* Australian Soccer Association, former name of Football Federation Australia

* Chelsea Hajduk Soccer Club, an association football club in Melbourne, Australia

Category: National Soccer League ( Australia ) teams

* Soccer – Australia women's national football ( soccer ) team representative Sally Shipard

Category: National Soccer League ( Australia ) players

Category: Soccer venues in Australia

Category: Soccer venues in Australia

The National Soccer League ( NSL ) is the former national association football competition in Australasia, overseen by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association.

In 2005, it was succeeded by the A-League competition, run by Football Federation Australia, the successor to the Australian Soccer Association.

In 1998, Soccer Australia sold the television rights for the NSL and Socceroos matches to the Seven Network in a 10 year contract that was worth $ 2. 5 million a year.

Category: Soccer venues in Australia

Before 1 January 2005, it was known as the Australian Soccer Association ( ASA ), which succeeded Soccer Australia in this role in 2003.

The old Soccer Australia logo, used from 1995 – 2003

In 2003, following Australia's failure to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, unfounded allegations of fraud and mismanagement were levelled at Soccer Australia by elements within the Australian Press.

Soccer Australia commissioned an independent inquiry known as the Crawford Report as a result of the Australian Government's threat to withdraw funding to the sport.

The findings of the report were critically analysed by the board of Soccer Australia who believed that the recommendations contained therein Report were not capable of being implemented.

This report recommended, among other things, the reconstitution of the body as the Australia Soccer Association ( ASA ) with an interim board headed by prominent businessman Frank Lowy.

Some three months after Mr. Lowy's appointment Soccer Australia was placed into liquidation and ASA was created without encompassing the Crawford Report recommendations and effectively disenfranchising all parties who had an interest in Soccer Australia.

The Soccer Club was organized by undergraduate men interested in playing soccer and promoting the sport.

Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.

His book The Soccer Tribe published in 1981 was partly based on research carried out during his directorship of Oxford United, including as it did analysis of the ' tribal ' chanting of the club's fans during matches at the club's Manor Ground.

Iin 1967 Banks played a season for the Cleveland Stokers of the American United Soccer Association ; this was a short lived attempt to build a first division U. S. league by importing clubs from around the world to play as U. S. teams.

Lamar Hunt, who was founder or co-founder of the American Football League, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chicago Bulls, the United Soccer Association, and Major League Soccer, also founded the team.

For the 1997 Major League Soccer season, their record was 21 – 11 ; they won the Western Conference regular season championship.

* The Chicago Fire, a Major League Soccer team, was founded on October 8, 1997, the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.

The Football War ( La guerra del fútbol, in Spanish ), also known as the Soccer War or 100 hour War, was a four-day war fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969.

He was named the European Footballer of the Year in 1987 and the World Soccer Player of the Year in 1987 and 1989.

There is also a Major League Soccer team called the Chicago Fire, and there are / were also NBA teams called the Memphis Grizzlies ( 2001 – present ) and Charlotte Hornets ( 1988 – 2002 ) ( although the nickname " Hornets " for minor league baseball teams in Charlotte long precedes the WFL entry, and the " Grizzlies " name for the Memphis NBA team was selected when the franchise was still in Vancouver ).

He was to be player-manager in their inaugural 1968 season in the North American Soccer League and believed it "... was a chance too good to miss ".

Major League Soccer was founded in 1993 as part of the United States ' bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

The Women's United Soccer Association, often abbreviated to the WUSA, was the world's first women's soccer league in which all the players were paid as professionals.

Varsity Boys ' Soccer was second at states in 2005 and third in 2004.

Before the 2001 season began there was already question if Las Vegas could support a professional team due to past failed attempts with: Las Vegas Americans ( Soccer 1984-85 ), Las Vegas Dustdevils ( Soccer-CISL-1994-1995 ), Las Vegas Posse ( Football-CFL-1994 ) Las Vegas Quicksilvers ( Soccer-NASL-1976-1978 ), Las Vegas Seagulls ( Soccer-ASL-1979 ), Las Vegas Sting ( Football-Arena Football League-1994-1995 ) and Las Vegas Thunder ( IHL-1993-1999 ) The Outlaws were sponsored by Cox Communications, New York-New York Hotel & Casino, Station Casinos, PacifiCare Health Systems and Findlay Toyota.

