2011 Victorian Premier League

Victorian Premier League
Season2011
ChampionsGreen Gully
PremiersGreen Gully
RelegatedSpringvale White Eagles
St Albans Saints
2010
2012

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. 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

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Promotion and relegation

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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

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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Green Gully (C) 24 13 4 7 51 23 +28 43 VPL 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 40[a]
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 34 0 36
9 Dandenong Thunder 24 12 5 7 43 29 +14 35[b]
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
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions
Notes:
  1. ^ Heidelberg Utd was given a 3-point deduction arising from their Round 3 match against Hume City.
  2. ^ South Melbourne lost 6 points as a result their Round 9 fixture against Bentleigh Greens.

Finals

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Finals Week 1

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14 Aug 2011 Elimination Final South Melbourne FC 1–0 Heidelberg United SS Anderson Reserve, Port Melbourne
3:00PM Krnčević 66' (pen.)
Petrovic Yellow card 39' Red card
Report Armenian Yellow card 16'
14 Aug 2011 Qualifying Final Oakleigh Cannons 3–4 Hume City FC Jack Edwards Reserve, Oakleigh
6:45PM Diaco 34', ?' (pen.)
Lagana 40'
Report Cardozo 47'
Own Goal 52'
Ofli 88', 89'
Vlahos Yellow card
Referee: Shaun Evans

Finals Week 2

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Finals Week 3

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27 Aug 2011 Preliminary Final Hume City FC 0–0 (a.e.t.)
(2–4 p)
Oakleigh Cannons SS Anderson Reserve, Port Melbourne
7:00PM Riccobene Yellow card
Bozinovski Yellow card 35'
Cardozo Yellow card 107'
Gurkan Yellow card
Report Drakos Yellow card 45'
Groenewald Yellow card 51'
Penalties

Grand Final

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Top goalscorers

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "ResultsVault Football: Ladders". Football.resultsvault.com. Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
  2. ^ "Victoria Premier League 2011 – Kinds of goals". Socceraust.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-09-04.