Sydney FC is putting its unbeaten start to the season on the line when it takes on Brisbane Roar on Friday night.
The Sky Blues are sitting proudly 9 points clear at the top, but Brisbane coach John Aloisi believes the four-day turnround since Sydney's last match against Adelaide will count against Graham Arnold's men.
However, Sydney coach Arnold says his players are all in good shape and he has plenty of talent in reserve if needs be.
"It's no problem at all. Brisbane can wait until Asia and they can see the real turnarounds of three days and travelling for 12 hours each way, that makes it difficult. Here in Australia a 3 or 4 day turnaround is no problem at all. I've got 6 or 7 players, with the depth of the squad that are ready to come in."
And you can see just how Arnold's team handles that short turnaround when SBS Viceland broadcasts the match from 7.25 pm eastern.
New Year's eve on Saturday night will be a big celebration for many Australians around the country.
Should you find yourself in the mood to stay up a little later after seeing in the New Year, SBS may have just the thing with our English Premier League coverage.
Manchester United takes on Middlesbrough at Old Trafford from 1.30am AEDT on Sunday morning.
There's a number of tennis tournaments taking place around the world in the lead-up to the first major of the season: next month's Australian Open.
The Hopman Cup begins on Sunday in Perth with matches between the Czech Republic and the United States followed by Australia's clash with Spain.
Before then though, in the United Arab Emirates, Spain's former world number one Rafael Nadal continues his comeback to competitive tennis.
Nadal is taking part in the Mubadala tournament in Abu Dhabi where he'll meet Tomas Berdych first up, and he's hopeful his recent injury problems are a thing of the past.
"Well, the main goal is being healthy, if you are healthy then the rest of the things are still difficult but not impossible, so the good thing is I practised a lot for a month and a half with no pain, that gave me the chance to practise the things that I wanted to practise and now is the moment to to compete and I have matches, and only with matches do you have the chance to be on rhythm and to play well."
Nadal's last Grand Slam title was the French Open in 2014.
Cricket's Boxing Day Test comes to a conclusion on Friday, but the Big Bash cricket will keep fans entertained before the third test between Australia and Pakistan gets underway on Tuesday at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
On Friday, the men take centre stage in Brisbane when the Heat and Hobart Hurricanes meet.
Tomorrow afternoon it's the women's turn when the Adelaide Strikers and Perth Scorchers play.
And in the evening, the men's Adelaide Strikers take on the Sydney Sixers.
Then on Sunday, there's a Melbourne Derby for both women and men - ladies first in the afternoon before the men's match begins at 6pm AEDT.
And basketball fans can get their fill of holiday action on SBS when Melbourne United takes on the Adelaide 36ers on Sunday afternoon.
The match coverage gets underway at 3pm AEDT.
Should you happen to be out and about in Adelaide and its surrounds over the weekend, keep an eye out for one of the true stars of world cycling.
Peter Sagan has arrived in Australia a month early to prepare for the Tour Down Under.
The 26 year-old Slovakian has become something of a rock star in the sport since he made his debut on the world stage at the event 6 years ago.
Since then he's won two world road championships, seven stages at the Tour de France, and some of the sport's top one-day classics, including the 2016 Tour of Flanders.
Sagan explained his decision to arrive four weeks before the Tour Down Under this year is more to do with the weather as much as preparing for next year's upcoming world tour.
"In Europe it's bad weather, and I want to just train no pressure from what are you going to do today because it's raining or snowing. And I came here also because of jet lag and everything and I'll spend one month here and I think I'll have a good time."
The Tour Down Under runs from January 14-22.
Should Sagan win, he may tempted to stick around in Australia for a few more days - he turns 27 on Australia Day.
