The 2013 Foxtel Cup was the third season of the Australian rules football knock-out cup competition involving clubs from the various state league competitions from around Australia. The Cup's purpose is to support and promote the second-tier Australian rules football competitions and to provide another way of developing lower-tier Australian Football League (AFL) players. All matches, as in previous years, were broadcast by Fox Footy. The format of the competition saw four significant changes from the first two years of the competition: