The 2011 NAB Cup was the Australian Football League (AFL) pre-season competition played before the 2011 season.
With the introduction of the Gold Coast Football Club and Greater Western Sydney Giants (the latter required to make the competition feature a manageable 18 teams), the format for the 2011 NAB Cup was as follows:[1] The first round fixtures were announced by the AFL on 26 October 2010.
[2][3] On 16 December 2010, the AFL announced the towns that will play host to the NAB Challenge competition.
Week 2 saw matches played at Lavington for the first time since 2006 as well as games at Southport, Bunbury, Shepparton, Visy Park and AAMI Stadium.
In the final week of the competition, matches were played at Coffs Harbour, North Ballarat, Southport, Willaston near Gawler (SA), Fremantle, Aurora Stadium and Visy Park.