Australasia: Clubs Ranked - 2006/07 to 2025/26 (Updated)

Football (or soccer) isn't the big sports code in Australia like it is in so many countries. The season is held in summer to avoid clashing with more popular codes.Clubs are spread across the country and now includes two teams from New Zealand, one of which has always been part of the competition. What has happened is that teams have been added, names changed and other variances have occurred. 

Sydney FC is the most successful club, narrowly ahead of the Melbourne Victory. The Central Coast Mariners north of Sydney are next, followed by Adelaide Utd.

For points, the A league has 6, 3, 2, and 1 point for the top four. The top sides go into playoffs to win the grand final, the points are 6, 4 and two receiving 2 points each. Slight variances to that for earlier years when there were fewer finalists. There was a preseason competition for the first four years of competition. One point for each winner. 

Top clubs don't dominate proceedings here like in most leagues around the world. Of the 252 points awarded so far, the leading club has just 40 of them. It makes for a more interesting competition than the same few winners all the time. Of the 21 years so far, no club has won more than four. 

The play offs feature the top placed league teams. This list only covers the last remaining four. It rewards the top league sides so success is similar to what we see in the league chart above. 

280 points have been awarded and again no side dominating . Sydney FC have won five grand finals of the eight they have qualified for.  

The four years of preseason tournaments early in proceedings produced just 12 points. They are added in the totals below but are of insufficient importance to be broken down into clubs. 

All put together, the clubs are below. The grand total is shown for each club, divided into regions with a ranking number (Rk) which gives their place compared to all the other clubs. 

The state of New South Wales is the leader with 41.5% of all points. Victoria is next with 27.8% West has 14.9%, Queensland 10.5%. and New Zealand 5.3%. NZ has been a one team affair until two years ago when Auckland FC joined. Auckland FC is already making a mark but has a lot of ground to make up on clubs with a much longer history. 

I will explain the symbols that come after some of the names below. Melbourne City was the Melbourne Heart, the Brisbane Roar was Queensland Roar, the Wellington Phoenix previously were in Auckland and were the NZ Knights. Finally, the Gold Coast and North Queensland clubs folded after three and two years respectively. Western Utd was recently forced out due to financial issues after five years of competing.