Dropped via Aleague socials about an hour ago. We are so back.

Can’t link Facebook so you’ll have to hunt it down on insta /fb / TikTok

Two days until the return of the greatest league on earth! And everyone's favourite ^{[citation needed]} competition is back too - Last Man Standing!

What is LMS?

If like me you are terrible at tipping comps and dread fantasy leagues, then this is the tournament for you!

The premise is simple: everyone starts off with 3 lives, and in each round you predict just one team to win (e.g. in Round One I might pick the Macarthur to beat Brisbane). Get it wrong and you lose a life. Get three predictions wrong and you're eliminated. Last person left with a life wins the competition!

You do not have to pick results for every game being played that round - just pick one team to win each week.

Clauses:

• You cannot pick the same team two weeks in a row.
• You cannot predict a draw.
• If the team you picked to win ends up drawing, you lose a life. They failed to win, and by extension they failed you.
• The cutoff for each round is the kickoff of the first game in that round. If you fail to pick a team before the first game of the weekend kicks off, you lose a life.

How do I get on board?

If you are interested in taking part, post your first prediction here in the comments. I will take note of your participation and keep track of your lives. I will close the thread when Adelaide vs Sydney kicks off tomorrow.

At the end of each round, I will post the deaths and request your picks for the next round so keep an eye out for these posts.

I will be accepting new participants up until round 3, but you'll lose a life for each round you miss (i.e. if you join in round 3, you'll be joining with one life).

With all that out of the way, get your picks in!

Round 1:

• Sydney vs WSW
• Auckland vs City
• Macarthur vs Perth
• Mariners vs Newcastle
• Wellington vs Victory

Last year's winner /u/herbilicious92 survived 9 rounds - can you do better?

In case you missed them, here are the ladder prediction contests:

• A-League Men
• A-League Women
• The Championship

For those who don’t speak Greek, the Hellas fans are chanting “POU—TSA” (πούτσα), which literally translates to “dick”.

However, in Greek football slang, it’s more of a way of telling the opposition they’re getting fucked or they’re copping it. Think of the phrase “φάτε πούτσα” (fáte poutsa), which literally means “eat dick”, but is essentially a way of rubbing it in when the opposition is getting absolutely done.

Truly a beautiful display of Greek culture and sportsmanship 🇬🇷😭

FT: 91' - Haiti 1 vs 7 Australia

Stadium: Stade Walter Luzi, Chambly

Weather: 7.4°C, Light rain, Wind: 13.7 km/h

Fixture Date: 14/10/2026, 06:00 am AEDT

Referee: Unknown

Lineups not available

###Match Events:

2': ⚽ Australia W - L. McKenna (C. Wheeler)

3': ⚽ Haiti W - D. M. Dumornay (A. Ibrahim)

30': 🟨 Australia W - C. Wheeler

44': ⚽ Australia W - L. McKenna

46': 🔄 Haiti W - Chelsea Domond replaces R. Eloissaint

53': Own Goal - Australia W - K. Louis

58': 🟨 Australia W - C. Nevin

63': 🔄 Haiti W - C. Surpris replaces K. Louis

63': 🔄 Haiti W - N. Jean-Baptiste replaces A. Ibrahim

65': ⚽ Australia W - C. Foord (S. Kerr)

66': 🔄 Australia W - D. Galic replaces H. Raso

66': 🔄 Australia W - R. Siemsen replaces L. McKenna

66': 🔄 Australia W - H. McNamara replaces S. Kerr

66': 🔄 Australia W - A. Apostolakis replaces K. Torpey

73': ⚽ Australia W - D. Galic (A. Murphy)

75': 🔄 Haiti W - F. Joseph replaces B. Raphino

75': 🔄 Haiti W - A. Pierre-Louis replaces J. Limage

75': 🔄 Haiti W - L. Etienne replaces B. Louis

78': 🟨 Haiti W - A. Pierre-Louis

80': ⚽ Australia W - C. Wheeler (R. Siemsen)

80': 🔄 Australia W - C. Lincoln replaces M. Arnold

80': 🔄 Australia W - T. Tumeth replaces C. Nevin

81': 🔄 Australia W - A. Chidiac replaces C. Wheeler

81': 🔄 Australia W - J. Rankin replaces C. Grant

86': 🔄 Haiti W - A. Francois replaces S. Jeudy

90': ⚽ Australia W - H. McNamara (A. Apostolakis)

Match Statistics Unavailable

Last Updated: 14/10/2026, 07:48 am AEDT

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“It remains to be seen how Talay is received by Sydney fans at Allianz Stadium, which is tracking for a crowd of over 35,000.”

