The Latest Breaking News from Australia Cup

Defending A-League Men champions Western United have started their new season in strong fashion, knocking Melbourne Victory out of the Australia Cup.

"They have been with us for three weeks and it is clearly a very different way of playing. They will get better."

"It's really disappointing that a guy misses a big cup game off a poor decision."

"We take the cup competition very seriously. You have to win five games and there is a trophy at the end of it."

Broadmeadow coach Damian Zane says it will take a team effort in defence on Wednesday night to do what most sides have failed to accomplish this season - stop Maitland's dynamic duo of Braedyn Crowley and James Thompson.

In a week of much footballing news, this is surely the one that resonates most remarkably with Australian football fans? Ange Postecoglou does what he does best, in a season that started as a rebuild and finished with glory, and claimed a fourth championship with, from memory, only his fifth…

Newcastle edged out Perth and moved into the main draw of the Australia Cup with a 3-1 victory at McDonald Jones Stadium on Thursday night.

Brisbane Roar coach Warren Moon says the decision to hold playoffs for the Australia Cup so soon after the end of a gruelling ALM season needs to be looked at.

"It is a competition we want to go as far as we can in. I feel like we haven't really had a successful cup run yet."