The Latest Draft of the Victorian Football Statistical History

Found below is a link to the 2018 draft of the Victorian Football Statistical History. A few missing results and details have been added, as well as all the 2018 senior leagues. A lot of photos and newspaper clips have been added, as well as more clip art and some general tidying up.

At the back there's a list of photos that would be nice to add (hint, hint) and a list of missing results and details that are needed to make it a complete record.

This completes the end of year updates of:

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and the

Melbourne Soccer Yearbook 2018

Melbourne Soccer Yearbook 2018

The best way to record a season, and update historical records, is to produce a Yearbook. So that's what I did.

The Melbourne Soccer Yearbook has two sections, the first covers the season just gone. Final tables for all the seniors and reserves league in the FFV's State League for both men and women. All the award winners and Cup Final details, as well as a round-up of junior league champions. The final tables for all the Victorian regional leagues for men's and women's senior teams are also included.

The second section is the historical content. Honour rolls for the senior men's competitions since 1909. These are presented in a different way from the Statistical History of Victorian Football.

Part of the reason I undertook this project was to improve the access to these records for those covering the game in Victoria. I was particularly disappointed with the way the (then) FFV released the State League Best and Fairest Award winners and Golden Boot Award winners. No fanfare, no historical context, they may as well come out and say "here's the pdf files with some results for awards we don't really give a shit about". Why not state that Caleb Nicholes, in winning the top scorer for State League Division Three South East, had won a top scorers title for the 6th time in his career? And then point out that the record is held by Dave Greening, who just took out the Golden Boot in State League Division Five South to notch his 7th success.

Not enough has been made of the feats of Volkan Kalayci, Thomas Amahdzai and Christophe Durand. Kalayci won a record 7 State League Best and Fairest Awards (1 x SL2NW, 6 x SL3NW) including 5 seasons in a row between 2004-2008. Amahdzai has won 6 State or Provisional League Best and Fairests, including the title in SL1SE for three years in succession from 2015-2017. Durand won 5 State and Provisional League Best and Fairests.

Then we had three time VPL Gold Medallist (1997-1999) still kicking on in 2013 to win the SL5N Best and Fairest. Achievements of note going virtually unnoticed due to indifference and the Federation not maintaining it's own records.

It took me a weekend to type up the tables (the senior men's ones had already been done in a night previously) and the honour rolls. Another weekend to create the layout on Microsoft Publisher then insert, cut and paste the tables and honor rolls and add the club logos and a few clip art pictures and it was done. It should take considerably less time to update the whole thing next year.

The Yearbook can be accessed via clicking on the image below. It's free to download, would probably cost between $20-30 if you want to get it printed out in booklet form by Officeworks.

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Here's the update of some of the folders I shared back in May.

Today, you can have the new Emblems and Logos folder.

It contains association/federation, sponsors, competition and media group emblems and logos.

On Sunday the updated Club Emblems folder will go on line.

It contains the emblems of clubs from all around the country, mainly present but with some vintage ones as well.

On Monday the new Clip Art folder will be added.

It contains hundred of various football related clip art images.

On Tuesday the updated Australian National Team Photos folder will be up.

Contains photos of Australian national representative teams, obviously.

Then, lastly, on Wednesday the all new Team Photos folder will be available.

It contains a collection of photos of Australian club and state football teams.

A new blog post on Thursday will reveal the inaugural Melbourne Soccer Yearbook.

On Friday another new blog post will contain this year's new draft of the Victorian Football Statistical History.

On The First Day Of Christmas, Melbourne Soccer Gave To You...

One folder of Emblems and Logos - Saturday December 15th
Organisation, competition and sponsor's emblems and logos

One folder of Club Emblems - Sunday December 16th
Australian club emblems and logos

One folder of Clip Art - Monday December 17th
Football clip art collection

One folder of Australian National Team Photos - Tuesday December 18th
Photos of Australian representative teams

One folder of Australian Club Team Photos - Wednesday December 19th
Photos of Australian club and state teams

One Melbourne Soccer Yearbook 2018 - Thursday December 20th
PDF file of the Melbourne Soccer Yearbook 2018

One new draft of the Victorian Football Statistical History - Friday December 21st
PDF file of the 2018 update of the Victorian Football Statistical History

The folders will be shared on the same blog post, which will be updated to add a new link each day. The Melbourne Soccer Yearbook 2018 and Victorian Football Statistical History update will have their own blog posts.

The Emblems and Logos folder has had a few additions since the last time I shared it. Same as the Club Emblems folder. The Clip Art folder has had a couple of hundred files added at least. Sadly the Australian National Team Photos folder has had few additions. The Australian Club Team Photos folder has had many new additions. If I can cut and paste a photo from a website or booklet, I will. If I can "save file as" of a picture on Twitter, I do. If that infringes anyone's copyright, they can get in touch via email and I will respond like the regional football federations do to my emails i.e. ignore them.

The Melbourne Soccer Yearbook contains two main parts, the 2018 season tables for all senior competitions and a historical section with honour rolls covering senior men's football since 1909.

The Victorian Football Statistical History update includes 2018 season information, an expanded regional league section, and some missing historical results I found during the last year. Plus a few more team and player photos with some errors corrected and some general tidying up.

Merry Christmas.