2014 FFA Cup Final

Event

2014 FFA Cup

Adelaide United	Perth Glory

1	0

Date

16 December 2014

Venue

Coopers Stadium, Adelaide

Attendance

16,142

Weather

Partly cloudy
19 °C (66 °F)

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The 2014 FFA Cup Final was the 1st final of the premier association football knockout cup competition in Australia. The match was an all A-League affair, contested between Adelaide United and Perth Glory at Coopers Stadium on 16 December 2014. Although future editions of the tournament will involve the Cup final being played late in the Australian summer, this season's final was brought forward in order to avoid a clash with the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, which was hosted by Australia. Adelaide United were the inaugural champions, winning 1–0 with Sergio Cirio scoring the lone goal of the match shortly after Joshua Risdon was sent off for a second bookable offence, reducing Perth to 10 men.

On 12 November 2014, Coopers Stadium (home of Adelaide United), was announced as the venue of the 2014 final by Football Federation Australia following the completion of the season's cup semi-final matches. The venue was chosen in preference to Perth Glory's home ground of nib Stadium. Discussing the choice of venue Perth Glory Chief Executive Jason Brewer commented "It wasn't going to be played in Perth for any number of reasons at the FFA's discretions", adding "I think Western Australian and Perth football fans have been fairly hard done by".

The home ground of Adelaide United since 2003, the stadium holds a capacity crowd of 17,000 which makes it the smallest capacity of any full-time A-League venue. It was first opened in 1960 and it hosted its first National Soccer League match on 11 April 1977. The venue has formerly been home to both Adelaide City and West Adelaide and in 2000, the ground underwent a full redevelopment at the cost of $27 million in order to host matches of the 2000 Olympic football tournament.

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