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SESA is saddened that Dennis Jones had to put his distribution company Dennis Jones & Associates into administration…
SESA is delighted to announce the publication of ’s The Game That Never Happened: The Vanishing History of Soccer in…
Geelong Rangers topped the ladder in the Community Cup (Click on pictures below to enlarge them) Geelong Rangers and…
(Click on photos below to enlarge them) After Geelong Rangers fielded some of its promising youngsters but still ran up…
in the Nineteenth Century: They Did Not Come from Nowhere ISBN: 9781527526488 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle…
Rangers hit Golden Plains for six in Geelong Community Cup (Click on pictures below to enlarge them) Geelong Rangers…
Geelong Community Cup 2025 - Matchday 4 Steven Ginoski Rangers flex their muscle against Bell Park Bell Park 0-4…
Both games drawn in Wednesday’s Geelong Community Cup (click on photos below to enlarge them) Barwon got its first…
Geelong tops Geelong Community Cup after two rounds (Click on the pics below to enlarge them) The second round of…
Geelong Community Cup 2025 (Click on pictures below to enlarge them) Geelong’s Community Cup, the long running…
On 14 November 2017 the members of the Australian football team that went to Saigon and won our first international…
50th Anniversary of the victory in Vietnam In 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War, the Australian government, led by…
Aboriginal Australian men playing football in a paddock at Coranderrk. N. J Caire 1837-1918, photographer. State…
(Click on the photographs below to enlarge them) Corio have appeared in the last five finals of the Geelong Community…
Corio will be an unbackable favourite to win the Geelong Community Cup on Sunday when it takes on newcomer Golden…
(Click on the images below to enlarge them) In probably the biggest upset in the long history of the Geelong pre-season…
A one-all draw against Corio secured the last place in this year’s Community Cup finals at Geelong Rangers’ Myers…
A statue of Hungarian and world football’s all time great players, coaches and inspirations, Ferenc Puskas, was…
Geelong Rangers topped Group A of the Geelong Community Cup after a seven-one thrashing of Surfcoast, while Bell Park…
There were big wins for host club, Geelong Rangers, and cup holder Bell Park in the Geelong Community Cup on Sunday…
Corio is through to the finals of this season’s Geelong Community Cup after a comfortable three-nil win over a tiring…
In 2017, as we struggle as a society to find ways of understanding and accepting people who do not apparently conform…
In 2017, as we struggle as a society to find ways of understanding and accepting people who do not apparently conform…
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Corio overcame Geelong by two goals to one in a high quality first match for both clubs in the Geelong Community Cup at Myers Reserve on Sunday…
Bell Park’s defence of its Geelong Community Shield is in tatters after an opening night four-nil defeat by host club…
A Missing Part of the National Narrative Much has been written about sport in Australia. Much more has been written…
This article appeared in Leopold Method in May 2015 just after the launch of the Whole of Football twenty year plan by…
Football on Corio Oval in 1913, the Geelong Football Club's home ground from 1878 until the Second World War. Source…
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(Click or double click on the images below to enlarge them) Bell Park finished the final of the Morris Finance Cup at its home ground with only nine…
Host club, Bell Park, secured its place in the Morris Finance Cup final with a four-one win over a plucky Lara team on…
(Click on pics below to enlarge) Corio reached the final of the Morris Finance Cup at Bell Park Sports Club on Friday…
A one-all draw between host club Bell Park and Surfcoast at Batesford on Sunday night was enough to ensure that Park…
Doug Miller of Surfside Waves (right, in blue) tries to get past Michael Boyar of Geelong. Bell Park and Geelong have…
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Mijo Marinovic outjumps Andrew Maclean in the Rangers's defence. Marinovic hat-trick highlights Bell Park victory Mijo Marinovic made a blistering…
We all know the rules to the senior game but do you remember the rules of Primary School playground fitba? (In other…
(An abbreviated version of this story appeared as 'Butler ready to serve', in the Geelong Advertiser, Friday 1 May…
This week Australians and others around the world will remember the carnage that was the two world wars of the 20th…
(This article first appeared in the Almanac on 3 April 2015 at…
Phil Mosely Soccer in New South Wales, 1880–1980 has just been published by SESA and Vulgar Press, Bannockburn and…
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Geelong won the 2015 Diversity Cup after a penalty shoot out against Corio at Hume Reserve on Sunday night. At the end of normal time the teams were…
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Corio and Geelong will contest the final of the Diversity Cup on Sunday 22 February after Geelong survived a tense battle with North Geelong’s Youth…
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In what was expected to be one of the games of the tournament, favourite Geelong and Corio shared the points in a three-all draw at Hume Reserve on…
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Geelong’s Diversity Cup, the local pre-season tournament is in full swing at Hume Reserve, Thompson Road, North Geelong on Friday and Sunday…
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(This article originally appeared on The Footy Almanac) When Jock Stein of Celtic, the first British manager to take a team to win what was then the…
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Norman Hobson, 1935–5 December 2014 Norm Hobson was one of Australia’s best goalkeepers in the 1950s and 1960s. He arrived from England where he had…
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Melbourne Victory 3 Adelaide United 2 There are very seldom dull Victory-United derbies, the one earlier this year at Adelaide Oval, being the…
If you have any interest in the World Game in Australia then & Bill Murray, A History of Football in Australia: A Game…
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Castlemaine Goldfields Football Club celebrated its fortieth birthday with a full house of past and present players and supporters at New Northern on…
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Melbourne City 1 Sydney FC 3 The new Melbourne City was a bit like the old Melbourne Heart as it went down to Sydney FC at Morshead Park in Ballarat…
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(Note: Interim revised version. A conference paper based on this article was given to the conference of the International Society for the History of…
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The death of Alfredo di Stefano at the age of 88 has robbed us of one of the greatest players the world of football has ever seen. Though a modern…
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Melbourne Victory 2 Guangzhou Evergrande 0 In what must be one of the sweetest victories of his fledgling coaching career, Kevin Muscat masterminded…
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Melbourne Heart 2 Western Sydney Wanderers 3 Melbourne Heart could not give skipper Harry Kewell a winning end to his career after going down by…
Melbourne Victory 1 Sydney FC 1 Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC cancelled each other out in a one-all draw at AAMI Park…
Harry Kewell is bringing down the curtain on a stellar career at the end of the current A-League season. It is a pity…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Central Coast Mariners 2 Melbourne Heart threw away a chance to close the gap on the teams above them when they conceded two second…
Melbourne Victory 1 Yokohama Marinos 0 Melbourne Victory took an early lead and withstood a barrage from Yokohama…
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In its first home game of the 2014 Asian Champions League, Melbourne Victory squeezed out a hard-fought draw with Jeonbuk Motors from South Korea at…
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Melbourne Heart continued its surge towards the finals by sweeping aside Melbourne Victory in the third derby of the season by four goals to nil…
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(Click on images below to enlarge them) North Geelong won the Geelong Diversity Cup on penalty kicks after a one-all draw with Corio at Elcho Park on…