2009 Waratah Cup

The 2009 Waratah Cup (known as the Tiger Turf Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 13th season of the Waratah Cup since its initial re-introduction in 1991, and the 29th season as the premier domestic cup competition in New South Wales since inauguration in 1957.

2009 Waratah Cup

Tiger Turf Cup
Tournament details
Country	Australia (NSW)
Defending champions	Bankstown City Lions
Final positions
Champions	Sutherland Sharks (1st title)
Runners-up	Manly United
Tournament statistics
Matches played	75
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The defending champions were National Premier Leagues NSW side Bankstown City Lions.

The champions were the Sutherland Sharks, defeating Manly United 2–1 in the final.

Teams

All senior member teams from Premier League, Super League, State League 1 and State League 2 as well as all local association teams were invited to the competition. The competition itself would be seeded with Association and State League 2 teams entering in Round 1, State League 1 and Super League teams entering in Round 2 and Premier League teams entering in Round 3.^[1] The champions were awarded $16,000 prize-money and the runners-up $6,000. All semi-finalists received $3,000.^[2]

Round	Clubs remaining	Clubs involved	Winners from previous round	New entries this round	Leagues entering at this round	Scheduled playing date
Preliminary Round	84	16	0	40	NSW State League Division 2 FNSW local Association teams	25 March[3]
Round 1	68	16	8	0	none	8 April[3]
Round 2	52	40	16	24	National Premier Leagues NSW 2 NSW State League Division 1	29 April[4]
Round 3	32	32	20	12	National Premier Leagues NSW	8 May
Round 4	16	16	16	0	none	9 June[5]
Quarter Finals	8	8	8	0	none	24 June[6]
Semi Finals	4	4	4	0	none	19 July[7]
Grand Final	2	2	2	0	none	16 August[7]

Preliminary Round

Due to the popularity of this year's edition, 48 teams from local Associations and NSW State League Division 2 entered the initial phase of the competition. This led to the creation of the Preliminary Round where 16 clubs were randomly chosen to play. 9 clubs were from the State League Division 2 and the other 7 were from local associations. The remaining 24 clubs would receive a bye into the first round.^[3] With the round set to kick-off on 25 March, only tie numbers 1–4 were played^[8] with the remaining matches rescheduled to the following week.^[9]

Tie no	Home team (Tier)	Score	Away team (Tier)
1	Baulkham Hills FC (-)	0–1	Camden Tigers (4)
2	Fairfield Bulls (4)	3–3	Toongabbie Junior (-)
Fairfield Bulls advance 4–2 on penalties.
3	Fairfield Hotspur (-)	4–0	Gazy Lansvale (4)
4	North Epping FC (-)	1–3	Gymea United (-)
5	Prospect United (4)	6–2	Ariana SC (-)
6	Luddenham United (4)	0–3	Hakoah (4)
7	Gladesville Ryde Magic (4)	–	Colo Colo Wanderers (4)
8	Hawkesbury (4)	0–2	Lokomotiv Cove (-)

Source: footballnsw.com.au^[8][9] and socceraust.co.uk^[10]

Round 1

A total of 32 teams competed, 8 having won in the preliminary round and 24 receiving a bye into the first round. Originally scheduled for 8 April,^[3] due to the postponement of matches in the preliminary round, most of the Round 1 matches instead began on the 15 April, with two matches played on the 22 April^[11] and a further three matches were also postponed due to poor pitch conditions.^[12]

Tie no Home team (Tier) Score Away team (Tier) 1 Kenthurst & District (-) 2–3 Camden Tigers (4) 2 Lokomotiv Cove (-) 3–0 Albion Park White Eagles (-) 3 Collaroy Cromer Sharks (-) 4–0 Colo Colo Wanderers (4) 4 Fairfield Hotspur (-) 3–1 Penang FC (4) 5 Kellyville (-) 5–0 Hurstville City Minotaurs (4) 6 Prospect United (4) 1–0 Sans Souci (-) 7 Riverstone Schofields (-) 1–4 Bathurst 75 (4) 8 Roosters FC (4) 5–1 Bankstown Sports (-)

Tie no Home team (Tier) Score Away team (Tier) 9 Seaforth FC (-) 0–2 Gymea United (-) 10 Eastwood St Andrews (-) 7–1 Dee Why (-) 11 Hakoah (4) 4–5 STFA Strikers (-) 12 White City (4) 0–4 Kogarah Waratah (-) 13 Yagoona Lions (-) 1–2 Port Kembla (-) 14 Marton FC 0–4 Springwood (4) 15 Fairfield Bulls (4) 0–2 Pacific Hills/Dural (-) 16 Brookvale (-) 4–0 Baktar Glory (-)

