1985 in Australian soccer

Soccer in Australia
Season	1985
Men's soccer
NSL Premiership	Sydney City; South Melbourne
NSL Championship	Brunswick Juventus
NSL Cup	Sydney Olympic

The 1985 season was the 16th season of national competitive association football in Australia and 102nd overall.

National teams edit

Australia men's national soccer team edit

Results and fixtures edit

Friendlies edit

27 September 1985 Ampol Cup	Australia	3–0	China	Brisbane, Australia
	Kosmina 9' Crino 14' Watson 63'	Report		Stadium: Lang Park Attendance: 4,823^[1] Referee: Bill Monteverde (Australia)

1986 FIFA World Cup qualification edit

Group stage edit

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	6	4	2	0	20	2	+18	10	Advance to Inter-confederation play-offs	—	1–1	2–0	8–0
2	Israel	6	3	1	2	17	6	+11	7		1–2	—	3–0	5–0
3	New Zealand	6	3	1	2	13	7	+6	7		0–0	3–1	—	5–0
4	Chinese Taipei	6	0	0	6	1	36	−35	0		0–7	0–6	1–5	—

Source: RSSSF

21 September 1985	New Zealand	0–0	Australia	Auckland, New Zealand
		Report		Stadium: Mount Smart Stadium Attendance: 14,286 Referee: Keith Hackett (England)

8 October 1985	Israel	1–2	Australia	Ramat Gan, Israel
	Armeli 65'	Report	Mitchell 46' Kosmina 50'	Stadium: Ramat Gan Stadium Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

20 October 1985	Australia	1–1	Israel	Melbourne, Australia
	Ratcliffe 32'	Report	Cohen 47'	Stadium: Olympic Park Attendance: 27,000 Referee: José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal)

23 October 1985	Chinese Taipei	0–7	Australia	Adelaide, Australia
		Report	Dunn 2', 89' (pen.) Chiang 13' (o.g.) Mitchell 57', 59', 87' Arnold 68'	Stadium: Hindmarsh Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: John Cameron (New Zealand

27 October 1985	Australia	8–0	Chinese Taipei	Sydney, Australia
	Odžakov 41', 56', 69' Crino 52' Kosmina 65' (pen.), 72', 88' Gray 89'	Report		Stadium: St George Stadium Attendance: 2,694 Referee: Bill Munro (New Zealand)

3 November 1985	Australia	2–0	New Zealand	Sydney, Australia
	Kosmina 12' Mitchell 48'	Report		Stadium: Sydney Sports Ground Attendance: 21,910 Referee: Gerard Guerds (Netherlands

Inter-confederation play-offs edit

20 November 1985 First leg	Scotland	2–0	Australia	Glasgow, Scotland
	Cooper 53' McAvennie 59'	Report		Stadium: Hampden Park Attendance: 62,239 Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)

4 December 1985 Second leg	Australia	0–0	Scotland	Melbourne, Australia
		Report		Stadium: Olympic Park Attendance: 29,852 Referee: José Roberto Wright (Brazil)

Domestic soccer edit

National Soccer League edit

For the second season of the conference format in the National Soccer League, Sydney City and South Melbourne won the Premierships from their respective conferences.^[2] The Grand Final was played between Sydney City and Brunswick Juventus, which Brunswick won 2–0 on aggregate winning their first national title.^[3]

Northern Conference

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sydney City	22	15	5	2	42	19	+23	35	Qualification to Finals series
2	Sydney Croatia	22	14	5	3	50	22	+28	33
3	Marconi Fairfield	22	11	7	4	44	23	+21	29
4	Sydney Olympic	22	12	3	7	29	25	+4	27
5	St George-Budapest	22	7	8	7	31	26	+5	22
6	Canberra City	22	8	6	8	33	35	−2	22
7	Inter Monaro	22	7	6	9	29	37	−8	20
8	Blacktown City	22	7	4	11	30	34	−4	18
9	APIA Leichhardt	22	7	2	13	20	34	−14	16
10	Wollongong City	22	5	6	11	29	46	−17	16
11	Penrith City (R)	22	4	6	12	24	35	−11	14	Relegation to the 1986 NSW State League
12	Newcastle Rosebud United	22	4	4	14	20	45	−25	12

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated

Southern Conference

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Melbourne	22	14	5	3	39	21	+18	33	Qualification to Finals series
2	Brunswick Juventus (C)	22	11	7	4	33	19	+14	29
3	Heidelberg United	22	10	7	5	29	17	+12	27
4	Preston Makedonia	22	9	6	7	30	28	+2	24
5	Melbourne Croatia	22	9	6	7	29	21	+8	24
6	Sunshine George Cross	22	8	7	7	25	22	+3	23
7	Brisbane Lions	22	9	4	9	29	29	0	22
8	Green Gully	22	6	6	10	24	29	−5	18
9	Adelaide City	22	6	6	10	29	35	−6	18
10	West Adelaide	22	6	5	11	24	37	−13	17
11	Brisbane City	22	6	5	11	25	42	−17	17
12	Footscray JUST	22	5	2	15	25	41	−16	12

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions

NSL Cup edit

Final edit

11 August 1985

15:00 AEST

Sydney Olympic	2–1	Preston Makedonia
Soper 80' Raskopoulos 82'	Report	Cole 13'

St George Stadium, Sydney

Attendance: 6,187

Referee: Don Campbell

Managerial changes edit

This is a list of changes of managers within Australian league soccer:

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of departure	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
West Adelaide	Sam Salabasidis		29 January 1985	Pre-season	Neil McGachey^[4]	29 January 1985

Retirements edit

29 January 1985: Michael McLaughlin, 20, former Blacktown City striker.^[5]

References edit

^ "Socceroo Internationals for 1985". OzFootball.net. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
^ Howe, Andrew; Punshon, John; Stock, Greg. "1985 National Soccer League Final Tables". OzFootball.net. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
^ "BRUNSWICK JUVENTUS CHAMPS OF AUSTRALIA". Australian Soccer Weekly. Vol. 6, no. 231. 9 September 1985. p. 1.
^ "McGACHEY HOPES TO RECAPTURE SPIRIT OF '78". Australian Soccer Weekly. Vol. 6, no. 199. 29 January 1985. p. 10.
^ "DEMONS' YOUNG STAR QUITS". Australian Soccer Weekly. Vol. 6, no. 199. 29 January 1985. p. 2.

External links edit

Football Australia official website

[1] "Socceroo Internationals for 1985". OzFootball.net. Retrieved 28 January 2023.

[2] Howe, Andrew; Punshon, John; Stock, Greg. "1985 National Soccer League Final Tables". OzFootball.net. Retrieved 8 October 2021.

[3] "BRUNSWICK JUVENTUS CHAMPS OF AUSTRALIA". Australian Soccer Weekly. Vol. 6, no. 231. 9 September 1985. p. 1.

[4] "McGACHEY HOPES TO RECAPTURE SPIRIT OF '78". Australian Soccer Weekly. Vol. 6, no. 199. 29 January 1985. p. 10.

[5] "DEMONS' YOUNG STAR QUITS". Australian Soccer Weekly. Vol. 6, no. 199. 29 January 1985. p. 2.

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