Recently added was the Yucaipa Community Park, the Bryant Glen Sports Complex, the Jerry Lewis Regional Soccer Complex, as well as the newly-established Wildwood Canyon State Park.

The final season of the Boston Minutemen of the North American Soccer League was played at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Quincy, in 1976, finishing 7-17.

It is also home to men's soccer team Secaucus FC, which is part of the Garden State Soccer League, and was founded in 2003 by Nick Farinola.

It was the first Soccer State Championship in Hilliard history.

In October 2006, the 15th annual YMS ( Yardley-Makefield Soccer ) Columbus Cup soccer tournament was recognized by Gotsoccer. com as a Premier Elite Tournament, which puts the YMS tournament at the same level as the Disney Showcase, Jefferson Cup, Bethesda, Dallas Cup, WAGS, Raleigh Shootout and the other most highly rated tournaments.

A mile of the towpath was cleared, permitting biking, walking and running near the Danville Soccer Park.

The Colony High School Lady Cougars Soccer Team was the 2007 Class 4A State Champion.

Organizations such as the Challenged Athletes Foundation have been developed to give amputees the opportunity to be involved in athletics and adaptive sports such as Amputee Soccer.

In February 2011, TSN announced that it had began a new broadcasting relationship with Major League Soccer, airing 24 matches during the 2011 season that involved the league's Canadian clubs, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC.

They've been involved also with the following organisations: Free Tibet, Royal National Institute for the Deaf ( RNID ), Cancer Research UK, Byrne for Heart Attack and asthma awareness campaigns, Daily Star ’ s Reclaim Our Streets crusade, Filan for Irish Red Cross ( by Sligo Rover's Showgrounds football match ), Byrne for Oxfam's East Africa Famine appeal ( by Celtic v Manchester United football match ), Filan and Byrne for Soccer Aid, JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am, One World Beat, Egan for Strandhill Indonesian Relief Fund ( SIRF, in aid of the South Asian tsunami victims ), World Food Programme ( WFP ), Muscle Help Foundation, Feehily for Aware, Byrne for Children ’ s Hospice South West ( by Truro charity football match ), Global Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign and Real Man campaign.

The Victorian Soccer Federation was reluctant for its big clubs to be involved and it appeared the dream of Alex Pongrass of St George and Frank Lowy of Hakoah Sydney for a nationwide club competition would not evolve.

In May 2011, Ronaldo was confirmed as the new face of FIFA's rival football series PES with his debut as a cover star of the series Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 and is also involved in promotional campaigns for the game.

Ronaldo will be the face of Pro Evolution Soccer 2013, and is also involved in the motion capturing and the trailer.

Stam has been involved with Soccer Aid, which puts celebrities and football legends together in two teams ; England and Rest of the World for a charity game in aid of Unicef.

In 2010, Joseph took a leave of absence from the New England Revolution while he was involved in the Major League Soccer substance abuse and behavioral health program.

He holds a USSF " A " Coaching License and has been actively involved with the U. S. Soccer Development Academy as a scout and other programming.

Beckerman however had been involved with the league for the previous few years, having been one of the inaugural students at the United States Soccer Federation's Bradenton Academy, which also featured Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Oguchi Onyewu, and Bobby Convey.

In 2006, he was involved in the television programme Razor Ruddock's Pass & Move Soccer School where children released by academies were coached by Ruddock.

The stands in Soccer City are articulated by ten black vertical lines ; nine are aligned geographically with the nine other stadiums involved in the 2010 World Cup.

Delgado was then involved in a scandal at a night club on New Year's Eve and left the country to try to continue his career in Major League Soccer.

Currently the club is only involved in Soccer, Netball and Tennis.