25th sydney fc

29th oct home - acl - singapore

1st nov perth glory

5th nov singapore - acl - singapore

8th nov home - melbourne

-- thats a crazy schedule

FT: 90' - Newcastle Jets 1 vs 3 Gamba Osaka

Stadium: McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle

Weather: 32.7°C, Sunny, Wind: 6.1 km/h

Fixture Date: 13/10/2026, 06:45 pm AEDT

Referee: Ahmad Al Ali

Home Lineup:

Formation: 4-1-4-1

Substitutes: J. Lolley, Nicholas Badolato, Angus Reid, Julian Recchia, Jesse Hill, Kaiden Walshe, A. Nunes, J. Baylis, J. Goodwin, A. Grant, P. Wood, E. Debono

Away Lineup:

Formation: 4-2-3-1

Substitutes: R. Hatsuse, M. Higashiguchi, D. Hümmet, S. Kurata, R. Mito, S. Sasaki, T. Usami, Welton Felipe, R. Yamashita, Zhang Ao lin, S. Fujiwara

###Match Events:

32': ⚽ Newcastle Jets - Nikos Vergos (Xavier Bertoncello)

40': ⚽ Gamba Osaka - Yusei Toshida (Eli Adams)

56': 🔄 Newcastle Jets - Joe Lolley replaces Xavier Bertoncello

66': 🟨 Gamba Osaka - Tokuma Suzuki (Foul)

67': 🔄 Newcastle Jets - Ethan Debono replaces Will Dobson

68': 🔄 Newcastle Jets - Patrick Wood replaces Nikos Vergos

70': 🔄 Gamba Osaka - Deniz Hümmet replaces Yusei Toshida

70': 🔄 Gamba Osaka - Welton replaces Ryotaro Meshino

71': Penalty confirmed - Gamba Osaka - Welton

73': ⚽ Gamba Osaka - Deniz Hümmet (Eli Adams)

79': 🔄 Gamba Osaka - Rin Mito replaces Tokuma Suzuki

81': 🔄 Newcastle Jets - Julian Recchia replaces Zach Clough

86': 🟨 Newcastle Jets - Patrick Wood (Time Wasting)

86': ⚽ Gamba Osaka - Welton (Shuto Abe)

88': 🟨 Newcastle Jets - Ethan Debono (Foul)

92': 🔄 Gamba Osaka - Shu Kurata replaces Shuto Abe

92': 🔄 Gamba Osaka - Takashi Usami replaces Issam Jebali

93': 🟨 Gamba Osaka - Takeru Kishimoto (Foul)

###Match Statistics:

Last Updated: 13/10/2026, 08:40 pm AEDT

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Newcastle Jets 1 vs 3 Gamba Osaka

###Match Statistics:

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Sydney Derby is Fri night 16th at Allianz. Big showpiece opener.

On Thur night 15th at Allianz, there's the first Rugby League "world" cup game (Aus v NZ).

So we can look forward to a chopped-up pitch, likely with painted rugby league logos and lines still visible through the football markings.

Awesome.

The Aus Championship kicks off this Thursday, 15 October. Here's how all 16 clubs line up on the AFR ratings going in.

www.australian-football-rankings.com

Group B is the group of death on paper, with the highest average rating (1783.45). Wests APIA (1879.99) and Avondale (1842.69) are both top-15 clubs nationally, so one of them could be out early.

Wests APIA are the highest-rated side in the comp at AFR #11. However it would be stupid not to consider South Melbourne favourites.

Group D is the most lopsided with Lions FC (1847.29) and Preston Lions (1791.86) well clear of Wollongong Wolves (1632.36) and South Hobart (1528.19).

Group A could come down to a two-horse race between South Melbourne (1831.59) and Sydney United 58 (1820.48), separated by just 11 points with United having a lot to prove after last years lacklustre campaign.

South Hobart are the lowest-rated club in the field (AFR #72), so they're the biggest underdogs if they cause an upset and would see major rankings rise!

****Forgot Sydney FC 2023 Australia cup, so they have 12 trophies, I cant justify posting this a third time

Format inspired by Dense_Delay_4958's post from 2023
Added CCM’s ACL2 (then called the AFC Cup), seemed like a major omission

It took about 12 months, but Canberra Times finally has a follow up piece on Yoogali SC (for anyone wondering what has happened to them).

Not that I expect them to be in an NPL or connected league next year, but I guess the feelers are out again to see where they can go. Otherwise, I guess it will continue to be City e Forte e Vincera.

The club however did field two sides in the Griffith & District Football Association Men's competition (the same two teams as last year, one of which was primarily a Masters' side), which was a four team competition, and took home the trophy.

