1965 Australia Cup

Football tournament season

1965 Australia Cup
Tournament details
Country	Australia
Teams	13
Final positions
Champions	Sydney Hakoah (1st title)
Runner-up	APIA Leichhardt
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
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The 1965 Australia Cup was the fourth season of the Australia Cup, which was the main national association football knockout cup competition in Australia. Thirteen clubs from around Australia qualified to enter the competition.^[1]^[2]

Teams

Qualifying clubs
ACT	Canberra Juventus
NNSW	Wallsend
NSW	South Coast United	St George Budapest	APIA Leichhardt	Sydney Hakoah
QLD	Brisbane Hellenic
SA	Adelaide Juventus
VIC	South Melbourne Hellas	George Cross	Melbourne Juventus	Port Melbourne Slavia
WA	Swan Athletic SC

Preliminary round 1

14 October 1965

St George-Budapest	6–0	Canberra Juventus

Sydney Athletic Field, Sydney

Attendance: 1,345^[2]

15 October 1965

Wallsend	5–1	Brisbane Hellenic

Crystal Palace, Wallsend

Attendance: 3,000^[2]

14 October 1965

Adelaide Juventus	4–2	Swan Athletic

Norwood Oval, Adelaide

Attendance: 5,400^[2]

Preliminary round 2

17 October 1965

St George-Budapest	3–0	Wallsend

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 1,000^[2]

17 October 1965

Port Melbourne Slavia	1–4	Adelaide Juventus

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 5,000^[2]

Quarter-finals

24 October 1965

George Cross	3–1	Melbourne Juventus

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 5,500^[2]

31 October 1965

Sydney Hakoah	4–1	St George-Budapest

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 4,200 (double header)^[2]

31 October 1965

APIA Leichhardt	2–1	South Coast United

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 4,200 (double header)^[2]

31 October 1965

South Melbourne Hellas	1–0	Adelaide Juventus

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 10,000^[2]

Semi-finals

First leg

7 November 1965

Sydney Hakoah	4–1	George Cross

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 4,500^[2]

7 November 1965

South Melbourne Hellas	2–2	APIA Leichhardt

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 12,000^[2]

Second leg

14 November 1965

George Cross	1–2	Sydney Hakoah

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 7,000^[2]

Sydney Hakoah won 6–2 on aggregate.

14 November 1965

APIA Leichhardt	4–1	South Melbourne Hellas

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 7,400^[2]

APIA Leichhardt won 6–3 on aggregate.

Final

21 November 1965

APIA Leichhardt	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Sydney Hakoah
Jose Garcia	Report	Jim Christie
Penalties
	13–13

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 5,900^[2]

Referee: Tony Boskovic

After each team had taken 15 penalties, the shootout was abandoned in favour of a replay, due to diminishing light.^[3]

Replay

24 November 1965

Sydney Hakoah	2–1	APIA Leichhardt
David Reid Herbert Ninaus	Report	John Wong

Sydney Showground, Sydney

Attendance: 3,500^[2]

Referee: Tony Boskovic

References

^ "1966 South Australian Soccer Yearbook" (Document). South Australian Soccer Federation. p. 52.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Andrew Robinson (11 June 2016). "Australia Cup 1965 – Results".
^ Australia and its Cups: Then and Now. Roy Hay. Leopold Method. 25 November 2014. ISBN 9781921134470. Retrieved 24 April 2015.