The A-League could do with a crowd-pulling team or two that make the fans proud of their sport and champion Victory certainly is the best equipped to give the competition the fillip it needs badly.
Ten years after the creation of the A-League, club football in Australia is not where it should be although it would be unfair not to recognise that the standard of play is higher than that shown in the competition's formative years.
Off the field it is a different story.
There are several reasons for the nervous uncertainty that surrounds the game.
The best players continue to find greener pastures abroad in greater numbers while the level of marquee player continues to fall.
Three clubs that have won five A-League titles between them are in dire financial straits.
Newcastle Jets, the champion in 2008, is under Football Federation Australia's administration until the governing body finds a buyer.
Three-time champion Brisbane Roar is likely to be taken over by FFA after the club's Indonesian owner struck massive financial problems and is trying to sell the club.
And 2013 champion Central Coast Mariners is still hanging by a thread, forever struggling to make ends meet.
On top of all this, FFA is at loggerheads with the players' union, Professional Footballers Australia, over the contentious collective bargaining agreement.
It is not exactly a healthy state of affairs for the league at a time when the AFL ad NRL have secured massive television deals worth billions of dollars.
It makes David Gallop's declaration in 2013 that football would become the country's number one sport rather laughable, although the FFA chief executive has scaled down this claim to a wish list.
Football has done well to survive its first decade in a difficult market but it needs a little help from a friend to go forward and this is where Victory comes in.
Kevin Muscat's team won the A-League in May with a stirring 3-0 victory over its bitter rival Sydney FC that capped off an exemplary season highlighted by some exhilarating play and incredible goals, most of them coming from the cultured boots of Besart Berisha and Archie Thompson.
Victory was the shining light in a season that felt the backlash of the contemporaneous departure of foreign marquees Alessandro Del Piero, Shinji Ono and Emile Heskey.
Not for the first time, Victory played a brand of attacking football that drew the crowds and in a way compensated for a drop in the overall standard of the competition.
It was a credit to the league in 2014-2015 in the same way Brisbane Roar enriched the club football scene with its eye-catching, possession game in 2010-2011 and 2011-2012, when it won back-to-back championships.
Victory has managed to keep the bulk of its championship-winning team - except for influential captain Mark Milligan who now plays in the United Arab Emirates - and it will have every reason to expect another bumper season.
Its fans certainly think so because more than 21,000 season tickets have been sold. Many European clubs would love to have that sort of membership base.
The A-League does not necessarily need Victory to be successful in terms of winning silverware. However, it is vitally important that the team continues to thrill the crowds with its highly positive approach and more importantly bring the best out of its opposition - in the same way Brisbane set a benchmark and raised the general standards three years ago.
The last thing the league needs at the moment is a pragmatic team that grinds its way to the title, offering very little entertainment along the way.
Let's be clear about this, the league's current off-field problems won't go away if Victory sets the pulses racing for another season and gets the fans and the media talking about the game for the right reasons.
And Victory cannot do the job on its own.
But a positive performance from Muscat's navy blues would go a long way towards reinforcing the belief among the doubters that the A-League is still on the right track to become one of the mainstays of Australian sport.
The A-League was suffering from a serious dose of uncertainty a few years into its existence before Ange Postecoglou's Brisbane team came along and restored the fans' faith in the competition amid widespread acclaim.
Victory, which plays Rockdale City Suns in the last 16 of the FFA Cup next week, has a golden opportunity to do the same thing at a time when the game needs a morale boost.
Many believe that the league could do with a few top-class marques to put more bums on seats and give the competition the oomph and wow factor it badly needs.
I am not sure if this is the best solution, at least as far as the long term is concerned, because marquee signings tend to be band-aid solutions or blatant money-making exercises that have nothing to do with development.
Victory is collectively capable of doing a 'marquee' job just as well.
Especially if it forces its main rivals to lift their game.
