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I noticed the current pattern is Association football in xxxxxxxxx. Would anyone have any problems with me changing these to Soccer in xxxxxxxxx per the above discussion ie. is there any reason the points outlined above for the country as a whole would not apply to the individual states and territories? Cheers, IgnorantArmies^?! 10:41, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

It makes sense on the surface, and given the recent decision on this direction, you wouldn't be breaking any rules by doing it. However, one aspect of the discussion which led to us settling on soccer as the common name in Australia was the suggestion that usage differs a lot in different parts of the country. I'm willing to accept that this is possible, but the quality of discussion was sadly not good enough to really find that out for sure. I have no doubt that your proposal is totally valid for those areas on the AFL side of the Barassi Line, but may be less appropriate in much of NSW and Qld. I am not actually arguing for that position. I am hoping for polite, constructive, intelligent contributions from editors who know more about those states. HiLo48 (talk) 00:15, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Should we rename articles such as Melbourne Victory FC to Melbourne Victory FC Soccer Club? Or change Football Federation Australia to Soccer Football Federation Australia (or Football Soccer Federation Australia or Soccer Federation Australia? Or is the fact these names actually include "Football" in their title make them exempt from being 'de-footballed'? Or is my addition of the "officially known as 'football" enough that we do not have to de-football existing names of football where such names exist. I should also note that this could have an effect on other non-"Soccer" related names. Such as the Adelaide Football Club, who if "Soccer" related names are going to be changed from "Football" to "Soccer", that Adelaide Football Club for example should also have to be renamed to Adelaide Australian Football Club and so on for all sports in Australia which do not completely match the 'official' name for their sport. Macktheknifeau (talk) 14:45, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Mack that is ridiculous and unhelpful to the discussion, Melbourne Victory FC, or Perth Glory FC are entities in their own right that is their name there is absolutely no reason to make up new names for them, The same for the FFA is the FFA, GFC is the GFC. The question asked was do we just reword all the state based articles or is there any to which an argument can be made for it to be still be called Association Football. Gnangarra 00:50, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, Gnangarra is right. It's not complicated. Melbourne Victory FC is the exact name of the body, so no messing around is needed. It's worth noting though that the FC doesn't stand for Football Club. It doesn't stand for anything. It's just FC. HiLo48 (talk) 04:33, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Actually FC does stand for Football Club and FC is used as a short version of Football Club. "Official Website of the Melbourne Victory Football Club" for example, and named as such on their own websites. Can I also ask why the list of colloquial and informal names Football, Footy, The World Game, The Beautiful Game was removed when there are identical colloquialisms on the AFL page (I was merely trying to standardise that colloquial section between the two pages)? Was it just the references? I thought I did the references correctly. If I did not I apologise I'm a bit wiki rusty. And as for the "official name" the peak body is named Football Federation Australia, the peak world body FIFA uses the name "Association Football", so it would suggest the official name of the sport of Association Football in Australia is either Association Football (if taken as a world view) or Football taken as what the local peak body uses as the name for the sport, just as the AFL calls the official name of their game Australian Football. Macktheknifeau (talk) 08:39, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm not convinced about "Football Club" being part of the Victory's legal name. I recall some earlier discussions and research on the matter where it was shown that only the form with "FC" in it was registered. I think this had something to do with the existence of the Melbourne Football Club (AFL). As for the colloquial names, I'd be happy for at least some (maybe all) of them to stay, but I really couldn't figure out what had gone wrong with the references, so I took it all out. I suggest you try adding them back one small bit at a time. and checking what the article looks like after each one. As for an "official" name, exactly what does that mean? An example of use is not the same as a reliable source. I don't see how one body can claim as "officially" its own a word that is already used by many other sports in Australia. Doesn't make sense in this country. (It's fine where there is only one sport commonly known as football.) HiLo48 (talk) 08:58, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Well on their page it says their full name is Melbourne Victory Football Club so that's what I'm going off. Macktheknifeau (talk) 10:11, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't think so. There's no sentence that I can see with exactly that wording. (Do correct me if I'm wrong.) To NOT say exactly that is significant. HiLo48 (talk) 10:35, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

