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Soccer in Australia

Index Soccer in Australia

Soccer, also known as football, is the most played outdoor team sport in Australia, and ranks in the top ten for television audience. [1]

169 relations: A-League, Aaron Mooy, Adelaide City FC, AFC Asian Cup, AFC Champions League, Amateur sports, Anti-siphoning laws in Australia, ASEAN Football Federation, Asian Football Confederation, Association football, Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics, Australia, Australia Cup, Australia national beach soccer team, Australia national soccer team, Australia national under-17 soccer team, Australia national under-20 soccer team, Australia national under-23 soccer team, Australia Paralympic soccer team, Australia women's national soccer team, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian dollar, Australian English vocabulary, Australian national sports team nicknames, Australian Olympic Committee, Australian rules football, Bailey Wright, Balgownie Rangers FC, Beach soccer, Brad Jones (footballer), Brad Smith (footballer, born 1994), Brisbane Football Club (defunct), British people, Cameroon national football team, Cricket, Croatian Australians, David Carney, David Hill (businessman), Demography of Australia, Domestic association football season, East Melbourne Cricket Ground, England, FA Cup, FFA Cup, FIFA, FIFA Club World Cup, FIFA Confederations Cup, FIFA World Cup, FIFPro, Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics, ..., Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, Football Federation Australia, Football Federation Australia Hall of Fame, Football Federation Victoria, Football Queensland, Fox Sports (Australia), Futsal, Greek Australians, Hobart, Homosexuality, Illawarra, Italian Australians, Jack Duncan (footballer), James Troisi, Jason Hoffman, Joe Champness, John Walter Fletcher, Johnny Warren, Laws of the Game (association football), List of countries and dependencies by population density, Macedonian Australians, Mainstream, Manchester City F.C., Marconi Stallions FC, Mark Milligan, Mathew Leckie, Mathew Ryan, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Knights FC, Mile Jedinak, Mitchell Langerak, Names for association football, Nathan Burns, National Premier Leagues, National Soccer League, National Youth League (1984–2004), National Youth League (Australia), New South Wales, New Zealand, New Zealand national football team, News media, Nigel Boogaard, Northern NSW Football, NSL Cup, Oceania Football Confederation, Paralympic association football, Parramatta, Post-war immigration to Australia, Powerhouse Museum, Preston Lions FC, Professional Footballers Australia, Promotion and relegation, Queensland, Real Madrid C.F., Robbie Kruse, Rugby football, Rugby league, Rugby union, Scratch team, Semi-professional, Sheila, South Melbourne FC, Southern Europe, Spain national football team, Special Broadcasting Service, Stadium Australia, States and territories of Australia, Summer, Sydney, Sydney Olympic FC, Sydney United 58 FC, Tasmania, Team sport, The Australian Financial Review, The King's School, Parramatta, The Park Centre for Mental Health, Tim Cahill, Tom Rogic, Tomi Juric, Tommy Oar, Trade union, Trent Sainsbury, United Kingdom, Victoria (Australia), W-League (Australia), Wacol, Queensland, Wanderers FC (Australia), Western Sydney Wanderers FC, Winter, Wog, Wollongong, Women's association football, Women's National Soccer League, World War II, 1974 FIFA World Cup, 1977 National Soccer League, 1988 Summer Olympics, 2005–06 A-League, 2005–06 in Australian soccer, 2006 FIFA World Cup, 2008–09 in Australian soccer, 2009–10 in Australian soccer, 2010 FIFA World Cup, 2010–11 in Australian soccer, 2011 AFC Asian Cup, 2011–12 in Australian soccer, 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012–13 in Australian soccer, 2013–14 in Australian soccer, 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014–15 in Australian soccer, 2015 International Champions Cup, 2015–16 in Australian soccer, 2016–17 in Australian soccer, 2017–18 in Australian soccer, 2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018–19 in Australian soccer. Expand index (119 more) »

A-League

The A-League is a professional men's soccer league run by Football Federation Australia (FFA).

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Aaron Mooy

Aaron Frank Mooy (born 15 September 1990) (born Aaron Kuhlman) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Huddersfield Town and the Australian national team.

