Victoria state soccer team explained

Victoria
Association:Football Victoria
First Game: Victoria 2–2 New South Wales (Melbourne, Australia; 16 August 1883)
Largest Win: Victoria 8–1 Tasmania
(Melbourne, Australia; 17 July 1912)
Victoria 8–1 Western Australia (Melbourne, Australia; 8 June 1963)
Largest Loss: Victoria 0–11 Rapid Vienna (Melbourne, Australia; July 1955)

The Victoria state soccer team is a representative side of Australian state Victoria. The team regularly played against New South Wales and other state teams from 1883.

Throughout the 19th century, Victoria played their state representative matches only against New South Wales, then moved to playing against the rest of the state representative teams later in the early 1900s. Their first representative match against a club, was against Maccabi Tel Aviv in June 1939. The representative side continued to play many of their games against club opponents across the globe after the 1930s.

History

1880s and 1890s

Victoria played their first representative match against New South Wales on 16 August 1883 in a 2–2 draw at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground.[1] Two days later, they played their second match which resulted in a 0–0 draw.[2] Victoria won their first match (4–0 against New South Wales) on 16 July 1885.[3]

Results by opponent

Opponent[4] PWDL%W%D%L
New South Wales12273
South Australia7403
Tasmania4310
Maccabi Tel Aviv3102
Western Australia3300
Fiji3210
South Africa2002
Rapid Vienna2002
Torpedo Moscow2002
Cardiff City2011
Dynamo Moscow2011
Ferencváros2002
New Caledonia2200
China PR1001
New Zealand1001
South China1001
Austria Wien1001
Eastern Athletic1001
Blackpool1001
South Australia1001
Newcastle1100
Everton1001
Preußen Münster1100
Chelsea1001
Greece1010
Romania B1001
Werder Bremen1001
Toyo Kogyo1001
Dundee1001
Bristol Rovers1100
Legia Warsaw1001
Glasgow Rangers1001
Benfica1001
Norwich City1001
New York Cosmos1001
Red Star Belgrade1100
JEF United1001
Northern New South Wales1100

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: SPORTING NOTES. . . 8892 . Victoria, Australia . 17 August 1883 . 8 January 2021 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
  2. News: FOOTBALL. . . 8894 . Victoria, Australia . 20 August 1883 . 8 January 2021 . 1 (Supplement to the Age) . National Library of Australia.
  3. News: FOOTBALL GOSSIP . . XIV . 30 . Tasmania, Australia . 25 July 1885 . 8 January 2021 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
  4. Web site: Miscellaneous Games Archive. ozfootball.net.