As for the "Official" name: The AFL page tells me that the official name of that sport is Australian Football. The peak bodies for the two rugby codes name themselves as Rugby (International Rugby Board) and Rugby League (Rugby League International Federation). This leaves Football as the official name for Association Football in Australia as named by the calling of the peak body Football Federation Australia. It seems odd to me that the title of this article is Soccer in Australia, when none of the other codes are officially titled Football and that only Football as in Association Football actually uses Football as it's official title, with the other codes having their own distinct official titles.Macktheknifeau (talk) 10:11, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

You may be interested to read WP:COMMONNAME and WP:OFFICIALNAMES. Jenks24 (talk) 10:20, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

And I have already asked you to explain what authority a sporting body has to claim a common word as its own. HiLo48 (talk) 10:35, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

What authority do AFL fans have to claim that Association Football shouldn't be used just because those AFL fans use part of that word as a colloquialism for Australian Rules Football? Macktheknifeau (talk) 16:10, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Footbal (Soccer) rather than just Soccer!

It should clearly be named Football (Soccer) all those associated with the Sport call it Football or have preference to the term - the offical term for the sport is Football not Soccer and it has been that way since 2004 thus it should be called Football; if the association was still Soccer Australia then Soccer would be appropriate but it is not! This section on the Sports in Australia page should cater for fans of the sport and disregard what people who hate/dislike or don't play the sport call it!

FFA = Football Federation Australia Every state Federation follows Football as well!

The term is officially Football!

I rest my case! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simba1409 (talk • contribs) 08:06, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

All those points were made in the discussion up above (the "Requested move" section) only two months ago. I suggest you read it in full before posting here again. Unless you have something new to add, there is no point in taking this discussion any further. HiLo48 (talk) 08:11, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

This is why Wikipedia is so bad ^^ People like you! Guess your an AFL fan? If the sport is officially Football then it's Football! And yes I have more to add - more and more people are calling it Football and extent of this would be the Australia Football facebook page with 30,00 odd people being fans! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simba1409 (talk • contribs) 08:18, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

The proposition wasn't properly discussed and a number of admins are very disturbed at the way it was railroaded through. The proper name should be used ie. "Association football". Silent Billy (talk) 06:22, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

How was it not properly discussed? Who are these "disturbed" admins? Why is "association football" the "proper name"? IgnorantArmies 07:05, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree! The sport is called Association Football an thus should be called that - apparently an offical 'term' of Football in this country isn't enough to persuade these no-life AFL and NRL idiots! Those associated with the sport call it Football not Soccer! Deal with it! Simba1409 (talk) 10:48, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Here is an example from my neck of the woods that says otherwise. There are many more like it. HiLo48 (talk) 10:59, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

It also doesn't help to call other editors "no-life AFL and NRL idiots". Comment on content, not on the contributor. IgnorantArmies 11:07, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Professional level mate! Get with it! The offical term is Football for the sport in Australia! If I were to go and change that clubs name to Football club rather than Soccer club I would be wrong as its offical name is Soccer club... - get what I'm saying????

Simba1409 (talk) 07:02, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Sometimes I feel like playing this silly game, and sometimes I don't. Right now, all that needs to be said is that you need to read the WHOLE thread above where the decision to use the name soccer was made, then decide if you have anything new to add that wasn't already discussed there. Both the claim of football being the name used by "everybody" associated with the sport, and the issue of an "official" name, were very well addressed, I can assure you. So, have you read ALL of that thread yet? If not, stop wasting your time here. (Oh, and IgnorantArmies is right. Niceness will achieve more than abuse.) HiLo48 (talk) 08:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

My point again is that Football is the offical term and Association Football is the name of the sport! I don't see any nicknames used for the other sports on the Sport in Australia page and therefor the same model should be followed!

