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By Matt Walsh


MELBOURNE Oscar Murillo World Cup Jersey , May 15 (Xinhua) -- Australia's premier football competition reaches its climax on the coming Sunday, when the A-League's biggest and oldest rivals from Melbourne and Sydney face off in a Grand Final... in a stadium that can only hold 30,000 fans.


As a result, tens of thousands of football fans will miss out of seeing the match live in Melbourne, as experts have predicted that more than 65,000 people would have attended if it had been held at a larger venue.


Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC boast more than 35,700 members between them but a scheduling clash with another code - Australian football's AFL - has forced the teams to square off in a stadium that not only cannot fit all of both teams' members Miguel Borja World Cup Jersey , but would not qualify as a World Cup venue.


Instead, the two teams have been shunted to the boutique-sized AAMI Park, the third-largest venue in Melbourne, despite Australia's footballing body, the FFA, preferring the 56,000-capacity Etihad Stadium. (The Melbourne Cricket Ground holds 100 Mateus Uribe World Cup Jersey ,000 people.)


But Etihad Stadium was booked out by the Australian Football League (AFL) for a scheduled match on Sunday afternoon, and while the MCG was available on Friday night, the FFA preferred to play its showpiece match in a Sunday twilight timeslot.


Given soccer's growing popularity in the country, the indigenous AFL code has been reluctant to accommodate the FFA's wishes regarding its Grand Final.


The AFL has argued that it booked Etihad Stadium months ago, and that the FFA and the A-League should have covered its bases long before the AFL schedule came out in November.


Playing the match at the 30,000-capacity AAMI Park is expected to cost the FFA nearly one million U.S dollars in ticket sale revenue.


Melbourne Victory has admitted that all of its 24,000 members should be able to secure one of the 26 Leandro Castellanos World Cup Jersey ,500 tickets allocated for Victory supporters and