The ultimate footy underdog story could unfold this year as diehard fans around the nation set their sights on a brand new prize \u2013 the SuperCoach Cup.<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s biggest fantasy game, SuperCoach, is back for 2026 with its whopping $50k cash for the fantasy coach who compiles the most points over the AFL season.<\/p>\n
And this year there is a new reward for all coaches right up to the final game, including those who fall off the pace early in their private leagues or overall rankings.<\/p>\n
More than 130,000 teams will face off every week in a head-to-head knockout comp \u2013 the fantasy version of the FA Cup. Catch a highly ranked team on a bad day, make a genius captain call, display your footy expertise or just fluke your way to a higher total for the week and you\u2019re into the next round.<\/p>\n
Teams are progressively eliminated until there are just two left standing in round 24, playing off for the inaugural SuperCoach Cup trophy plus $1000 in cash.<\/p>\n
Anyone can win.<\/p>\n
HOW IT WORKS<\/p>\n
At the completion of round 6 of the AFL season every team entered in SuperCoach AFL will receive a ranking from 1 up to a possible 262,144 based on their season-to-date score.<\/p>\n
Teams ranked in the top half will be randomly matched against teams in the bottom half in head-to-head contests for a one-week qualifying round. Winners proceed to the SuperCoach Cup, which starts in round 8.<\/p>\n
All of the 131,072 qualifying teams will receive a ranking based on their score in round 7 Each team in the top 65,536 is randomly matched up against a team in the bottom 65,536. The winner proceeds to the next round and the loser is out, regardless of overall rank.<\/p>\n
The process repeats for the next 16 rounds teams until there are two teams remaining in round 24. The winner of the final match-up will be crowned SuperCoach Cup champion, receiving the SuperCoach Cup trophy and $1000 cash! <\/p>\n
Once the competition reaches the final 64 (round 19), the match-ups for all participating teams will be made available for everyone to view and follow live. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ultimate footy underdog story could unfold this year as diehard fans around the nation set their sights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,588,85,229078],"class_list":["post-440172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-supercoach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}