Nevertheless what is wrong with having Football (Soccer) or Association Football (Soccer) - pretty sure all of Australia's players have Football (Soccer) player in their pages!

Simba1409 (talk) 09:24, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

So, have you read ALL of that thread yet? If not, stop wasting your time here. HiLo48 (talk) 09:38, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

There is no need to be abusive and sarcastic. This is a "warning". Silent Billy (talk) 06:27, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Exactly what's wrong with my words? They are realistic. Everything Simba1409 has posted here was extremely well covered in the thread above. It's intended as sensible advice. Your own unhappiness with the decision from that thread and your blatant bias is clearly on display when you make no criticism at all of...

• "Professional level mate! Get with it!" (A response that made no sense anyway in the context.)
• "get what I'm saying????"
• "...these no-life AFL and NRL idiots!"
• "This is why Wikipedia is so bad ^^ People like you! Guess your an AFL fan?"
• "Deal with it!"

To criticise my approach and ignore those abusive comments from someone whose sentiments you happen to agree with makes no sense at all. HiLo48 (talk) 06:39, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia is failing because of errors like this! If something is called something it should be called that with nicknames cited after! Maybe we should change the rest of the page and add nicknames for all the other sports 'cause that seems like a great idea!

Simba1409 (talk) 09:12, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I didn't want to have to do this, but it seems you won't read what was posted above, so I'll make two points again here. I teach Physical Education in a Victorian school. We play many sports. One is obviously Aussie Rules. It's known to and by all the kids as football. Many play for a local "Football Club". Another is soccer, known to all the kids as, well, soccer. Many play for a local "Soccer Club". It's not a nickname. It is THE name of the code. I have no preference for either sport. I've probably played more games of soccer in my life than football (Aussie Rules). Nobody, repeat, nobody in my town calls the round ball game football. It would make no sense. And, any claim you make about proper name and official name carries no weight in that environment. Unlike the French, we do not have official definitions of our language. A sports league cannot define any word to be "official". The concept has no meaning. HiLo48 (talk) 10:03, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

You're a teacher in the heart of the AFL?? No surprise there! I play and coach at different clubs - at the both clubs the players, coaches, presidents, sponsors even the local politicians call it Football. This is in Tassie! As a teacher you SHOULD in my opinion be telling the kids that the sport is called Association Football and that Soccer is a mere nickname for the sport as that's what it is! It is a nickname mate! If it wasn't a nickname we wouldn't have this issue! With the town issue - you live in Victoria... People in my town call it Soccer but those who know and love the sport call it Football I bet the same thing applies in your town but you just don't notice! It does carry weight; the offical term is Football since 2004! The sport is NOT CALLED SOCCER! The Federation defines it to be offical via Football Federation Australia which was once Soccer Australia but is no more as I said hence 2004! Simba1409 (talk) 08:58, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Let's just have a look at the language of that post....

• "You're a teacher in the heart of the AFL?? No surprise there!" The very start of your post. I've no idea what point you're making.
• "As a teacher you SHOULD in my opinion be telling the kids..." No, you STILL haven't read the above thread yet. Education Department Phys Ed documents were shown to use the name Soccer.
• "It is a nickname mate!" We've never met. When used in that way, mate displays aggression. That won't help your case.
• "Soccer is a mere nickname..." No, Soccer is the common name among the community. Again, read the thread above.
• "...the offical term is Football..." Rubbish. You don't even acknowledge my own posts in THIS thread. You must learn to communicate, not just tell.
• "The sport is NOT CALLED SOCCER!" Wrong. See above.

That's enough on this matter. I've shown good faith. You haven't. Bye for now. HiLo48 (talk) 07:49, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

This sport was named Association Football! The offical term in this country is Football as stated by the FFA! You have no right to say otherwhys! Among the community? What community?

