Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Football in Australia)/Sources

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Sports governing bodies and confederations

Using "Football"

• Football Federation Australia
• Asian Football Confederation

Teams playing in Australia

Using "Football"

• Melbourne Victory
• Sydney FC
• Melbourne City
• Western Sydney
• Perth Glory

Media outlets

Using "Football"

• Herald Sun
• The Australian
• Fox Sports
• Sydney Morning Herald
• News.com.au
• Daily Telegraph
• Nine msn
• Yahoo7
• Evidence that Australians get their news from online more than printed sources
• Source showing top news sites by unique viewers. All but one use the term Football

Using "Soccer"

• The Age This outlet doesn't use "Football" to refer to any sport, at least not in its headings. AFL is referred to as "Real Footy".
• 3AW

Official views

• Football in Australia A Commonwealth fact sheet on the four main codes. Last updated in early 2008.

Opinion

Sports commentators have observed the change in terminology:

• Why it's called Football, not Soccer - Craig Foster, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2010.
• Mainstream Aussie press finally adopting the term football as soccer seen as thing of the past - Simon Hill, Fox Sports, 1 October 2012.
• The drive for 'football' to be king in Australia - Joe Gorman, The Guardian 28 May 2013. (The Guardian has since changed to "Football".)

Leading politicians call the game football: Julia Gillard on national radio, November 2010 [1]:

PM: I have heard of that report, Neil, and it's missed a very important factor, and that very important factor is, of course, we are in the Asian region, and by 2022 75 per cent of the world's population is going to be in our region, and for the future of football, for this to be truly a world sport as they want it to be, they want to see growth in Asia, they want to see more people watching it, more people playing it, more people caring about it, which is why Australia is well placed to help with that by having the World Cup in the Asian region in 2022.

HOST: Did I hear right? You just called it football.

PM: I have been calling football.

HOST: So what does Footscray play?

PM: The Dogs play Aussie Rules, Neil.