Melbourne Soccer

Sunday, 6 August 2023

Victoria 1924-1926 Files

I've just about settled on finalising the season files for 1924-1926 to submit to Tony Persoglia for auditing and adding to OzFootball.

1924 Season

1925 Season

1926 Season

Before finalising I will have one more attempt at settling on initials for Barber and Boniface of Preston. I will also try and find any link to the Inglis that was with Lincoln Mills and Scotland in the Local International in 1924 as being the Jock Inglis that was later at Prahran City.

Have settled on J Maxwell for the Windsor/Prahran goalscorer (after years of floating between J, G and T), and J Aitken for the Footscray Thistle/Victoria/Australia defender. Aitken has also been listed a a W elsewhere, but the Footscray Mail is pretty consistent with J. I think this also makes him the "Jess Aicken" that was later at Springvale but I need to work on that a bit more.

Sunday, 28 May 2023

Moorabbin City Soccer Club History is Here!

Or more accurately, HERE.

Coming soon - Richmond Alemannia History

Sunday, 14 May 2023

New Additions

Needing to be able to add some things on Google Drive for the new Moorabbin City Soccer Club History blog, I've reactivated my Google One subscription. So I've added some items to the archives that have been sent to me or I came across or made in the last year.

Firstly the latest edition of Doug Butcher's works have been added, Socceroos and Olyroos match details in depth for 2020-2022.

New match programmes include:

Australia v Everton (both tests) 1964

Western Australia v Everton 1964

South Australia v Everton 1964

Australia v Everton 1987

New South Wales v Cardiff City 1968

South Coast United v Prague 1971

Balgownie v Middlesbrough 1975

Rockhampton Grand Final 1979

A whole heap of newspaper soccer page compilations from when I was trying to complete the 1919-1938 season records have also been added. They are:

Box Hill Reporter - 1925 1931 1932 1934 1935 1937 1938

Brighton Southern Cross - 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1932 1933 1934 1935

Brunswick & Coburg Courier - 1933

Brunswick & Coburg Gazette - 1929 1930 1931 1932

Brunswick & Coburg Leader - 1922 1923 1925 1926 1927 1928

Caulfield News - 1923

Coburg Courier - 1932 1936 1937

Dandenong Journal - 1964 1965 1966

Essendon Gazette - 1923 1924 1925 1925 1927 1928

Footscray Advertiser - 1921 1922 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938

Footscray Mail - 1924

Moorabbin News - 1925 1926 1927 1928 1930 1931

Powlett Express - 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1930 1931 1932

Preston Leader - 1922 1923 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

The Richmond Weekly - 1927

Ringwood & Croydon Chronicle - 1927

Ringwood Mail - 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

Sandringham News - 1936 1937 1938

Williamstown Chronicle - 1923 1924

Yarraville Weekly News - 1919 1920 1921

Also the following have been added to complete previous pages (everything on microfilm now sourced):

Il Globo - 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1976 1977 1978 1983

Sunday Press - 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

A new archive is the soccer pages from The Sun (which is hopefully coming to Trove soon) -

1923 1925 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938

Finally a new page of match programmes featuring Australians playing overseas has been created -

Australians Overseas Match Programmes

Monday, 1 May 2023

Moorabbin City Soccer Club History Launching March 26

A new website, Moorabbin City Soccer Club History, will be launched on the evening of May 26.

As many senior, reserve, thirds and colts team match records as can be found will be available to view. Each season containing links to the full match programme or any video of the games that exist.

There will be photo galleries with both team and player photos. There will also be a newly written club history, list of honours and lists of known award winners.

Sunday, 24 April 2022

Latest Additions, Folder Download Links & Closing the Archives

The latest additions to the archive are:

Yearbooks and Annuals

New South Wales Soccer Annual 1929 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)

New South wales Soccer Annual 1930 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)

St George Association Handbook 1924 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)

Illawarra Handbook 1922 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)

Magazines

Queensland Soccer News - June 26, 1958 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)

Soccer News - June 22, 1957 - improved version (thanks to Graeme McGinty)

Doug Butcher Booklets

Australia's International Association Football Results 1970-1979

Programmes

1938 Queensland v New South Wales (thanks to Greg Stock)

1968 Olympic Park Record June 15-16 (thanks to Graeme McGinty)

2009 Northern Tigers v Sydney FC (thanks to Doug Butcher)

National Team Programmes

1992 U.S.A. v Australia (thanks to Graeme McGinty)

2016 England v Australia (thanks to Warrick Ford)

Download them quickly, because on May 9, 2022 I will be cancelling my Google Drive subscription rendering most of the links on the archives useless and pretty much closing them down.