P.S if you don't know what I mean by heart of the AFL then you shouldn't be a sport teacher! Simba1409 (talk) 07:57, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

This isn't going to make any progress. There was a very extensive discussion of the issue just a couple of months back, that covered a lot of issues and resulted in the current name. While there may well be good reasons why this should be revisited somewhere in the future, I can't see any value in reopening the discussion this soon after it was closed: consensus can change, but it rarely changes this fast. Simba1409, I recommend that you let it be for now, and come back to the issue once enough time has passed to warrant looking at it again. - Bilby (talk) 08:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Simba - Of course I know that being in Victoria means I'm in the heart of AFL territory, but that surely couldn't have been the point you were making. Don't treat me (or any other editors here) like idiots. That we are trying to explain to you how the decision was made does not actually make us responsible for the decision. And it's irrelevant whether we agree with it or not. You really do need to have a very thorough look at the above thread to both see how the process worked, and to see that all the points you have so far made were already made in that thread. HiLo48 (talk) 09:10, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

This is ridiculous; again I say this is why wikipedia is so bad - if a sport has a name (as most do) it makes sense to call the sport by that given name and note any nicknames... yet again I find an imprudent error on wikipedia with no way of fixing due to some garbage discussion. FIFA = International Federation of Association Football, FFA = Football Federation Australia. Before 2004 it would have been correct to use the term Soccer but some people can't get that through their thick heads!

edit: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28Football_in_Australia%29 Should not there be no arguments??? The pages should read Football (soccer) according to this article!

Simba1409 (talk) 21:36, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

That page is historical, and doesn't reflect current policy. I understand what you're saying, though. However, the debate we had was basically around two issues - there is the official name, which is football, and there is the common name, which the consensus decided is soccer. The FFA would like to see football become the common name, and this may well happen in the future. But the problem for Wikipedia was to decide if we should use the official, but possibly less common, name, or if we should go with soccer, and the call was to go with what it was argued that most people in Australia still call the sport. That may well change in the future - it may well be that the consensus will change to go with the official name set by FFA, or it may be that "football" will become a more common name that soccer, so this isn't a problem that will necessarily exist forever. But allowing some time before having the debate again is probably wise. :) - Bilby (talk) 22:57, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

There was no "problem for Wikipedia". Rather it was a problem for some AFL activists who took over the discussion. In reality there was no consensus at all in that discussion just a few blokes mainly from south of the Barrasi line for whom the use of the term "football" to describe anything but their beloved "footy" is anathema. They cannot get over the fact that even in Australia a majority of folks don't give a flying fig about their code (or it has to be said care very much about any sport at all). The solution is quite easy: the round ball code code should be described as "Association football". Alternatively we should change all references to the code that is only played in one country at a professional elite level as "footy". Silent Billy (talk) 04:01, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

I actually did read the above discussion and I can't see a consensus either - I see an argument with fallacious 'evidence' to support it!

Simba1409 (talk) 06:47, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

The question that is yet to be answered is why our national teams' page is the Australia national association football team yet this article remains as "Soccer"... This article should be changed to Association football in Australia for no other reason than consistency. Every other ambiguous Australian football article has it and makes no sense to keep it as "Soccer in Australia" other than to appease over-sensitive League/Aussie Rules supporters getting their knickers in a knot and/or on a troll. The case needs to be made as to why it should STAY, and NOT be changed Ck786 (talk) 03:29, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Because it's quite common for Australians to use the names Rugby League, Rugby Union or Australian Football, but nobody ever uses the name Association Football. HiLo48 (talk) 07:14, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

You can't win with this guy ^ too much of an AFL fan who can't help but cry as the real Football becomes more popular in this country! I see that it would be stupid to just name the page Football in Australia as we have, Association Football, Rugby, A.F.L and I think we might even have some 'American Football' over here to but I'm not quite sure; it shouldn't however be called Soccer as no one who supports the sport in this country calls it that - we all call it Football and thus to avoid confusion we should re name the article to what the sport is actually called; that being 'Association Football in Australia.' BTW NO ONE calls AFL Australian Football - they either say Aussie Rules or Footy, < that's day to day life personal knowledge!

