012.
2013 Foxtel Cup Fixture

Qualifying round

Round 1

Semi-finals

Grand Final

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Trimmer Foxtel Cup in 2013 . McNicol . Adam . 3 December 2012 . afl.com . 3 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121204134249/http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/152006/default.aspx . 4 December 2012 .
  2. News: Footy Cup goes mid-week. Webster. Jess. 2 November 2012. NT News. 52. Darwin.
  3. Web site: Foxtel Cup: Bloods sink Sharks in Grand Final thriller. Craigie. Tom. 6 August 2013. afl.com. 6 August 2013.
  4. http://www.burniedockers.com.au/ Burnie Football Club Official Website
  5. http://www.claremontfc.com.au Claremont Football Club Official Website
  6. http://www.effc.com.au East Fremantle Football Club Official Website
  7. Web site: Northern Territory Football Club Official Website . 2 November 2012 . 10 February 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130210025811/http://www.territoryfc.com.au/index.php?id=8 . dead .
  8. http://www.norwoodfc.com.au Norwood Football Club Official Website
  9. Web site: Port Melbourne Official Website . 2 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070905163705/http://www.pmfc.com.au/ . 5 September 2007 . dead .
  10. http://www.tigersclub.com.au Queanbeyan Football Club Official Website
  11. http://www.southportsharks.com.au Southport Australian Football Club Official Website
  12. http://www.werribeefc.com.au/ Werribee Official Website
  13. http://www.westadelaidefc.com.au West Adelaide Football Club Official Website