{"id":10998,"date":"2018-02-18T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=10998"},"modified":"2018-02-18T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T15:00:26","slug":"league-expand-two-new-clubs-since-2019-20-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/18\/league-expand-two-new-clubs-since-2019-20-season\/","title":{"rendered":"A-League to expand for two new clubs since 2019\/20 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football Federation Australia (FFA) confirms plan to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/16\/australia-fa-chief-executive-opposes-league-expansion-plan\/\">two new A-League clubs<\/a> by 2019\/20 season, it announced the news in a media release on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The attempt from FFA has reportedly aimed to raise the attendances and television audiences for the A-League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFFA\u2019s directors have targeted the 2019-20 season as the start date for two new clubs. More details about the formal process will be announced next month with the intention to have a decision later this year,\u201d it said in a statement, as reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/sport\/a-league\/football-federation-australia-confirms-plan-to-introduce-two-new-a-league-clubs-by-201920-season-ng-4c888b8a29c6d32a3913616ba32ac3e5\">the Perth Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an important step towards a new operating model, on which FFA management has been working for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe existing Hyundai A-League\/Westfield W-League clubs and FFA\u2019s Member Federations will be invited to participate in discussions regarding the formation of the framework.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A decision will be made later in the year about which clubs are chosen as part of an expanded league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football Federation Australia (FFA) confirms plan to introduce two new A-League clubs by 2019\/20 season, it announced the news in a media release on Friday. The attempt from FFA has reportedly aimed to raise the attendances and television audiences for the A-League. \u201cFFA\u2019s directors have targeted the 2019-20 season as the start date for two new clubs. More details about the formal process will be announced next month with the intention to have a decision later this year,\u201d it said in a statement, as reported on the Perth Now. \u201cIt is an important step towards a new operating model, on which FFA management has been working for more than a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/18\/league-expand-two-new-clubs-since-2019-20-season\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;A-League to expand for two new clubs since 2019\/20 season&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[380,1093,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}