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Adelaide City FC

Adelaide City Football Club is an Australian football (soccer) club based in Adelaide, South Australia.

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AFC Asian Cup

The AFC Asian Cup is an international association football tournament run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

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AFC Champions League

The AFC Champions League, commonly known as the Asian Champions League, is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

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Amateur sports

Amateur sports are sports in which participants engage largely or entirely without remuneration.

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Anti-siphoning laws in Australia

Anti-siphoning laws in Australia regulate the media companies' access to significant sporting events.

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ASEAN Football Federation

The ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) is a smaller organisation within the greater Asian Football Confederation, and centres on Southeast Asia, founded in 1984 by the nations of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

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Asian Football Confederation

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football in Asia and Australia.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics

The association football tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics was won by the Soviet Union.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australia Cup

The Australia Cup was a soccer knockout cup competition in Australia.

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Australia national beach soccer team

The Australia national beach soccer team represents Australia in international men's beach soccer.

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Australia national soccer team

The Australian national soccer team represents Australia in international men's soccer.

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Australia national under-17 soccer team

The Australia national under-17 Football team represents Australia in men's international under-17 Football.

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Australia national under-20 soccer team

The Australia national under-20 soccer team represents Australia in international under-20 soccer.

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Australia national under-23 soccer team

The Australia national under-23 soccer team represents Australia in international under-23 soccer and at the Olympic Games.

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Australia Paralympic soccer team

The Australia Paralympic soccer team represents Australia in international 7-a-side competition for athletes with cerebral palsy, acquired brain injury or symptoms acquired from stroke and at the Paralympic Games.

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Australia women's national soccer team

The Australian women's national soccer team is overseen by the governing body for soccer in Australia, Football Federation Australia (FFA), which is currently a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) since leaving the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) in 2006.

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Australian Council of Trade Unions

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is the largest peak body representing workers in Australia.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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Australian English vocabulary

Australian English is a major variety of the English language spoken throughout Australia.

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Australian national sports team nicknames

In Australia, the national representative team of many sports has a nickname, used informally when referring to the team in the media or in conversation.

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Australian Olympic Committee

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) is the National Olympic Committee responsible for developing, promoting and protecting the Olympic Movement in Australia.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Bailey Wright

Bailey Colin Wright (born 28 July 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays for and is captain of Championship club Bristol City.

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Balgownie Rangers FC

Balgownie Rangers Football Club is an association football club based in Balgownie, New South Wales.

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Beach soccer

Beach soccer, also known as beach football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand.

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Brad Jones (footballer)

Bradley Scott Jones (born 19 March 1982) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Feyenoord.

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Brad Smith (footballer, born 1994)

Bradley Shaun Smith (born 9 April 1994) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a left back or left winger for Premier League club AFC Bournemouth.

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Brisbane Football Club (defunct)

The Brisbane Football Club is a defunct Australian rules football club, formed in May 1866.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Cameroon national football team

The Cameroon national football team, nicknamed in French Les Lions Indomptables (The Indomitable Lions or Untameable Lions), is the national team of Cameroon.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Croatian Australians

Croatian Australians (Australski Hrvati) are Australian citizens of Croatian descent.

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David Carney

David Raymond Carney (born 30 November 1983) is an Australian association football midfielder who last played for A-League side Sydney FC.

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David Hill (businessman)

David Hill (born 20 June 1946) is an English-born Australian business leader and author.

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Demography of Australia

The demography of Australia covers basic statistics, most populous cities, ethnicity and religion.

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Domestic association football season

The domestic association football season in countries that association football is played around the world varies in length and time of year contested.

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East Melbourne Cricket Ground

The East Melbourne Cricket Ground was a grass oval sports venue located at the corner of Wellington Parade and Jolimont Parade, in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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FA Cup

The FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football.

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FFA Cup

The Football Federation Australia Cup, commonly known as the FFA Cup, is the main national Association Football knockout cup competition in Australia.

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FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA; French for "International Federation of Association Football") is an association which describes itself as an international governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer.

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FIFA Club World Cup

The FIFA Club World Cup is an international men's association football competition organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.

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FIFA Confederations Cup

The FIFA Confederations Cup is an international association football tournament for men's national teams, currently held every four years by FIFA.

