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A-League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Following the end of the National Soccer League, the former governing body (now Football Federation Australia) announced the formation of a new 8-team competition to revitalise the sport. Soccer has not traditionally been one of Australia's major sports, and it has had a troubled history in the country, but the A-League aspires to move it up to that status. A-League is also the former name of the USL First Division, a North American football (soccer) league. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A-League_(Australia)   (683 words)

SI.com - Soccer - Review calls for radical overhaul of soccer in Australia - Monday April 07, 2003 03:45 AM Crawford proposed some of Australia's leading businessmen be enlisted to help develop soccer and the National Soccer League. Soccer Australia was in financial turmoil last year before it was bailed out by a new TV rights deal in the wake of a decision by FIFA, soccer's international governing body, to allocate the Oceania region a direct place in the World Cup. Soccer has the least support at the professional level of four football codes in Australia, behind Australian Rules football, rugby league and rugby union. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2003/04/06/australian_soccer_ap   (642 words)

Australasian Premier League - BigSoccer Moreover, the first national competition in Australia was the National Soccer League, however the failure of this competition to capture the imagination of both the soccer and general sporting public has not allowed the game to progress and prosper at an elite local club level. The Australasian Premier League (APL) is a new concept envisaged by Libero Consulting, which will enable soccer in Australia and the surrounding region to both expand and develop into a premier spectator sport within the Australasian context. Soccer is without doubt the football code with the most potential in Australia, since more people playing the world game on every weekend then any other team sport in the nation. www.bigsoccer.com /forum/showthread.php?t=86879   (467 words)

APL :: Why an Australasian Premier League Model Libero Consulting is currently conducting an Australia wide soccer survey, to ascertain the views of both soccer people and non-soccer people on their preference for a new National soccer league model. Australia needs to take the next soccer step as does the countries of New Zealand and Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia who have been left behind by Thailand, China, Korea, Japan and even Vietnam in terms of success in the international arena. If the AFC is likely to invite champion teams from Australia to partake in it's AFC champions league, there is no reason why the OFC/Australia cannot request some Asian teams in it own members national league/APL. www.liberoconsulting.com.au /apl/b_yapl.htm   (1147 words)

Australian Online Soccer Museum The National Soccer League today announced that the annual NSL Coach of the Year award will now be named the Eddie Thomson NSL Coach of the Year award, in honour of one of the greats of Australian soccer - former NSL and national teams' coach, Eddie Thomson. Pauline Thomson, wife of the late former NSL and National Team coach said, "On behalf of Eddie and our family, I am extremely delighted that Soccer Australia has chosen to honour the legacy of my late husband for all his work with both the National Soccer League and the Australia national teams. His national coaching duties commenced in 1984 when he took charge of the Australia B team in a tournament against prominent overseas clubs. www.ozfootball.net /museum/eddiethomson2.html   (1025 words)

Bulletin - Turkey shoot Soccer Australia took another hit late in the week when the players’ union, the Australian Professional Footballers’ Association, released its plan to revolutionise the local league. The National Soccer League is on its last legs with public and media interest struggling to register a pulse. As Kewell and his team mates showed in February – when the Socceroos embarrassed England with an historic 3-1 win in London – Australia’s future in the world game can be bright. bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/F4638214E98D6662CA256D070006F49C   (560 words)

Board offers new model for league - theage.com.au The board of Soccer Australia last night outlined a new model for the National Soccer League for next season, involving possible promotion and relegation between the NSL and state leagues. David Crawford, who headed the inquiry team that conducted an extensive review into soccer's management and governance, says the attempts to prevent the installation of Frank Lowy and his team to the top jobs in Soccer Australia are "criminal". In another development, the Victorian Soccer Federation has been accused of ignoring the interests of the state's soccer supporters by seeking to block changes to the running of the game. www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/06/04/1054700281514.html   (465 words)

National Soccer League History - Australia Quiz * When was the National Soccer League (NSL) established? Although the least popular of the main ball sports in Australian society, soccer/football is still very much a part of the Australian sports scene. www.funtrivia.com /quizdetails.cfm?id=184167   (58 words)

PM - National Soccer League restructured Just like we have restructured the Soccer Australia we are restructuring the league. Soccer Australia, as it then was, was the first casualty of the multi-millionaire's ambitious plan to save soccer. A taskforce established by multi-millionaire Frank Lowy to work out how to make soccer a success has identified big spending cashed-up national soccer clubs as the key; a minimum of ten teams, each with two million dollars' capital and a budget of $5.5 million within five years of being accepted in to the competition. www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2003/s1005929.htm   (724 words)

Sports Factor - 19/05/00: Soccer, Soccer, Soccer And as Australia's National Soccer League finals are underway comes news that the powerful Scottish club, Glasgow Rangers, has bought local team Northern Spirit. And I know in Australia you’ve got plenty of those people, but I also know that others will be watching who maybe peg this as the one game of football that they will watch for a whole year because they’ve heard about the FA Cup. And is there a possibility also that there’s a two-way element, that we will receive perhaps some of the players from the purchasing club coming to Australia with recognised names perhaps for short periods, perhaps to bring their skills and experience and pass this on to the next generation. www.ausport.gov.au /fulltext/2000/sportsf/s128423.htm   (4104 words)

