The 9-0 defeat of Perth Glory against AC Milan covers the month of horror for the clubs of the A-League

July also saw Melbourne City and Melbourne Victory eliminated from the Australian Cup 2025 as a second level opposition, while Western United continues to be shaken by a financial crisis and a prohibition to transfer FIFA.

The community of Italian expatriates of Perth was released while Serie A Giants, Ac Milan, visited the capital of Western Australia for the second consecutive season, a year after 59,522 people saw them lose 5-2 against Roma in the back-end of the 2023/24 season.

He continues the club’s emerging relationship with Perth, which thanks to important investments in the government government was selected to welcome the first series of Serie A on foreign soil when Milan faces the Como at Perth Stadium in February while the San Siro is used for the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

AC has aligned a very strong team of 22 men in their 9-0 friendly victory against the wooden spoons of the A-League men (ALM) Perth Glory with six different players putting themselves on the match sheet, including a double of Noah Okafor and tangles off the bench for the defender of 19 years Vittorio Magni and the Portuguese Tottenham Target Rafael Leão.

The score reflected the claims of head coach Max Allegri after the match that the team took the pre-season hit “seriously”.

“”The boys have done well,“Allegri told journalists.

“”We needed a good run-out. It was a great evening for sport in Australia.

“”We have to take a step at a time. Game per game. As I have always said, we have to work with calm and balance and not take us when things are fine.

“”We will have difficult times, and in these bad times, we must make sure that we do not drop our heads.

“”We must remain mentally balanced, knowing that a league season is a 38 -game campaign, in which we must always maintain the same speed.“”

Glory manager, Zdrillic, was not willing to slam his young side for the result, describing him as “Excellent learning experience“.

A Perth Glory’s supporter and podcaster was naturally unhappy with the result, slamming it like “disgrace“In his differently entertaining match vlog of The Historic Friendly:

Australia Cup Round of 32 outings for five Alm outfits

Only six of the 13 male clubs in the A-League qualified for the end of the Australia Cup 16 to take place in mid-August after a few “cupsets” at the end of last month.

The Glory pre-season was already disappointing enough before being beaten by AC Milan after they crushed the Australia Cup in the hands of Wellington Phoenix, losing penalties in front of only 1,141 people in Kingsway Reserve in a match that had a long lightning delay.

This field belongs to Wa Npl Club Olympic Kingsway, which created a shock result two days later when they dumped the double winner of the Australia Cup Melbourne Victory of the 4-3 tournament after an additional time.

It was Kingsway’s very first victory over an A-League opposition and came thanks to the tournament of all time, Liam Boland, who for the third time in his career recorded a scour of the FFA / Australia cup against an A-League opposition, while the NPL Apia Leichhardt of Melbourne’s victory after a 2018 defeat Leichhardt.

Speaking of Apia Leichhardt, they added the city of Melbourne to their list of wins of A-League salons (2018) and Western Sydney Wanderers (2021) with a dominant 2-0 victory over a weakened city team.

City aligned a team with several youth team players, including Mathew Baker, 16, in the four backs, highlighted by the many shirt numbers in the 1940s and above these cricket scores that the Australian opener Sam Konstas would have been satisfied with the Caribbean!

While officially descends into books as a first defeat of City “ Cupset ”, Apia only started as the narrowest of the foreigners of Lambert Park thanks to the team aligned by City, which is still very early in their pre-season with the other 12 clubs in the A-Ligue.

Elsewhere, the Newcastle Jets won 2-1 as a foreigners against Adelaide United in the Maitland SportsGround, while the Sydney FC was also triumphant as Ironbark Fields outsiders in Tarneit when they came out in the lead 1-0 against Western United.

Western misfortunes go from bad to

Western United was unable to the captain of the Ben Garuccio field club or a new signature of Jaidaen Kucharski during his defeat of the Australia Cup against Sydney FC during the week thanks to the transfer of transfer with which they were struck in May 2025 due to what FIFA vaguely described as “Various offenses, such as financial disputes or regulatory violations“.

The offenses are supposed to relate to current problems related to the payment of players and staff in time with the parent company Western Melbourne Group (WMG) in serious financial difficulty.

Nine newspapers age revealed in June This boss of the club, Jason Surrasis, was struck by a personal tax invoice of $ 3 million concerning unpaid taxes in six of his companies, five of which, the ATO sought to have liquidators appoint.

Sourasis’s trading partner Steve Horvat also received a personal tax bill of $ 10 million, according to The Age.

The news came shortly before Brisbane Roar settled its own tax debt of 1.5 million dollars with the ATO, money due by the previous owners.

However, there were good news out of scope for Western United, however, after having been able to conclude an agreement with head coach John Aloisi to sign a two-year contract extension.