• Contributors
• List of references used
• A little about the site
• Some of the current work being done

I trust you enjoy all the site has to offer and appreciate the work that went into its creation and continued growth.

Gratitude and thanks to (in alphabetical order) :

 

Iskander Ayari

Australia v France 1994

Eric Bates

Australia v USA 1992

Yaniv Bleicher

Matches involving Israel

Eddie Boards

Supplying information on Northern NSW leagues

Doug Butcher

Supplying information on Socceroos matches, working on historical records, cross checking and verifying lineups and results, basically showing up our mistakes ;-).

Jean-Michel Cazal

All Socceroo and some opposing lineups from the year dot.

Kevin Christopher

Editor of Studs Up, Socceroo and NSL information

Alan Clark

Match reports for NSL matches and Internationals held in Melbourne

David Cooper

NSWSF Media manager who supplied official NSWSF tables

Gareth Cooper

Australians Overseas (Doug Hodgson)

Steve Darby

Womens Internationals Data

Damian Davies

Australians Overseas list

Chris Dunkerley

Supply of ABSW newspapers to archivists

Thomas Esamie

Socceroos, WYC 93, Australians overseas, scanning of images, Match reports, VRML stadium, general formatting, various Stateleague info, recent NSL matches

Tim Fisher

Australia v England 1980 & 83

Alan Garside Jnr.

Much Information from the 1950's from his fathers archives and research of that era.

Peter Georgaras

South Australian Youth and State League results, Womens matches

Russell Gerrard

Australia v England 1981, general Socceroo issues

Guy Gersbach

Western Australia results

Nick Guoth

Various National League data & Womens internationals

Stephen Halchuk

Australia v Canada 1924

Matthew Hall

supplying official Soccer Australia Media Releases

Roy Hay

Victorian Youth League and State league information.

David Hearder

pre-1964 match data for the Australian national soccer team

Andrew Howe

almost all NSL info, NSW Stateleague info, NSL Clubs Histories and info, Socceroos data

David Hughes

Tasmania results

John Kellett

WA results and tables

Ian King

1989 NSL Playoff information

Andre Kruger

Australian matches against German opponents, Matildas matches

Andrei Libin

Former Soviet teams info

Lance Librandi

Japanese club tour results

Peter Miller

Northern NSW results

Searlais Mullen

Western Australian information including Perth Glory

Ross Musso

Australians Overseas (various)

Wayne Orrell

For allowing us to rifle through his personal library.

Tony Persoglia

For his major contributions to the Player and Club information areas of the site.

John Punshon

Source for data verification for NSL and Socceroos, Victorian Stateleague results, Matildas data and so much more.

Andrzej Potocki

1979 Wisla match v Socceroos

Diane Purdue

Australians Overseas (Nicholas Purdue)

Frank Scicluna

Supplying Socceroo and youth international lineups

Barry Smith

Joeys matches from 1995 Oceania Championship

Damien Smith

Information on various games

Peter Smith

NSW Stateleague and Cup information

Greg Stock

Socceroos, most of the Stateleague info, most Youth (NYL, U20 etc) game results international & local, general formatting