Source: footballnsw.com.au^[12][13] and socceraust.co.uk^[10]

Round 2

A total of 40 teams competed, 16 of which had progressed from Round 1 along with 24 clubs from the National Premier Leagues NSW 2 and NSW State League Division 1.^[4]

Tie no Home team (Tier) Score Away team (Tier) 1 Collaroy Cromer Sharks (-) 1–2 Inter Lions (3) 2 Fairfield Hotspur (-) 0–3 Camden Tigers (4) 3 Roosters FC (-) 1–0 Lokomotiv Cove (-) 4 Springwood (4) 2–1 Bathurst 75 (4) 5 PCYC Parramatta (2) 1–0 Stanmore Hawks (3) 6 Mt Druitt Town Rangers (2) 0–2 Dulwich Hill (3) 7 Fairfield City Lions (3) 0–3 Granville Rage (2) 8 St George FC (2) 4–0 Hurstville Zagreb (3) 9 Eastwood St Andrews (-) 0–5 Rockdale City Suns (2) 10 Balmain SC (3) 0–2 Northern Tigers (2)

Tie no Home team (Tier) Score Away team (Tier) 11 Macarthur Rams (2) 1–1 STFA Strikers (-) Macarthur Rams advanced 5–4 on penalties. 12 Sydney Wanderers (3) 3–0 FC Bossy Liverpool (2) 13 Mounties FC (3) 0–2 Gymea United (-) 14 Hills Brumbies (3) 0–4 Sydney University (2) 15 Schofield Scorpions (3) 3–4 Pacific Hills/Dural (-) 16 Blacktown Spartans (3) 0–3 Port Kembla (-) 17 Central Coast Lightning (2) 3–2 Brookvale SC (-) 18 Spirit FC (2) 4–0 University of NSW (3) 19 Fraser Park (2) 3–2 Kogarah Waratah (-) 20 Prospect United (4) 3–1 Kellyville (-)

Source:footballnsw.com.au^[14] and socceraust.co.uk^[10]

Round 3

A total of 32 teams competed, 20 of which had progressed from Round 3 along with 12 clubs from National Premier Leagues NSW.

Tie no Home team (Tier) Score Away team (Tier) 1 Blacktown City Demons (1) 2–1 Dulwich Hill (3) 2 Camden Tigers (4) 1–0 Northern Tigers (2) 3 Rockdale City Suns (2) 2–1 Springwood (4) 4 Marconi Stallions (1) 9–0 Inter Lions (3) 5 PCYC Parramatta (2) 9–3 Prospect United (4) 6 Sutherland Sharks (1) 2–1 Sydney University (2) 7 West Sydney Berries (1) 1–2 Granville Rage (2) 8 Fraser Park (2) 4–3 (a.e.t.) STFA Strikers (-)

Tie no Home team (Tier) Score Away team (Tier) 9 Bonnyrigg White Eagles (1) 4–2 Gymea United (-) 10 Penrith Nepean United (1) 5–3 (a.e.t.) Roosters FC (4) 11 Sydney United (1) 1–0 St George FC (2) 12 Bankstown City Lions (1) 3–1 Port Kembla (-) 13 Manly United (1) 3–0 Pacific Hills/Dural 14 Sydney Wanderers (3) 0–5 Wollongong CFC (1) 15 Spirit FC (2) 1–0 Sydney Olympic (1) 16 APIA Leichhardt (1) 3–2 Central Coast Lightning (-)

Source:footballnsw.com.au^[15][16][17] and socceraust.co.uk^[10]

Round 4

Camden Tigers were the lowest ranked team to qualify for this round from NSW fourth tier. There were no association teams left in the competition. Of the fifteen other remaining clubs, ten were from the Premier League and five from the Super League.^[5]

Tie no Home team (Tier) Score Away team (Tier) 1 Bankstown City Lions (1) 2–1 Sydney United (1) 2 PCYC Parramatta (2) 0–2 Bonnyrigg White Eagles (1) 3 Sutherland Sharks (1) 4–1 Marconi Stallions (1) 4 Fraser Park (2) 1–0 Camden Tigers (4)

Tie no Home team (Tier) Score Away team (Tier) 5 Spirit FC (2) 0–1 Manly United (1) 6 APIA Leichhardt (1) 0–2 Wollongong CFC (1) 7 Granville Rage (2) 3–7 Blacktown City Demons (1) 8 Rockdale City Suns (2) 0–1 Penrith Nepean United (1)

Source:footballnsw.com.au^[18] and socceraust.co.uk^[10]

Quarter-finals

As the only team outside of the Premier League, Fraser Park was the lowest team ranked to qualify for the quarter-finals.

