Since then, Mark Boric has turned his modest blog railing against Victorian soccer into the formidable Australian historical library Melbourne Soccer.
As such I won't be uploading so much to this page as I used to do, but I will update certain sections. For South of the Border's collection of South Melbourne Hellas match programs both home and away, which will be my priority from now on, click here.
There's too much of this kind of material gathering dust in cupboards and boxes, so by all means please download and share what's on this page as you see fit, and if anyone has something to share, please send me an email, and I'll see what I can do, or contact Mark Boric directly.
There's too much of this kind of material gathering dust in cupboards and boxes, so by all means please download and share what's on this page as you see fit, and if anyone has something to share, please send me an email, and I'll see what I can do, or contact Mark Boric directly.
Club histories
At the moment, I'm not looking for things which are still in print or which can be purchased from a club or author with relative ease. I'm mostly interested in documents produced by clubs, which have been made available for free; or where it is appropriate to do so, to reproduce long out of print materials.
- Albury United - 25th anniversary book (1967-1992)
- Ballarat Red Devils - 45th anniversary booklet (1998) - possibly incomplete
- Castlemaine/Castlemaine Goldfields (The World Game in Castlemaine, by Robyn Lewis) - (1974-2014)
- Corrimal Rangers - Centenary 1891-1991
- Eastern Lions - 40th anniversary booklet (2003)
- Fortuna 60 - 50th anniversary booklet (2010)
- Helensburgh Thistle - 1895-1995
- Knox City - 50th anniversary (2001)
- Langwarrin - 50th anniversary booklet (2014)
- Melbourne Knights - 60th anniversary gala booklet (2013)
- Moorabbin City - 50th anniversary (1999)
- Murwillumbah - a potted history of the various clubs that came form Murwillumbah in 2009, spanning 1956-2015
- Myrtleford Savoy - A Stroll Through History (1959-1995)
- New Town White Eagles - 50th anniversary (1961-2011)
- Prague (Sydney) - 10th anniversary (1950-1960)
- Richmond Eagles (Alemannia) - 50th anniversary booklet (2003)
- Ringwood United - 1967 yearbook (incomplete - I suspect that missing pages were ads)
- Ringwood Wilhelmina - 1953-1993 (contains some serious factual errors)
- South Melbourne Hellas - 1959-76; 21st anniversary (1980)
- St George Budapest - Silver Jubilee (157-1982)
- Three Colours (Mildura) - 30th anniversary booklet (2010)
- Woonona - 1889-2003 booklet
Football Federation Victoria Gold Medal Night program
Football Federation Victoria media guides
Match programs - regular
Eventually a separate website is going to have to be started to do this stuff properly, but for the time being here they are renting one of the spare rooms on my blog.
1980
1981
1982
Match programs - Finals, Cups and Miscellaneous matches
- 1980 Philips Soccer League souvenir brochure
- West Adelaide Hellas vs Sydney City, 1986 NSL Cup final
- APIA Leichhardt vs Brunswick Juventus, 1988 NSL Cup final
- NSL 1989 Finals Series programme
- Parramatta Eagles vs Heidelberg United, 1992-1993 NSL Cup Final
- Jubilo Iwata vs Melbourne Knights, June 1995
- Yokohama Flugels vs Melbourne Knights, June 1995
- Laurie Schwab memorial match (Melbourne Knights vs South Melbourne) match programme, 1997
- NPL Queensland 2017 grand final - Western Pride vs Moreton Bay United
Soccer News was the official news publication of the Victorian Amateur Soccer Football Association, as well as its successor the Victorian Soccer Federation (now FFV). These were sourced from a combination of the efforts of Damian Smith and Mark Boric.
