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The Australia men's national soccer team represents Australia in international men's soccer. Officially nicknamed the Socceroos , [ 6 ] the team is controlled by the governing body for soccer in Australia , Football Australia , which is affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).
Football Australia is the governing body of soccer, futsal, and beach soccer within Australia, [1] headquartered in Sydney. Although the first governing body of the sport was founded in 1911, Football Australia in its current form was only established in 1961 as the Australian Soccer Federation .
On 31 December 2020, Football Australia announced that the Australian Professional Leagues (APL) would be separated from the governing body. APL will assume responsibility for operational, commercial, and marketing activities, while Football Australia will continue to manage disciplinary and integrity matters, as well as the registration of clubs, players and officials, transfers, and match ...
A national round-robin tournament existed in various forms prior to the formation of the A-League, with the most notable being the National Soccer League (NSL). The formation of the NSL came after Australia's qualification for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, which led to discussion of a national league, with 14 teams eventually chosen to participate in the inaugural season of the NSL in 1977.
In Australia, soccer, also known as association football, is the most played outdoor team sport, [3] [4] and ranked in the top ten for television audience as of 2015. [5] The national governing body of the sport is Football Australia (FA) which comprises nine state and territory member federations, which oversee the sport within their respective region.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football.It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897.
From the 2023–24 AFC Champions League season, Australian clubs will be allocated one spot in the group stage, and two spots in the 2023–24 AFC Cup group stage. Australian soccer clubs have entered Asian and Oceania competitions (AFC Champions League, OFC Champions League and the now defunct Oceania Cup Winners' Cup).
This is a list of soccer clubs in Australia. The Australian soccer league system consists of one national league — A-League Men — a state/territory-based second tier National Premier Leagues (NPL) structure and other state-based metropolitan and regional leagues. Promotion and relegation exists in some states between NPL and state leagues ...