Written by Greg Stock and John Punshon
| This State representative match was the first game between these two states since 1980. Victoria fielded a representative side from the Premier League while NSW fielded a side which was picked around their 2000/1 Premier League select side. | ||||
| Played : Saturday June 2, 2001 | Venue: Epping Soccer Stadium, Melbourne | |||
| Victoria Jim Kourtis (Robert Brian 57'), Ross Antoniadis, Tom Karapatsos (Peter Groidis 67'), Jimmy Latinopoulos, Mile Medjedovic, Steve Nedanovski, Brian MacNicol (Mijo Trupkovic 72'), Henry Velkovski (c), Damian Vojtek, Danny Gnjidic (Alfonso Opazo 76'), Nick Tsaltas (Juan Nilo 76'); Coach : Peter Ollerton Goal : Tsaltas 61' |
1 | - | 3 | New South Wales John Crawley (Darren Moore 73'), Paul Dee, Damien Foxe (c), Tayfun Devrimol, Vuko Tomasevic (Dane Hokin 78'), James Stubbs-Mills, Javier Mancino (Robert Gomez 57'), Steve Lazzari (Daniel Cummins 65'), Darren Iocca, Devrim Huseyin, John Kyriazopoulos (Steven Riches 76'); Coach: Brian Brown Goals: Mancino 19', Dee 56'pen, Gomez 70' |
| Referee : Gerry Connelly Attendance : 1,200 Cautions : Riches 79' Man of the Match : Paul Dee (New South Wales) | ||||