- 1948 - April 24; May 1; May 15; June 5; June 19; June 26; July 3; July 17; August 14;
- 1949 - July 9; July 23; July 30; August 6; August 13; August 20; September 10; September 17; September 24;
- 1950 - April 8 & 10; April 15; April 29; May 6; May 20; May 27; June 3; June 10; June 24; September 9;
- 1951 - May 5; May 9; May 19; May 26; June 2; June 16; June 23, June 30; July 14; July 28; August 11; August 25;
- 1952 - April 26; May 3; May 24; July 5; July 12; July 19; August 23; October 4;
- 1953 - April 18; May 16; June 6; June 13; June 20; July 25; August 1; August 8;
- 1954 - April 24; May 8; May 15; June 26; July 3; July 10; July 17; July 31; August 21;
- 1955 - August 6; August 13; August 15; August 27;
- 1956 - April 28; May 12; July 14; July 28; August 25; September 1;
- 1957 - April 20; May 11; July 20; September 28;
- 1958 - April 19; May 3; May 24;
- 1960 - April 2; April 30; May 21; May 28; June 4; July 2; July 9; July 16; July 23; August 20;
- 1961 - April 15; June 17; June; 24; July 1; July 8; July 15; July 22; July 29; August 5; August 12; August 19; August 26; September 9; September 16; September 23;
- 1963 - March 21; March 28; April 4; April 25; May 9; July 25; August 22; September 5; September 11; September 19; October 10; November 7; November 21;
- 1964 - February 27; March 26; April 2; April 16; April 23; May 21; June 25; August 27; September 17; October 15; November 5;
- 1965 - May 27; August 12; September 9; October 14; November 18 ; November 25;
- 1966 - June 2; September 1;
- 1967 - March 30; April 6; June 8; June 15; June 22; June 29; July 6; July 13; August 3; October 5;
- 1968 - March 14; April 25; May 16; June 27; August 1; August 8;
- 1969 - April 3; April 10; April 17; May 1; May 8; May 22; June 5; June 12; June 19; June 26; July 3; July 17; July 24; July 31; August 21; August 28; September 4;
- 1970 - January 8; January 15; January 29; February 5; February 12; February 19; February 26; March 5; March 12; March 19; March 26; April 2; April 9; April 16; April 23; April 30; May 7; May 14; May 21; May 28; June 4; June 11; June 18; July 2; July 16; July 23; August 6; August 13; August 20; August 27; September 3; September 10; September 17; September 24;
- 1971 - June 5; June 20; July 11; November 21;
- 1972 - May 14; June 11;
- 1974 - April 25;
- 1978 - June 11;
Sourced from The Agitator. Mostly focused on New South Wales, but also contains roundups of most states as well as national team and touring side reports.
Studs Up magazine
Pioneering fanzine of the NSL era, headed by the late Kevin Christopher. Editions of Studs Up 1-33, 35 and 40 (sourced from The Agitator) all have text recognition. Editions 34, 36-39 and 41-45 do not have text recognition.
Pioneering fanzine of the NSL era, headed by the late Kevin Christopher. Editions of Studs Up 1-33, 35 and 40 (sourced from The Agitator) all have text recognition. Editions 34, 36-39 and 41-45 do not have text recognition.
- 1 (undated); 2 (Feb-Mar 1995); 3 (Apr-May 1995); 4 (Jun-Jul 1995); 5 (Aug-Sep 1995); 6 (Oct 1995); 7 (Nov 1995); 8 (Dec 1995); 9 (Jan 1996); 10 (Feb 1996); 11 (Mar 1996); 12 (Apr 1996); 13 (May 1996); 14 (Jun 1996); 15 (Jul 1996); 16 (Aug 1996); 17 (Sep 1996); 18 (Oct 1996); 19 (Nov-Dec 1996); 20 (Jan 1997); 21 (Feb 1997); 22 (Mar 1997); 23 (Apr 1997); 24 (May 1997); 25 (Jun-Jul 1997); 26 (Aug-Sep 1997); 27 (Oct-Nov 1997); 28 (Dec 1997-Jan 1998); 29 (Feb-Mar 1998); 30 (Apr-May 1998); 31 (Jun 1998); 32 (Jul-Aug 1998); 33 (Sep 1998); 34 (Oct-Nov 1998); 35 (Dec 1998); 36 (Jan 1999); 37 (Feb 1999); 38 (Mar 1999), 39 (Mar 1999); 40 (May-Jun 1999); 41 (Jul 1999); 42 (Aug-Sep 1999); 43 (Oct 1999); 44 (Jan 2000); 45 (Mar 1999);
- Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament: 2013;
- Hellenic Cup (Victoria) - 2007; 2008;
- Knox City 1985 world cup (aka All Nations Cup), Greece squad book. This was scanned from a copy given to me by former Socceroo Ted Smith.
The following yearbooks were scanned by me, from a collection kindly lent to me by Mark Boric.
- 1951; 1952; 1953; 1959; 1960; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971;1972; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1980; 1981; 1983; 1985; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000;
- Australian soccer monument and place name map. Project started in 2019 attempting to map Australian soccer's cultural footprint in cartographic form.
- 'Australian soccer, this is your life'. The infamous list of Australian soccer hooliganism, racism and other antics of the 1980s and 1990s. I sourced my copy several years ago from Google cache.
- Inaugural Australian Soccer Hall of Fame Ceremony book (1999)
- Australian Soccer Federation, 1994/95 NSL season preview/profile book. Thanks to The Agitator for passing this along.
- Australian Soccer Federation News, May 1995 (vol 1, no.1)
- Roy Hay's bibliography to accompany A History of Football in Australia.
- Italian-Victorian soccer club merger/de-merger flowchart, second version. Updated from the original by Daniel Tribuzio, a then player with Pascoe Vale, and someone who deserves credit for taking the initiative of doing the update. Not sure what happened to my copy of the original flowchart, so if anyone has a copy, please do send it my way.