P.S this is Simba1409 (can't be bothered logging in lol) 58.169.68.114 (talk) 21:18, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

This entire article is a mess

It's being completely marred by pro thugby and gayfl supporters each section has a different take on whether its Football, Soccer, Association Football or, wogball... the whole article deserves to be deleted until people can come to their senses and realise calling it Football is not a personal slight against them.

Do have a look at the section Talk:Soccer in Australia#Requested move above. There was extensive discussion there leading to the current policy. HiLo48 (talk) 03:15, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

This doesn't stop vandals coming in and changing the name as they see fit, the article is a mess, there is no one standard term in it. The standard term is Football, the diminished usage term is Soccer. I personally am sick of non-fans determining what these articles should be called in Australia by bullying tactics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.162.0.212 (talk) 03:36, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

One problem is that the Requested move decision above was less than a year ago, the article is considerably older, and the philosophy at the end of that move discussion was to not arbitrarily change every usage of football to soccer immediately. Maybe it should have been, but there was a general feeling that it would be good to avoid further confrontation in the short term. This means that older uses of football are still there. I would be surprised if there have been new additions using football since that move. HiLo48 (talk) 04:55, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

It would appear that News online outlets and some dead tree ones are changing the label for "football"

"Nowhere has this debate been more polarised than in the mainstream press. Fairfax - publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald - was the first to break with tradition and go with "football" in 2006. Other publications such as the Newcastle Herald adopted a halfway house of "football-soccer". The Canberra Times used football as the drop down tab online while soccer stayed as the sub-heading of individual stories. Only the Melbourne-based Age remained (and remains) steadfastly and completely in the "Soccer" camp.

News Limited, publisher of daily newspapers in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide, has likewise been resolutely in the "Soccer" camp, but that is about to change.

As of Monday, just days before the new A-League season is due to start, Sydney’s Daily and Sunday Telegraph will make the switch over to football."

"It’s no longer enough to say "in Australia, it’s soccer" because for many, it simply isn’t."

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/mainstream-aussie-press-finally-adopting-the-term-football-as-soccer-seen-as-thing-of-the-past/story-e6frfmq9-1226486030704

Time for a move on the page rename I think.... Silent Billy (talk) 10:14, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

It seems that there may be a bit of cherry picking in the quotes above - the article isn't anywhere near as strong as the quotes would suggest. The main impression I got from the article was that the media is changing, and that both terms are used in Australia, rather than "football" coming to dominate. - Bilby (talk) 10:26, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

The AFL thugs need to realise no-one outside of Melbourne calls AFL football, and everyone else calls it AFL. Sure, it's incorrect, and the name of the league not the sport, but hey, it's the common usage term for NSW and QLD, which comprise over 50% of the population therefore it's the common name and we should rename "Australian Rules Football" to "AFL" throughout wikipedia. Outside Melbourne people use Football, Rugby League, Rugby Union and AFL. Those are what the terms should be, and they should start with changing "Soccer" to Football just like it is all over the world and how it should be here. Macktheknifeau (talk) 15:23, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Two points...

1. The opening words of that post are not going to lead to civilised discussion. Please show some good faith.

2. You (and others above) appear to be re-opening the extensive discussion in the Requested move above. You will get nowhere making random points in a thread like this. You would need to take a more structured approach, and make another formal Request for a move. This would need to involve addressing all the points made by the closing Admin in that earlier discussion, and demonstrating that significant change has occurred in common usage since that discussion. (Quotes cherry picked from one newspaper article would definitely not be enough.) HiLo48 (talk) 17:58, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

