Canberra and Auckland have been named as the Australian Professional Leagues’ ‘preferred markets’ as the A-Leagues look to expand for the 2024-25 season
Pair beat 11 other contenders to win ‘preferred market’ statusCanberra and Auckland are the A-Leagues’ preferred markets for their next round of expansion ahead of the 2024-25 season.
Canberra’s bid will again be led by Michael Caggiano, who’s remained in discussion with the governing bodies after Football Australia knocked back his bid in 2018 in favour of Macarthur and Western United. “The stadium, training facilities, engagement with the local community … corporate support from the ACT, government support … those rocks … need to be in the jar and we need to have a collective group of people to invest in that jar,” he said.
It is not Auckland’s first A-League experience, having hosted the New Zealand Knights for the competition’s first two seasons before they had their licence revoked in 2007. Gaggiano said expanding through the APL process rather than via FA was “totally different”, adding a Canberra-based team was a matter of “not if, but when and with whom”.
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