{"id":331402,"date":"2025-11-27T13:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/?p=331402"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:52:56","slug":"sydney-derby-the-biggest-event-on-the-domestic-sporting-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/news\/sydney-derby-the-biggest-event-on-the-domestic-sporting-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Derby the \u2018biggest event on the domestic sporting calendar\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Sydney Derby is the number one event on the Australian sporting calendar, according to Western Sydney Wanderers head coach Alen Stajcic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Western Sydney will host fierce cross-town rivals Sydney FC in the first Sydney Derby of the Isuzu UTE A-League 2025-26 season on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sydney Derby has become a marquee event on the sporting calendar, and Stajcic is relishing the latest instalment of the showpiece fixture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GET YOUR TICKETS TO THE SYDNEY DERBY HERE.<\/a><\/strong>

\u201cFor me, it\u2019s probably the biggest event on the domestic sporting calendar, regardless of code. I don\u2019t know any bigger game, the atmosphere is unrivalled in any sport,\u201d Stajcic told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been to a lot of AFL and NRL matches. They don\u2019t match the Sydney Derby for noise and excitement and passion and fever.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve really got one of the marquee events in our competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important that we embrace all that as fans and as members of both clubs and fans of our sport and players in the game and administrators the game, we embrace that we really have one of the pinnacle occasions of the sporting calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – NOVEMBER 26: Marcel Tisserand of Sydney FC and Alex Gersbach of the Western Sydney Wanderers \nSydney FC pose during a media opportunity ahead of this weekend’s A-League derby between Western Sydney Wanderers and Sydney FC, at CommBank Stadium on November 26, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe Photography\/Getty Images for A-Leagues)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Wanderers welcome high-flying Sydney FC to CommBank Stadium in Round 6 on the back of their first win of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Sky Blues are top of the standings amid a run of four consecutive victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group\u2019s in a good place at the moment, mentally and physically,\u201d said Sydney FC head coach Ufuk Talay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve come off some really positive results leading into this game.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GET YOUR TICKETS TO THE SYDNEY DERBY HERE.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWanderers had a good result against Central Coast over the weekend. So look, there\u2019s no easy game in the competition, but at the moment I think where we\u2019re at and where the group is at, I think we\u2019re in a good place and hopefully we can bring that on the weekend as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":331404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"competition":[],"acf":{"match_card_embed_league":null,"match_card_embed_club":null,"match_card_embed_match":false,"match_card_embed_disable":true,"auto_publish_updates":true,"reference_article":null,"article_featured_video":"","article_featured_video_tagline":"","article_byline":"Sacha Pisani","article_media_type":"news","article_video":"","gallery":"","shared_ffa_source":"keepup","shared_hide_in_app":false,"article_player":"","article_team":"","article_competition":"","article_match":"","credit":"","related_articles":"","push_to_social":false,"priority":1,"sport":false,"language":"en","private_content":false,"access_level":"","article_id":"","app_featured_image":null,"article_content_group":"news"},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"http:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/news\/sydney-derby-the-biggest-event-on-the-domestic-sporting-calendar\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Sydney Derby the \u2018biggest event on the domestic sporting calendar\u2019","url":"http:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/news\/sydney-derby-the-biggest-event-on-the-domestic-sporting-calendar\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/news\/sydney-derby-the-biggest-event-on-the-domestic-sporting-calendar\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/11\/Alen.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/11\/Alen.png"},"articleSection":"Uncategorized","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"jcsaszar"}],"creator":["jcsaszar"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Western Sydney Wanderers","logo":"https:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/cropped-Western_Sydney_Wanderers_FC-2.png"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2025-11-27T02:52:54Z","datePublished":"2025-11-27T02:52:54Z","dateModified":"2025-11-27T02:52:56Z"},"rendered":"