1968 Australia Cup

Football tournament season

1968 Australia Cup
Tournament details
Country	Australia
Teams	19
Final positions
Champions	Hakoah Eastern Suburbs (2nd title)
Runner-up	Melbourne Hakoah
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
← 1967 1977 NSL Cup →

The 1968 Australia Cup was the seventh and final season of the Australia Cup, which was the main national association football knockout cup competition in Australia.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Teams

Qualifying clubs
ACT	Canberra Juventus
NNSW	Newcastle Austral
NSW	APIA Leichhardt	St George Budapest	South Sydney Croatia	Pan Hellenic	Sydney Hakoah	Sydney Prague
QLD	Latrobe-Western Suburbs
SA	Adelaide Juventus	West Adelaide Hellas
TAS	Launceston United
VIC	Melbourne Hungaria	Melbourne Juventus	Melbourne Croatia	South Melbourne Hellas	Melbourne Hakoah	Footscray JUST
WA	Perth Azzurri

Round One

29 March 1968

Melbourne Hakoah	1–0	Launceston United

Melbourne

Attendance: 2,070^[4]

15 April 1968

Canberra Juventus	0–1	South Sydney Croatia

Manuka Oval, Canberra

Attendance: 1,120^[4]

2 June 1968

West Adelaide Hellas	1–2	Perth Azzurri

Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide

Attendance: 3,100^[4]

Round Two

31 March 1968

Sydney Prague	6–0	Latrobe-Western Suburbs

Sydney Athletic Field, Sydney

Attendance: 2,070^[4]

17 April 1968

St George Budapest	5–0	Newcastle Austral

Sydney Athletic Field, Sydney

Attendance: 800^[4]

25 April 1968

Melbourne Juventus	2–1	Footscray JUST

St Kilda Cricket Ground, Melbourne

1 May 1968

Pan Hellenic	1–0	APIA Leichhardt

Sydney Sports Ground, Sydney^[4]

Attendance: 6,414^[4]

8 May 1968

Sydney Hakoah	1–0	South Sydney Croatia

Sydney Athletic Field, Sydney

Attendance: 1,603^[4]

22 May 1968

Melbourne Croatia	3–1	Adelaide Juventus

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 1,200^[4]

5 June 1968

South Melbourne Hellas	1–2	Perth Azzurri

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

10 June 1968

Melbourne Hakoah	4–0	Melbourne Hungaria

St Kilda Cricket Ground, Melbourne

Quarter-finals

22 May 1968

Sydney Hakoah	2–0	St George Budapest

Sydney Sports Ground

Attendance: 5,983^[4]

22 May 1968

Sydney Prague	3–2	Pan Hellenic

Sydney Sports Ground

Attendance: 5,983^[4]

26 September 1968

Melbourne Juventus	1–2	Perth Azzurri

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 400^[4]

26 September 1968

Melbourne Hakoah	2–0	Melbourne Croatia

Middle Park, Melbourne^[4]

Semi-finals

First leg

12 October 1968

Perth Azzurri	1–4	Sydney Hakoah

Perth^[4]

13 October 1968

Sydney Prague	1–1	Melbourne Hakoah

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 3,762^[4]

Second leg

Not played

Sydney Hakoah	w/o	Perth Azzurri

Sydney Hakoah won after Perth Azzurri forfeited the second leg.

20 October 1968

Melbourne Hakoah	3–2	Sydney Prague

Middle Park, Melbourne^[4]

Melbourne Hakoah won 4–3 on aggregate.

Final

First leg

27 October 1968

Sydney Hakoah	3–0	Melbourne Hakoah
Baartz H. Rutherford	Report

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 3,402^[4]

Second leg

3 November 1968

Melbourne Hakoah	1–3	Sydney Hakoah
Thomas	Report	Johns W. Rutherford Baartz

Middle Park, Melbourne^[4]

Attendance: 2,850

Sydney Hakoah won 6–1 on aggregate.

References

^ "The Australia Cup". goalweekly.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
^ "Hakoah - Sydney City Soccer Milestones". hakoah.com.au. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
^ "Hey Australia, we are Perth SC!". perthsc.com.au. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Andrew Robinson (23 November 2016). "Australia Cup 1968 – Results".