2014 Foxtel Cup
The 2014 Foxtel Cup was the fourth and final season of the Australian rules football knock-out competition involving clubs from the various state league competitions from around Australia.
The Cup's purpose is to support and promote the second-tier Australian rules football competitions and to provide another way of developing lower-tier Australian Football League players.
The format of the competition was as follows:
- Nine teams competed.
- With the exception of the pre-qualifying round, matches were played on Tuesday nights as stand alone games and be broadcast by Fox Footy.
- The champions received $100,000 in prize money, and the runners-up received $40,000.
The selection of Western Storm, a club which was competing in the Tasmanian Football League for the first time in 2014, as Tasmania's representative was controversial, but came as a result of the defending Tasmanian Football League premiers, South Launceston, leaving the league. The majority of South Launceston's senior list shifted to Western Storm, so AFL Tasmania decided that the new club was a sufficiently close representation of the defending premiers to allow it to compete in the Foxtel Cup, rather than substituting the 2013 runners-up Burnie.
The competition began in March 2014 and concluded with Williamstown winning their second Foxtel Cup championship by defeating West Perth in the Grand Final at Simonds Stadium on 22 July 2014. The Coles medal for best on ground in the Grand Final was awarded to Williamstown's Ben Davies.
2014 season
Participating clubs
; NEAFL Eastern Conference- Belconnen
- Aspley
- Norwood
- West Adelaide
- Western Storm
- Box Hill
- Williamstown
- East Perth
- West Perth
Club details
Stadiums
| Adelaide | Geelong | Melbourne |
| Adelaide Oval Capacity: 50,000 | Simonds Stadium Capacity: 33,500 | Etihad Stadium Capacity: 56,347 |
| Melbourne | Perth | - |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground Capacity: 100,000 | Patersons Stadium Capacity: 43,500 | - |
| - |
Fixture
The AFL released the fixture on 29 November 2013.Bracket
Qualifying Round
Round 1
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