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

Bendigo Yearbooks

Books

Canberra Soccer News

Club Histories

Club Magazines

Club Newsletters

Club Yearbooks

Doug Butcher Books

Fanzines

Go Soccer

Goal Magazine

Goal! Weekly Collection

Hatrick Hero

History of Soccer in New South Wales Files

Il Globo Compilations

Illawarra Mercury Weekly Football Features

Illawarra Soccer News

Inside Soccer

Junior Roo

Leopold Method

Letterheads Archive

Media Guides

Memorabilia

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

Queensland Yearbooks

Round Ball

SASF Soccer Review

Shoot! Australia

Simply Soccer

Soccer Action

Soccer Australia Magazine

Soccer News Collection

Soccer Scene

Soccer Star

Soccer Today

Soccer Voice

Soccer Week

Soccer Weekly News

Soccer World

South Australian Yearbooks

Sunday Observer Compilations

Sunday Press Compilations

Super Soccer

Tasmanian Soccer News

Tasmanian Yearbooks

The Farr Post

The Soccer News

The Soccer Weekly

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.






Wednesday, 12 January 2022

Soccer News Archive Update

There have been 111 new issues of Soccer News added to the Soccer News Archive. They have been sourced and compiled by taking photos of the collection housed at the MCC Library which was put together by Roy Hay. This takes the total of editions contained in the archive to 486.

The newly added issues are as follows:

1948 - July 10

1949 - May 7, May 21, May 28, June 4, June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2, July 16

1950 - April 22, May 13, June 17, July 1, July 8, July 15, July 22, September 16, September 23

1951 - April 7, April 14, July 7, August 4, September 8

1952 - June 7, June 9, June 21, July 26, August 16, September 6, September 20

1953 - April 4, April 11, May 2, May 9, May 23, June 27, July 4, July 11, July 18, August 22, August 29, September 2, September 5, September 19

1954 - April 3, April 10, April 17, May 1, May 22, May 26, June 5, June 12, June 19, July 24, August 7, August 14, August 28, September 4

1955 - May 7, May 28, June 25, July 23, August 20

1956 - March 31, April 7, April 14, April 21, May 5, May 19, May 26, June 2, June 9, June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, July 21, August 4, August 11, August 18, Annual Review

1957 - July 13, July 27, August 10, August 17, August 31

1958 - April 5, April 12, May 10, May 17, June 7, June 21, July 5, July 12

1959 - April 4, April 11, May 9, June 13, July 25, August 8, September 19, September 26, October 10, October 17

1960 - April 23, May 7, June 25, August 13, September 24, October 1

As usual, any information on borrowing any Soccer News issues not found in this archive would be greatly appreaciated.