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The NAB Cup is the pre-season/night series Australian rules football competition of the Australian Football League, sponsored by National Australia Bank. It is run for four weeks before the start of the regular premiership season, involving all sixteen clubs in a knockout competition with the Grand Final played at night. Image File history File links NABcup_logo_colour. ...
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The National Australia Bank (ASX: NAB, NYSE: NAB, TYO: 8637 ) colloquially the National or the NAB, together with the Commonwealth Bank are the two largest banks in Australia. ...
A Grand Final is the culmination of a series of final matches played between a number of sporting teams to decide the premier team. ...
History
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Naming Rights The cup was known as the Foster's Cup until 1995, and Ansett Australia won the rights to own the Cup. Wizard Home Loans owned the naming rights to the event from 2002 (when Ansett Australia folded) through 2005. The event was known formally as the Wizard Home Loans Cup, and popularly as the Wizard Cup. National Australia Bank took over naming rights for the tournament for 2006 through 2010, renaming it The NAB Cup. National is a brand used by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. ...
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Ansett aircraft at Melbourne Airport after the airlines collapse in 2001 Ansett Australia, or Ansett, was a dominant Australian domestic and international airline, which is in liquidation as of mid_2004. ...
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Competition The competition was run from 1956 to 1971 as the Night Premiership at the Lake Oval, Albert Park, then the home ground of South Melbourne. It wasn't played between 1972 and 1976, before being revived in 1977 at Waverley Park. Up until 1988, the competition was played during the middle of the year, and often involved interstate teams as well as those from the then VFL. The Lake Oval is a football stadium used primarily for Australian rules football. ...
Albert Park is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
The Sydney Swans are an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Sydney, New South Wales. ...
Waverley Park (formerly VFL Park and then AFL Park) was an often controversial football stadium in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
VFL/AFL is the term used to refer to the competition established in 1897, which was originally known as the Victorian Football League. ...
Since 1988, it has been run before the regular season as a series of warmup matches, usually in a knockout format.
Prize Money In 2006, $A220,000 will be awarded to the winning club (by comparison, the prizemoney for the winner of the AFL Grand Final in 2005 was only nominally larger at $250,000). Smaller amounts are awarded to clubs based on participation and progression through the competition. The Australian dollar (currency code AUD) has been, since 1966, the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including the Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu. ...
The AFL Grand Final is the annual Australian Rules Football match held to determine the Australian Football League premiers for that year. ...
Runner-up: $110,000
Losing semi-finalists: $55,000
Week 2 losers: $27,000
Week 1 losers: $16,500
Total prize money on offer: $682,000
Attendances Although many clubs and coaches (especially the wealthier clubs) do not take the pre-season competition seriously and use the competition as a chance to test young and inexperienced players, the NAB Cup format has proven quite popular with spectators. The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed The Crows, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League, based in Adelaide, South Australia. ...
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Regional Challenge Since 2003, the AFL has run a series of pre-season practice matches called the Regional Challenge for clubs that are eliminated from the NAB Cup. The dual aim of the series is to bring the game to fans in remote areas and to provide the eliminated teams with match fitness. Although the games are informal and there is no actual winner or prize, they have attracted a large amount of interest in regional areas and grown in popularity.
In 2005, Regional Challenge matches were played at venues such as: Port Lincoln, South Australia; Joondalup, Western Australia; Carrara, Queensland; Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Lavington and Newcastle in New South Wales and Bendigo and Morwell in Victoria. Railway Station Location of Port Lincoln in South Australia (red) Port Lincoln is a town at the southern extremity of the Eyre Peninsula, which is a wheat growing area of South Australia. ...
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Joondalup is a suburban centre 26 km north of Perths centre, and a Local Government Area of Western Australia. ...
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Carrara is a suburb of the Gold Coast, Australia. ...
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Alice Springs on a large scale map Alice Springs is a large town in the Northern Territory of Australia located at 23°42′S 133°52′E. Its population of 28,178 (2001 Census) makes it the second-largest settlement in the Territory (the only other towns of significant size...
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A view of Newcastle from Stockton Newcastle is Australias sixth largest city and the second largest in the state of New South Wales. ...
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In 2005, the total Regional Challenge attendance was 117,552 up from 87,000 in 2004 and 76,000 in 2003.
The Regional Challenge in 2006 includes regional centres such as Cairns in the northern Queensland, Shepparton in northern Victoria & Mandurah In Western Australia. A match was also played in Mildura as a memorial game for the teenagers that died in a Mildura road accident. Cairns () is a regional city and Local Government Area located in Queensland, Australia. ...
Location of Shepparton in Victoria (red) Shepparton is a country town located in Victoria, Australia. ...
Mandurah (32°31′S 115°43′E) is a satellite city 50 minutes (72 km) south of Perth, Western Australia. ...
Mildura is a locality in northwestern Victoria, Australia. ...
New Rule Trials The pre-season competition has been a place where the AFL has trialled new rules. The NAB Cup has the intentions of being modern and promoting a fast-paced pre-season competition. Such rules have included: - No requirement to wait upon the goal umpires before playing on, a rule will be used in regular play from 2006.
- Extra players on the interchange bench.
- Nine points for a goal kicked from outside of the 50 metre arc, known as a Super Goal.
- A larger centre circle.
- Umpires coming in 10m from the boundary line to throw in the ball.
- Play on if the ball hits the goal post and bounces back into the field of play.
- For a player kicking it backwards, except when that kick takes place within the attacking team's forward 50m, there can be no mark to a team-mate of that player and the umpire simply calls `Play On'
Interchange is the term used to describe a team position in Australian rules football, also often known as the bench. Players named on the interchange bench are not permitted to enter the field of play unless substituting for a player during the game. ...
A Super Goal is an innovation used in the Australian Football Leagues pre-season competition in the sport of Australian rules football. ...
See also This page is a chronological listing of the winners of the Australian Football League night premiership competition, now known as the NAB Cup. ...
Since 1992, the Michael Tuck Medal has been awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the AFL pre-season grand final. ...
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