Ten years after the Western Sydney Wanderers lifted the AFC Champions League, the smallest club in Australia pulled off an equally remarkable achievement.
The Central Coast Mariners have ended Australia’s painful 10-year drought in Asian club competitions after beating Lebanese outfit Al Ahed 1-0 to win the AFC Cup and remain on track for a historic and unprecedented treble.
The Mariners had to weather a late storm from Al Ahed to successfully see out their victory and clinch the first piece of silverware for an Australian team in Asia since the Western Sydney Wanderers’ miraculous AFC Champions League title in 2014. No team has ever won the A-League premiership and championship and an Asian trophy in the same season; indeed, the Mariners were just the third Aussie team to even make an AFC final, after the Wanderers and Adelaide United in 2008.
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