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FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.

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FIFPro

The Fédération Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionnels (English – International Federation of Professional Footballers), generally referred to as FIFPro, is the worldwide representative organisation for 65,000 professional footballers.

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Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics started on 13 September.

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Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

A women's Olympic Football Tournament was held for the second time as part of the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Women's Olympic Football tournament was held for the third time at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held from 3 to 19 August 2016.

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Football Federation Australia

Football Federation Australia (FFA) is the governing body of soccer, futsal and beach soccer within Australia.

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Football Federation Australia Hall of Fame

The FFA Football Federation Australia Hall of Fame aims to celebrate and highlight the achievements of the all-time top Australian soccer talents, as well as non-Australian players, managers and other participants who have become significant figures in the history of the Australian game.

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Football Federation Victoria

Football Federation Victoria (FFV) is the state governing body for association football (soccer) in Victoria, Australia.

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Football Queensland

Football Queensland (FQ), is the governing body of football (soccer) and futsal in Queensland, Australia.

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Fox Sports (Australia)

Fox Sports is an Australian group of sports channels, owned by Fox Sports Pty Limited (known as Premier Media Group until February 2012), which is owned by News Corp Australia.

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Futsal

Futsal is a variant of association football played on a hard court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors.

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Greek Australians

Greek Australians (Ελληνοαυστραλοί) comprise Australian citizens who have full or partial Greek heritage or people who sought asylum as refugees after the Greek Civil War or emigrated from Greece and reside in Australia.

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Hobart

Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Illawarra

Illawarra is a region in the Australian state of New South Wales.

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Italian Australians

Italian Australians comprise the sixth largest ethnic group in Australia, with the 2016 census finding 4.6% of the population (1,000,013 people) claiming ancestry from Italy be they migrants to Australia or their descendants born in Australia of Italian heritage.

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Jack Duncan (footballer)

Jack Carleton Duncan (born 19 April 1993) is an Australian goalkeeper who plays for Newcastle Jets in the A-League.

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James Troisi

James Troisi (born 3 July 1988) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays for Melbourne Victory in the A-League.

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Jason Hoffman

Jason Hoffman (born 28 January 1989) is an Australian association football player who plays as a right back for Newcastle Jets in the A-League.

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Joe Champness

Joseph "Joe" Champness (born 27 April 1997) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Newcastle Jets.

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John Walter Fletcher

John Walter Fletcher (11 May 1847 – 28 February 1918) is widely regarded as the "father of Australian soccer".

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Johnny Warren

John Norman Warren, MBE, OAM (17 May 1943 – 6 November 2004) was an Australian soccer player, coach, administrator, writer and broadcaster.

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Laws of the Game (association football)

The Laws of the Game (LOTG) are the codified rules that help define association football.

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List of countries and dependencies by population density

This is a list of countries and dependent territories ranked by population density, measured by the number of human inhabitants per square kilometer.

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Macedonian Australians

Macedonian Australians are Australians of ethnic Macedonian descent.

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Mainstream

Mainstream is current thought that is widespread.

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Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City Football Club is a football club in Manchester, England.

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Marconi Stallions FC

Marconi Stallions Football Club is an Australian semi-professional (formerly professional until 2004) soccer club based in Fairfield, Sydney, New South Wales.

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Mark Milligan

Mark Daniel Milligan (born 4 August 1985) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Al Ahli and the Australia national team.

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Mathew Leckie

Mathew Allan Leckie (born 4 February 1991) is an Australian footballer who plays for Hertha BSC and the Australia national team.

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Mathew Ryan

Mathew David Ryan (born 8 April 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Australia national team.

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Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known simply as "The G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria.

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Melbourne Knights FC

Melbourne Knights FC is an Australian semi-professional football club based in the suburb of Sunshine North, Melbourne, Victoria.

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Mile Jedinak

Michael John "Mile" Jedinak (born 3 August 1984) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Aston Villa and the Australia national team of which he is the captain.

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Mitchell Langerak

Mitchell James Langerak (born 22 August 1988) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for J1 League club Nagoya Grampus.

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Names for association football

The names of association football are the terms used to describe:association football, the sport most commonly referred to in the English-speaking world as "football" or "soccer".

