In the past week, City unveiled its new W-League facility as both the men and women triumphed to Victory on Sunday.

However, the Dutchman believes winning the Cup would merely scratch the surface in the clubs vision.

“(The final) doesn’t cap it off, it’s a start, because we want to be ambitious, we want to play in the highest positions, we want to play finals,” he said.

“It’s a start, the result the result is very important, loss or win, it’s something we want to continue, so it’s only a start…it’s a start for taking off.

“Tomorrow night is the most important game for the club in its history, that’s very clear because we can win a prize.

“We all know that and I think It’s something we should work hard on and look forward to, but it’s not another game again, it’s the most important in history.

“I heard there are still tickets available, we’d like to invite even more fans to come and support, these are great games and the players are looking forward to it.”

Both clubs top the A-League table after eight rounds with Sydney FC boasting a clean bill of health and an extra day to recover after finishing a 0-0 with Adelaide United on Saturday night.

Apart from Corey Gameiro (ACL – season) and Steve Kuzmanovski (ACL – season), van’t Schip has a fit squad including returning winger Nicolas Colazo who made his comeback from a Round Two ear injury in the final 15 minutes of the 2-1 Wellington Phoenix win on Sunday.

The Dutchman believed the importance of the final meant minor injuries would not have a major effect on his players.

“If you play a final, normally this would be the day off in a normal, players feel all niggles and little things,” he said.

“But with the final mentally something happens with players – everybody is up for it, you don’t feel the little things that maybe after a game you feel. So for every player that can go out there and play a final or part of a final, they will be OK.

“I’m now talking about the little pains, Nico comes back from six weeks, hardly playing, played with youth had a spell in the last game, but now he’s fit and available.”

Van’t Schip was confident his team could cope with the task against an undefeated Sydney FC. 

“Our group is a very experienced group, we have players that play in a high level and have won things - maybe not Melbourne City,” he said.

“We have enough players in the team who know how to deal with that, we’re not worried, we’re just thinking about ourselves and the way we want to play, I think that’s the most important thing.”

City captain Bruno Fornaroli said thing needed to remain the same after scoring 10 goals in all competitons of season 2016/17.

“I can’t change, the boss says ‘you don’t change, continue to play like this’,” Fornaroli said.

“Tomorrow is a game to play and enjoy, it’s the first final, so this is what I try to tell my teammates, it’s an important game, first final, but we need to enjoy to play well.

“(AAMI Park) is my home I feel great here, the fans give me support here and I can feel this, also I think it’s a fantastic stadium, you can feel the fans are so close, it’s great, this is my team and I’ll work hard to try score tomorrow.”