About this Site
This site was opened in May 2005 with two main
objectives. One was to put together the many years of data from Australian
state league football into one collection which can be used as a reference work
by anyone and the second was to provide UK pools punters with accurate and up
to date information on the games thereby helping them forecast results more
accurately.
The pools page has been extremely successful again
during 2009 and has provided every Saturday morning results as the games finish
instead of having to wait for the Sunday newspapers. The pools page is updated
every five minutes during the 12 weeks or so that Australian matches appear on
the UK pools coupons starting from around 8.00 am when games end in Victoria
until around 10.45 when the scores have come in from West Australia. The main
results and tables pages are also updated on Saturday mornings so punters can
use them to help their selections for the following week.
In the UK very little information is available from
newspapers apart from the excellent Racing and Football Outlook, published
Tuesdays, to help the forecasting and the pools becomes a bit of a numbers
lottery. Another good site is Soccerlotto which has many stats and
pools plans and tips. This is a paysite but the small annual subscription is
worth it for the serious punter.
Socceraust has
had to the end of April 2010 over one million hits and over sixty-six thousand
visitors from a great many countries around the world in the previous twelve
months.
New areas being covered for the first time on a
regular basis are Far North, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast Zones in Queensland
and in NSW many of the district federations below Football NSW. For 2010 there
will be coverage of SA amateur leagues and NNSW Interdistrict . All of which
have not before been covered on a regular basis before.
The historical sections are ever expanding as I
computerise the vast amount of paperwork I have collected over the years and
the past seasons will continue to grow slowly over the next few years or so as
I add missing results and tables. All of the data has been checked, where
possible, with at least two sources but inevitable some errors do creep
in. In compiling the tables I have
tried to keep track of the name changes and mergers that occurred and where it is
uncertain I simply list the outgoing side as withdrawn and the incoming side as
a new team. Any help to clarify mergers and name changes is appreciated.
The lists of past champions are the most complete ever
published and are, again, being added to all the time. The champion’s lists
include the Minor Premiership winners (first in the regular league season)
along with the Grand Finals which decide the actual Champions for the season.
Most States, like other sports in Australia, have adopted the playoff system
over the past few years and it is therefore possible for a team who finishes
fourth or even fifth in the table to win the title! However only Tasmania have
a normal pattern with no playoffs.
The club directory lists the home ground, contact
address and date of foundation, where known, and I am expanding this section to
include more detail such as emblem, honours etc. Club websites have been
ignored for the very basic reasons that a lot of clubs do not have them and
those which do are not updated on a regular basis (in some cases for years) or
they contain little more than a home page. Even the big clubs sites in Victoria
and NSW are not brilliant.
So who am I? Well my name is Alan Morley and I live in
Staffordshire, England and have been a keen football statistician for around 35
years with huge collections of detail from around the world, some of which is
computerised but most of which is piles of filling in our large garage – my wife
threatens to burn it on a regular basis!. This is a long term project which I
hope to complete sometime this century!
Finally I welcome comments, good or bad, about the
site and anyone who has noted an error or can help fill in missing details is
most welcome to email me. Please note that any info you supply may not get on
to here straight away.