Clubs advised to reject TV deal for own good - theage.com.au Australia's 13 National Soccer League clubs will be advised today, by the competition's leaders, to reject the proposed new television deal with Channel Seven and try to end the code's frustrating relationship with the network. The network wants the national team to play six times a year in matches against highly-rated countries and for Soccer Australia to ensure that all the star players make themselves available. Soccer Australia, which is desperately short of funds, wants to sign off on the agreement so that it can ensure its viability. www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/10/10/1034222543430.html   (419 words)

Soccer Australia - GFDb.com The ASA renamed itself in 2005 to align with the general international usage of the word "football", in preference to "soccer", and to also distance itself from the failings of the old National Soccer League and Soccer Australia. Until 2004 the national competition was the National Soccer League; the FFA launched a new national league in 2005, the A-League. Among other duties, the FFA oversees Australia's national football teams (including the Socceroos (men), the Matildas (women), and various youth teams); national coaching programmes; coordination with the various state and territory governing bodies; and the national club competition. www.gfdb.com /association.aspx?id=186   (364 words)

Soccer in Australia The suggestion is made that the game’s ethnic origins, substandard national league and limited support by commercial television stations and industry have contributed to the issue. The rugby league competition in Australia was split during the 1997 season due to the Super League war. Australia would be guaranteed a place at the Finals, as the host nation is not required to qualify for the event. www.ausport.gov.au /fulltext/1999/cjsm/v3n1/kobe31.htm   (3988 words)

Printer version - Time to sack all of the Soccer Australia old guard Namely both Soccer Australia and the National Soccer League needs to be blown up and completely rebuilt with an independent body running it along AFL commission lines. Yet soccer's raw potential is enormous and we already have the building blocks for continuing to develop Australia as a world-class soccer nursery. It is simply because Soccer Australia and those who run it at both board, executive and States level are either incompetent or worse more worried about personal and backroom politics than what is best for the sport. www.crikey.com.au /columnists/2002/07/14-soccerkiwis.print.html   (1798 words)

ESPN.com Soccernet Global: News - Australia cut league to 12 clubs SA said the move marked the coming of age of the league and Australian soccer but the boss of one of the dropped clubs said his team's exclusion was stupid. Soccer Australia said: 'This far-sighted decision sees the coming of age of the NSL and soccer in Australia. There were doubts that Canberra Cosmos would remain a 'going concern' and Brisbane did not rank high enough among the nation's clubs to qualify for a place, it added. www.soccernet.com /global/news/2001/0604/20010604aus.html   (349 words)

New national soccer league launched - Breaking News - http://www.smh.com.au Australia's new national soccer competition will be known as the Hyundai A-League and will start in August next year. The A-League will replace the now-defunct National Soccer League, which was wound up at the end of last season. The Australian Soccer Association was forecasting aggregate crowds in the first season of 1 million - an average of 10,000 per game - leading to a financial turnover of $50 million in the first year. www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/11/01/1099262768183.html   (572 words)

Socceroos Realm - Football Australia - the Future of Australian Soccer and NSL Soccer Australia General Manager Stefan Kamasz, on On The Ball this morning, claimed the reform process was well on target. When SA changed from the Australian Soccer Federation during the Hill era, their reasoning was that the word soccer readily identified the actual sport whereas the word football left ambiguities. In fact, dumping the NSL and the Soccer Australia "brand" names should be an utmost priority for the new season with the word football entering the equation. www.alphalink.com.au /~warrior/ednsl.htm   (3345 words)

AllSports (tm) Carlton Soccer Club is Dead With the league being trimmed back from sixteen to twelve teams for the start of next season, some cynics say that Soccer Australia were not displeased with the collapse of Carlton, it means that they only have to choose three clubs instead of the four they had originally planned. When the National Soccer League came about the clubs that were the biggest were those that grew out of the various Ethnic Communities. And Soccer Australia could have more trouble on their hands, the plan is that all results against Carlton are to be cancelled, Sydney Olympic, the only team to take the three points from Carlton, are threatening legal action as the loss of three points will move them down the table a few rungs. www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=10797   (1860 words)

This Has Really Upset...please Post Your Opinion!!!! - Soccer Fans Network Forums Despite the striker being cleared to play in the second leg, he still has to wait until next week to find out whether he'll be suspended for the rest of the national soccer league finals series. Soccer Australia chairman Tony Labbozzetta said it was impossible to make a fair decision on what sanctions to take against the Knights and Despotovski without a full report on the incident from all parties. Soccer Australia has launched a full inquiry and has promised to beef up security for the second leg of the elimination in Perth on Saturday. forums.soccerfansnetwork.com /showthread.php?t=4771   (1293 words)

