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The National Soccer League, 1977-2004

Australia had a national league in every football code's shadow for twenty-eight years. It produced most of the country's internationals and then…

Craig Johnston: The Boot, the Cup Final Goal and the Early Retirement

He won five league titles and a European Cup with Liverpool, retired at twenty-seven to care for his sister, and then invented…

Harry Kewell: Twenty-Three Minutes in Istanbul

The most gifted Australian footballer of his generation played in a Champions League final and lasted less than half an hour. Harry…

Auckland FC 1-0 Sydney FC: The Grand Final That Left Australia

In their second season Auckland FC won the A-League Men Grand Final at home in New Zealand, the first time the competition's…

Western Sydney Wanderers: Champions of Asia in Two and a Half Years

Founded in April 2012, in the league by August, premiers in their first season and champions of Asia by November 2014. No…

Central Coast Mariners: A Small Club That Keeps Winning

The A-League's smallest market has won three men's championships and, in 2025, a first women's one. Gosford has produced more titles than…

Melbourne City Women: Five Championships and an Undefeated Debut

They entered the competition in 2015 and won it without losing a match. A decade later Melbourne City completed a fifth championship…

The W-League Begins: Queensland Roar Win the First Title

Australia launched a national women's league in 2008, eight seasons before most of Europe. Queensland Roar won the first championship, and the…

Sydney FC 2016-17: Sixty-Six Points and a Double

Nineteen matches unbeaten to start the season, a record points total, and the Championship won on penalties. Sydney FC's 2016-17 remains the…

Melbourne Victory 6-0 Adelaide United: Archie Thompson Scores Five

The most one-sided Grand Final in A-League history, and the only time a player has scored five goals in a match in…

The Wanderers, 1880: The First Football Club in Australia

An English emigrant called a meeting in a Sydney hotel in August 1880, and eleven days later Australia played its first match…

Johnny Warren: The Man Who Kept Saying It

Forty-two caps, one World Cup, a state funeral and a book with a title nobody expected. Johnny Warren spent forty years arguing…