Karel Stokkermans

various international matches

...and our former Socceroos who have been very supportive

Joe Marston, Ron Lord, Andy Henderson, Billy Henderson, Alan Garside Snr

• "My Beloved Socceroos - The Frank Arok Story", Robert Lusetich, ABC Books 1992, ISBN 0 7333 0192 4
  Used for International lineups and results by Thomas Esamie
• "The Encyclopaedia of Australian Soccer 1922-88", G. E. Scerris
  various information used by Greg Stock
• "An Association with Soccer (The NZFA celebrates its first 100 years)", published in 1991 by the NZFA for its centennial
  Used for New Zealand player names used by Jean-Michel Cazal
• "New Zealand 1904-1994 (International The Line-ups & statistics series)" by Michael Robinson
  used for New Zealand lineups by Jean-Michel Cazal.
• GOAL, a Greek book written by Andrea Bomi (1984)
  Used by Jean-Michel Cazal for the Greece v Australia matches
• "Triunfos y tristezas del equipo tricolor (Historia de la seleccion mexicana de futbol (1923-1995)" by Roberto Garcia and Francisco Forastieri
  used by Jean-Michel Cazal for 1970 Mexico v Australia match
• Fakta Z historie Ceskoslovenskeho, a Czech publication,
  used by Jean-Michel Cazal for 1980 Czechoslovakia v Australia matches
• Igry sbornoy SSSR po futbolu. Spravochnik (1952-1988), published by Soviet Sports
  used by Andrei Libin for Australia v Soviet teams in that timeframe
• Peter Desira's statistics as they appeared in the 1989 Australian Soccer Annual, kindly supplied by Andrew Howe.
  Used for International lineups and results by Andrew Howe and Thomas Esamie
• SBS World Soccer Annual 1991-92, Vol 1 Number 1 (magazine)
  Used for Australian full internationals from late 1990 to 1991 by Thomas Esamie.
• The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday October 28, 1993, page 46.
  Used for International results by Thomas Esamie
• Various Match Programmes
  Used for results of all descriptions
• Official FIFA reports
  Used by Jean-Michel Cazal for various international matches
• Studs-Up, Australian Soccer Fanzine, various issues
  Used and abused for a lot of stuff
• The Sydney Morning Herald, various editions
  Used for many results
• Australian and British Soccer Weekly, various editions
  Used for NSL and International results and lineups as well as Stateleague information and the occasional picture.
• World Soccer - english publication, various editions
  used by Jean-Michel Cazal and Thomas Esamie for various matches
• L'Equipe and France Football, various editions
  Used by Jean-Michel Cazal
• La Celeste (1901-1991) by Javier Sandoval
  used by Jean-Michel Cazal for the 1974 Uruguay-Australia match
• SBS-TV broadcasts
  Utilised for lineups and the source for many a match report.
• Soccer Action Magazine 1985
  Various information used by Greg Stock
• Soccer World Magazine 1959-81
  Various information
• Super Soccer Magazine
  For details of the NSW Superleague and lower divisions used by Greg Stock
• Soccer Australia Magazine
  Used for player information and most of the images (used with permission) on the site.
• The 1994/95 and 96/97 ASF club profile promotional kits
  Used for Club information and Player details used by Thomas Esamie
• 1994 Futera Sports cards
  Used for Player information used by Thomas Esamie
• Australian Soccer Football Association. 1937. Official Souvenir Programme - England v New South Wales, Sydney Cricket Ground, 3rd July 1937
  Used for pre-1950's matches by David Hearder
• Behrent, Sue. 2011. History of the Socceroos. Camberwell, Victoria: Penguin Group (Australia) in association with Football Federation Australia
  Used for pre-1950's matches by David Hearder
• Grant, Sid. 1974. Jack Pollard's Soccer Records. North Sydney: Jack Pollard
  Used for pre-1950's matches by David Hearder
• Newspapers as noted (Australia) and (New Zealand)
  Used for pre-1950's matches by David Hearder
• Ron Lord's Diary, 5 November to 9 December 1956, Melbourne Olympic Games
  Used for pre-1950's matches by David Hearder

The OzFootball site was created in March 1995, at the instigation of Greg Baxter who had designed and built a website and then enlisted the help of Thomas Esamie and the data which Thomas had collected and was posting to the rec.sport.soccer newsgroup. The site became a focus for fans of Australian Football and was fortunate to receive support from other people willing to contribute time and data, these people are given credit for their work where possible. Andrew Howe, John Punshon, Greg Stock, Roy Hay... the list of contributors too long to list in full. We used to host a mailing list in conjunction with this site, nowadays there is a seperate list here which fulfils the need quite well. Check it out.

In all this time OzFootball has been by the fans, for the fans. Not a cent is made by any of the OzFootball members, infact their efforts cost much time and money to them personally and are done in the interest of chronicling the game generally and here in Australia in particular.

OzFootball is not an official site of any club, organisation or company, we speak for nobody but ourselves, and you. If you wish to submit a match report or have something you feel would make a positive contribution to the site we would welcome your input.

The OzFootball archive is constantly growing, it is not always clear where and when things are happening and this is why this section exists to inform you of where current efforts are being concentrated.

Greg Stock is concentrating his efforts on the history of the NSW State Federation and is contributing some of the more obscure matches played in Australia such as club tours, pre-season friendlies. He also has made the Club and Player sections pretty much his own.

John Punshon has worked tirelessly to basically bring more data on Victorian Football to this site than anybody knew existed and as also found time to augment and check most of the NSL and Socceroo data we have.

Andrew Howe was the spark of rejuvination when Greg Baxter and Thomas Esamie started finding the going a little tough. He contributed vast amounts of NSL data to the archive and much more besides. These days he's spending less time on the site and more on his 2 day jobs and raising his Football themed children.

Thomas Esamie is principally concerned with making sure the site is backed up and keeping the Socceroo and NSL sections up to date from here on. Currently he is trying to improve the look and navigability of the site (and desperately hoping navigability is a real word) and tidying up the site in general. Thomas is also trying to find the time to incorporate more of the Womens game from various sources.

Tony Persoglia is busy collating a database of players to suplement the efforts of Greg Stock, the results of which are the Australian Player Database. Tony's efforts are largely focused on creating a complete archive of Australians who have played overseas, not to mention player appearance records for the top divisions in Victoria and South Australia from 1991 onwards.

Finally Greg Baxter, who started the whole thing off, has been caught up in real life and works hard, consequently he has little time to work on the site which means the 'front-end' suffers a little, well.. a lot since there really isn't a front end anymore.