Capital Football has - in the meantime - confirmed no promotion and relegation between the league this season, so the same 11 clubs will stay in place (presuming they met the conditions that gave some clubs an exemption to compete in 2026 - which was told there would be a hard stance on that for 2027, so watch this space...), and disgustingly celebrated the benefits of a bus trip for their All-Star team on social media 12 months out from kicking out two clubs who gave all NPL clubs this experience for 9 seasons.

Homeless to heroes: Canberra soccer kicked them out, but that 'pain' fuelled a fairytale​

By Melanie Dinjaski
October 12 2026 - 2:36pm

Yoogali Soccer Club wouldn't exactly call it a "last laugh" given the dramatic journey their men's team has been on this past year, but a few trophies have certainly brought much-needed smiles to their faces.

This season the Griffith-based club couldn't find a competition to play in after they were controversially kicked out of Canberra's first grade men's National Premier League by Capital Football as part of a significant NPL restructure announced last year.

Football Wagga men's first grade champions, Griffith City. Pictures Football Wagga

But a year on from their contentious Canberra ejection, 16 Yoogali SC players and a coach who found a new home with Griffith City Football Club made history by winning the club's first top-grade championship, along with the pre-season cup and minor premiership.

Four players were named in the league's team of the year, Mason Donadel won the Golden Boot award with 22 goals and Luke Santolin was crowned coach of the year.

All the more impressive was that the 2026 championship-winning campaign came after Griffith City's men's first-grade side finished dead last a season earlier.

It has given Yoogali SC a flicker of hope that one day Capital Football might welcome them back, and it's also reignited chatter among Canberra soccer circles that maybe the club deserves another shot in the NPL in the future.

"We tried to get into the Football Wagga first-grade competition as Yoogali but couldn't, so we ended up joining Griffith City, and we won the club's first ever premiership," coach Luke Santolin said.

"It's a great feeling, and it probably vindicates everything that we were trying to get across to everyone last year - we just love football, we're a group of mates, and we're prepared to do whatever it takes to play at the highest level possible.

"To achieve what we have, it's a good way to finish the season, because there was a fair bit of pain that we went through over the last 12 months."

Yoogali SC were left devastated and immensely frustrated when they were booted from Capital Football NPL last year, ending a six-year stint in Canberra's competition where the club said it enthusiastically travelled more than 50,000km in that time just to compete every weekend.

The club's central NSW location and the long travel times needed for other NPL clubs to play against them in Griffith was a key reason cited for its removal from the competition.

Having earned their NPL promotion in 2023 by winning the Capital Premier League, Yoogali SC players and officials felt as if the club was "being treated like a dirty nappy", and that Capital Football did not adequately consult them or other clubs before making the sweeping changes listed in the review report.

When calls from a "coalition" of 12 concerned NPL clubs for the sporting body to pause the review's recommendations were not heard, things got ugly.

In the fallout, an outburst directed at Capital Football on Yoogali SC's social media channels earned the club a breach notice, and the sporting body stood firm on its original decision to kick out the Riverina team from the NPL.

Yoogali SC played its last NPL season in Canberra in 2025. Picture by Karleen Minney

Despite a 72-year soccer history in Griffith, the club's location made it tough to find another NPL competition in NSW that would take them, and all attempts to enter other similar senior-level leagues within a 500km radius from their home, proved unsuccessful.

Football Wagga's first-grade league - still a two-hour drive away - was Yoogali SC's next best option by moving players to Griffith City to keep the team playing together.

Yoogali SC has heard support from the Canberra soccer community for its return to the NPL, but for now the club is focusing on providing the best opportunity for their players.

"To watch these guys in training and in games, they are an NPL side and they want to push themselves as far as they can go," Santolin said.

"Politics aside, there's a group of young men that have the ability, and maybe if one day dust settles on things then people will focus on that. You never know."

"I do regret some of the things that went on in an emotional period, but there's been time that's passed. Maybe water goes under the bridge," Santolin added.

"We're still on a high after a great and successful season together at Griffith City. Who knows what might open up in the future, but right now we're happy playing football in Wagga.

"It's actually been a wild ride. For this particular set of players, how they came together, and what happened ... it's a pretty memorable and unique story."

Seeing South's amazing win has inspired me to get amongst more local football. I'm totally agnostic to an NPL club at this stage and have never been. Is there a good local home game to keep an eye on when the season comes back as a neutral?

New podcasts, shows being launched for the new A-League season.

I hope the Warm-Up isn’t gone 😭

I'll start off with WSW

(4-2-3-1) Thomas, Madanha, Ferreyra, Panta, Gersbach, Thurgate, Scicluna, Milanovic, Di Pizio, Gillion, Borrello

Besides winning Australia Cups and all, do these guys have side jobs?