A-League Women
The teenage guns following in the Matildas’ footsteps
The future of women’s soccer in Australia will be on show in Saturday’s A-League Women’s grand final between Melbourne City and Sydney FC, with girls’ participation numbers booming.
- by Marnie Vinall
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Perth Glory captain Natasha Rigby announces shock retirement
Perth Glory skipper Natasha Rigby has announced her shock retirement but she hopes the financial instability that cut her career short won’t be a problem for future generations.
- by Justin Chadwick
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Media & marketing
‘Embarrassing disaster’: A-Leagues narrowly avoid Easter TV blackout
A-Leagues organisers have signed a new broadcast deal two hours before the first match in the competition’s weekend fixtures kicks off, after its existing television production partner went bust.
- by Vince Rugari and Calum Jaspan
Analysis
Australian soccer
‘Age is just a number’: Michelle Heyman is your new Matildas star
Here’s everything you need to know about the Tillies’ 14-year overnight sensation, whose four-goal blitz against Uzbekistan has pushed her further towards a second Olympics appearance.
- by Vince Rugari
North London united: Matildas trio could join Ange’s homecoming trip
Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal could be playing on the same night at the same venue as part of a potential double-header involving both the men’s and women’s A-League All Stars.
- by Vince Rugari
After the ‘miss of the century’, it may be time to rethink ‘Peak A-League’
Sydney FC striker Patrick Wood’s nightmare miss has gone viral around the world. Yet it wasn’t even the craziest thing that happened in the A-Leagues on Saturday.
- by Vince Rugari
‘We’re a football business, not a media business’: A-Leagues bosses explain job cuts
Three weeks after the Australian Professional Leagues slashed almost half of its 80-odd workforce, new A-Leagues commissioner Nick Garcia and independent chair Stephen Conroy outlined the latest vision for the future.
- by Emma Kemp
Analysis
A-League Men
How the A-Leagues’ multimillion-dollar digital play blew up
It’s Australian soccer’s unanswerable question: how do you convert the millions of people who play the game at grassroots level, and watch European soccer obsessively, but don’t follow the A-Leagues?
- by Vince Rugari
Half of APL’s workforce to be made redundant amid A-League financial concerns
Around 50 per cent of staff at the Australian Professional Leagues, which runs the men’s and women’s domestic soccer competitions, have lost or will lose their jobs this week.
- by Vince Rugari
‘They don’t want to see me sad any more’: Why Alex Chidiac’s family is happy to see her back with the Victory
While many Matildas are making their names in the Women’s Super League overseas, Matildas midfielder Alex Chidiac knows the best version of herself, on and off the pitch, is back in Melbourne.
- by Marnie Vinall
Remotes at the ready: Watching sport will cost more in 2024
Sports viewers will not want to lose their remote controls in 2024 for there will be plenty to enjoy, but as the broadcast market continues to splinter, it will come at a cost.
- by Jon Pierik