Australian Soccer Weekly Archive
1986
June 3, 10, 17, 24
July 1, 8, 15, 22
September 2, 9, 16, 23
Thanks to Greg Stock
Australian Women's Soccer Association Programmes
AWSA National Championships - Canberra - 1984
Thanks to Shaun Andrew Jones
A-League Women Season Guide 2021-22
Thanks to Andrew Howe
MetroStars Yearbook 2021
Thanks to Dimitri Peppas
1963-1976
Thanks to Paul Mavroudis
1981-1989
1963-64
Australian Soccer Weekly Archive
1983: February 22 July 5 August 16, 23, 30 September 6, 13, 20, 27 October 4, 11 November 1
1986: February 4 (incomplete), 11 (incomplete), 18, 25 March 4 (incomplete), 11, 18, 25 April 8, 15 May 20, 27
1988: January 20 February 10 (incomplete) September 14, 21, 28 October 5, 12, 19, 26
1991: September 10
Thanks to Greg Stock
Australian Soccer Weekly Compilations
ASW Victorian Pages 1988
ASW NYL Pages 1988
ASW National Indoor Soccer League Pages 1987-88
ASW National Indoor Soccer League Pages 1988-89
National Team Programmes Archive
Matildas
Estonia v Australia 1997
Thanks to Greg Werner
National League Programmes Archive
1999-00 Perth Glory v Northern Spirit
Illawarra Soccer Weekly - Issue 4 1998
Thanks to Travis Faulks
Fil Bottalico - Australian Soccer Weekly - September 10, 1991
Tony Dorigo - Soccer Stars - September 1993
Frank Haffey - Australian Soccer Weekly - October 26, 1988
Joe Marston - Australian Soccer Weekly - February 10, 1988
A-League Men Season Guide 2021-22
Thanks to Andrew Howe
South Australian Football Honours as of 2021
Thanks to Dimitri Peppas
The Doug Butcher Booklets Archive has been updated with a brief bio.
Added to the blog this month:
Australian Soccer Weekly Archive
1987
All issues - starting February 3 to the final of the season on November 11
1988
August 10, 17, 24 & 31 and September 7
All thanks to Greg Stock
Australian Soccer Weekly Compilations
Victorian Pages 1987
National Youth League Pages 1987
National Team Programmes Archive
New Zealand v Australia - June 13, 1979
Australia Under 16's v New South Wales Under 18's - July 1, 1987
2002-03 Adelaide City v Perth Glory, Adelaide City v Parramatta Power, Adelaide City v Olympic Sharks
2002-03 Finals - Adelaide City v Northern Spirit
All thanks to Luca Cetta
FNSW Yearbooks 2015 2016 2017 2018
National Federation Documents Archive
AWSA High Performance Programme 1997-2000
AWSA Newsletter - The Far Post - March 1991
AWSA Newsletter - Outside The Box - October-December 1998
Australian Team Media Guide - Women's World Cup - Germany 2011
All thanks to Shaun Andrew Jones
Brian Davidson - The Australian Standardbred - June 1993
Frank Farina - Inside Sport - February 2000
Harry Kewell - 10 Best Footballers In Britain - Match of the Day Magazine - October 2000
Joe Marston - Australian Soccer Weekly - November 11, 1987
Robbie Slater - FHM - November 1999
Socceroos 1974 - Ralph - July 1998
Socceroos v Argentina 1988 - Ralph - March 2001
Amy Taylor - Ralph - March 2001
Mark Viduka - Ralph - March 2001
Vardar Skopje Australian Tour - Australian Soccer Weekly - February 3, 1987
Another housekeeping post.
