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Pages in category "Professional sports leagues in Australia" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On 31 December 2020, Football Australia announced that the Australian Professional Leagues (APL) would be separated from the governing body. APL will assume responsibility for operational, commercial, and marketing activities, while Football Australia will continue to manage disciplinary and integrity matters, as well as the registration of clubs, players and officials, transfers, and match ...
In Australia, sport is an important part of the country's culture and dates back to the early colonial period. The first of the country's mainstream sports to become established in order of their organisation were cricket, Australian rules football, rugby union, tennis, soccer, basketball, netball and rugby league.
Women's sports leagues in Australia (10 C, 13 P) B. Baseball leagues in Australia (3 C, 10 P) Basketball leagues in Australia (11 C, 15 P) F.
A-League Men (currently known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competition for the sport.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football.It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897.
The league system in Australia since 1977 has involved one top divisional league controlled by Football Australia and many leagues run within each state below. [1] The National Soccer League stood from 1977 to 2004 as the top nationwide tier above the current state-based league systems, in 2005, the A-League (now A-League Men ) was established ...
The Australian soccer league system consists of one national league — A-League Men — a state/territory-based second tier National Premier Leagues (NPL) structure and other state-based metropolitan and regional leagues. Promotion and relegation exists in some states between NPL and state leagues, however not between the A-League Men and the NPL.