cooks

Moving to Melbourne in sept / oct and currently play football on sats and suns in UK. Was just wondering if there are actual football (soccer) leagues over there and what they're like. Any british expat teams?

loose

Hi,

could start here cooks. seems that theres quite a lot of amateur soccer in the cities, with clubs having several teams, vets, ladies, etc.

good luck.

http://sportsvl.com/soccer/australasia/australia.html

OzTennis

You will notice by the football pools which now feature Australian matches that there are organised leagues in Victoria - State League, Metropolitan League below it with many divisions. There is an Australian Soccer League as well with Melbourne teams in it. Many teams have an 'ethnic' connection (Scots, Welsh, Croats, Macedonians, Italians, Greeks, Maltese ...... etc, etc). However, because of crowd trouble in the past the ethnic bits are not allowed in club names eg South Melbourne Hellas became South Melbourne, Marconi name was not allowed etc, etc. I'm not sure what the current situation is as far as which teams have British connections in Melbourne but Frankston used to have English and Scottish teams (Frankston Pines?). In fact, a boy I taught moved out to Frankston to play for one of their teams - they paid his fare, found him a job and digs etc.

OzTennis

OzTennis

http://www.soccervictoria.org.au/

http://www.australiansoccer.com.au/p...800&height=600

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cooks

thanks guys, may even have a go at the aussie rules!!

OzTennis

You've come to your senses!

http://www.afl.com.au

http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au (red, white and blue, what could be more British?)

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cooks

sorry have already pledged allegiance to Hawthorn!!

got some aussie mates over there who are massive hawks fans so went to several of their games.

cooks

sorry have already pledged allegiance to Hawthorn!!

got some aussie mates over there who are massive hawks fans so went to several of their games.

OzTennis

The Bulldogs had only their 3rd win for the season at the weekend and now sit 11th on the ladder - looking down at Hawthorn though!

http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au

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cooks

I know after years of following a poor football team I thought this was my chance with no connections to any team to select a top of the league team and be a gloryhunting fan.

Typically I pick the team which is now second from bottom!!

Anyone need the kiss of death on any sporting teams just give me a shout and I'll start supporting them!!

PommieLeague

Dont forget the best team is: Melbourne Storm

RichS

There is no point on playing RL in Victoria. It's a failed experiment which should be ended as soon as possible.

Peter

Typos corrected.

mangobuster

There is very little home grown soccer shown on the TV here, so ist easy to think it doeant exist.

A mate of mine however told me that soccer is one of the largest participatory sports here.

Lets face it, there have been some really great aussie soccer players, Harry Kewell being the latest

hevs

LOL!!!!
go da Bombers!!!!!!!!