2010 Victorian Premier League

Victorian Premier League 2010
League Victorian Premier League
Sport Association football
Duration 2010
Number of teams 12
TV partner(s) Channel 31 Melbourne
(Community programme)

The 2010 Victorian Premier League season is the 99th season of the Victorian Premier League, and will be contested by 12 clubs.[1]

Teams

Victorian Premier League teams for the 2010 season:

Club Stadium Capacity
Altona Magic SC Paisley Park Soccer Complex 5,000
Bentleigh Greens SC Kingston Heath Soccer Complex 5,000
Dandenong Thunder SC George Andrews Reserve 5,000
Green Gully SC Green Gully Reserve 10,000
Heidelberg United FC Olympic Village 10,000
Hume City FC John Ilhan Memorial Reserve 5,000
Melbourne Knights FC Mansion Stadium 15,000
Northcote City SC John Cain Memorial Reserve 5,000
Oakleigh Cannons FC Jack Edwards Reserve 5,000
Richmond SC Kevin Bartlett Reserve 5,000
South Melbourne FC Bob Jane Stadium 14,000
Sunshine George Cross FC Mansion Stadium 15,000

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from Division 1:
(After the end of the 2009 season.)

Teams relegated to Division 1:
(After the end of the 2009 season.)

Regular season

The Victorian Premier League 2010 season will be played over 22 rounds, followed by a final series.

Round 1

2010-02-26
20:30 UTC+11
Oakleigh Cannons FC 1 – 1 Bentleigh Greens SC
Cameron Watson  28' Report Johnny Sapazovski  39'

2010-02-27
15:00 UTC+11
Green Gully SC 1 – 2 Hume City FC
Graham Hockless  50' Report Tansel Baser  50'
Richie Cardozzo  75'

2010-02-27
19:00 UTC+11
Dandenong Thunder SC 2 – 1 Melbourne Knights FC
Shane Rexhepi  6'
Joey DiIorio  25' 		Report Tomislav Ples  81'
George Andrews Reserve,
South Dandenong, Victoria

2010-02-28
15:00 UTC+11
Altona Magic SC 1 – 1 South Melbourne FC
Report Fernando de Moraes  86'

2010-02-28
15:00 UTC+11
Richmond SC 2 – 1 Northcote City SC
Daniel Visevic  24'
Dimitri Tsiaris  56' 		Report Trent Rixon  77' (pen.)

2010-02-28
19:00 UTC+11
Sunshine George Cross FC 3 – 2 Heidelberg United FC
Report

Round 2

2010-03-05
20:30 UTC+11
Oakleigh Cannons FC 2 – 1 Northcote City SC
Jerry Karpeh  45',  70' Report Ahmet Turer  2'

2010-03-05
20:30 UTC+11
Richmond SC 1 – 3 Green Gully SC
Daniel Visevic  70' Report Nick Robinson  6',  73'
Steven Burton  20'

2010-03-06
18:00 UTC+11
Hume City FC 3 – 0 Dandenong Thunder SC
Steven Pace
Zoran Petrevski
Tansel Baser 		Report

2010-03-07
17:00 UTC+11
South Melbourne FC 1 – 1 Bentleigh Greens SC
Fernando de Moraes  80' Report Adam Fadljevic  85'
Bob Jane Stadium,
Albert Park, Victoria
Referee: Alejandro Azcurra

2010-03-07
19:00 UTC+11
Sunshine George Cross FC 0 – 0 Altona Magic SC
Report
Mansion Stadium,
Sunshine North, Victoria
Referee: Hakan Anaz

2010-03-08
18:00 UTC+11
Melbourne Knights FC 3 – 3 Heidelberg United FC
Josip Magdic  29'
Ryan Filipovic  44'
Jacob Colosimo  70' 		Report Yannis Galanos  34'
Steve Martin  88'
Osagie Ederaro  90'
Mansion Stadium,
Sunshine North, Victoria
Referee: Lucien Laverdure

League table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Richmond 22 12 4 6 33 26+7 40 Victorian Premier League Finals
2 Hume City 22 12 6 4 41 29+12 39*
3 Green Gully 22 11 3 8 37 23+14 36
4 Heidelberg United 22 10 6 6 34 33+1 33*
5 Northcote City 22 9 4 9 47 35+12 31
6 South Melbourne 22 10 6 6 41 28+13 30*
7 Oakleigh Cannons 22 9 3 10 30 31−1 30
8 Dandenong Thunder 22 9 4 9 24 30−6 28*
9 Melbourne Knights 22 7 5 10 30 37−7 23*
10 Bentleigh Greens 22 5 6 11 19 36−17 21
11 Altona Magic 22 5 5 12 39 46−7 20 Relegation to Vic State League Div 1
12 Sunshine George Cross FC 22 5 4 13 20 41−21 19

Updated to games played on Sep 6, 2010.
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

*Hume City, Heidelberg Utd & Melbourne Knights were given a situation pending 3 point deduction as a result of failure to adhere to Rules of Competition 2009 – Section 1.6. South Melbourne lost 6 points because of an incident during the Round 6 home fixture against Heidelberg United.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://premier.footballfedvic.com.au/common/pages/public/rv/draw.aspx?gradeid=1&entityid=7250&seasonid=64