1962 Australia Cup

1962 Australia Cup
Tournament details
CountryAustralia
Dates2 November – 9 December 1962
Teams16
Final positions
ChampionsYugal (1st title)
Runner-upSt George-Budapest
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored67 (4.19 per match)
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The 1962 Australia Cup was the first season of the Australia Cup, which was the main national association football knockout cup competition in Australia. 16 teams from around Australia entered the competition.[1] The competition consisted of four clubs from Victoria and Sydney's competition, three from Queensland and South Australia and two from Northern New South Wales. The winner of the Australia Cup received £5,000.[1]

The inaugural season of the Cup was won by Yugal who defeated St George Budapest 8–1 at Wentworth Park in the final. The third place playoff, between Juventus (now Brunswick Zebras from Melbourne) and Juventus (now Adelaide City), was won by the South Australian team on penalty kicks.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b Australia and its Cups: Then and Now. Roy Hay, The Leopold Method, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 2014, pp. 4–20. 25 November 2014. ISBN 9781921134470. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  2. ^ "The Australia Cup". goalweekly.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  3. ^ Andrew Robinson (8 June 2016). "Australia Cup 1962 – Results".