2008 Victorian Premier League

October 2015 October 2015 Victorian Premier League 2008 Altona Magic Green Gully Western Suburbs Fawkner Blues Frankston Pines 189 494 Pablo Cardozo(21 goals) 2007 2009 The 2008 Victorian Premier League (also known as the 2008 Foxtel Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 97th season of top-tier football in Victoria. It began on 15 February 2008 and ended on 21 September 2008. Preston Lions was the defending champion. Teams Team Home city Home ground Altona Magic Altona North Paisley Park Soccer Complex Australian Institute of Sport Canberra Australian Institute of Sport Coburg United Coburg Knights Stadium Fawkner Blues Fawkner C.B. Smith Reserve Frankston Pines Frankston North Monterey Reserve Green Gully Melbourne Green Gully Reserve Heidelberg United Heidelberg Olympic Village Melbourne Knights Melbourne Knights Stadium Oakleigh Cannons Oakleigh Jack Edwards Reserve Preston Lions Preston B.T. Connor Reserve Richmond Richmond Kevin Bartlett Reserve South Melbourne South Melbourne Lakeside Stadium Western Suburbs Sunshine Ralph Reserve Whittlesea Zebras Whittlesea Epping Stadium Standings main WDL 5 QR GRE Green Gully MEL Melbourne Knights ALT Altona Magic HU Heidelberg United RIC Richmond PRE Preston Lions OAK Oakleigh Cannons AIS Australian Institute of Sport SOU South Melbourne HUM Hume City MOR Whittlesea Zebras WES Western Suburbs FAW Fawkner Blues FRA Frankston Pines 15 8 3 41 17 14 10 2 47 25 13 8 5 44 29 C 11 9 6 41 30 11 7 8 57 35 12 3 11 37 46 10 7 9 28 24 10 6 10 41 35 10 4 12 35 32 9 4 13 29 40 7 9 10 31 33 5 7 14 23 42 6 3 17 22 59 4 5 17 19 48 #ACE1AF VPL 2008 Victorian Premier League Finals series QF QF QF QF QF QF #FFCCCC Relegation to Victorian State League Division 1 R R R complete Finals series Elimination final 30 August Altona Magic 2–1 Preston Lions FC Fa'arodo 44Curcija 89 Bosevski 14 Paisley Park Soccer Complex 2,500 Laz Vassiliadis Elimination final 30 August Heidelberg United 2–1 Richmond Hockless 79 pen.Alilovic 90+3 P. Cardozo 90+6 pen. John Cain Memorial Park 900 Senko Rastocic Qualifying final 31 August Green Gully 1–1 Melbourne Knights 5–6 Burton Adam Koce Delev Sanders Ivesic Vargas De Oliveira Medjedovic Franjic Watson Barisic Muriqi Iosifidis Elvin Timmons Kiratzoglou Nikolic 18 Franjic 19 Green Gully Reserve 600 Sergio Terceiro 6 September 2008 Minor semi-final Green Gully 0–2 Heidelberg United Tsiorlas 16 68 Green Gully Reserve 600 Phil Taverna 7 September 2008 Major semi-final Melbourne Knights 1–1 3–4 Altona Magic Kiratzoglou 7 Recchia 63 Watson Barisic Kiratzoglou Spiteri Iosifidis Curcija Recchia Bozinovski MladenovicKalmar Knights Stadium 2,000 Perry Mur Preliminary final 14 September Melbourne Knights 2–1 Heidelberg United Spiteri 18Barisic 35 Hockless 76 Epping Stadium 2,000 Bruno D'Aniello Grand Final 21 September Altona Magic 1–0 Melbourne Knights Recchia 119 Lakeside Stadium 5,000 Hakan Anaz Top goalscorers Pos Position Player Club Goals 1 AUS Pablo Cardozo Richmond 21 2 AUS Andrew Barisic Melbourne Knights 18 3 AUS Michael Curcija Altona Magic 16 4 AUS Joel Nikolic Green Gully 12 AUS Jason Naidovski AIS 12 6 AUS Richard Cardozo Richmond10 AUS Frankie Lagana Oakleigh Cannons10 AUS Johnny Sapazovski Preston Lions109 AUS Kofi Danning AIS9 AUS Fernando de Moraes South Melbourne9 ENG Graham Hockless Heidelberg United9 AUS Jerry Karpeh Whittlesea Zebras9 AUS Mark Tsiorlas Heidelberg United9 See also Victorian Premier League Football Federation Victoria National Premier Leagues Victoria References ozfootball - 2008 Victorian Premier League results ozfootball - 2008 Victorian Premier League table External links Football Federation Victoria Victorian Premier League Victorian Premier League 2008 Category:2008 in domestic association football leagues