CNN — Melbourne Victory FC has been fined $310,000 (AUS$ 450,000) and hit with a number of sanctions by Football Australia (FA) after the ugly scenes that forced its derby match against Melbourne City to be abandoned in December. Fans had planned to protest the decision to move the next […]
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Football Australia have slapped Melbourne Victory with a record fine and threatened to dock them ten competition points after finding the club brought the game into disrepute with the violent disruptions of the club’s fans in the A-League match against Melbourne City in December. That night approximately 150 Victory supporters […]
Football Australia has today issued a further seven bans to spectators as part of the organisation’s ongoing investigation into the unacceptable events that unfolded during the A-League Men’s match between Melbourne City FC and Melbourne Victory FC at AAMI Park on Saturday, 17 December. Today’s announcement brings the number of […]
Melbourne Victory are BANNED from selling tickets for home games and their fans can’t attend away matches under first wave of sanctions for pitch invasion disgrace Football Australia handed down initial sanctions for club on Friday Temporary measures against club are in place until January 15 Police will be ‘highly […]
Melbourne Victory fans are unable to purchase tickets for the club’s A-League Boxing Day clash in just two days’ time as the club awaits punishment for the violent events that resulted in its derby with Melbourne City being abandoned last Saturday. The Victory are scheduled to play Western United on December […]
Radical A-League fan group Original Style Melbourne [OSM] has issued a second groveling apology for the carnage during the Melbourne City and Melbourne Victory on Saturday after initially forgetting to include injured player Tom Glover. Furious A-League supporters stormed the field at AAMI Park in response to Australian Professional Leagues’ […]
Police have charged three men after a pitch invasion forced the Melbourne derby in the A-League to be abandoned. Melbourne City keeper Tom Glover and referee Alex King were hit by a metal bucket, and a TV cameraman was hurt too in the game against Melbourne Victory. Victoria Police saidexternal-link […]
Aami Park was not where the Melbourne Victory managing director, Caroline Carnegie, wanted to be on Sunday morning, but given the events of the previous night, she had little choice. As she made her way into Victory’s offices, the weight of what had transpired in the Melbourne derby was clearly […]