A-League Men's game postponed due to team outbreak

Tonight's A-League Men's lucifer betwixt the Central Coast Mariners and Wellington Phoenix has been postponed.

The announcement was made aft the Central Coast Mariners confirmed respective players had tested affirmative to COVID-19, forcing them into isolation.

As a portion of protocols successful New South Wales, each A-Leagues players and coaching unit acquisition regular investigating processes.

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Matheus Moresche of the Mariners is challenged by Themba Muata-Marlow of Leichhardt FC. (Getty)

"All players and unit person precocious undergone PCR testing, nevertheless inactive await the effect of those tests," the Central Coast Mariners said successful a statement.

"As per the authorities restrictions, these players and unit are labelled arsenic adjacent contacts and indispensable self-isolate until a antagonistic effect is received from those PCR tests.

"The information of our players, officials and spectators is our superior interest and we are moving intimately with A-Leagues and NSW Health to enact league protocol and to bounds immoderate imaginable dispersed of the virus."

The scheduled A-League Women's lucifer volition inactive spell ahead, nevertheless play volition hap down closed doors successful the involvement of safety.

A determination astir the Mariners' New Year's Eve fixture with Macarthur FC volition beryllium made successful owed course.

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