New to the blog this month:
Australian & British Soccer Weekly
March 16, 1982
April 20, 1982 (added 08/09/21)
May 4, 1982 (added 09/09/21)
May 11, 1982 (added 11/09/21)
June 15, 1982 (added 16/09/21)
July 20, 1982 (added 16/09/21)
February 24, 1988 (added 21/09/21)
March 2, 1988 (added 21/09/21)
March 9, 1988 (added 21/09/21)
March 16, 1988 (added 21/09/21)
March 23, 1988 (added 22/09/21)
March 30, 1988 (added 22/09/21)
April 6, 1988 (added 22/09/21)
April 13, 1988 (added 22/09/21)
April 20, 1988 (added 23/09/21)
April 27, 1988 (added 25/09/21)
May 4, 1988 (added 26/09/21)
May 11, 1988 (added 26/09/21)
May 18, 1988 (added 26/09/21)
May 25, 1988 (added 26/09/21)
June 1, 1988 (added 30/09/21)
June 15, 1988 (added 30/09/21)
June 22, 1988 (added 30/09/21)
June 29, 1988 (added 30/09/21)
July 6, 1988 INCOMPLETE (added 30/09/21)
July 13, 1988 (added 30/09/21)
July 20, 1988 (added 30/09/21)
July 27, 1988 (added 30/09/21)
August 3, 1988 (added 30/09/21)
January 21, 1991 INCOMPLETE (added 17/09/21)
January 28, 1991 INCOMPLETE (added 19/09/21)
February 25, 1991 (added 19/09/21)
August 13, 1991 (added 20/09/21)
March 4, 1993
November 15, 1993 (added 08/09/21)
December 21, 1993 (added 09/09/21)
All thanks to Greg Stock
REPAIRED:
May 17, 1989 missing p.5 added 16/09/21
Australian Soccer Weekly Compilations
National Youth League Pages 1981 (added 16/09/21)
National Youth League Pages 1982 (added 16/09/21)
June 9, 1966
Thanks to Damian Vojtek via Tony Persoglia
1998-99 Northern Spirit v Perth Glory
1998-99 Sydney Olympic v Wollongong City (added 21/09/21)
Thanks to Greg Stock
Dockerty Cup Finals
National Youth League pages 1985 (added 11/09/21)
National Youth League pages 1986 (added 11/09/21)
Roy Hay - Blast From The Past columns
Thanks to Tony Persoglia
VPL Grand Final 1996 - Australian & British Soccer Weekly match report (added 11/09/21)
Illawarra Football Association Presentation Night Programme 2010 (added 16/09/21)
Thanks to Travis Faulks
Illawarra Soccer Weekly 1998 Issue 2
Thanks to Travis Faulks
Links that had become dead restored:
Australian Soccer Weekly:
July 23, 1991
August 20, 1991
September 3, 1991
Soccer Action:
February 11, 1976
February 25, 1976
March 17, 1976
July 21, 1976
February 15, 1978
February 7, 1979
July 11, 1979
February 6, 1980
February 13, 1980
February 23, 1982
January 29, 1986
February 5, 1986
February 19, 1986
February 26, 1986
April 9, 1987
Soccer News:
May 2, 1959
May 16, 1959
May 23, 1959
April 25, 1974
VSF Yearbook 1972
Now it is looking that through the work of Greg Stock and Greg Werner we may one day have the full set of Australian Soccer Weekly (later Australian & British Soccer Weekly) available in the archives one day, I've commenced work on making compilation files of various segments of the paper. Here's a little tutorial for anyone else that may be interested in doing the same.
Obviously a large collection like a full run of a newspaper contains a massive amount of data. The reason I'm making compilations is that some of this data related to specific competitions is not available elsewhere on the internet. The compilations may be later used to assist in addressing that.
The compilations I'm working on are National Youth League pages, National Indoor Soccer League pages and pages on local Victorian soccer post the demise of Soccer Action. There are many other topics though, that some may want to make compilations of. Perhaps a fan of a particular NSL or state league club may want to compile a file with just the match reports of that club's matches. Or like I want to do, maybe people in other states would like a single document with the weekly page for their state or area on it. You may want to have all the women's football pages in one place etc etc.
The main website I use is https://www.ilovepdf.com/
To start, what you do is click on Split PDF then upload a issue of the paper you want to take pages from.
To make it easier for people to see what's been added to the various archives on the blog, I'll be posting Recent Additions to the Archives posts like this every once in a while. For this one, which I've included to include (August 2021) in the title, I'll edit the post to include anything else that gets added during the month. These have come from scans by Greg Stock, so thanks again Greg.