I went to Newsbank, which has an archive of around 200 different Australian newspapers. If football is indeed the word being used, then we should have a low number of occurrences. Since the start of 2012, there were 17,147 references to soccer in Australian newspaper sources. On 1 October, there were 44. In September 2012, there were 1,643 references to soccer. For 2012, 1,253 of the total references to soccer came from The Daily Telegraph, 1,010 came from The Australian, 937 came from The Age, 878 came from the AAP News, 661 came from the Sydney Morning Herald. Before I'm willing to entertain a name debate, can I see some statistics on newspaper usage of football (soccer) to describe the sport in question? I looked for the phrase association football. In 2012, there were 20 total references. 6 of these were in the Daily Telegraph, 3 in the AAP News. 6 of the 20 stories were quizzes, and 1 was a letter to the editor. I'm not seeing any indication of support for the use of that term in Australia. --LauraHale (talk) 21:34, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

In 2012, there were 56,928 references to football. 230 on October 1. Of the 230, 35 were made by The Age. 29 were made by the Herald Sun, 26 by The Daily Telegraph. In the first 10 results, not a single reference to football is to the soccer variant. Is there stronger evidence than this that I am missing? The Australian sport books I own refer to the sport as soccer. The only ones referring to it as football are ones from Europe. I would like to see more verifiable proof about wider usage of the term around Australia where football = soccer to the point where the sport name would be demonstrated as the dominant one amongst all codes. --LauraHale (talk) 21:42, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for that research Laura. It should help to calm the debate. HiLo48 (talk) 22:50, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

We don't call it Association Football. That is a name forced on Football supporters by the AFL project so they could use it as a stepping stone to then get it renamed to Soccer. Melbourne is the only place that commonly uses the term Soccer now, and if the AFL project had their way it'd probably still be called 'Wogball'. Ironic for a city which claims itself to be the 'sporting capital of the world', but has the nerve to call AFL football when it is a game only played seriously in that one city compared to the worldwide usage of true Football. The last 'debate' was merely a handful of AFL project users forcing their opinions on the rest of the country. Macktheknifeau (talk) 05:49, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Melbourne isn't the only place. Soccer is used in the ACT. The article cannot be called Football because it is not common usage and would cause confusion in Australia. (It is bad enough trying to figure out which code is the code for the three different "Footy Show"s that are on the air. I'm not an AFL supporter. Please do not make that assucation because you don't like my point of view for wording preference. I prefer soccer to watch and play, but I know enough about Australian sport to know the usage of football is not common for soccer in the country. The sources support the use of soccer. What argument, beyond word usage and the name of the sports governing body, do you have for a name change? Also, no. Worldwide usage is also inaccurate. the use of football is not worldwide. (Australia and the USA are part of the venn diagram circle that makes up THE WORLD.) --LauraHale (talk) 06:03, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

I think that citing the Murdoch rags particularly the Hun as founts of wisdom as to the proper name of the code is pushing it somewhat given those papers are (or have been) "official" newspapers for the AFL and the Team formerly known as South Melbourne. That said the official name for the code is "Football" and indeed the first word in the article, "Soccer" is linked to Association football. At the very least the article should be renamed "Association football (soccer) in Australia" or "Football (soccer) in Australia". Failing that the AFL bullies and thugs (and that is what indeed they are) should be honest enough to have a section similar to the Etymology section in the US article on the code. At least their bias and phobias would be on display to all and not just the few who click on the Talk tab.

Interestingly, in the argument over there parallel to this one, one poster makes the point that "Soccer" is the official name in the US. That is not the case in Australia. The official name is "Football" and that is what we should be using here. Silent Billy (talk) 07:54, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

This discussion is pointless. Much regurgitation. Please re-read my post above at 17:58, 1 October 2012 (UTC). HiLo48 (talk) 08:23, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

It is only pointless because you will die in a ditch rather than allow a name change for this article. You will brook no argument against your position. No comprise will be allowed so far as you are concerned. The previous close and the reasons for it were ridiculous. The admin who did it more or less conceded that it was only to keep the peace and that he did not understand the points being made. What I don't get Hilo is that you have no interst in the code. You are only here as a spoiler. Silent Billy (talk) 13:01, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

This discussion is pointless. Rather than making personal attacks, please re-read my post above at 17:58, 1 October 2012 (UTC), and do what I suggested there if you think it will achieve anything. I don't. HiLo48 (talk) 21:54, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

