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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

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1880s and 1890s

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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

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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

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  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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