Heartbreak for Sydney FC because the A-League trophy heads throughout the Tasman for the primary time

Auckland FC have claimed a historic A-League Males championship title with a 1-0 grand remaining win over Sydney FC in simply their second season.

New Zealand worldwide and membership inaugural signing Cam Howieson was the hero at a sold-out Go Media Stadium in Auckland, firing the match-winner within the sixtieth minute.

It was his first ever A-League purpose in 58 video games for the membership. 

Auckland turned the primary New Zealand staff to win an A-League grand remaining, doing so in entrance of a raucous 28,374-strong crowd on house soil on Saturday.

A Sydney FC nice, Auckland coach Steve Corica claimed his third championship after main the Sky Blues to back-to-back titles in 2019 and 2020.

Corica is the primary coach within the A-League males’s period to win three grand finals, with Ange Postecoglou profitable two Nationwide Soccer League championships and two within the fashionable league.

Final 12 months’s premiers Auckland are the third membership in league historical past to win a grand remaining from outdoors the highest two, having completed the common season in third.

Howieson gained the Joe Marston Medal, awarded to the most effective participant within the A-League grand remaining.

Extra to come back 

Auckland FC elevate the trophy after changing into the primary New Zealand staff to win an A-League

Cam Howieson was the match-winner for Auckland along with his sixtieth minute strike

Dejected Sydney FC gamers replicate on the heartbreaking loss