Having to deal with the security updates by Google last year requiring around half of the links on the blog needing to be re-done really drained my enthusiasm for maintaining the blog. When more links were made useless by the security updates after that, a request for support from them went unanswered and after four months the only thing I heard from them was the email alerting me that the annual subscription is due on May 10.

To allow for anyone who wants to do bulk downloads while they can, here are links (all post-security update) to the various folders I have stored most of the files in:

Folders

ABSW Collection

ACT/Canberra Yearbooks

Albury Yearbooks

Articles

Aussie Soccer Magazine

Australian Football Weekly

Goal! Weekly Collection

Hatrick Hero

History of Soccer in New South Wales Files

Il Globo Compilations

Illawarra Mercury Weekly Football Features

Illawarra Soccer News

National Soccer Monthly

National Yearbooks

Neue Welt Compilations

Newspaper Soccer Pages

Northern Soccer News

New South Wales Documents

New South Wales Yearbooks

Olympic Park Records

Planet Soccer Weekly

Programmes

Queensland Federation Documents

Queensland Soccer News

Soccer Australia Magazine

Soccer News Collection

South Australian Yearbooks

Sunday Observer Compilations

Sunday Press Compilations

Super Soccer

Tasmanian Soccer News

The South Australian Soccer News

The Sporting Globe Compilations

Victorian Federation Documents

Victorian Yearbooks

Western Australian Yearbooks

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Australian Croatian Soccer Tournament Programmes Page Added

One of the most rewarding thing about maintaining the archives on this blog is when someone contributes a collection to be added. It's an added bonus when they have done the scanning themselves, which happens to be first rate as well.

So today I am happy to add a new page to the programmes archive, the Australian Croatian Soccer Tournament Programmes page. Great thanks go to Tony Cavar of Hurstville Zagreb for sending through these fifteen programmes ranging from 1979 to 2013.

I've added one honour roll, and will look to expand this in time. For now though, there are many team photographs to crop and add to my collection, and lots of mini club histories to go through. For many, these will bring back great memories. Enjoy!

Sunday, 30 January 2022

Recent Additions to the Archives (January 2022)

Australian & British Soccer Weekly Archives

1986 - September 30 October 7, 14, 21 & 28 November 4

1986 is now complete

1991 - January 7 & 14. The previously incomplete January 21 has been replaced with a complete version

October 22 & 29, November 5 & 12

Thanks to Greg Stock

Australian & British Soccer Weekly Compilations

NYL 1986

NYL 1989-90

National Indoor League 1986

Articles

Il Globo - Juventus Australian Tour - 1984

Magazines

FFV Fun Football Schools 2005 Issue 2 June-July

Club Newsletters

The Shark's Net (Beaumaris SC) - 3 issues

Mornington SC Newsletter - 12 issues

The Willy Journal (Williamstown SC) - 1 issue

Yearbooks & Annuals

Football Association News Vol.1 No.1 1959

Memorabilia

Williamstown District SC Membership Card 1928

Thanks to Graeme McGinty

Programmes

South Australia v Hong Kong Chinese XI 1953 (also appears under National Team Programmes for Australia v Hong Kong Chinese XI)

Croatian Tournament - Melbourne Knights - 1993

Ballarat Red Devils v Sunshine George Cross 2015

Il Globo Compilations

1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991 all added

Junior Roo Archive

1991 - 31 issues added

1995 - September 25, October 2

1996 - August 12, October 7

1997 - July 28, August 25, September 1, 8 & 22, October 6 & 13

1998 - August 3 & 24, September 14, 21 & 28, October 12 & November 23

This mainly follows the visit to the MCC Library, and ongoing trips to SLV to complete the Il Globo Compilations and Junior Roo Archives. This will soon be finished and I will then be scaling back to just adding Greg Stock's ASW scans.