The battle to reach the grand final of football's A-League takes centre stage in sport this weekend.
There is also plenty of National Rugby League, AFL and tennis happening around the world for sports fans to enjoy.
It has come down to the last four teams.
Sydney FC, the runaway winner of the regular season with a record points total, looks unstoppable.
The Sky Blues take on the Perth Glory on Saturday night as strong favourites to progress to the grand final.
Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold says the week off since the regular season ended has been time well spent getting his side's mental approach right.
"This type of time is, the best thing is the mental freshen-up. And we work a lot every day on the mental aspect of the game as a group and, also, individually, and the boys are mentally ready to go."
Perth stunned Melbourne City in the Victorian capital last weekend to reach Saturday's showdown with Sydney.
Glory captain Rostyn Griffiths suggests his side might have a chance if Sydney takes the team too lightly.
"They've achieved so much this season, they wouldn't want to let it slip, but, at the same time, you never know, they could get a little bit complacent. You know, maybe let their guard slip a little bit. But if we can put in a performance similar to the Melbourne City one, and all 11 players put in the best and hardest shift they can for the 90 minutes, I don't see why we can't give it a bit of a shake-up."
You can see if Perth can shake up Sydney on SBS Viceland on Saturday evening.
On Sunday, there is another entertaining clash in store when the Melbourne Victory take on the Brisbane Roar.
Victory striker Besart Berisha and the Roar's Jamie McLaren shared the Golden Boot trophy with 19 goald each in the regular season.
That match, too, can be seen on SBS.
In the National Rugby League tonight, there are two matches, with the North Queensland Cowboys taking on Parramatta and South Sydney facing the Manly Sea Eagles.
In recent weeks, the sport has been flooded with media speculation about the playing future of several big-name players.
It has annoyed some in the game and pleased others.
But it has prompted Australian Rugby League Commission chairman John Grant to put a transfer window on the agenda for the sport to consider.
"There's two schools of thought on this. One school is that this a bad look for the game. The other school of thought is that this is great theatre. So I'm not about to get into that. We'll look at a trade window because its the right thing to do."
In the AFL tonight, the Greater Western Sydney Giants are up against the defending premiers, the Western Bulldogs.
Both are off to good starts, with four wins out of five games, to lie in fourth and fifth, respectively.
The match is being played at Canberra's Manuka Oval and will be the first time Greater Western Sydney has featured in a Friday night match.
Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge says he is more concerned with getting the win than putting on a show, though.
"It doesn't really matter how you win them as long as you do. But as I said last week, we'd like to get control of a game or two and be in control for most of the game and get to the line that way, and we'll endeavour to try and do that this Friday night."
In tennis this weekend, Maria Sharapova will look to build on her winning return to action after serving a 15-month doping ban.
The 30-year-old Russian downed Italian veteran Roberta Vinci at the Stuttgart Grand Prix.
Vinci was an outspoken critic of the way Sharapova was given a wildcard* entry in her first start back.
Other top players have gone on record saying she should not have been allowed to return to the circuit at all.
Sharapova says she is determined to continue her return to the top flight and not take any criticism from fellow players or the media too seriously.
"It's not my job to think whether it's personal or not, it's not what matters. Words and quotes and articles are not what matters in life, and I've learnt that very well in the past year. So there will be articles after a match, there will be articles after I win a match, after I lose a match. After what somebody says, they go away."
Another top female athlete looking to rebuild a stalled career for different reasons is 25-year-old Australian basketball star Liz Cambage.
The 203-centimetre centre has confirmed she will return to action in October after not playing a match since the Opals missed an Olympic medal last August in Rio de Janeiro.
Cambage will play with the Melbourne Boomers in the Women's National Basketball League.
The first woman to dunk* the ball at an Olympic Games says she would love nothing more than to start her long road back with the first dunk in her new league.
"I do like to be the first person to do things, and I don't think anyone's dunked in the WNBL yet, so that could be a nice way to start the season."
Before October's league gets underway, Cambage will study at Deakin University in Melbourne, in between another love of her life, DJ'ing at dance parties.
