The AFL wishes to advise Round Two matches of the 2014 AFL International Cup will be played tomorrow, Wednesday, August 13.

Media is invited to attend and details are as follows:

AFL International Cup Round Two Matches

9.30am-5.30pm

Wednesday, August 13

Ransford, McAllister, Ryder & Western Ovals

Park Street, Royal Park

Parkville

Victorian Sports Minister Damian Drum will toss the coin prior to the Fiji v Indonesia match at 3.30pm. The Minister will be available for media comment.

Richmond’s Trent Cotchin and Collingwood’s Patrick Karnezis will join International Cup players to conduct a clinic with children participating in the Australia Post Multicultural School Program at 11am.

Ransford Oval

9.30am            Women’s         USA Freedom v Canada Midnight Suns

11.30am          Men’s              Nauru v Great Britain

1.30pm            Men’s             Ireland v France

3.30pm            Men’s              Fiji v Indonesia

McAllister Oval

11.30am          Women’s         Ireland v Tonga                      

1.30pm            Men’s              Sweden v Finland

3.30pm            Men’s              USA v Canada

Western Oval

9.30am            Men’s              Japan v Pakistan

11.30am          Women’s         Canada Northern Lights v USA Liberty       

1.30pm            Men’s              South Africa v Tonga

3.30pm            Men’s              PNG v India

Linen House Centre – note different venue

12.30pm          Men’s              New Zealand v China

The 2014 International Cup will be played in Melbourne from August 9 to 23.

Men’s teams: Canada, China, Fiji, Finland, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Great Britain, India, Japan, Nauru, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Sweden, Tonga, USA.

Women’s teams: Canada – Northern Lights, Canada – Midnight Suns, Ireland, Fiji, Tonga, USA – Freedom, USA – Liberty.

The women’s grand final will be played at Punt Road Oval and the men’s grand final will be the curtain-raiser to the Round 22 AFL match between Hawthorn and the Geelong Cats at the MCG.

The full IC14 fixture and resullts: www.aflic14.com.au

Expatriate Australians are ineligible to play in the International Cup. Teams are comprised solely of amateurs who must be nationals of the country they represent.  All players must have lived the majority of the years aged between 10 and 16 as a citizen of their nation.

The International Cup is played every three years. Previous International Cup winners are; Ireland (2002 & 2011), New Zealand (2005) and Papua New Guinea (2008).

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