1966 Australia Cup

Football tournament season

1966 Australia Cup
Tournament details
Country	Australia
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	APIA Leichhardt (1st title)
Runner-up	Hakoah Eastern Suburbs
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
← 1965 1967 →

The 1966 Australia Cup was the fifth season of the Australia Cup, which was the main national association football knockout cup competition in Australia.^[1] Sixteen clubs from around Australia qualified to enter the competition.^[2]

Teams

Qualifying clubs
ACT	Croatia Deakin
NNSW	Newcastle Austral	Adamstown Rosebud
NSW	APIA Leichhardt	Hakoah Eastern Suburbs	St George Budapest	South Coast United
QLD	Latrobe-Western Suburbs
SA	West Adelaide Hellas	Adelaide Juventus
TAS	Olympia
VIC	South Melbourne Hellas	Port Melbourne Slavia	Melbourne Hungaria	Melbourne Hakoah
WA	Perth Azzurri

Round 1

8 October 1966

Sydney Hakoah	6–2	Latrobe-Western Suburbs

Sydney Showground, Sydney

Attendance: 1,200^[2]

9 October 1966

St George Budapest	3–1	Croatia Deakin

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 4,500 (double header)^[2]

9 October 1966

APIA Leichhardt	4–0	Newcastle Austral

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 4,500 (double header)^[2]

9 October 1966

South Coast United	3–2	Adamstown Rosebud

Speers Point, Newcastle

Attendance: 3,000^[2]

9 October 1966

South Melbourne Hellas	4–1	Adelaide Juventus

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 8,850^[2]

9 October 1966

Perth Azzurri	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Port Melbourne Slavia

Penalties
	4–3

Perry Lakes Stadium, Perth

Attendance: 4,000^[2]

9 October 1966

West Adelaide Hellas	0–1	Melbourne Hungaria

Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide

Attendance: 6,000^[2]

9 October 1966

Melbourne Hakoah	6–2	Olympia

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 2,300^[2]

Quarter-finals

15 October 1966

Melbourne Hungaria	4–1

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 3,126^[2]

16 October 1966

Sydney Hakoah	4–0	South Coast United

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 4,563 (double header)^[2]

16 October 1966

APIA Leichhardt	2–1	St George Budapest

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 4,563 (double header)^[2]

16 October 1966

South Melbourne Hellas	2–1	Melbourne Hakoah

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 8,221^[2]

Semi-finals

23 October 1966

APIA Leichhardt	3–0	Melbourne Hungaria

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 4,521^[2]

23 October 1966

South Melbourne Hellas	1–3	Sydney Hakoah

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 11,500^[2]

The game was abandoned after 71 minutes due to a pitch invasion, and subsequently awarded to Sydney Hakoah.^[2]

Final

30 October 1966

APIA Leichhardt	2–0	Sydney Hakoah
Ricardo Campana 32' Bill Kerklaan 61'	Report

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 10,200^[2]

Referee: Dave Maitland

References

^ Australia and its Cups: Then and Now. Roy Hay, The Leopold Method, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 2014, pp. 4–20. 25 November 2014. ISBN 9781921134470. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q Andrew Robinson (18 June 2016). "Australia Cup 1966 – Results".