The cybersecurity incident has potentially affected every local soccer customer or fan,along with the players,researchers say.
It’s Australian soccer’s unanswerable question:how do you convert the millions of people who play the game at grassroots level,and watch European soccer obsessively,but don’t follow the A-Leagues?
Club owners figured they could run themselves and they have – into the ground.
Around 50 per cent of staff at the Australian Professional Leagues,which runs the men’s and women’s domestic soccer competitions,have lost or will lose their jobs this week.
That seven of the eight foundation clubs named by Football Australia have roots in the NSL is both exciting and fascinating in equal measure.
Football Australia have named four traditional Sydney soccer powerhouses among seven clubs with NSL roots as foundation members of a national second division to kick off in 2025.
Australia’s head coach took joy in his side’s win to start their World Cup qualifying campaign,but admits next week’s game against Palestine in Kuwait has been weighing on his mind.
Football Australia will instead focus on winning hosting rights to the 2026 Women’s Asian Cup and an expanded men’s 2029 Club World Cup.
The deadline for Australia to bid on the upcoming World Cup is fast approaching.
The A-Leagues could be forced to buyout its largest shareholder by 2029 in a move that would require the cash-strapped sport to find money it doesn’t have.
Saudi Arabia is favourite to win hosting rights but as a deadline approaches an entry also involving Malaysia and Singapore is on the cards.