An electrician, a bricklayer, a year 12 student and a midfielder whose job is listed as “demolition”.

A canteen famous for its souvlakis.

A suburban legal firm for a sponsor.

Sounds like a bog standard suburban sporting club.

Yet the Bentleigh Greens, based in Cheltenham in Melbourne’s south east, will be the focus of Australian football on Tuesday night as they attempt to join the ranks of that familiar football trope – The Giantkiller.

Bricklayer Jack Webster in action for Bentleigh Greens. Photo: Getty

Britain has been serving them up for more than a century in the FA Cup, the egalitarian competition open to all comers. Think Wrexham beating reigning English champions Arsenal in 1992, or Millwall or Cardiff City making the final in the 2000s.

Almost 150 years after the first FA Cup, Australia has this season introduced its own version of the grassroots knockout – the FFA Cup.

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The Bentleigh Greens are the FFA Cup’s first fairytale.

On Tuesday night at the Kingston Heath Soccer Complex, they will host A-League club Perth Glory in a semi-final. The winner will play either Adelaide United or the Central Coast Mariners in the final.

It should be a mismatch of monumental proportions.

According to transfermarket.com, Bentleigh’s playing list has a market value of $36,000, compared to Perth Glory’s $12 million. (Mind you, neither are quite in the league of Manchester United’s $664 million.)

While Bentleigh has several players who have A-League experience, notably former Melbourne Victory player Luke Pilkington, its players earn between $200 and $700 a match.

Bentleigh coach John Anastasiadis. Photo: Getty

By contrast, the roster at Perth Glory includes Irish international striker Andy Keogh, who is valued at $1 million, and Perth youngster Daniel De Silva, who is on loan from Italian club Roma, which paid an A-League transfer record of $2.5 million for his services.

Perth’s sponsor, QBE Insurance, is worth more than $15 billion.

Bentleigh’s sponsor is Zaparas, a family-based, personal injury legal firm from Oakleigh, which will have national exposure live on Foxtel on Tuesday night.

Bentleigh, coached by former National Soccer League striker John Anastasiadis, does have one advantage.

Its opponents had to play an A-League match in Gosford against the Mariners just 48 hours before the semi. Mind you, Glory won, and are now sitting on top of the A-League table.

Not that Bentleigh’s players watched it, choosing to train at the same time for what will be their first match against a truly professional outfit. 

“I’m sure someone’s taped it and JA will be keeping an eye on it,” said Pilkington.

“We’ll go out there, leave nothing on the pitch and see what comes of it.”

The Bentleigh Greens were formed in 1986 by Melbourne’s thriving Greek Cypriot community.

Several hundred kilograms of souvlaki meat has been ordered to prepare for what the club is hoping will be a capacity 3000 crowd.

It is fair to say that, for one night at least, most Australian football fans will be voting Green.

– with AAP