A-League Foreign Players

A-League Foreign Players

Have just been looking at other teams import players and noticed that none of the New Zealanders playing for other A-League teams appear to count as visa players. For some reason I always thought we had a massive advantage in that we could sign Australians and New Zealanders, while the australian based teams had to sign NZers as foreign players.

I think you were wrong to begin with. It would be stupid for the FFA not to make it work the other way around as well.

yea i always thought it was stupid, but for some reason thats the way i thought it was...

NZ players are overseas players at aussie clubs. Used to count as local players originally (and should still under CER in my probably wrong opinion) but changed I think when they shifted to Asia.

There are a few cases where New Zealanders have Australian passports though, Moss and Smeltz for example. So they are not imports.

yea thats how i thought it was.  i was looking at the visa players bit of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-League, and just got a bit confused about what the actual rules were.

Umm no New Zealand players aren't counted as import players in Australian clubs. All New Zealand and Australian players are considered locals in ALL of the A-League clubs.

I am looking at that now and a lot of it seems incorrect. Especially with the marquee lists. I was 100% sure that NZers are foreigners in Oz teams, though only 99% sure now NZers are foreign players. Bullion2010-10-26 17:30:55

For once and for all, NZers are not foreign players!!!

You are so wrong. 


NZ'ers are not foreign players for the Nix, but they are for Aussie teams, unless they have an Aussie passport too. 

^^  is right

 Kiwis are foreign players in A league clubs in Aus unless they have an Aussie passport

They need to be good to be accepted there, taking up an import slot

What does it take for someone to get an Aussie passport?

Does Kosta have one??

Live in Australia for so many years I guess? Moss and Smeltz both grew up on the Gold Coast.

No.

Citizenship. (Not permanent residency.)

Then how did it work for the Brisbane Roar? Reinaldo only became a citizen in September but before that with Kosta there by my count that would have been 6 foreign players (excuse me if I'm wrong about this though).

Yeah, I thought 5 too - two Brazilians, the Kostarican, Broich and Kosta

Matt Smith?

Ok fair enough, my fault for not doing my homework properly! It's still a totally stupid rule though if Kiwis count as foreigners in other teams.

No it's not.

If they weren't foreigners then you'd expect us to get entry into the ACL as well as all the other perks the other 10 teams have.

TBH, we have it pretty sweet.Scottishbhoy2010-10-26 21:51:50

Well they'd count as foreigners in the ACL, so you can see why they made the rule.