- My Blue Heaven - Carlton SC fanzine: issue 3, April 1999; issue 6, March 2000; issue 7, May 2000;
- Oceania Bulletin - Official Newsletter of the Oceania Football Confederation (circa early 1985)
- Crawford Report - aka Report of the Independent Soccer Review Committee chaired by David Crawford
- Report of the NSL task force into the structure of a new National Soccer League competition. - December 2003.
- The Maverick - one off independent South Melbourne supporters group newsletter, highly critical of management and media - slant, very progressive.
- The Full-Back - short story by David Martin, from his Foreigners collection from 1981. Jews, racism, a Scottish full-back, and romance!
- South Melbourne Hellas 1995 grand gala auction booklet
- Three points and a hangover - Northern Spirit fanzine - no. 2 (undated)
- The Score Socceroos vs Iran 1997 second leg fanzine. Incredible hubris in here. Real time capsule. Followed up inexplicably by another, post-Iran edition!
- Who Says A Must Say B - short story by David Martin, from his Foreigners collection from 1981. Croatians, soccer, politics and terrorism in Melbourne.
- The Little Professor of Soccer - Leo Baumgartner. Autobiography by the champion player.
Yeah the spines on the 1977 and 1978 editions are tricky.
ReplyDeleteThey are also the cream of the crop in terms of quality/content.
Will try to take extra special care with them.
DeleteReading the history of Italian Soccer club mergers/de-mergers', I decided to do some wikipediing, and discovered that there currently exists two separate Zebra's, Brunswick and Moreland! Which is considered the more legitimate successor of the historical Brunswick Juventus?
ReplyDeleteMy professional opinion is that each entity - Moreland, Brunswick and Ranges - has so forfeited important parts of either Brunswick Juventus legacy or continuity, that none of them has the right to claim the status of being the legitimate successor.
DeleteIn that respect, I consider Juventus as we knew it to have died in the mid 1990s. Each descendant of the splits and mergers would contest that assertion - Moreland because they have highest ranked senior team and Juventus business name, Brunswick because they didn't leave the 'heartland', and Ranges because they have thr trophies - but that the mess and confusion exists at all is enough for me to declare the issue irrelevant. Juventus is dead, has been for 20 odd years, and all those which have followed are only imitations.
My two cents on this is that Brunswick Zebra's have more of a claim than Moreland. When Juve dropped out of the NSL it was only the senior team that merged with Bulleen, while the Juve/Zebars juniors continued to operate uninterrupted and have done so to this day. Few years they re-started their senior team. So to me they are the legitimate claimants.
DeleteI decided to immerse myself in the first 4 editions of Studs Up from early 1995, and, my goodness, I felt like I was in a time portal, and all my older disdain and anger at the old NSL bubbled to the surface yet again.
ReplyDelete'Highlights':
- Instead of a highlights program, just showed a full game!
- Coaches speaking with accents. Les pronouncing names with the accent
- the woeful penalty shoot out for draws!
- abolishing pro/rel, so that NSL powerhouses don't get relegated!
- LOTS of Heidelberg infighting ($500,000 debt?!!!)
- SM Hellas threaten to leave NSL?! Adel City to play in Malaysia?! Preston to return to NSL (snigger)
- the constant threat of Basketball (LOL)
- constant refrain of clubs needing to be more Australian (this was my mistaken belief), when the question should have been made to others to create an 'Australian' club!
- the hate for Andy Paschalides far greater than the hate for David Basheer and David Zdrillic
- Flares were given back to fans after they threw them!
- numerous fan problems (invading pitch. Has that happened in A League?)
- numerous player problems (Markovski's political statement). Interesting that fans allowed to make political statements today (pro refugees)
And best of all
- death threats from Labozetta to Peter Kogoy (who I think I saw on twitter the other day!
One thins that has improved
- player drain has been solved with A League. Except that the older generation returning, and the younger generation staying are not in the same class as back then!
"Italian-Victorian soccer club merger/de-merger flowchart"
ReplyDeleteStill one of the greatest things in Australian soccer
Any more of those NSW Soccer World annuals, or just those years? would be great to see the rest of them
ReplyDeleteIt's all I've got at the moment I'm afraid.
DeleteSo no addition to the Soccer World Annuals? They are a pain in the ass to find
ReplyDeleteNot unless Mark Boric has added some stuff to his site that I've neglected to duplicate here.
DeleteWhere are the Sydney Boric's and Cotsanis'?
DeleteI do have the 1963 one which you haven't duplicated here yet.
DeleteYes l agree as the author of the Ringwood City publication that some errors did occur unfortunately the project was a six week project back in the day with limited resources for the time but it was nice to see it highlighted and always happy to discuss any errors found cheers Dave
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