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Australia is unique among major sporting markets in having four football codes competing for market share. The irony is that the two international games, football (soccer) and rugby union, are getting trounced by the two parochial codes, rugby league and Australian Football, which are both fast and furious, and both built on deep tribal roots.
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.
In December 2004, the Australian Soccer Association renamed itself Football Federation Australia (FFA) and announced an effort to rebrand association football as "football" rather than "soccer" in Australia. [21] The national team had been nicknamed "the Socceroos" by journalist Tony Horstead on a 1967 tour to South Vietnam. [22]
Since the early twenty-first century, the peak association football authorities in soccer-labeling Australia and New Zealand have actively promoted the use of football to mirror international usage and, at least in the Australian case, to rebrand a sport that had been experiencing difficulties. [9] Both bodies dropped soccer from their names. [10]
In those two countries, other codes of football are dominant, and soccer is the prevailing term for association football. In 2005, Australia's association football governing body changed its name from soccer to football to align with the general international usage of the term. [1] In 2006, New Zealand decided to follow suit. [2]
Why it's called Football, not Soccer - Craig Foster, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2010. Mainstream Aussie press finally adopting the term football as soccer seen as thing of the past - Simon Hill, Fox Sports, 1 October 2012. The drive for 'football' to be king in Australia - Joe Gorman, The Guardian 28 May 2013. (The Guardian has since ...
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).
noun 1. a form of football in which there are eleven players in a team, the ball is spherical, and the use of the hands and arms is prohibited except to the goalkeeper; association football. –verb (t) 2. Australian Rules to kick (a football) along the ground, as opposed to in the air: he soccered the ball 30 metres down the field. [(as)soc(iation football) + -er2] Usage: While it is still ...