1963 Australia Cup

Football tournament season

1963 Australia Cup
Tournament details
Country	Australia
Teams	24
Final positions
Champions	Port Melbourne Slavia (1st title)
Runner-up	Polonia Melbourne
Tournament statistics
Matches played	25
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The 1963 Australia Cup was the second season of the Australia Cup, which was the main national association football knockout cup competition in Australia. 24 clubs from around Australia qualified to enter the competition.^[1]^[2]

Teams

Qualifying clubs
NNSW	Wallsend	West Wallsend	Awaba	Newcastle Austral
NSW	Sydney Prague	APIA Leichhardt	South Coast United	Pan Hellenic
QLD	Brisbane Hellenic	Brisbane Azzurri	Latrobe	Merton Rovers
SA	Adelaide Juventus	Adelaide Budapest	Adelaide Croatia	Adelaide Polonia
TAS	Olympia	Launceston Juventus	Ulverstone	Hobart Rangers
VIC	Footscray JUST	Polonia Melbourne	George Cross	Port Melbourne Slavia

Round 1

29 September 1963

Toronto Awaba	6–5	West Wallsend

Newcastle

29 September 1963

Newcastle Austral	3–0	Wallsend

Newcastle

Brisbane Hellenic	4–2	Merton Rovers

Brisbane

Brisbane Azzurri	1–0	Latrobe

Brisbane

Hobart Olympia	3–2	Launceston Juventus

Tasmania

Hobart Rangers	1–0	Ulverstone

Tasmania

Adelaide Juventus	6–0	Adelaide Polonia

Adelaide

Adelaide Budapest	3–0	Adelaide Croatia

Adelaide

Round 2

29 September 1963

15:00 AEST

APIA Leichhardt	2–0	South Coast United
Baumgartner 34' Wong 48'	Report

Wentworth Park, Glebe^[3]^[4]

Attendance: 8,500

Referee: S. Pundyk

5 October 1963

Adelaide Juventus	3–1	Adelaide Budapest
Crawford 54' Govelli 69' Moriarty 84'		A. Zsuppan 81'

Thebarton Oval, Adelaide

Attendance: 4,200

Referee: Bill Hosie

5 October 1963

Port Melbourne Slavia	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Footscray JUST
Auchie (pen.) Palmer Harper		Stankovic Pejovic

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne^[2]

Toronto Awaba	2–3	Brisbane Hellenic

Crystal Palace, Wallsend

7 October 1963

Sydney Prague	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Pan Hellenic
Sherwin 7' Badaracco 106'	Report	Logan 12'

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 6,700

Referee: S. Pundyk

Brisbane Azzurri	1–0	Newcastle Austral

Brisbane

6 October 1963

Polonia Melbourne	0–0 (a.e.t.)	George Cross

Penalties
	4–3

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne^[2]

Hobart Olympia	5–1	Hobart Rangers

Tasmania

Quarter-finals

13 October 1963

Sydney Prague	5–2	Brisbane Hellenic

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 2,100^[2]

13 October 1963

Brisbane Azzurri	0–3	Polonia Melbourne

Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane

Attendance: 7,300^[2]

13 October 1963

Port Melbourne Slavia	3–1	APIA Leichhardt

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 11,000^[2]

12 October 1963

Adelaide Juventus	3–0	Hobart Olympia

Thebarton Oval, Adelaide

Attendance: 5,000^[2]

Semi-finals

20 October 1963

Polonia Melbourne	3–1	Sydney Prague

Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne

Attendance: 10,500^[2]

19 October 1963

Port Melbourne Slavia	2–0	Adelaide Juventus

Thebarton Oval, Adelaide

Attendance: 6,500^[2]

Third place playoff

27 October 1963

Sydney Prague	1–2	Adelaide Juventus

Wentworth Park, Sydney

Attendance: 2,000^[2]

Final

27 October 1963

Port Melbourne Slavia	0–0	Polonia Melbourne

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 12,500^[2]

Referee: Tony Boskovic

Replay

3 November 1963

Port Melbourne Slavia	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Polonia Melbourne
Des Palmer 81', 85', 104'	Report	Wieslaw Janczyk 19' (pen.) Michael Jurecki 61'

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 9,000^[2]

Referee: Tony Boskovic

References

^ "The Australia Cup". goalweekly.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Andrew Robinson (11 June 2016). "Australia Cup 1963 – Results".
^ "Soccer World Vol. 06, No. 35". Soccer World. 27 September 1963. p. 3. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
^ "Soccer World Vol. 06, No. 36". Soccer World. 4 October 1963. p. 5. Retrieved 20 October 2023.