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History of Soccer in Australia. Australia was settled as a British penal colony in 1788 and
it's likely that some of the thousands of convicts and soldiers brought
basic football skills with them. In a jail without bars and bounded by
endless bush, there was plenty of room and opportunity for a kick
around. Transportation finished in 1840 in NSW but the British continued
to dominate culturally for another 100 years or more. It's fair to
assume that people were kicking a round ball on the Australian
goldfields in the 1850s. However that was also when rugby was catching
on in the northern colonies and Australian Rules was invented in the
south. Association football was formalised in England in 1863, but by
the time the first recorded soccer match in Australia was played in
Sydney in 1880 (between the Wanderers and the Ring's School), the jig
was up. Successive waves of European migrants brought on-field finesse
to the traditionally roughhouse British form of soccer, but they also
ingrained it as a minority sport in the Anglo Australian sporting
culture. Even by the first interstate match between Victoria and NSW in
1883, the southern media compared it unfavourably to Aussie Rules. By Ricky Onsman |
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Australian soccer - the background from Wikipedia;
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the Australian Women's Soccer Team competing at World Cup and Olympic Games
level. Details on the National league, National championship and Youth
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Canberra City FC, former
NSL Soccer Club
Tuggeranong United Soccer Club - Canberra
University of Canberra Union Soccer Club
- Canberra
Mindil
Aces Soccer Club - Darwin
Soccer Far North
the Home of Senior Soccer in Far North Queensland
Cairns Soccer and Far North Queensland;
clubs, contacts and results for the soccer far north comp.
Brisbane Lions
Soccer Club - Brisbane
Ipswich City Soccer Club -
Ipswich, South East
Kenmore District Soccer Club -
Brisbane
the Mighty Cougars - Brisbane
Mitchelton Soccer Club - Mitchelton,
North
Rochedale Rovers - Brisbane
Sandy Straits Soccer Club - Hervey
Bay, North
Souths United Soccer Club -
Brisbane
TeamOslo - Brisbane
University of Queensland Soccer Club -
Brisbane
Westside Soccer Club - Brisbane
Barnstoneworth
United Football Club - Hobart
DOSA Soccer Club - Glenorchy,
northen suburbs
Kingborough Lions United Soccer Club -
Kingborough, southern suburbs
Berwick City Soccer Club -
Berwick, regional
Clayton Soccer Club - Melbourne
Eltham North Women's Soccer Club
Premier Division, Melbourne, Victoria
Frankston Strikers
Soccer Club - Melbourne
Glenroy Split Soccer Club - Melbourne
Heidelberg United Soccer Club
- Melbourne
Old Melburnians Soccer Club - Melbourne
Preston Lions Soccer Club -
Melbourne
St Albans Saints - Melbourne
South Melbourne Women FC
Sunbury United Sporting Club - Melbourne
BB United -
Perth Division 3, Waassa; Most
of the players are refugees from Bosnia
Floreat Athena Soccer
Club - Perth
Golden Lily Soccer
Club - Perth
Guvno Footy Club - Perth
La Fiamma Sporting Club - Geraldton,
northern