Macarthur FC was crowned the 2022 Aus­tralia Cup Win­ners af­ter de­feat­ing Syd­ney Unit­ed 58 2-0 in the fi­nal at Comm­Bank Sta­di­um on Sat­ur­day night.

A pair of penal­ties from Al Has­san Toure and Ulis­es Davi­la se­cured the Bulls' first-ever piece of sil­ver­ware in for­mer T&T foot­baller Dwight Yorke’s first sea­son as a head coach.

Yorke, whose as­sis­tant is coun­try­man Rus­sell Lat­apy, said: "This [achieve­ment] has to be up there. It's from a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive be­cause now I'm a man­ag­er and not a play­er. It's been a fan­tas­tic tran­si­tion in­to man­age­ment. Cer­tain­ly com­ing to Macarthur the ex­pec­ta­tions here have gone up a notch. I didn't ex­pect to get to the fi­nal and win my first tro­phy in so lit­tle time, but cred­it to the play­ers."

Macarthur en­joyed the li­on's share of pos­ses­sion and chances in the open­ing half and found a break­through in the 32nd minute when Toure con­vert­ed from the penal­ty spot af­ter An­tho­ny Tomel­ic fouled Davi­la in­side the area.

The goal which was Toure’s fifth of the com­pe­ti­tion sees the 22-year-old at­tack­er fin­ish as the 2022 Aus­tralia Cup top goal scor­er.

Lachie Rose came close to dou­bling the Bulls' lead ear­ly in the sec­ond half when he sent his head­er crash­ing against the wood­work on the end of a Davi­la cross.

Dwight Yorke’s side was award­ed a sec­ond penal­ty in the 90th minute when Cris­t­ian Gon­za­lez dragged down Macarthur sub­sti­tute Craig Noone.

Davi­la, who was award­ed the Mark Vidu­ka Medal fol­low­ing an out­stand­ing per­for­mance made no mis­take from the spot, send­ing Dani­jel Niz­ic the wrong way to seal the ti­tle for the Bulls.

Macarthur's Aus­tralia Cup tri­umph sees them earn a spot in the 2023/24 AFC Cup Group Stage.

Re­sults

Syd­ney Unit­ed 58 0 vs Macarthur FC - 2 (Al Has­san Toure 32nd, Ulis­es Davi­la 90th)