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Nathan Burns

Nathan Burns (born 7 May 1988) is an Australian professional footballer who plays for the Wellington Phoenix in the A-League and the Australia national team.

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National Premier Leagues

The National Premier Leagues (NPL) is a national association football competition in Australia which acts as the second tier of the sport in the country below the A-League.

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National Soccer League

The National Soccer League (NSL) was the top-level soccer league in Australia, run by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association.

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National Youth League (1984–2004)

The National Youth League (NYL), was an Australian national soccer league run in parallel to the National Soccer League (NSL) between 1984 and 2004.

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National Youth League (Australia)

The National Youth League (NYL) is an Australian national soccer youth developmental and reserve league, run by Football Federation Australia.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand national football team

The New Zealand national football team represents New Zealand in international association football.

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News media

The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.

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Nigel Boogaard

Nigel Boogaard (born 14 August 1986) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a central defender for A-League club the Newcastle Jets.

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Northern NSW Football

Northern NSW Football (NNSWF) is the governing body of soccer in the north of New South Wales, Australia.

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NSL Cup

The NSL Cup was an Australian soccer competition organised by the Australian Soccer Federation between 1977 and 1997.

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Oceania Football Confederation

The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is one of the six continental confederations of international association football, consisting of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, and other Pacific Island countries.

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Paralympic association football

Paralympic football consists of adaptations of the sport of association football for athletes with a physical disability.

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Parramatta

Parramatta is a prominent suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, west of the Sydney central business district on the banks of the Parramatta River.

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Post-war immigration to Australia

Post-war immigration to Australia deals with migration to Australia since the end of World War II.

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Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences in Sydney, the other being the historic Sydney Observatory.

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Preston Lions FC

Preston Lions Football Club (formerly Preston Makedonia Soccer Club) is a soccer club from Preston, a northern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Professional Footballers Australia

The Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) is an Australian trade union affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions that represents professional male, female and elite junior soccer players.

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Promotion and relegation

In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between multiple divisions based on their performance for the completed season.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Real Madrid C.F.

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol ("Royal Madrid Football Club"), commonly known as Real Madrid, or simply as Real, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain.

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Robbie Kruse

Robbie Thomas Kruse (born 5 October 1988) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for VfL Bochum and the Australian national team.

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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Scratch team

A scratch team is a team, usually in sport, brought together on a temporary basis, composed of players who normally play for different sides.

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Semi-professional

A semi-professional athlete is one for whom sport is not a full-time occupation.

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Sheila

Sheila (alternatively spelled Shelagh and Sheelagh) is a common feminine given name, derived from the Irish name Síle, which is believed to be a Gaelic form of Cecilia.

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South Melbourne FC

South Melbourne Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in suburb of Albert Park, in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Southern Europe

Southern Europe is the southern region of the European continent.

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Spain national football team

The Spain national football team (Selección de fútbol de España) represents Spain in men's International association football and is controlled by the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the governing body for football in Spain.

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Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network.

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Stadium Australia

Stadium Australia, commercially known as ANZ Stadium and formerly as Telstra Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium located in the Sydney Olympic Park, in Sydney, Australia.

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States and territories of Australia

Australia (officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia) is a federation of six states, together with ten federal territories.

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Summer

Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, falling after spring and before autumn.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Sydney Olympic FC

Sydney Olympic Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club, based in Belmore, Sydney, New South Wales, that plays in the National Premier Leagues NSW.

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Sydney United 58 FC

Sydney United 58 Football Club is a semi-professional soccer club based in Edensor Park, Sydney, New South Wales Australia.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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Team sport

A team sport includes any sport which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective.

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The Australian Financial Review

The Australian Financial Review (sometimes abbreviated to AFR) is an Australian business and finance newspaper published by Fairfax Media six days a week.

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The King's School, Parramatta

The King's School is a private, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in North Parramatta in the western suburbs of Sydney.

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The Park Centre for Mental Health

The Park Centre for Mental Health is a heritage-listed psychiatric hospital at 60 Grindle Road, Wacol, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Tim Cahill

Timothy Filiga Cahill (born 6 December 1979) is an Australian professional footballer who last played for club Millwall and is currently playing for the Australian national team.

