{"id":26287,"date":"2021-09-30T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T07:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=26287"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:17:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T07:17:02","slug":"australian-leagues-gets-makeover-as-mens-womens-and-youth-football-all-unite-under-a-leagues-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2021\/09\/30\/australian-leagues-gets-makeover-as-mens-womens-and-youth-football-all-unite-under-a-leagues-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Leagues Gets Makeover as Men’s, Women’s, and Youth Football All Unite Under A-Leagues Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"

A momentous occasion in Australian football was celebrated on Wednesday as the Australian Professional Leagues (APL) have merged the men’s top flight A-League together with the women’s top flight W-League and the youth football league Y-League to create the A-Leagues, an inclusive set of competitions that welcomes all genders and ages. It is believed that by unifying the three leagues, football in Australia will be able to thrive as a beautiful game itself, not something that’s been restricted by gender or age.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former A-League was rebranded into A-League Men, while the W-League was rebranded into A-League Women. Last but not least, the Y-League for youth players was renamed into A-League Youth.<\/p>\n

Having taken over the Australian professional football leagues in December 2020, the APL promises that this unification of leagues would send a message of inclusiveness and unity.<\/p>\n

“The APL is all about football. Not just men’s football or just women’s football. But just football,” said APL managing director Danny Townsend, as quoted from\u00a0ABC<\/em>, “Bringing the female game up onto a level playing field with the men was something we felt really strongly about. We thought that it’s about time that football took a leadership role within this space.”<\/p>\n

Ally Green, who plies her trade as a defender in Sydney FC’s women’s team, spoke highly regarding the decision, which is the biggest that Australia’s women’s game have experienced since the establishment of the W-League in 2008.<\/p>\n

“It’s a really important message to get across to Australians and worldwide as well,” said Ally, as quoted from\u00a0ABC<\/em>, “It’s just Australian football now and it’s a really important message to send to the other sports in Australia.”<\/p>\n

Last season’s A-League top scorer, Melbourne City’s Jamie Maclaren, also spoke to\u00a0ABC\u00a0<\/em>about his delight regarding the decision to merge the leagues under a unified banner.<\/p>\n

“For all of us to say that we’re underneath one umbrella is a proud moment,” said Maclaren.<\/p>\n

However the change did not come without any controversies. Adelaide Building Consulting, a building firm based in the city of Adelaide, may take action against the A-Leagues as the latter had copied the former’s logo as their new identity. While Adelaide Building Consulting took this similarity with stride – addressing football fans on their official Facebook page as well as changing their profile picture into a copy of the A-Leagues’ new logo with the caption “A-Leagues Building Consulting” – the firm’s managing director Timothy Rogers has been flooded with messages, including from lawyers offering their services.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a bit funny, it\u2019s an odd situation. As for our position, we aren\u2019t sure what we are going to take,\u201d said Rogers, as quoted from\u00a0Fox Sports Australia<\/em>,\u00a0\u201cI would assume we would have some dialogue with the A-League to see what their position is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A momentous occasion in Australian football was celebrated on Wednesday as the Australian Professional Leagues (APL) have merged the men’s top flight A-League together with the women’s top flight W-League and the youth football league Y-League to create the A-Leagues, an inclusive set of competitions that welcomes all genders and ages. It is believed that by unifying the three leagues, football in Australia will be able to thrive as a beautiful game itself, not something that’s been restricted by gender or age. The former A-League was rebranded into A-League Men, while the W-League was rebranded into A-League Women. Last but not least, the Y-League for youth players was renamed into … Continue reading “Australian Leagues Gets Makeover as Men’s, Women’s, and Youth Football All Unite Under A-Leagues Brand”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":26288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,856],"tags":[380,2466,2467,2468,110,95],"class_list":["post-26287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-rest-of-asia","tag-a-league","tag-a-league-men","tag-a-league-women","tag-a-league-youth","tag-australia","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26289,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26287\/revisions\/26289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}