In Part 2 of our look at NSFA records we concentrate on Men’s (Now Senior Mixed) and Women’s football. Men’s football began in 1961 with an All Age competition. The original clubs competing were...
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Over the next week we will be highlighting the record-holding clubs of NSFA. In Part 1 we look at Youth football (Mixed and Girls’) and in Part 2 we will run the eye over Senior Football (Mixed...
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Hornsby Football Club only existed for 5 seasons but enjoyed extraordinary success in that time in Men’s All Age Division One. After the 1971 season a group of players from Hornsby Ku-ring-gai...
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This week we recognise NSFA Life Member and former President Phil Rees. Phil became involved in football in NSFA when sons David and Tim joined St Ives FC. From 1976 to 1979 Phil served as...
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The search for a true NSFA home ground has been a long and often disappointing journey. In the 1970s our representative teams and Ku-ring-gai SC played their matches at Acron Oval in St Ives and...
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Today we look at arguably the best group of talented young players in the association’s history; the Metropolitan League teams of 2008-09. The Metropolitan League (ML) was a representative...
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Those who read our earlier story about Leigh Wardell would remember that female-only football was played at both NSFA level and representative level in the 70s and early 80s. In those...
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With the NSFA Cup cancelled for the first time in its 52-year history and the other knockout competitions with it, we thought we would look at the tournament’s history. Men’s competition started...
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This week we look at the career of Socceroo #370, Robbie Hooker. Born in 1967, Robbie started his football career with Mt Colah Football Club. In 1978 Robbie started playing representative...
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We look at our first Matilda, Leigh Wardell. Leigh started her football career playing in boys teams at West Pymble Waratahs (now West Pymble FC) in the early to mid-1970’s. Leigh’s dad Dave was a...
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