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Tom Rogic

Tomas Petar Rogic (Томас Петар Рогић,; born 16 December 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Celtic and the Australia national team.

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Tomi Juric

Tomi Juric (Jurić,; born 22 July 1991) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Swiss Super League club FC Luzern and Australia.

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Tommy Oar

Thomas Michael "Tommy" Oar (born 10 December 1991) is an Australian professional footballer playing as a midfielder for APOEL in the Cypriot First Division.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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Trent Sainsbury

Trent Lucas Sainsbury (born 5 January 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Grasshoppers, on loan from Jiangsu Suning, and the Australia national team.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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W-League (Australia)

The W-League is the top-division women's soccer league in Australia, run by Football Federation Australia (FFA).

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Wacol, Queensland

Wacol is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Wanderers FC (Australia)

Wanderers Football Club also known as Wanderers is a former soccer club based in Parramatta, Australia.

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Western Sydney Wanderers FC

Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club (colloquially known as Western Sydney, or simply as Wanderers) is an Australian professional soccer club based in the western region of Sydney, New South Wales.

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Winter

Winter is the coldest season of the year in polar and temperate zones (winter does not occur in the tropical zone).

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Wog

Wog is a slang word in the idiom of Australian English and British English.

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Wollongong

Wollongong, informally referred to as "The Gong", is a seaside city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Women's association football

Women's association football, also commonly known as women’s football, or women's soccer, is the most prominent team sport played by women around the globe.

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Women's National Soccer League

The Women's National Soccer League (WNSL) was Australia's top women's association football league.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1974 FIFA World Cup

The 1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging of the World Cup, was held in West Germany (including West Berlin) from 13 June to 7 July.

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1977 National Soccer League

The 1977 National Soccer League season was the first season of the National Soccer League of Australia.

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1988 Summer Olympics

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad (Korean), were an international multi-sport event celebrated from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.

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2005–06 A-League

The 2005–06 A-League was the 29th season of top-flight soccer in Australia, and the inaugural season of the A-League.

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2005–06 in Australian soccer

The aggregate score for the two legs against Uruguay was tied 1–1 and, since the away goals rule could not be applied, the play-off was decided on a penalty shoot-out.

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2006 FIFA World Cup

The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament.

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2008–09 in Australian soccer

The following article is a summary of the 2008–09 football season in Australia, which was the 4th competitive season since the restructuring of the domestic system and commencement of the A-League.

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2009–10 in Australian soccer

The 2009–10 season is the 127th season of competitive soccer in Australia.

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2010 FIFA World Cup

The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams.

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2010–11 in Australian soccer

The 2010–11 season was the 128th season of competitive soccer in Australia.

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2011 AFC Asian Cup

The 2011 AFC Asian Cup was the 15th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

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2011–12 in Australian soccer

The following article is a summary of the 2011–12 soccer season in Australia.

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2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.

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2012–13 in Australian soccer

The following article is a summary of the 2012–13 soccer season in Australia.

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2013–14 in Australian soccer

The 2013–14 season was the ninth season of the current professional domestic soccer competition in Australia.

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2014 FIFA World Cup

The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organized by FIFA.

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2014–15 in Australian soccer

The 2014–15 season was the tenth season of the current professional domestic soccer competition in Australia.

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2015 International Champions Cup

The 2015 International Champions Cup (or ICC) was a series of friendly association football tournaments.

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2015–16 in Australian soccer

The 2015–16 season was the eleventh season of the current professional domestic soccer competition in Australia.

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2016–17 in Australian soccer

The 2016–17 season was the twelfth season of the current professional domestic soccer competition in Australia.

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2017–18 in Australian soccer

The 2017–18 season is the thirteenth season of the current professional domestic soccer competition in Australia.

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2018 FIFA World Cup

The 2018 FIFA World Cup is the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA.

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2018–19 in Australian soccer

The 2018–19 season will be the fourteenth season of the current professional domestic soccer competition in Australia.

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Association football in Australia, Association football in australia, Australian soccer, Football (soccer) in Australia, Soccer in australia.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_in_Australia

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