Written by Greg Stock.
| The St George Budapest club were invited to participate in an international tournament in Japan. Other invited teams were Danish first division club Frem, Japan 'A' and Japan 'B'. The first match of the tournament was against the Japanese A side. During the tournament St George played a friendly match against the club side FC Hitachi in Ominya about 65 kilometres from Tokyo. | ||||
| Played : Thursday March 18 1971 | Venue : Ominya Stadium, Ominya, Japan | |||
| FC Hitachi (JAP) Hirose, Yamaguchi, Kawakami, Nagaoka, Yohida, Nomura, Yoshida, Obata, Natsui (Hirasawa), Ishii, Ohmi Goal : Yamagushi 10' |
1 | - | 2 | St George Budapest Brian Taylor, Don Sandall, Doug Utjesenovic, George Harris, Tom Anderson, Manfred Schaefer, John Warren, Alan Ainslie, Attila Abonyi, Mike Denton, Adrian Alston Goals : Denton 23' Abonyi |
| Referee : Morisaburo Kuramochi (Japan) Attendance : 10,000 Coach : Rale Rasic (St George Budapest) | ||||