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The Football Federation Australia Cup, commonly known as the FFA Cup, is the main national football knockout cup competition in Australia. The annual competition is organised by and named after Football Federation Australia. It features all the teams from the top division of the A-League as well as from lower tiers in the Australian league system, including from the National Premier Leagues and other state based leagues. Teams enter the competition in progressional stages, with qualifying rounds used to determine which lower division teams eventually join those from the A-League in later stages of the cup. It is currently sponsored by the Westfield Group and thus officially known as the Westfield FFA Cup. The cup's inaugural season, took place in 2014 and determined the first FFA Cup Champion. Discussions are required to ascertain whether champions from future editions of the competition will gain qualification into the continental competition, the Asian Football Confederation Champions League.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.foxsports.com.au//football/football-federation-australia-reveals-new-ffa-cup-competition-and-trophy/story-e6frf423-1226835769489 )〕 ==History== Australia has a long history of regional and state-based knockout cup competitions. However, a sustainable national knockout cup competition that encompassed clubs on all levels of Australian league system has been hard to realise. Prior to the FFA Cup, the first and only Australian national knockout tournament was the Australia Cup. The Australia Cup was founded in 1962 but was abolished in 1968 after just seven seasons of competition. In 1977 a knockout competition was founded to run in parallel with the now defunct National Soccer League (NSL). The NSL Cup involved Australian association football clubs competing in the then top-flight NSL and limited clubs from state based competitions. The NSL Cup ceased after the 1996-97 tournament. An A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup competition ran between 2005-2008 but involved only the teams from the A-League and was not a traditional knockout format.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FFA Cup a new old tradition )〕 The FFA Cup was previously scheduled to commence in 2013, though after suffering numerous delays due to FFA's 2012 television coverage deal and rising cost concerns the competition was put on hold.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/Live-Chat-with-Lyall-Recap/47176 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/football/ffa-cup-on-hold-due-to-cost-concerns/story-e6frfg8x-1226445167381 )〕 On 29 August 2013, it was announced that a national FFA Cup would commence in 2014, after what would be two years of organising the knock out competition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/ffa-cup-set-for-2014-kick-off/73770 )〕 On 14 October 2013, FFA announced that it had appointed Sam Chadwick as General Manager of the FFA Cup.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/Football-Federation-Australia-appoints-FFA-Cup-General-Manager/77181 )〕 On 24 February 2014, the FFA Cup was formally launched by David Gallop. The first ever member federation club to qualify for the FFA Cup was Tuggeranong United from the Australian Capital Territory. Tuggeranong United qualified for the 2014 FFA Cup as the winners of the 2013 ACT Federation Cup.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/sport/soccer/tuggeranong-united-gets-nod-for-ffa-cup-20140223-33apy.html )〕 The first games in the tournament proper occurred on 29 July 2014, with four games from the Round of 32 played concurrently. In 2014 former three time NSL Champions Adelaide City became the first semi-professional state-league club to defeat a professional A-League club, defeating Western Sydney Wanderers 1–0. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「FFA Cup」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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