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This is a list of clubs that play Australian rules football in Australia at the senior level. Guide to abbreviations: FC = Football Club; AFC = Australian Football Club (mainly used if in Queensland or NSW or outside Australia) / Amateur Football Club (mainly used in the other Australian States) ARFC = Australian Rules Football Club
Since 2007, Australian clubs have participated in the AFC Champions League.For their first five competitions, the A-League was given two spots in the league- one for the champions (grand final winners) and one for the premiers (regular season winners- or the losing grand finalist if the champions and premiers were the same team).
The Western Sydney Wanderers are the only Australian side to win the competition, while Adelaide United are the only Australian side to have made the final and lost. For the 2013 competition the AFC reduced the number of A-League qualification spots to 1.5. [1] The Premiers (regular season winners) directly qualified for the Asian Champions League.
The league system in Australia since 1977 has involved one top divisional league controlled by Football Australia and many leagues run within each state below. [1] The National Soccer League stood from 1977 to 2004 as the top nationwide tier above the current state-based league systems, in 2005, the A-League (now A-League Men ) was established ...
The Big Blue, [1] [2] is the name of the soccer rivalry in Australia between Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory.While the main colour of both teams and their respective states are shades of the colour blue, in Australian English the word "blue" can also mean "a fight, brawl or heated argument".
The Australian soccer champions are the winners of the highest league in Australian men's soccer, which since 2005–06 is currently the A-League Men. The National Soccer League was established in 1977. At the end of the 1977 season, Sydney City (now Hakoah Sydney City East) were the first club to be crowned champions.
Figtree is an inner western suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.It is south-west of West Wollongong and connected to Wollongong by the Princes Highway. There is a small commercial district near this junction and another connected area of mainly food stores further north on the highway near the freeway entrance.
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.