2016 Men's State League Competitions
- Capital League & Capital League Reserves (3pm & 1pm KO)
- Division 1 & Division 2 (3pm & 1pm KO)
- Division 3 & Division 4 (3pm & 1pm KO)
- Division 5 & Division 6 (3pm & 1pm KO)
- Division 7 & Division 8 (3pm & 1pm KO) *not restricted to 10 teams and not paired
- Division 9 (11am KO) *not restricted to 10 teams and not paired
- Division 10 (11am KO) *not restricted to 10 teams and not paired
Preference on teams being accepted into competitions will be based on paired nominations as well as 2015 ladder positioning. Teams will be moved up or down from team nominations as CF sees fit.
Divisions 7, 8, 9 and 10 do not need to be paired but allocations to a "home field" cannot be garunteed (home field to be moved to a field which can be paired with a team from a different club in a similar area to help woth referee allocations).
CF proposes that Division 7, 8, 9 and 10 are not paired due to oversubscription such as seen in 2015. This will allow lower level clubs to still play at their requested KO time and it will avoid the need to create a new division at the last moment, such as what happened in 2015 with the creation of the Gold Division. CF remains firm on the top 8 Divisions (CL - Division 6) to be paired, 10 team competitions. Under no circumstances will this be changing.
Although Division 7, 8, 9 and 10 will not be 10 team competitions, they will still play an 18 round season and wil play allocated teams at random. For example, if there are 12 teams in Division 7, and 14 teams in Division 8, both competitions will still only play 18 rounds event though they will not be able to play each team twice. CF is not in a position to do redraws during the season or play midweek fixtures. Regardless of the number of teams in the division, they will all play 18 rounds.
Season Dates
Round 1 - 2nd April
Round 2 - 9th April
Round 3 - 16th April
Round 4 - 23rd April (note ANZAC Day on Monday 25th April - games still to be played this weekend)
Round 5 - 30th April
Round 6 - 7th May
Round 7 - 14th May
Round 8 - 21st May
Round 9 - 28th May
Round 10 - 4th June
11th June fixture free weekend - Queen's Birthday on Monday 13th June
Round 11 - 18th June
Round 12 - 25th June
Round 13 - 2nd July
9th July fixture free weekend - Kanga Cup
Round 14 - 16th July
Round 15 - 23rd July
Round 16 - 30th July
Round 17 - 6th August
Round 18 - 13th August
Finals Format and Dates
Semi-Final - 20th August : 1v2 - winning team goes directly to the final with losing team to play in Preliminary Final / 3v4 - winning team to play in Preliminary Final with losing team eliminated
Preliminary Final - 27th August: losing team of 1v2 v winning team of 3v4
Grand Final - 3rd September
No Men's State League finals matches will be held at the AIS due to continued examples of poor spectator and team behaviour over a number of seasons, including smoking and drinking inside the venue and around the grounds after specific notifications that alcohol and smoking is not permitted.
Team nominations due Friday 19th February. Nominations will be sent to club delegates on 1st February 2016.
For more information on team nominations, please contact the State League Administrator - stateleague@capitalfootball.com.au / 6175 7110