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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