Victoria state soccer team

Victoria

Association	Football Victoria
First international
Victoria 2–2 New South Wales (Melbourne, Australia; 16 August 1883)
Biggest win
Victoria 8–1 Tasmania (Melbourne, Australia; 17 July 1912) Victoria 8–1 Western Australia (Melbourne, Australia; 8 June 1963)
Biggest defeat
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

Further information: Victoria state soccer team results

As of 15 August 2021

Opponent [4]	P	W	D	L	%W	%D	%L
New South Wales	12	2	7	3	16.7	58.3	25
South Australia	7	4	0	3	57.1	0	42.9
Tasmania	4	3	1	0	75	25	0
Maccabi Tel Aviv	3	1	0	2	33.3	0	66.7
Western Australia	3	3	0	0	100	0	0
Fiji	3	2	1	0	66.7	33.3	0
South Africa	2	0	0	2	0	0	100
Rapid Vienna	2	0	0	2	0	0	100
Torpedo Moscow	2	0	0	2	0	0	100
Cardiff City	2	0	1	1	0	50	50
Dynamo Moscow	2	0	1	1	0	50	50
Ferencváros	2	0	0	2	0	0	100
New Caledonia	2	2	0	0	100	0	0
China PR	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
New Zealand	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
South China	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Austria Wien	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Eastern Athletic	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Blackpool	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
South Australia	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Newcastle	1	1	0	0	100	0	0
Everton	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Preußen Münster	1	1	0	0	100	0	0
Chelsea	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Greece	1	0	1	0	0	100	0
Romania B	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Werder Bremen	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Toyo Kogyo	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Dundee	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Bristol Rovers	1	1	0	0	100	0	0
Legia Warsaw	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Glasgow Rangers	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Benfica	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Norwich City	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
New York Cosmos	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
Red Star Belgrade	1	1	0	0	100	0	0
JEF United	1	0	0	1	0	0	100
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.

External links

• Miscellaneous Games Archive at OzFootball.net