The only synthetic surface used in Australia’s top football competitions rates poorly and is unpopular with playersThe first thing you noticed was the smell. Walking into Cromer Park for Sydney FC’s match against Adelaide United on Sunday, overpowering…
After two major missed opportunities, a legacy plan will be unveiled next week with FA hoping not to waste a third Last year, former Socceroos head coach Ange Postecoglou publicly criticised the lack of long-term legacy that the 2000 Olympic Games and …
Following a chaotic period in which the W-League club was ‘missing a backbone’ the benefits of driving change from within are clearWhen Dylan Holmes was announced as captain of Adelaide United’s W-League team ahead of the 2020-21 season, the club poste…
Unlike the AFLW, the women’s league is missing an opportunity to lead football in acknowledging its diverse communitiesSquint hard enough at the broadcast of Melbourne Victory’s game against Newcastle Jets on Sunday afternoon and you may have noticed a…
At the conclusion of round six, the ladder reflects the clubs that have prioritised multi-season squad consistencyNine seconds into Sydney FC’s game against Newcastle on Sunday afternoon, veteran Jets striker Tara Andrews registered the game’s first sh…
At the conclusion of round six, the ladder reflects the clubs that have prioritised multi-season squad consistencyNine seconds into Sydney FC’s game against Newcastle on Sunday afternoon, veteran Jets striker Tara Andrews registered the game’s first sh…
Fox Sports’ coverage over the weekend sent out an alarming message about how football is now valued by the broadcasterIt is the 10th minute of Brisbane Roar’s round five match against Melbourne Victory. On the far side of the field, two of the league’s…
The former Samoa international and only woman on Fifa’s reform committee is driving change from withinFrom her time as a player on the Samoan women’s national team to becoming deputy secretary general of the tiny Oceania Football Confederation, few peo…
The two worlds of men’s and women’s fan culture collided in an ugly incident during Sunday’s Melbourne derby Sunday afternoon’s Melbourne derby had everything you could want from a revenge story. The protagonist, Melbourne City, had suffered a great lo…
The close nature of most games in the first three rounds suggests this season is as open as everThe only way for Melbourne City this season, you felt, was down. As admirable as their ambitions to repeat last season’s undefeated double were, their own h…
The 2020-21 campaign gets underway next week when an opportunity for a new generation of young Australian footballers presents itselfThe 2020-21 W-League season starts next week. This seems like a perfectly ordinary sentence. In any other year, it woul…
She hasn’t yet had her fairytale Matildas farewell, but Covid-19 lockdown in Italy has given the veteran striker new perspectiveLisa De Vanna has never done things quietly. So it took many by surprise when, after the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Matilda…
She hasn’t yet had her fairytale Matildas farewell, but Covid-19 lockdown in Italy has given the veteran striker new perspectiveLisa De Vanna has never done things quietly. So it took many by surprise when, after the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Matilda…
The Australian has been included in the Guardian’s top 100 players for the first time after rediscovering a joie de vivre to her play in 2020Caitlin Foord is standing on the edge of a diving board. She glances down into the clear, bright water, estimat…
Exclusive: Research by FFA paints a bleak outlook for the national team before the 2023 World CupEarlier this month, when Football Federation Australia denied Wellington Phoenix’s request to relax the W-League’s international player rules in order to f…
The first Indigenous player to captain the Socceroos is on a mission to help people learn from Australia’s ‘dark history’The New South Wales town of Taree, about two hours north of Newcastle, is built on a great divide – slicing through the town’s cent…
The appointment of Rae Dower as women’s technical advisor is arguably as important as who will take the reins next monthAs October draws nearer, so too does the reported deadline for the appointment of the Matildas’ next head coach. Some regard it as t…
The appointment of Rae Dower as women’s technical advisor is arguably as important as who will take the reins next monthAs October draws nearer, so too does the reported deadline for the appointment of the Matildas’ next head coach. Some regard it as t…
The Matildas captain on being inspired by the 2000 Olympics, how the challenges of the pandemic have been met and exciting times aheadShe is one of the most talked-about footballers in the world and her name has been written into the history books, but…
Fortunes were mixed but for the most part the sizeable group of Matildas joining Sam Kerr in England did not look out of placeLast week, when asked about Sam Kerr’s performance during Chelsea’s Community Shield win over Manchester City, head coach Emma…
