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General A Leagues thread (Men and Women) 2026/27 season

adelaideunited.com.au

Fixture Update: Original Rivalry to Open Reds’ 2026/27 Home Campaign with Brisbane Game Rescheduled

Adelaide United is pleased to confirm its A-League Men’s side will travel to Western Australia to face Perth Glory in two pre-season fixtures
adelaideunited.com.au adelaideunited.com.au

brisbaneroar.com.au

FIXTURE UPDATE: 26/27 Isuzu UTE A-League Men Round One

Brisbane Roar can confirm to members and fans that the club’s Round 1 Isuzu UTE A-League Men fixture against Adelaide United, originally scheduled for Sunday, October 18 (2:00pm local time), has been rescheduled to Tuesday, December 15. Adelaide United requested...
brisbaneroar.com.au brisbaneroar.com.au

wellingtonphoenix.com

A-League Men fixture update

The Wellington Phoenix’s home game against Adelaide United has been pushed back a week.
wellingtonphoenix.com wellingtonphoenix.com
 
Brenton1986 said:
adelaideunited.com.au

Fixture Update: Original Rivalry to Open Reds’ 2026/27 Home Campaign with Brisbane Game Rescheduled

Adelaide United is pleased to confirm its A-League Men’s side will travel to Western Australia to face Perth Glory in two pre-season fixtures
adelaideunited.com.au adelaideunited.com.au

brisbaneroar.com.au

FIXTURE UPDATE: 26/27 Isuzu UTE A-League Men Round One

Brisbane Roar can confirm to members and fans that the club’s Round 1 Isuzu UTE A-League Men fixture against Adelaide United, originally scheduled for Sunday, October 18 (2:00pm local time), has been rescheduled to Tuesday, December 15. Adelaide United requested...
brisbaneroar.com.au brisbaneroar.com.au

wellingtonphoenix.com

A-League Men fixture update

The Wellington Phoenix’s home game against Adelaide United has been pushed back a week.
wellingtonphoenix.com wellingtonphoenix.com
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The Adelaide Brisbane change is bloody stupid.

As the article states, we don't have a Round 1 game now and we are going to be playing an extra game in the Christmas heat with short recovery times just like last season.

It's Round 1 so what was wrong with just moving the game back a day?

One sided decision making by the APL.
 
RIMB said:
The Adelaide Brisbane change is bloody stupid.

As the article states, we don't have a Round 1 game now and we are going to be playing an extra game in the Christmas heat with short recovery times just like last season.

It's Round 1 so what was wrong with just moving the game back a day?

One sided decision making by the APL.
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Club gave it to them Mr rimb deservedly so I'm sick of these stupid decisions
 
melbcityguy said:
Club gave it to them Mr rimb deservedly so I'm sick of these stupid decisions
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Apl is grinding the game down to park football. I don't mind chatting on 1 or 2 platforms but I'm luke warm on football here, unless the the comp becomes open.
One can make an argument about Nsl clubs not being permitted into top flight football as they are insular and cannot add value.
That can also be interpreted as, they are run by and supported by wogs so let us opt for a preferred vanilla closed type competition.
Let us isolate 50% of the fanbase.
I'm not subscribed to anything anymore until this changes.
This will never change you say? Well, I'm not interested in adding value from my pocket either.
Conroy has to go, he influences everything to what it is today, including pfa issues with wage structures.
 
Brenton1986 said:
adelaideunited.com.au

Fixture Update: Original Rivalry to Open Reds’ 2026/27 Home Campaign with Brisbane Game Rescheduled

Adelaide United is pleased to confirm its A-League Men’s side will travel to Western Australia to face Perth Glory in two pre-season fixtures
adelaideunited.com.au adelaideunited.com.au

brisbaneroar.com.au

FIXTURE UPDATE: 26/27 Isuzu UTE A-League Men Round One

Brisbane Roar can confirm to members and fans that the club’s Round 1 Isuzu UTE A-League Men fixture against Adelaide United, originally scheduled for Sunday, October 18 (2:00pm local time), has been rescheduled to Tuesday, December 15. Adelaide United requested...
brisbaneroar.com.au brisbaneroar.com.au

wellingtonphoenix.com

A-League Men fixture update

The Wellington Phoenix’s home game against Adelaide United has been pushed back a week.
wellingtonphoenix.com wellingtonphoenix.com
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There is a hilarious irony in not starting the season until midway through October to have “clean air” (whatever that means in today’s sporting landscape), only to then have to postpone a Round 1 game because our actual sport doesn’t allow us to have the clean air anyway.

Brisbane being annoyed that they can’t start their season in the first week is completely fair. It’s clearly not ideal for everyone involved.

However, the whinge about “fixture congestion” that I’ve seen from some Brisbane staff on X is tinpot and pretty poor.

We’ll now go weekend-to-weekend until the November international window. Play the weekend after that window, then have a week off for this bizarre split-round thing (WTF is that?). Then it’s Sat/Tues (the rescheduled game)/Sat, followed by 11 days off before a Wednesday night game on 30 December.

After that, it’s back to weekend-to-weekend football until the season ends.

That is hardly some horrendous fixture schedule.

The fact that fixture congestion is already being raised publicly by club staff is probably the bigger concern. It feels like a mentality issue more than anything else.
 
Brenton1986 said:
www.smh.com.au

Australian soccer referees go on strike, throwing schedule into chaos

Australia’s top match officials have withdrawn their services amid a bitter dispute over a plan that could see them contracted directly by A-League clubs.
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Is FA fucked in the head or just plainly fucked in the head? If the FA can't see the potential for corruption then we may as well fold the sport up altogether. My first two questions would be is there any other credible federation using this strategy and secondly have they had an opinion from Sport Integrity Australia?
 
NR93 said:
There is a hilarious irony in not starting the season until midway through October to have “clean air” (whatever that means in today’s sporting landscape), only to then have to postpone a Round 1 game because our actual sport doesn’t allow us to have the clean air anyway.

Brisbane being annoyed that they can’t start their season in the first week is completely fair. It’s clearly not ideal for everyone involved.

However, the whinge about “fixture congestion” that I’ve seen from some Brisbane staff on X is tinpot and pretty poor.

We’ll now go weekend-to-weekend until the November international window. Play the weekend after that window, then have a week off for this bizarre split-round thing (WTF is that?). Then it’s Sat/Tues (the rescheduled game)/Sat, followed by 11 days off before a Wednesday night game on 30 December.

After that, it’s back to weekend-to-weekend football until the season ends.

That is hardly some horrendous fixture schedule.

The fact that fixture congestion is already being raised publicly by club staff is probably the bigger concern. It feels like a mentality issue more than anything else.
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The issue of fairness that I see is not about congestion, so much as saying a 3 day turnaround for Adelaide isn't fair after their ACL game and the 4 day turnaround we offered as a compromise by moving the game a day later still isn't fair on Adelaide - so they chose a date that gives us a 3 day turn around after our match away to Mariners then away to Adelaide before a 4 day turnaround to our match against Wanderers.

What logic can they possibly have that says a 3 or 4 day turnaround isn't fair on Adelaide after travel then gives us exactly that but in Summer too?

Although 'congestion' sounds like an exaggeration as you say, playing 3 games in 7 days can best be described as that.

Something is unbalanced in their decision making.
 
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