2012 A-League results
2011/2012 Season Round 26 Results
written by Thomas Esamie
This round was scheduled to run as a football marathon with the matches played back to back.

Played (4/1/12) Wellington Stadium
Referee : Alan Milliner, Crowd : 8411
Wellington Phoenix
Tony Warner, Manny Muscat, Tony Lochhead, Tim Brown, Leo Bertos, Chris Greenacre (Paul Ifill 59), Daniel Cortes (Mirjan Pavlovic 70), Vince Lia (Alex Smith 70), Ben Sigmund, Dani Sanchez, Andrew Durante
Goals : Cortes 26pk, Sanchez 42, Sigmund 78, Ifill 90
Coach : Ricki Herbert
4 - 2 Sydney FC
Liam Reddy, Jamie Coyne (Rhyan Grant 54), Pascal Bosschaart, Michael Beauchamp, Brett Emerton, Bruno Cazarine, Dimitri Petratos (Juho Makela 59), Shannon Cole, Terry McFlynn, Terry Antonis, Mark Bridge
Goals : Emerton 16pk, Cazarine 63
Coach : Vitzslav Lavicka
Match report by Jeremy Ruane

Played (4/1/12) Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
Referee : Kris Griffiths-Jones, Crowd : 8272
Melbourne Heart
Clint Bolton, Michael Marrone, Brendan Hamill, Simon Colosimo (Curtis Good 40), Matt Thompson, Rutger Worm (David Williams 54), Aziz Behich, Jason Hoffman (Alex Terra 62), Eli Babalj, Mate Dugandzic, Adrian Madaschi
Goal : Babalj 90
Coach : John van't Schip
1 - 3 Adelaide United
Eugene Galekovic, Nigel Boogaard, Daniel Mullen, Zenon Caravella (Osama Malik 70), Sergio van Dijk, Dario Vidosic (Jacob Melling 77), Bruce Djite (Iain Ramsay 67), Anthony Golec, Cameron Watson, Fabian Barbiero, Francisco Usucar
Goals : van Dijk 38, 79, Vidosic 48
Coach : John Kosmina
Match report by Daniel Quinn

Played (4/1/12) Newcastle International Sports Centre
Referee : Gerard Parsons, Crowd : 9311
Newcastle United Jets
Ben Kennedy, Taylor Regan, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Ben Kantarovski, Jeremy Brockie, Michael Bridges (Kasey Wehrman 80), Ruben Zadkovich (Labinot Haliti 70), Tarek Elrich, Sung-Hwan Byun, Ryan Griffiths, Jacob Pepper (James Virgili 90)
Goals : Brockie 43, 64 Haliti 79
Coach : Gary van Egmond
3 - 2 Gold Coast United
Jerrad Tyson, Michael Thwaite, Kristian Rees, Paul Beekmans, Ante Rozic (Golgol Mebrahtu 72), Ben Halloran, Adama Traore, Maceo Rigters (Dylan McGowan 79), Chris Harold (Daniel Severino 59), Peter Jungschlager, Jonas Salley
Goals : Halloran 72, Traore 78
Coach : Miron Bleiberg
Match report by Robert Szomolnoki

Played (4/1/12) Central Coast Stadium
Referee : Peter Green, Crowd : 12284
Central Coast Mariners
Mathew Ryan, Daniel McBreen, Joshua Rose, Pedj Bojic, John Hutchinson, Oliver Bozanic, Troy Hearfield (Bernie Ibini-Isei 61), Michael McGlinchey (Bradley Porter 90), Trent Sainsbury, Alex Wilkinson, Matthew Simon (Mustafa Amini 87)
Goals : Simon 1, 84
Coach : Graham Arnold
2 - 0 Melbourne Victory
Ante Covic, Matthew Foschini, Petar Franjic, Leigh Broxham, Grant Brebner, Archie Thompson, Rodrigo Vargas, Diogo Ferreira, Carlos Hernandez, Isaka Cernak (Marco Rojas 66), Harry Kewell (Daniel Allsopp 74)
Coach : Mehmet Durakovic
Match report by Chris Dunkerley

Played (4/1/12) Perth Oval
Referee : Chris Beath, Crowd : 6912
Perth Glory
Danny Vukovic, Josh Mitchell, Billy Mehmet (Adam Taggart 83), Steve Pantelidis, Jacob Burns, Liam Miller, Travis Dodd, Steven McGarry (Adam Hughes 87), Todd Howarth (Evan Berger 79), Joshua Risdon, Mile Sterjovski
Goals : Dodd 15, Sterjovski 23, 79pk
Coach : Ian Ferguson
i - i Brisbane Roar
Michael Theoklitos, Matthew Smith, Shane Stefanutto (Jack Hingert 55), Matthew Jurman, Ivan Franjic, Erik Paartalu, Besart Berisha, Rocky Visconte (Massimo Murdocca 46), Mohamed Adnan, Mitch Nichols, Luke Brattan (Issey Nakajima-Farran 69)
Goals : Nichols 39, 68, Paartalu 45
Coach : Angelo Postecoglou