2013 Foxtel Cup

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.

2013 premiership season
Teams10
PremiersWest Adelaide

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:

  • The number of teams competing was reduced from sixteen to ten.
  • The qualifiers from the Tasmanian Football League and the North East Australian Football League competed in a separate pre-qualifying round before progressing to play against the Victorian, South Australian and Western Australian qualifiers.[1]
  • With the exception of the pre-qualifying round, matches played on Tuesday nights as stand alone games. Previously they had been played on Saturdays, usually as curtain-raisers to AFL matches, forcing the state leagues to schedule extra bye weeks to accommodate Foxtel Cup games.[1]
  • The prizemoney was increased to $100,000.[2]

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.[1] However, both the VFL premiers and the NEAFL premiers in 2012 were reserves teams for AFL clubs (Geelong and Brisbane Lions 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

Club details

Guernsey Club Nickname Location Qualified as
Burnie Football Club[4]
Dockers
Burnie, Tasmania
Tasmanian Football League
premiers 2012
Claremont Football Club[5]
Tigers
Claremont, Western Australia
West Australian Football League
premiers 2012
East Fremantle Football Club[6]
Sharks
East Fremantle, Western Australia
West Australian Football League
runners-up 2012
Northern Territory Football Club[7]
Thunder
Darwin, Northern Territory
NEAFL Northern Conference
runners-up 2012
Norwood Football Club[8]
Redlegs
Norwood, South Australia
South Australian National Football League
premiers 2012
Port Melbourne Football Club[9]
Borough
Port Melbourne, Victoria
Victorian Football League
runners-up 2012
Queanbeyan Football Club[10]
Tigers
Queanbeyan, New South Wales
NEAFL Eastern Conference
premiers 2012
Southport Australian Football Club[11]
Sharks
Southport, Queensland
NEAFL Northern Conference
3rd place 2012
Werribee Football Club[12]
Tigers
Werribee, Victoria
Victorian Football League
3rd place 2012
West Adelaide Football Club[13]
Bloods
Richmond, South Australia
South Australian National Football League
runners-up 2012

Stadiums

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

Fixture

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

Bracket

  Qualifying round   Round one   Semi finals   Grand final
                                                   
    Norwood 4 11 35  
    East Fremantle 6 6 42    
  Queanbeyan 13 10 88       East Fremantle 6 4 40  
  NT Thunder 4 11 35         Werribee 2 4 16    
      Werribee 16 17 113
      Queanbeyan 4 4 28  
      East Fremantle 2 16 28
      West Adelaide 4 8 32
    Port Melbourne 9 4 58  
    West Adelaide 17 9 111    
  Southport 11 11 77       West Adelaide 6 7 43  
  Burnie 7 7 49         Claremont 3 8 26  
      Claremont 12 8 80
      Southport 4 2 26  

Qualifying Round

Round 1

Semi-finals

Grand Final

References

  1. McNicol, Adam (3 December 2012). "Trimmer Foxtel Cup in 2013". afl.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  2. Webster, Jess (2 November 2012). "Footy Cup goes mid-week". NT News. Darwin. p. 52.
  3. Craigie, Tom (6 August 2013). "Foxtel Cup: Bloods sink Sharks in Grand Final thriller". afl.com. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  4. Burnie Football Club Official Website
  5. Claremont Football Club Official Website
  6. East Fremantle Football Club Official Website
  7. Northern Territory Football Club Official Website
  8. Norwood Football Club Official Website
  9. "Port Melbourne Official Website". Archived from the original on 5 September 2007. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  10. Queanbeyan Football Club Official Website
  11. Southport Australian Football Club Official Website
  12. Werribee Official Website
  13. West Adelaide Football Club Official Website
  14. Craig, Tom (20 April 2013). "Sharks feast on Dockers in Foxtel Cup qualifier". Australian Football League. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
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