Western Sydney Starting Lineup: Ante Covic, Dino Kresinger, Labinot Haliti, Mark Bridge, Mateo Poljak, Michael Beauchamp, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Shannon Cole, Tarek Elrich, Youssouf Hersi, Yianni Perkatis.
Western Sydney Substitutions: Jason Trifiro (Yianni Perkatis 69), Rocky Visconte (Tarek Elrich 75), Kwabena Appiah-Kubi (Youssouf Hersi 84).
Western Sydney Unused Substitues: Carlos Saliadarre.
Western Sydney Goals: Mark Bridge (6, 33), Rocky Visconte (80).
Western Sydney Manager: Tony Popovic.
Opponent Starting Lineup: Mark Birighitti, Dominik Ritter, Connor CHapman, Joshua Brillante, Craig Goodwin, Zenon Caravella, Ruben Zadkovich, Michael Bridges, Emile Heskey, Marko Jesic, Adam Taggart.
Opponent Substitutions: Scott Neville (Marko Jesic 45), James Brown (Michael Bridges 65), James Virgili (Craig Goodwin 65).
Note 1: As a result of winning this match the Western Sydney Wanderers won the A-League Season 2012/13 Premiership.
Note 2: Winning the A-League Premiership by finishing first at the end of the regular season ensures that Western Sydney will play in the 2014 Asian Champions League with a direct entry to the Group Stage.
Note 3: Yianni Perkatis made his A-League and Western Sydney Wanderers debut in this match, playing very well in a holding midfield role before being substituted in the second half.
Note 4: Winning this match continued an unbeaten run of 12 games including this match.
Note 5: Rocky Visconte scored his first ever goal for Western Sydney.
Note 6: This match was attended by approximately 10,000 travelling Western Sydney supporters, and was the highest attendance of any non-Sydney Derby match that the Wanderers have played in. The attendance of 22,518 is the highest ever for a Newcastle Jets home regular season match, and their 3rd highest including finals matches.
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