SYDNEY FC enter the Hyundai A-League 2010 Finals Series as the team with the lowest average goals against per match record for a Hyundai A-League home-and-away season. Sydney FC have conceded just 23 goals in its 27 matches during the Hyundai A-League 2009/10 season, an average of just 0.85 goals conceded per match, which was lower than the previous record of 0.90 goals conceded per game set by Adelaide United in 2008/09 and Sydney FC in 2006/07.

MELBOURNE VICTORY will be aiming to maintain an enviable record of never having lost any of their previous six Hyundai A-League Finals Series matches to date. The Victory drew their first Hyundai A-League Finals Series match 0-0 in 2007, and have since won every Hyundai A-League Finals Series encounter. The Victory's stunning for-and-against record in these matches (all played against Adelaide United) stands at 15 scored and just 1 conceded.

GOLD COAST UNITED's third placing on the Hyundai A-League 2009/10 final ladder was the best regular season placing of a new national league team since Carlton (second in 1997/98), apart from the first Hyundai A-League season. Gold Coast are now aiming to become the first team since Carlton in 1997/98 to reach a national league Grand Final in their first season (apart from the first season of the Hyundai A-League). Apart from the first Championship-deciding Grand Final in the old NSL (1984) and Hyundai A-League (2006), no other debutant team has reached the national Grand Final.

Along with the top two teams Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory, the NEWCASTLE JETS are participating in a record fourth Hyundai A-League Finals Series in 2010. The Jets however will be aiming to turn an end-of-regular-season slump around, having lost all of their four previous matches - apart from Central Coast Mariners, no other current Hyundai A-League club has ever lost five on the trot.

After ten years of trying, WELLINGTON PHOENIX have become the first New Zealand-based team to reach a national football league finals series, following the failure of Football Kingz in the old NSL (1999/2000 to 2003/04) and NZ Knights (2005/06 to 2006/07) to enter the finals phase. Prior to this season (fourth out of 10 teams), a New Zealand-based team has finished in the top half of a ladder just once (Football Kingz 1999/2000 - eighth out of 16 teams).

Considering past five matches, PERTH GLORY are the form team leading into the Hyundai A-League 2010 Finals Series, having lost just one from their past five matches.

The Glory however will be hoping that finals experience of its players has no bearing on things, considering that no current Perth Glory player has previously played in a finals series match (there are six squad members in each of the two other debutant Hyundai A-League Finals Series teams - Gold Coast United and Wellington Phoenix - with Hyundai A-League Finals Series experience).