Victoria state soccer team

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.

Victoria
AssociationFootball Victoria
First international
Victoria (state) Victoria 2–2 New South Wales New South Wales (Melbourne, Australia; 16 August 1883)
Biggest win
Victoria (state) Victoria 8–1 Tasmania Tasmania
(Melbourne, Australia; 17 July 1912)
Victoria (state) Victoria 8–1 Western Australia Western Australia (Melbourne, Australia; 8 June 1963)
Biggest defeat
Victoria (state) Victoria 0–11 Rapid Vienna Austria (Melbourne, Australia; July 1955)

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
Further information: Victoria state soccer team results
As of 15 August 2021
Opponent[4] P W D L %W %D %L
New South Wales New South Wales 12 2 7 3 16.7 58.3 25
South Australia South Australia 7 4 0 3 57.1 0 42.9
Tasmania Tasmania 4 3 1 0 75 25 0
Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv 3 1 0 2 33.3 0 66.7
Western Australia Western Australia 3 3 0 0 100 0 0
Fiji Fiji 3 2 1 0 66.7 33.3 0
South Africa South Africa 2 0 0 2 0 0 100
Austria Rapid Vienna 2 0 0 2 0 0 100
Soviet Union Torpedo Moscow 2 0 0 2 0 0 100
Wales Cardiff City 2 0 1 1 0 50 50
Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow 2 0 1 1 0 50 50
Hungary Ferencváros 2 0 0 2 0 0 100
New Caledonia New Caledonia 2 2 0 0 100 0 0
China China PR 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
New Zealand New Zealand 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
China South China 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
Austria Austria Wien 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
Hong Kong Eastern Athletic 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
England Blackpool 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
Queensland South Australia 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
Australia Newcastle 1 1 0 0 100 0 0
England Everton 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
West Germany Preußen Münster 1 1 0 0 100 0 0
England Chelsea 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
Greece Greece 1 0 1 0 0 100 0
Romania Romania B 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
West Germany Werder Bremen 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
Japan Toyo Kogyo 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
Scotland Dundee 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
England Bristol Rovers 1 1 0 0 100 0 0
Poland Legia Warsaw 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
Scotland Glasgow Rangers 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
Portugal Benfica 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
England Norwich City 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
United States New York Cosmos 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade 1 1 0 0 100 0 0
Japan JEF United 1 0 0 1 0 0 100
New South Wales Northern New South Wales 1 1 0 0 100 0 0

References
  1. "SPORTING NOTES". The Age. No. 8892. Victoria, Australia. 17 August 1883. p. 6. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "FOOTBALL". The Age. No. 8894. Victoria, Australia. 20 August 1883. p. 1 (Supplement to the Age). Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "FOOTBALL GOSSIP". The Tasmanian. Vol. XIV, no. 30. Tasmania, Australia. 25 July 1885. p. 6. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Miscellaneous Games Archive". ozfootball.net.
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