Links & Resources

Archival material

• Melbourne Soccer - Mark Boric's history blog. In lieu of anything official, this is the place to find and download Australian archival material. The site includes yearbooks and annuals; soccer newspapers and magazines; match programs from international, national, state, local, and ephemeral competitions; club histories; and much more besides.
• South Melbourne Hellas/Lakers/FC match programs - spanning from 1975-present, via Paul Mavroudis' South of the Border blog. See also an assortment of  historical materials on the same site.
• Wayback Machine - archive of both defunct websites and older versions of extant websites. Got a dead link? Put it in the Wayback Machine, and it just mind find a working version of it.

Australian soccer history sites

• Australian Football Shirt Museum - does what it says on the label.
• Bundy Soccer 1914-1978 - Rob Savidge's photo collection of Bundaberg soccer
• Grassroots Football Project - Greg Werner's site dedicated to documenting the players who represented Australia, and the club they came from.
• Ipswich Soccer History - run by good friend of the show, Garry McKenzie
• Neos Osmos - Ian Syson's blog, where he publishes odd and ends about Australian soccer, as well as 'homework' for listeners of the show.
• Newcastle Football History - Todd Giles' attempt to cover all areas of Newcastle's top-flight football history
• The Southern Cross - Andre Kruger's tribute page to the 1974 Socceroos.

Bibliography

• Roy Hay's bibliography to accompany A History of Football in Australia. A little out of date, but still a useful starting point in finding out what published material exists

Collections

• Melbourne Cricket Club library - the MCC Library's collection includes the Roy Hay-Peter Desira soccer collections. MCC members can visit the library at their leisure, while non-members must first arrange their visit with library staff,

Facebook Australian soccer history groups

• Australian Football Before the A-League
• Australian Football Shirt Museum
• Early Illawarra Soccer History 
• My World Is Round - Geoge Cotsanis' main base of online operations
• Queensland Football History Association.
• South Australian Football History
• The Southern Cross - Andre Kruger's page

Government and court documents

• Australasian Legal Information Institute - put "soccer" in the search tab and see where it leads you.

National and State Federation history pages

• Australian Capital Territory - Simple page containing only republished news articles of the first games of soccer in what eventually became the ACT.
• FFA - Incomplete hall of fame pages. There are separate history pages for the Socceroos, Matildas, and the A-League
• New South Wales - None. Very basic life member page.
• Northern New South Wales - None. Very basic life member page. 
• Northern Territory. None. Very basic life member page.
• Queensland - Football Queensland History Project.
• South Australia - No history page, but good hall of fame pages, and a list of player honours.
• Tasmania - None. 
• Victoria - Very basic life member page, expanding and improving hall of fame page.
• Western Australia - Comparatively comprehensive history pages, spread across several categories. Also includes historical publications.

Newspapers and magazines

• Trove, the National Library of Australia's online newspaper database - indispensable resource for researching Australian history.
• Goal Weekly archives - downloadable editions of the Melbourne-based, weekly soccer newspaper, spanning 2005-2010.
• Melbourne Soccer - contains tons of scans of Australian soccer newspapers and magazines.
• Newspapers.com - subscription based newspaper archive service. Be aware that the subscriptions for the two Australian newspapers on file - The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald - only go up to the year 2000, and require purchase of a premium subscription.

Podcasts

• Behind The Game - unofficial archive of Brogan Renshaw's Australian soccer interview podcast series, containing 59 of the 60 episodes Brogan recorded. Ironically the one missing episode is the one with Ian Syson.

Publishers

• Fair Play Publishing - publishing company of Bonita Mersiades, specialising in Australian soccer books.
• Sport and Editorial Services - publishing company of Australian soccer historian Roy Hay, the site also includes Roy's various soccer history articles. 

Statistics and results

• FootballWA - Like OzFootball, but for Western Australian soccer.
• OzFootball - the long-running Australian soccer stats database, erratically updated, but still the best place to start.
• Socceraust.co.uk - British soccer pools site, with a comprehensive results archive for Australian soccer competitions.
• Ultimate A-League - stats site focusing on the A-League.

Videos

• Mark Boric - Mark's YouTube channel includes Australian national team games, Victorian archival footage, and women's interstate matches, among other things.
• George Cotsanis - Episodes of George's Football Nation Radio show The Pioneers, as well as assorted Australian archival footage.
• Football Chaos - Over a decade of filming predominantly Victorian men's and women's lower league fixtures
• Football Kingz - YouTube channel dedicated to footage of New Zealand's Football Kingz during their time in the National Soccer League.
• Paul Mavroudis - predominantly South Melbourne Hellas videos
• Newcastle Football History - small selection of Newcastle related footage.
• Northern Areas soccer - YouTube channel set up by Darren Giancaspro, containing archival footage from the early 1990s of Port Augusta, Port Pirie, and Whyalla soccer.
• OzGoals - goals scored by Australian players in overseas leagues.
• United NSL Years 84-04 - Sydney United & Melbourne Knights NSL videos, plus other Australian soccer materials.