Australia Soccer Australia covers the National teams, leagues, coaching, rules etc in some depth A-League launched in 2004, partly to create a league that would be appealing for Australia's top footballers to return to home from plying their trade around the world. Each state and territory in Australia has its own association which runs regional, district, suburban and metropolitan leagues from the highest semi-pro level (usually called state league, premier league or similar - the naming varies from region to region) to social football competitions. sportsvl.com /soccer/australasia/australia.html   (817 words)

AusRef Opinions The next level of soccer here is XXXX League, and their entry into that competition would not only cause many problems with existing teams, but a local competition would hardly provide a sound launching pad for a future application to rejoin a national league. You've got to be kidding me. This is supposed to be a National Soccer League - as the dictionary states, something that represents the soccer teams of the national as a whole. Soccer Australia has stated that "as a priority, consideration would be given to including financially stable teams from unrepresented regions" when selecting additional teams in the future, but two problems remain here. www.ausref.com /opinions_item.php?id=97   (1312 words)

The Soccer Home Page  See also David Litterer's comprehensive US soccer historical statistics collection for all 33 US pro soccer leagues dating back to 1894, and the Association of Football Statisticians web page. Soccer ScoreSheet: Shareware for managing soccer league tables. US Major League Soccer: The Sportsline MLS soccer page--league tables, results, teams, stories, features. www.distrib.com /soccer/homepage.html   (761 words)

Australia soccer chief quits -DAWN - Sport; May 9, 2003 The inquiry also called for an independent commission to run the financially-strapped national soccer league and changes to the way the game is managed in Australia.—Reuters Soccer Australia (SA), the national governing body, delayed a decision on Saturday on a government recommendation that its entire board of directors should resign. SYDNEY, May 8: Australia’s top soccer official Remo Nogarotto resigned on Thursday as division continued over plans for sweeping reforms in the game’s administration. www.dawn.com /2003/05/09/spt5.htm   (171 words)

BBC News Football Brits make it big Down Under But the arrival of two new British imports into Australia's national soccer league is evidence that the sport is gaining in importance Down Under. Finishing top of the national league is not enough to claim the title. Other British players have featured in Australia since the league began in 1977 - but McPherson and Hopkins are the two highest-profile arrivals. news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/sport/football/422740.stm   (771 words)

Hyundai A-League > Home The Hyundai A-League 2006 Finals Series was officially launched today, with each club promising exciting football in the upcoming fortnight, where a teams fate could be determined for the rest of the finals series. Hyundai A-League finalist the Central Coast Mariners have been held to a 2-2 draw by ten-man Queensland Roar at Suncorp Stadium. Proud Queensland captain Josh McCloughan has suggested the league's top four will be relieved the Roar has missed out on a place in the finals series. www.a-league.com.au   (254 words)

United States National Soccer Players Association Since 1892, soccer clubs have been competing in New Zealand for a variety of regional and national competitions, but it was not until 1970 where a true national league was played. That system was changed with the advent of the National Soccer League in 1970, and the subsequent wider interest in the sport. Played during the Southern Hemisphere autumn, the semi-pro ten-team Southern Trust National League works similar to many leagues around the world with teams playing each other home and away with one team being relegated at the end of the season. ussoccerplayers.com /news_you_can_use/366523.html   (1414 words)

Guardian Unlimited dummy In domestic league football (any country in the world) what is the furthest distance a team has to travel to play the opposition? Perth Glory V Brisbane Strikers in the Australian National Soccer League is 2,800 miles each way. Until recently, the local rugby league competition in Australia had teams from Perth and Auckland, a considerable distance further. Mike Johnston, Basingstoke UK In USA's Major League Soccer the New York/New Jersey Metrostars have to travel approximately 2,700 miles each way to play the Los Angeles Galaxy. www.guardian.co.uk /notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-18367,00.html   (508 words)

WNSL 2004 Season The ninth season of the Women’s National Soccer League (WNSL), which kicks off early next month, sees an expansion of the league to seven teams with the addition of Western Waves from Western Australia. The league continues to provide a significant platform towards national squads selection, at both senior and youth levels. This is the first time that Australia’s premier domestic women’s competition has experienced growth in the number of competing teams since it first kicked off in 1996/97. www.matildas.org.au /natlg04.htm   (331 words)

New company to replace 'broke' Soccer Australia Another key objective will be the development of a strategic plan for the ailing National Soccer League, which is seen as the cornerstone for the rejuvenation of the professional game in Australia. The new entity will work towards ensuring the national competition clubs are financially sound, can increase the quality of the competition and encourage overseas-based Australian players to return home and play in a new reformed national league. Frank Lowy, who will head the new board, said at a press announcement on Friday that the previous Soccer Australia was in effect 'broke' and unable to manage the activities of the game in Australia. quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bi/Qfbl-aus.RcQ8_DSQ.html   (378 words)

CM League Guides - Australia There is only one division of the Australian league playable in CM, the National Soccer League. The transfer deadline is on the 17th of April and there is no bosman ruling in Australia. The league starts in October and ends in June. www33.brinkster.com /tejero/cmleagueaustralia.htm   (150 words)

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