14 June 2009

19:00 AEST (UTC+10:00)

Sutherland Sharks	2–1	Bankstown City Lions
Panny Nikas 45', 88'	Report[19]	Tallan Martin 90'

Seymour Shaw Park, Miranda

Attendance: 130

Referee: Khodr Yaghi

1 July 2009

19:30 AEST (UTC+10:00)

Bonnyrigg White Eagles	0–3	Manly United
	Report[20]	Robbie Cattanach 3', 18' Jimmy Oates 27'

Bonnyrigg Sports Club, Bonnyrigg

Attendance: 250 c.

Referee: Khodr Yaghi

7 July 2013

18:30 AEST (UTC+10:00)

Blacktown City Demons	5–0	Fraser Park
Paul Karbon 12' Ante Deur 26' Joel Chianese 40' Gavin Forbes 72' Matt Lewis 80'	Report[21]

Gabbie Stadium, Seven Hills

Attendance: 100 c.

7 July 2013

20:15 AEST (UTC+10:00)

Penrith Nepean United	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Wollongong Community FC
Devrim Hüseyin 33' Michael Dowling 104'	Report[22]	Kieran Deane 7'

Gabbie Stadium, Seven Hills

Attendance: 200

Referee: Sandro Perticarini

Semi-finals

All remaining clubs were from NSW's top tier, the NSW Premier League.^[2]

19 July 2009 (2009-07-19)

12:00 AEST (UTC+10:00)

Blacktown City Demons	0–2 (a.e.t.)	Manly United
	Report[23]	Michael Lloyd-Green 97', 105'

Seymour Shaw Park, Miranda

Attendance: 400 c.

Referee: Gerard Parsons

19 July 2009 (2009-07-19)

14:30 AEST (UTC+10:00)

Sutherland Sharks	4–0	Penrith Nepean United
Panny Nikas 13' Neil Jablonski 18' Jim Bakis 68' Nathan Ralph 90+1'	Report[24]

Seymour Shaw Park, Sydney

Attendance: 450 c.

Referee: Kurt Ams

Grand final

15 August 2009 (2009-08-15)

15:00 AEST (UTC+10:00)

Sutherland Sharks	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Manly United
Brad Boardman 24' Nick Stavroulakis 115'	Report[25]	Keith Shelving 25'

Seymour Shaw Park, Miranda

Referee: Gerard Parsons

1 Nathan Denham 2 George Souris 4 Michael Robinson  61' 6 Chris Price 7 Jim Bakis  91' 8 Nathan Ralph  91' 9 Brad Boardman 11 Ben Spruce 12 Neil Jablonksi 14 Nick Stavroulakis 15 Michael Katz Substitutes: 5 Andrew Smith 10 Matthew Hall  91' 17 Jordan Nikolovski 18 Blake Powell  98'  91' 22 Yanni Fragogiannis Coach: Robbie Stanton

1 Brad Swancott 2 Shaun Bowden  98' 5 Joel Grenell 6 Scott Thomas  56' 7 Ashley Ryan 8 Michael Lloyd-Green 13 Mitch Macedo  82' 15 Keith Shevlin 16 Joey Schrippa 24 Brad Groves 33 Sam Gallagher  13' Substitutes: 10 Giosue Sama  82' 11 Craig Midgley  56' 12 Jamie Garside  98' 26 Jimmy Oates 41 Ben McNamara Coach: Phil Moss

Player of the Match: Nick Stavroulakis (Sutherland Sharks FC) Assistant referees: Lance Greenshields and Christian Mehl Fourth official: Kris Griffiths-Jones

Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.

NSW Waratah State Cup 2009 Champions
Sutherland Sharks FC First Title

Statistics

	Sutherland Sharks	Manly United
Attempts at goal	13	12
Attempts on target	6	7
Corners	5	3
Fouls committed	24	26
Offsides	5	4
Yellow cards	2	1
Red cards	0	0