Английская Википедия:2011 Foxtel Cup

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The 2011 Foxtel Cup was the inaugural season of the Australian rules football club knockout cup competition involving clubs from the various state league competitions from around Australia. The first year of the competition also included the AFL's newest expansion side Greater Western Sydney Giants.

Its purpose was to support and promote the second-tier Australian rules football competitions and to provide another way of developing the lower-tier AFL players. It was originally designed to be a one-off, but due to a significant amount of public interest the AFL said the competition would continue for at least the next five years.

The competition began on 26 March 2011 and ran through to August. Matches were played as curtain-raisers to AFL Saturday night games and were screened on Fox Sports in a late-afternoon slot between afternoon and night AFL matches. $40,000 of prize money was awarded to eventual winners, Williamstown Football Club.

The AFL originally invited the three highest ranked teams from the South Australian National Football League, the Victorian Football League and the West Australian Football League; the top two teams from the Queensland Australian Football League; and the top team from AFL Sydney and the Tasmanian Football League. The Northern Territory Football Club and Greater Western Sydney Giants received special invitations.

However, despite the SANFL on 9 December 2010 signing on to be part of the Cup competition, opposition to the proposal came from its top three clubs Central District, Norwood and Woodville-West Torrens. The three clubs were given until 14 December 2010 to reconsider with the SANFL willing to extend invitations to its next best teams from 2010 if its top three clubs refused to participate. After the top five SANFL clubs released a joint statement on 15 December 2010 declining the invitation to participate in the Cup competition, citing lack of prize money, sponsorship conflicts, salary cap implications, schedule concerns and removing the focus from their SANFL premiership ambitions, their places were taken up by fellow SANFL clubs West Adelaide, North Adelaide and Port Adelaide Magpies.

The AFL gave the Cup competition the go ahead on 17 December 2010 with the fixture released publicly. The official name of the tournament (Foxtel Cup), finalised fixture and participating teams were formalised on 9 February 2011 by the AFL.

Williamstown became the inaugural Foxtel Cup champions when they defeated Claremont by 21 points in the Grand Final at Patersons Stadium on 6 August 2011. Williamstown midfielder Ben Jolley won the Coles Medal as best afield for his game-high 30 possessions and eight clearances.

2011 season

Participating clubs

NEAFL Eastern Conference (2)

• Ainslie
• Greater Western Sydney

NEAFL Eastern Conference (3)

• Labrador
• Morningside
• Northern Territory

SANFL (3)

• North Adelaide
• Port Adelaide Magpies
• West Adelaide

Sydney AFL (1)

• East Coast Eagles

TFL (1)

• Clarence

VFL (3)

• North Ballarat
• Northern Bullants
• Williamstown

WAFL (3)

• Claremont
• East Perth
• Swan Districts

Club details

Guernsey	Club	Nickname	Location	Qualified as
Файл:Ainslie Jumper.png	Ainslie Football Club	Tri- Colours	Ainslie, ACT	AFL Canberra premiers 2010
Файл:Claremont Tigers Jumper.svg	Claremont Football Club	Tigers	Claremont, Western Australia	West Australian Football League runners-up 2010
Файл:Clarence Roos Jumper.svg	Clarence Football Club	Kangaroos	Clarence, Tasmania	Tasmanian Football League premiers 2010
Файл:East Coast Eagles jumper nologo.jpg	East Coast Eagles Australian Football Club	Eagles	Rouse Hill, NSW	Sydney AFL premiers 2010
Файл:East Perth Royals Jumper.svg	East Perth Football Club	Royals	Leederville, Western Australia	West Australian Football League 3rd place 2010
	Greater Western Sydney Giants	Giants	Blacktown, NSW	Australian Football League Expansion club
Файл:Glenelg Tigers Jumper.svg	Labrador Australian Football Club	Tigers	Labrador, Queensland	Queensland Australian Football League runners-up 2010
Файл:Ainslie Jumper.png	Morningside Australian Football Club	Panthers	Hawthorne, Queensland	Queensland Australian Football League premiers 2010
Файл:North Adelaide Roosters Jumper.svg	North Adelaide Football Club	Roosters	Prospect, South Australia	South Australian National Football League 7th place, 2010 SA invitee
Файл:North Ballarat Roosters Jumper.svg	North Ballarat Football Club	Roosters	Ballarat, Victoria	Victorian Football League premiers 2010
Файл:North Bullants Jumper nologo.jpg	Northern Bullants Football Club	Bullants	Preston, Victoria	Victorian Football League runners-up 2010
	Northern Territory Football Club	Thunder	Darwin, Northern Territory	Queensland Australian Football League 5th place 2010 NT representative
Файл:Port Adelaide Magpies Jumper.svg	Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL)	Magpies	Alberton, South Australia	South Australian National Football League 8th place 2010 SA invitee
Файл:Swan Districts Jumper.svg	Swan Districts Football Club	Swans	Bassendean, Western Australia	West Australian Football League premiers 2010
Файл:West Adelaide Bloods Jumper.svg	West Adelaide Football Club	Bloods	Richmond, South Australia	South Australian National Football League 6th place 2010 SA invitee
Файл:Williamstown Seagulls Jumper.svg	Williamstown Football Club	Seagulls	Williamstown, Victoria	Victorian Football League 3rd place 2010

Stadiums

Adelaide	Adelaide	Darwin
AAMI Stadium Capacity: 51,224	Adelaide Oval Capacity: 36,000	TIO Stadium Capacity: 15,000
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Gold Coast	Hobart	Melbourne
Metricon Stadium Capacity: 25,000	Bellerive Oval Capacity: 16,200	Etihad Stadium Capacity: 56,347
Файл:Adelaide v Gold Coast - Carrara crowd.jpg	Файл:Bellerive oval hobart.jpg	Файл:Telstra Dome Panoramic.jpg
Melbourne	Perth	Sydney
Melbourne Cricket Ground Capacity: 100,018	Patersons Stadium Capacity: 43,500	Sydney Cricket Ground Capacity: 46,000
Файл:Mcg melb.JPG	Файл:SubiOval2.JPG	Файл:Sydney Cricket Ground, Warne final balls, 2007.jpg

External links

• Official Foxtel Cup website
• Official AFL Canberra website
• AFL Northern Territory
• AFL Queensland State Site
• Шаблон:Official website
• Official Sydney AFL Site
• Tasmanian Football League Website
• Шаблон:Official website
• Шаблон:Official website