Australian Soccer Weekly Archive
1980
April 1
October 7
October 14
October 21 (added 11/08/21)
October 28 (added 11/08/21)
November 4 (added 12/08/21)
1982
October 19 (cover added to the previously incomplete version)
1984
February 14 (added 26/08/21)
July 17 (added 29/08/21)
July 24 (added 29/08/21)
July 31 (added 24/08/21)
August 28 (added 28/08/21)
September 4 (added 29/08/21)
September 25 (added 27/08/21)
October 9 (added 27/08/21)
1985
February 19 (missing pages added, file compressed 17/08/21)
February 26 (added 16/08/21)
1986
April 1 (added 23/08/21)
April 22 (added 12/08/21)
April 29 (added 13/08/21)
May 6 (added 15/08/21)
May 13 (added 15/08/21)
July 29
August 5 (added 17/08/21)
August 12 (added 18/08/21)
August 19 (added 19/08/21)
August 26 (added 19/08/21)
1987
August 12 (added 21/08/21)
1988
January 27 (added 21/08/21)
February 3 (added 23/08/21)
June 2
November 2 (added 21/08/21)
1989
February 2 (added 29/08/21)
September 20 (added 24/08/21)
1990
April 11
April 18
May 2
1993
March 1 (added 26/08/21)
March 8 (added 31/08/21)
March 11 (added 30/08/21)
June 10 (added 25/08/21)
Australian & British Soccer Weekly Compilations
National Youth League pages - 1984 (added 29/08/21)
National Youth League pages - 1989 (added 29/08/21)
Victorian Soccer Pages - 1989 (added 29/08/21)
Victorian Soccer Pages - 1990
National Indoor Soccer League - 1989 (added 25/08/21)
National Youth League pages - 1984 (added 29/08/21)
Northern Spirit v Adelaide City 1998-99 (added 31/08/21)
I'm a couple of missing issues away from being able to complete ASW compilations for the 1989 National Indoor Soccer League season, as well as the 1989-90 National Youth League season. The compilations I would like to finish cover the three categories - Victorian (State/Premier League) Pages, National Youth League Pages and (James Hardie) National Indoor Soccer League Pages.
Google Drive doesn't have any stats so I have no idea what content has been viewed or downloaded, which would have been nice to know. If there are people out there downloading libraries I thought this may help alert them to new content.
A couple of months ago I decided to retire from spending around 20 hours a week on adding to the archives contained on this blog, for a variety of reasons.
I'd decided not to bother going to the State Library to compile newspaper compilations and do research when they reopened after yet another lockdown. I was a little dirty on them being so slow to reopen that section of the library. I had a finishing line in mind for what I noted I would be seeking in my last blog post, and it was constantly moving away from me. After the best part of a couple of years under lockdown and restrictions, sitting in libraries and on computers all the time does not seem like a liberating freedom. Neither did finding boxes of stuff to scan.
I had spent a lot of time on the computer, either scanning or creating pdfs from jpgs, joining emailed pdfs, searching for items via the Wayback Machine, most of it with a football game from somewhere being streamed and cast onto the television alongside it. What I'd noticed was that the games had become mere background noise. If I missed a goal because I was working on something, sometimes I would not even bother to catch it on the replay, so little was I invested it the match.
This was brought into sharper focus when I watched the premiere of the Optus Sport Football Belongs documentary. With many using it to argue for or against the regular political issues in the game, or the sport's place in the Australian landscape in general, I was more drawn to the glimpses of club life that I missed. The moments that reminded me of when I really felt the passion, and every kick did matter. With my two clubs now gone, and not having another one in me, those moments are gone forever.
I'm happy enough to keep adding the contributions emailed to me by the network established over the years - great people like Paul Mavroudis, Greg Stock, George Cotsanis, Greg Werner, Peter Rowney, Graeme McGinty, Travis Faulks, Laurence Hall, Tony Persoglia, Doug Butcher, Warrick Ford and Ian Syson.
Every once in a while I may put up a list of what they have sent me and what's been added to the archives, because that will still be ticking along for a while yet. I won't be tweeting out a link to every item added as I add them, so that may be needed to keep some up to date with where to find new items.
