2011 Victorian Premier League

Victorian Premier League
Season 2011
Champions Green Gully (Champions)
Green Gully (Premiers)
Premiers Green Gully
Relegated Springvale White Eagles
St Albans Saints
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The 2011 Victorian Premier League (known as the Alanic Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the ninety-ninth season of the Victorian Premier League since the first season in 1909 (1916-18 not played because of World War I). The home and away season began 15 February 2011 and concluded 7 August 2011. Green Gully were the defending champions.

The concept of a youth development squad was reintroduced in 2010 with the National Training Centre team playing in midweek fixtures throughout the season but not for competition points. In 2011 the team, mostly comprising players from the Melbourne Victory youth squad, was renamed Victorian Training Centre Football and was eligible to score competition points for its matches but ineligible to qualify for the finals series or be relegated.

Green Gully won the double, winning both the premiership and the Grand Final, defeating Oakleigh Cannons. Green Gully surpassed South Melbourne FC and Brunswick Juventus as the club with the most Victorian championships with nine in total.

Teams

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from Victorian State League Division 1:
(After the end of the 2010 season.)

Teams relegated to Victorian State League Division 1:
(After the end of the 2010 season.)

Regular season

The Victorian Premier League 2011 season was played over 22 rounds, concluding on the 7th of August 2011, followed by the final series.

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Green Gully 24 13 4 7 51 23+28 43 2011 Victorian Premier League Finals
2 Oakleigh Cannons 24 13 4 7 41 29+12 43
3 Hume City 24 12 6 6 48 32+16 42
4 South Melbourne 24 12 5 7 39 33+6 41
5 Heidelberg United 24 12 7 5 53 26+27 040*
6 Northcote City 24 11 6 7 61 37+24 39
7 Richmond 24 11 4 9 34 38−4 37
8 Bentleigh Greens 24 10 6 8 34 340 36
9 Dandenong Thunder 24 12 5 7 43 29+14 035*
10 Melbourne Knights 24 8 7 9 39 33+6 31
11 Springvale White Eagles 24 3 6 15 24 62−38 15 Relegation to Victorian State League Division 1
12 St Albans Saints 24 3 4 17 27 58−31 13
13 VTC Football 24 4 0 20 25 85−60 12

Updated to games played on Aug 7, 2011.
Source: [1]
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.

*Heidelberg Utd was given a 3 point deduction as a result of Tribunal Case TA11004, arising from their Round 3 match against Hume City. South Melbourne lost 6 points as a result of Tribunal Case TA11012 from their Round 9 fixture against Bentleigh Greens.

Finals

  Qualifying Finals Semi Final Preliminary Final Grand Final
                                     
1  Green Gully Cavaliers 3  
    A  Hume City FC 0         F  Green Gully Cavaliers 3
2  Oakleigh Cannons 3     D  Hume City FC 0 (3)   G  Oakleigh Cannons 2
3  Hume City FC 4       E  Oakleigh Cannons 0 (4)  
B  Oakleigh Cannons 1
4  South Melbourne FC 1   C  South Melbourne FC 0  
5  Heidelberg United 0

Finals Week 1

Finals Week 2

Finals Week 3

Grand Final

3 Sep 2011
4:00 PM
Green Gully Cavaliers 3 - 2 (a.e.t.) Oakleigh Cannons
Fleming  23'
Basma  52'  95'
Kerr
Sanders
Medjedovic 		Report Doyle  25'
Diaco  30'
Tavsancioglu
Lagana
Groenewald
Ontong

Top Goalscorers

Pos Player Club Goals[2] Penalties
1 Richard Cardozzo Hume City 19 1
2 Saso Aleksovski Heidelberg United 16 0
3 Trent Rixon Northcote City 15 2
4 Luke Sherbon Dandenong Thunder 14 2
5 Jason Hayne Green Gully 13 1
6 Osagie Ederaro Heidelberg United 12 1
7 James Kalifatidis Northcote City 11 0
8 Jacob Colosimo Melbourne Knights 10 1
Jesse Krncevic South Melbourne 10 0
Mathew J Sanders Green Gully 10 0
9 Michael Ferrante Richmond 8 2
Goran Zoric Springvale White Eagles 8 0

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ResultsVault Football: Ladders". Football.resultsvault.com. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
  2. ↑ "Victoria Premier League 2011 - Kinds of goals". Socceraust.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
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