{"id":6647,"date":"2020-05-21T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:02:54","slug":"a-league-hub-sports-betting-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/a-league-hub-sports-betting-australia","title":{"rendered":"A-League set to resume under quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland being considered as possible locations to play out the rest of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- Australia&#8217;s A-League is set to resume its football season at a specific hub in New South Wales (NSW) Victoria or Queensland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hub will be where the remaining games of the 2019\/20 season will be played, in a tournament-style format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan would mean that players and staff from all 11 A-League clubs would be based in the same location until the season was completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Queensland is one of several states under consideration to serve as the location for the remainder of the A-League 2019-20 season,&#8221; an FFA (Football Federation Australia) spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The A-League has been suspended in Australia since March 23 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/k-league-south-korea-social-media\">the K League in South Korea has experienced a record-high number of global viewers<\/a><\/em><\/strong> since its restart last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland being considered as possible locations to play out the rest of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Australia's A-League is preparing to resume its 2019\/20 football season in a centralized hub format, with New South Wales, Victoria, or Queensland under consideration as host states. This move follows a suspension since March 23 due0 to the Covid-19 pandemic, mirroring the K League's recent restart in South Korea which has seen increased global viewership.","focusai_entities":"A-League, FFA (Football Federation Australia), K League","focusai_location":"Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"operator_casino (0.85), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Betting Revenue Projections","query":"What is the anticipated GGR impact for licensed sports betting operators in Australia from the A-League's resumption, and how might the centralized hub format influence betting volume and market liquidity?"},{"label":"Operational Readiness","query":"What B2B supplier integrations and platform scalability adjustments are required for operators to effectively capitalize on the A-League's return, particularly concerning real-time data feeds and odds management?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16336,161,155],"tags":[289,233],"class_list":["post-6647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australasia-news","category-daily-news","category-sports-betting-news","tag-australia","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21387,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions\/21387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}