2014 Foxtel Cup

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2014 season
Teams	9
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The 2014 Foxtel Cup will be the fourth 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.

The format of the competition will be as follows:

Nine teams will be competing.
With the exception of the pre-qualifying round, matches will be played on Tuesday nights as stand alone games and be broadcast by Fox Footy.
The prizemoney will be $100,000.

The top two sides from Western Australia (East Perth and West Perth) will join Norwood and reigning Foxtel Cup champions West Adelaide from South Australia,^[1] Box Hill Hawks and Williamstown from Victoria, and Tasmanian representative Prospect State,^[2] as participants in the 2014 Foxtel Cup.^[3] North East Australian Football League qualifiers, Aspley and Belconnen, will compete against each other in Round 1 of the 2014 NEAFL competition which will act as a pre-qualifying round, with the winner to meet Williamstown in round 1 of the Foxtel Cup.^[4]

The competition will began in April 2014 and conclude with the Grand Final on 22 July 2014.

2014 season

Participating clubs

NEAFL Eastern Conference (1)

Belconnen

NEAFL Northern Conference (2)

Aspley

SANFL (2)

Norwood
West Adelaide

Prospect State

TFL (1)

Prospect State

VFL (2)

Box Hill
Williamstown

WAFL (2)

East Perth
West Perth

Club details

Club	Nickname	Location	Qualified as
Aspley Australian Football Club^[5]	Hornets	Carseldine, Queensland	North East Australian Football League Northern Conference runners-up 2013
Belconnen Football Club^[6]	Magpies	Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory	North East Australian Football League Eastern Conference runners-up 2013
Box Hill Hawks Football Club^[7]	Hawks	Box Hill, Victoria	Victorian Football League premiers 2013
East Perth Football Club^[8]	Royals	Leederville, Western Australia	West Australian Football League runners-up 2013
Norwood Football Club^[9]	Redlegs	Norwood, South Australia	South Australian National Football League premiers 2013
Prospect State Football Club		Prospect, Tasmania	Tasmanian State League representative
West Adelaide Football Club^[10]	Bloods	Richmond, South Australia	South Australian National Football League Reigning Foxtel Cup champions
West Perth Football Club^[11]	Falcons	Joondalup, Western Australia	West Australian Football League premiers 2013
Williamstown Football Club^[12]	Seagulls	Williamstown, Victoria	Victorian Football League 3rd place 2013

Stadiums

Adelaide	Melbourne
Adelaide Oval Capacity: 50,000	Etihad Stadium Capacity: 56,347

Melbourne	Perth
Melbourne Cricket Ground Capacity: 100,000	Patersons Stadium Capacity: 43,500

Fixture

The AFL released the fixture on November 29, 2013.
2014 Foxtel Cup Fixture

Bracket

Qualifying Round

Round One

Semi Finals

Grand Final

West Adelaide

— Prospect State