2008 Victorian Premier League

Victorian Premier League
Season 2008
Champions Altona Magic
Premiers Green Gully
Matches played 189
Goals scored 494 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer Pablo Cardozo
(21 goals)
← 2007
2009

The 2008 Victorian Premier League (also known as the 2008 Foxtel Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 97th season of top-tier football in Victoria. It began on 15 February 2008 and ended on 21 September 2008. Preston Lions was the defending champion.

Teams

Team Home city Home ground
Altona Magic Altona North Paisley Park Soccer Complex
Australian Institute of Sport Canberra Australian Institute of Sport
Coburg United Coburg Knights Stadium
Fawkner Blues Fawkner C.B. Smith Reserve
Frankston Pines Frankston North Monterey Reserve
Green Gully Melbourne Green Gully Reserve
Heidelberg United Heidelberg Olympic Village
Melbourne Knights Melbourne Knights Stadium
Oakleigh Cannons Oakleigh Jack Edwards Reserve
Preston Lions Preston B.T. Connor Reserve
Richmond Richmond Kevin Bartlett Reserve
South Melbourne South Melbourne Lakeside Stadium
Western Suburbs Sunshine Ralph Reserve
Whittlesea Zebras Whittlesea Epping Stadium

Standings

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Green Gully 26 15 8 3 41 17+24 53 2008 Victorian Premier League finals series
2 Melbourne Knights 26 14 10 2 47 25+22 52
3 Altona Magic 26 13 8 5 44 29+15 47
4 Heidelberg United 26 11 9 6 41 30+11 42
5 Richmond 26 11 7 8 57 35+22 40
6 Preston Lions 26 12 3 11 37 469 39
7 Oakleigh Cannons 26 10 7 9 28 24+4 37
8 Australian Institute of Sport 26 10 6 10 41 35+6 36
9 South Melbourne 26 10 4 12 35 32+3 34
10 Hume City 26 9 4 13 29 4011 31
11 Whittlesea Zebras 26 7 9 10 31 332 30
12 Western Suburbs 26 5 7 14 23 4219 22
13 Fawkner Blues 26 6 3 17 22 5937 21
14 Frankston Pines 26 4 5 17 19 4829 17

Finals series

Top goalscorers

Pos Player Club Goals
1 Australia Pablo Cardozo Richmond 21
2 Australia Andrew Barisic Melbourne Knights 18
3 Australia Michael Curcija Altona Magic 16
4 Australia Joel Nikolic Green Gully 12
Australia Jason Naidovski AIS 12
6 Australia Richard Cardozo Richmond 10
Australia Frankie Lagana Oakleigh Cannons 10
Australia Johnny Sapazovski Preston Lions 10
9 Australia Kofi Danning AIS 9
Australia Fernando de Moraes South Melbourne 9
England Graham Hockless Heidelberg United 9
Australia Jerry Karpeh Whittlesea Zebras 9
Australia Mark Tsiorlas Heidelberg United 9

References

External links

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