It wouldn’t be a barrier at all. You’d just add the NZ national league to the NPL conference that sits below the championship. A-League Championship NPL (NSW, NNSW, ACT, VIC, TAS, QLD, SA, WA, NZ) with an NPL champions league for the winners of each NPL conference to playoff for Championship...

yes that the similar plan. Would be like state coefficient fc every year similar to how everyone hates Melb city but supports them as coefficient fc for Australia

Yes I agree with this. Hence why I wasn’t fond of rebellious feminists idea of only having promotion from NPL if a club from the same state is relegated from the championship. Can’t be blocking clubs from moving up just because a club from their state wasn’t relegated above them

That’s all well and good. It’s not to enable pro/rel. it’s just to divide the 16 promotion playoff slots from the NPL. Pro/rel is automatically enabled but How would you propose 10 NPL level leagues fighting over 16 NPL promotion playoff slots ? Coefficients every 5 years ? 3 years ? 2 years ...

Yes, but below serie C ? I don’t really see serie C as regional, I’d say it’s more of a conference of clubs that merge 3 leagues.

Yes correct. It’s also the same way the Italian leagues and other leagues do it when splitting into regional leagues.

Tbh, personally that’s the only part of your system that I don’t like at all. Everything else is good. Why have a needless intermediary league (3rd league)? Why block clubs from promotion because club from their state hasn’t been relegated from the championship? It’s just a needless roadblock...

Yeah that was my idea. So for the states that have 2 slots. Their coefficient points are split between their 2 teams, similar to how the AFC splits coefficients for multiple teams from the same country. Example. If you get 1.5 points for a win, and there are 2 teams from your state, you’d...

So basically the ONLY way that a team can be promoted from NPL into championship would be if a club from that same state is relegated from the championship? So you’d essentially lock out states from promotion into the championship for multiple years as they would need to wait for a team from...

They get relegated to their state league. If the 2 promoted teams come from a different state, then the state league the relegated club goes to would have an extra relegation. Example. Sydney United relegated from Championship, but a VIC Team + SA team are promoted. You’d just have NPL NSW...

IMO 3 relegation spots for the a-league might be a bit too much. I think 1.5 is the sweet spot. Maybe 2.5 max. Depends on the quality of the championship clubs and how well they do in the a-league after promotion. You’d want to preserve the integrity and the quality of the a-league as much as...

I like this, but could just have a NZ cup similar to Aus Cup where the winner qualifies for Champions league. I think Lichtenstein have the same system in Europe where their European place is done through their national cup

Honestly, love the discussions here. I posted my version for P/R and fill pyramid last year in this forum and I might be bias, but I honestly believe it’s the best setup or atleast better than what football 360 is suggesting. The only way I see Australian football progressing long term is by...

This has nothing to do with other codes. Plenty of football nations have done this in the past. I understand it probably isn’t a good idea, was just a wild thought and idea that came to mind. But don’t rush to judge about this being like other codes when all examples I used was from actual...

England use to have North vs South Started: Late 19th century (first match in 1894). Format: Players from northern clubs vs players from southern clubs. Purpose: Selection trial for the England national team. Example: The FA ran these matches up until the 1950s. They were treated as serious...

I wasn’t really portraying it as a gimmick per say. Was more to increase representative football exposure to those just underneath national team level.

Wild idea, don’t really know if there is appetite for it. But I was thinking it would be cool if we had some kind of state of origin type tournament that runs every year played through international breaks. Would give more football to watch during international breaks when there are no A-league...

2nd tier - H/A season aligned with either A-League or NPL. 3rd tier - NPL champions league (top 2 each state + last two placed clubs in 2nd division)

My bad, I saw a comment someone said about crowds being a metric for replacing WU licence with an NPL team and I felt the need to respond ahaha

This is my point. Not every club needs to play out of a state of the art stadium. And a lot of these NPL clubs would be more profitable with 2-3k crowds compared to Brisbane roar getting 8-10k crowds.