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Round One
Home Team		v		Away Team
Friday November 3 2000 St. George Stadium, Rockdale Referee: Greg Leverton Assistant Referees: Jim Nicolaou and Stephen Duckitt Fourth Official: G.Tamplin
St. George Stacey Alogdellis, Nick Boliantis (Bill Petrovski 16'), Michael Kladis, Simon Verrender, George Maglis (Sam Papadopoulos), Evangelos Petratos, Leon Alexiou, Chris Kalantzis, Emmanuel Papageorgiou, Alex Leris, Max Sevares (Nick Polimenakos 67'); Coach: John Sentas. Goals: Alexiou 52' Kalantzis 72'	2	-	1	Canterbury-Marrickville Jose Bello-Amigo, Greg Collins, Mathew Percy, Con Paradisis (Terry Sidiratos), Fernando Pellegrino, Steve Christoforidis (Jimmy Corbo), Jimmy Nikas, Paul Gaffney, Adrian Molachino, John Kyriazopoulos, Scott Wells; Coach: Jim Patikas. Goal: Christoforidis 23'
Saturday November 4 2000 North Power Stadium, Gosford Referee: Boyd McGregor Assistant Referees: Gordon Selkirk and Gareth Huckings Fourth Official: Jim Wright
Central Coast Darren Moore, Dane Hokin, Shaun Mathews, Marcus Steele, Michael Williams (Darren Northam), Peter Ritchie, Adam Peatey, Steve Cutler, Peter Leary (Cal Roper), Nathan Byrn, Shane Knight; Coach: Dale Eggleton. Goals: Peatey 37' Byrn 70'	2	-	1	Bonnyrigg White Eagles Fernando Greco, Sasha Utjesenovic, Tayfun Devrimol, David Harding, Robert Gomez, Stewart Van Bentum, Michael Hawrysiuk, Rajko Mandic (Garth Moring), David Reid, Devrim Huseyin, Colin Luff; Coach: Doug Utjesenovic. Goal: Reid 47'
Saturday November 4 2000 Andrews Road Field, Penrith Referee: Vic Gauci Assistant Referees: Les Spagnol and Ken Sharp Fourth Official: Jim Barnes
Penrith Panthers Ivan Necevski, Paul Cleary (Jon Hawkins), Steve Sweeney, Anthony Driene, Ben Wright, Jason Sciberras (Osvaldo El Ali), Bob Casserly, Ryan Jones, Danny Hinton, Martin Driene, Chris Ackerley; Coach: Stan Ackerley. Goal: Sweeney 10'	1	-	4	Belconnen Blue Devils Anthony Giannasca, Scott Manson (Mark Jenkins), Mathew Cachia, Lee Pietrukowski, Craig Unwin, Jamie Mauro, Oscar Zamora, Leonardo Langone (Joshua Whittington), Stephen Lazzari, George Cattanach (Matthew Julienne), Geoffrey Howarth; Coach: Lino Fiorese. Goals: Cattanach 14' Lazzari 23' 75' Mauro 80'
Saturday November 4 2000 Gabbie Stadium, Seven Hills Referee: Nick Asargiotis Assistant Referees: David Finlay and P.Thomas Fourth Official: S.Dikinerio
Blacktown City John Crawley, Damon Langan, Vadim Mikoutski, Paul Yates, Mark Racker (Steven Riches), Ben Willard, Patrick Gatt, Peter Sermanni (Chris Bradley), Damien Brown, Robert Angievski (Jason Connolly), Darren Iocca; Coach: Brian Brown. Goal: Iocca 14'	1	-	0	Leichhardt Tigers Con Anastasiadis, Fabio Macolino, Blago Milicevic (Vuko Tomasevic), Richard Luksic, Michael Galluzzo, Joe Bruni, James Stubbs-Mills, Steve Karavatakis, Zoki Adioski, Daniel Ucchino (Sam Larocca), Luke Tomich (Mathew Borg); Coach: Les De Celis.
Saturday November 4 2000 Toyota Park, Cronulla Referee: Ramsin Yousif Assistant Referees: Terry Goodhew and David Henderson Fourth Official: Ernie Horvath
Sutherland Sharks Dennes Olla (Daniel Farias 43'), Tony Judge, Jeremy Pettenon, Sean Robertson, Alen Stajcic, Pat Darvill, Jason Baron, Paul Donnelly (Anthony Kanaan 80'), Grant McDonald, Iain McDonald (Goce Trposki 68'), Grant Bard; Coach: Billy McColl. Goal: Bard 2'	1	-	1	Parramatta Eagles Jason Holmes, Daniel Borg, Malcolm Meilak, Mark Reveley, Tom Bazdaric (Ben Delicata 73'), Mathew O'Shea, Nikolce Joseski, Stephen Chipps, Daniel Cummins, Ballamodou Conde (Mauricio Islas 86'), Mark Beldham (Adam Anderson 73'); Coach: Tam Finlayson. Goal: Joseski 8'