The blog was down for a few hours yesterday after I received this email from Blogger/Google.
Another housekeeping post, about new additions to the archives that some people may have missed if the don't follow me, or use, Twitter.
I have added yearly compilations of the soccer pages in The Sporting Globe from 1955-1969. This covers the period from when the paper's coverage on Trove ends (1954) to when the amount of Sunday games, and the paper shedding more and more sports to focus mainly on racing and Aussie Rules football, sees the game's coverage decline (1970's). This archive now has it's own dedicated page here.
Another archive with it's own dedicated page now is the Neue Welt compilations archive. Again, this is a yearly compilation of local soccer pages. Neue Welt was a German-Australian publication, and the content is in German, mostly written by Fritz Schwab, father of future The Age and Soccer Action journalist Laurie Schwab. The Neue Welt archive can be found here.
Also new is an archive of Junior Roo, Il Globo's junior soccer supplement. It can be found here.
At this stage yearly Il Globo compilations are housed in the History Documents page, but they will get their own page when a few more are added. This content is in Italian, unlike the Junior Roo supplements which are in English.
Also new to the History Documents page, but with a view to getting it's own page once more compilations are, err, compiled is the Sunday Observer compilation for 1977.
I will probably end up doing Neue Welt compilations for it's entire run on the SLV microfilms. With Junior Roo the microfilms end at 1994, then I will start working back until it commences, adding the Il Globo local soccer pages along the way. Not sure how far I'll get with the Sunday Observer, a lot of distractions going through that newspaper.
The blog's Soccer Action Archive is now complete with every issue of the iconic Australian football publication of 1976 to 1987 included. 460 editions, from it's debut on February 4, 1976 until the sad demise and disappearance on April 9, 1987.
I was too young to have ever bought an issue of Soccer Action, perhaps only having bought a few issues of Shoot! before the end of the 1980's. The first Australian soccer newspaper I bought would have been Les Shorrock's successor to Soccer Action, Soccer Star, in 1989. It was in the early 1980's that I acquired my collection of Soccer Actions, given to me by the then Richmond physio John Morris (also a former Moorabbin City, Oakleigh Cannons and Victorian state team physio).
The Soccer Action Archive was created in August 2016. Originally I planned uploading one scan a week from my own collection, which was probably only 50-60% complete at the time. I soon started uploading more issues per week than that, and as my own collection was nearly all scanned began looking at sourcing the issues I didn't have. The final few issues took a couple of years to sort out, but here we are today, every issue ever available to everyone as a free download.
Soccer Action was held in affection by a great many people, which brought about willing contributions towards completing this project. Damian Smith was the first to lend me some missing editions, and over time I can thank him, Steve Delmenico, Pave Jusup (and the Melbourne Knights/Frank Burin Collection), George Cotsanis (My World Is Round), Sam Barres, Paul Mavroudis (South of the Border), Andrew Howe, Tony Persoglia and Nick Hatzoglu for supplying the papers and scans to archive every issue published. Thanks to the latter pair, the final four issues (March 5, May 14, July 16 & October 8, 1986) have been added today to make the archive complete.
So now the works of Laurie Schwab, Les Shorrock, Craig MacKenzie, Knut Werner, Billy Vojtek, Rale Rasic, Johnnie Warren, Les Murray, Andrew Dettre, Peter Katholos, Brian Mossop, Ron Smith, Leif Jensen, John Cerubbi, Zika Nikolic, Peter Georgiou, Tommy Anderson, Bruce Waddell, Meno Toutsidis, Stephen Kalus, Alex Vesic, Kyle Patterson, John Taylor, Peter Scott, Frank Pangallo, Jim Cook, Manos Milios, Paul Moon, Oscar Perea, Walter Pless, Joe Lenzoni, Ted Smithies, Philip Micallef, Peter Desira, Ricky Rosso, Mike Lynn, Rocky Di Zio, Tim White, Peter Windsor, Allan Crisp, Stephen Dettre, Ken Kontra, Mike Mikolajczyk, Mick Mitten and John Mangan amongst numerous others will remain available to all, online.
All right here, or in the tab at the top of the page.
To download a folder with every issue in it all at once, try here.
