Pre-Season Cup
Main article: League Pre-Season Challenge Cup
Before the 2009-10 season, was a preseason contest held in August, as a precursor for the high season. Pre-Season Cup, the teams were also placed in two groups. Each team played the others in the group after three rounds.
Since 2006, a further bonus round took place then, with each team playing a game crossed with a computer in a different group. In addition to the standard points (3 for win, 1 for tie), there were special bonus points on offer for the bonus round games:
1 bonus point for 2 goals scored by a team
2 bonus points for 3 goals scored by one team or
3 bonus points for 4 or more goals of the team.
4 bonus points for scoring five goals from a player.
This format has been published for the 2007 competition. The bonus round has been removed, and the bonus points system introduced in each of the first three rounds. The eight teams then entered a second phase, which culminated in the final end of August.
Pre-Season Cup in 2009-10 was removed from the league schedule, in order to better manage their own clubs pre-season training.
Regular Season
The regular season runs mainly during the Australian summer, from early October to February the following year. The contest consists of 30 home and away rounds, each team plays each team three times - twice in the stage of the home team and once to the other. Teams are assigned two home games against an opponent in a season are given a home game against that opponent in the next season. Each party believes that the winning team receives three points in the competition or in the case of a tie, the teams receive one point each. At the end of the season, the teams ranked first in terms of competition points accumulated on goal difference then total goals scored in head to head record between the tied teams and finally the number of cards for each team was. The club at the top of this ladder is crowned A-League premiers, and the 2006-07 season, they entered the Champions League AFC.
At the conclusion of the regular season teams are ranked from one to ten for the first six teams advance to the finals. The location of each team is determined by the highest number of points accumulated during the regular season. If two or more teams are level on points accumulated, the following criteria in order until one team can be determined as the highest ranking:
Goal difference is greater;
Most of the paint;
The highest number of points earned in matches between teams
respect;
Greater goal difference in matches between the teams concerned;
Greater number of goals scored in matches between the teams concerned;
The lowest amount of red cards accumulated;
The lowest number of yellow cards accumulated;
Flip a coin.
Finals
The top six teams ranked at the end of the regular season was in the final round, where two teams in the regular season competition in two rounds (with ties decided by the State of goals including overtime), the winner advancing directly to the accommodation and the Grand Final.
In the same weekend, the teams play the third and sixth among themselves, and the same for the fourth and fifth teams. The winner of each game played each other, with the winner advancing to play in a preliminary final against the loser of the departure of two feet between the top two teams. The winner of that game advances to the Grand Final. From the 2006-07 season, this team will play the AFC Champions League, but if the team wins the championship going to the Grand Final, then the other competitor Grand Final took second place in the competition, win or lost. [4] In previous seasons final series with four teams, which was expanded to accommodate the increased number of clubs in the competition.
FFA Cup
Main article: AFF Cup
Details and format of the Cup of the FFA was closed, and it will be a cup style knockout. FFA Cup has been announced for launch in March 2012 to January 2013 during the A-League 2012-13 season with games to play in midweek, and the last to be held the day in Australia. All football clubs will be available to enter into the cup and smaller teams will survive beyond the knockout phase, prior to mixing with the clubs in the A-League in the last-32 stage.
The winner of the Cup is expected to qualify for the Champions League AFC. It is expected that the Cup will help attract fans of football in the local community further stimulate interest in the A-League.
Promotion
A-League logo designed by Design the coast of Sydney is a sphere in three dimensions. The colors are earth tones in two in the sun, the earth and the desert, while the "brightness" of the center of the logo represents the spring game and the duration of the summer. The eight "A" figures that make up the shape of a ball club that represents the foundation of eight years.
At the beginning of the first season was a $ a $ 3,000,000 advertising campaign launched by TV commercials and films produced by the production company of Ridley Scott. The campaign theme was: "Football, but not as you know."
A TV spot was created for the start of the 2007-08 season, which began on the Foxtel program, Total Football. It was filmed at Bob Jane Stadium in Melbourne. The theme of the current campaign is "90 minutes, 90 emotions". This promotional campaign continued in the 2008-09 season, with the song "My People" of the act The Presets Australian.
-League has played in the FIFA series from EA SPORTS 2008 edition of the game and the Football Manager series of SI Games and Game Studios, Championship Manager beautiful series.
The years 2008, 2009 and 2010 Fox reality show, Football Superstar, has offered a prize to the winner, the contract-League club. Clubs that have participated so far is Sydney FC, Melbourne Victory and Brisbane Roar
Expansion
Main article: Expansion-League
When you make a relatively modest beginning for the future stability and the Football Federation Australia and the media have shown great interest in the league to expand. Eight teams were based exclusively on their respective cities for five years, but this does not prevent the teams from other regions. Some have questioned the logic of expanding the league as quickly as many clubs are struggling to stay afloat, and to think that the expansion of the game only to dilute the talent even more.
Before the introduction-League, FFA Chairman Frank Lowy suggested that the league hopes to expand to other cities, indicating Canberra, Hobart, Wollongong Geelong, Bendigo, Cairns, Ballarat, Albury, Wodonga, Launceston, Christchurch, Auckland, Sunshine Coast, and perhaps even Darwin.
29. September 2009, the West of Sydney-League 2011-12 license period.
2. October, the club was officially appointed Sydney Rovers FC. This was to be short lived as the December 10, 2010 was officially announced that the Sydney Rovers FC would not have been that competition in the league and the administration would begin to look for a new franchise Western Sydney.
Consortia of Wollongong, Tasmania and Canberra trying to convince the FFA to license rather than 12 in their offers.