The issue I have with association football is that noone in Australia calls it that, not the fans or the media. Major media sources like the Daily Telegraph have now switched to football, but many people in Australia also call it soccer. That way, football or football (soccer) are the best choices. Portillo (talk) 05:14, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

You're right about association football. Nobody calls it that. While some call the game football, there are three other Australian professional sports whose fans also call their games football, plus a few other non-professional versions (Gaelic, American...). Calling any of the codes football in Australia is unsatisfactory in Wikipedia. Soccer is the simple, unique, common name for the round ball game, recognised by all Australians. I cannot understand the fuss about using that name here. It works. It causes no confusion. It's perfect! HiLo48 (talk) 07:40, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Many Australians and media like Daily Telegraph and Sydney Morning Herald are now using football, so football (soccer) is the best choice. However, noone uses association football. Shouldnt Wikipedia reflect the culture of the country it is describing? Portillo (talk) 09:31, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

By mentioning those two newspapers it looks like you're really just talking about Sydney, rather than Australia. Have you spent much time in the Aussie Rules states - VIC, SA, WA, TAS, & NT? In those places football means only one thing - Australian football. That's my concern with using the word football here. That word definitely doesn't refer to the round ball game in all those parts of Australia I've just mentioned. It very explicitly refers to a different sport entirely. What can possibly be wrong with the word soccer for the round ball game? I don't understand the opposition. It works everywhere. (And I really must also draw everyone's attention again to the thread "Requested move" up above. It was a pretty exhaustive discussion, with a clear conclusion. Soccer is the name of a the game in Australia in Wikipedia.) HiLo48 (talk) 10:54, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Adelaide Now and Perth Now use football aswell. So it should be football (soccer) or soccer (football), but not association football, which noone uses and will probably confuse people even more. Portillo (talk) 09:42, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Until that post I had never heard of Adelaide Now and Perth Now. Their usage surprises me. As a teacher I simply know that schools and kids in those cities use the name soccer for the round ball game, simply to avoid confusion with Aussie Rules, which is commonly known as football. This website is a typical example. Another revealing site is the South Australian Amateur Soccer League. There are many, many similar examples. When kids in those states say football, they mean Aussie Rules. They certainly don't mean soccer. Schools have Soccer teams and Football teams. The latter is, naturally, Aussie Rules. And the kids don't speak of playing AFL. Those X Now media sites do not reflect true common usage.

But again, this is all moot. I really must also draw everyone's attention again to the thread "Requested move" up above. It was a pretty exhaustive discussion, with a clear conclusion. Soccer is the name of a the game in Australia in Wikipedia. HiLo48 (talk) 11:11, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

National Youth Championships

Every year there are national youth championships held in both girls and boys divisions across a couple of age groups (Northern NSW Football Link). Teams that go are state-based but include Metro and Country teams for the larger states. I think this needs to be included some where in this or another related article. The thing is I am unsure which article or which section would be best. Please provide advice and/or contribute to this addition.--TinTin (talk) 01:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

That link to the Northern NSW Football site contains information about a game which involves a round ball. You can't refer to that game as "football" here. Silent Billy (talk) 04:45, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

A round ball, eh? Maybe it's Gaelic football. HiLo48 (talk) 05:03, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Discussion about the usage of the word "football".

Because Australia, being an English-speaking nation, calls the sport by both its common names and nicknames (i.e. football, soccer, footy, etc) I suggest that this article should be renamed to Association football in Australia rather than simply calling it "soccer" to distinguish it from the US and Canada articles. Football in Australia and Australian football should be merged and lead to a disambiguation page. Hitmonchan (talk) 23:35, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Please have a look at the exhaustive discussion in the section above titled "Requested move". I don't think there have been any significant linguistic developments in the soccer area since that thread reached its conclusion. HiLo48 (talk) 05:10, 6 July 2013 (UTC)