Chronicles of Soccer in Australia

The Foundation Years 1859 to 1949

Peter Kunz

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Fair Play Publishing
01 October 2020

Sports & outdoor recreation; Football (Soccer, Association football)

Chronicles of Australian Soccer details the development of football (or soccer as it was then known) in Australia in a period where records barely existed – from 1859 to 1949. It does so within a context of Australia’s geographic and cultural isolation, and the attitudes towards race and class. Finding some of these records has meant years of dedicated research to track clubs and games from every part of the country, presented chronologically. Peter Kunz has written a truly phenomenal account of Australia’s soccer history which is of value to the football anorak as well as those interested in Australian history in the latter part of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century.

Also inclued is a 130 page appendix listing all clubs up to 1949, and 16 pages of black and white historical images (some never seen before).

By: Peter Kunz
Imprint: Fair Play Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 475g
ISBN: 9780648407362
ISBN 10: 0648407365
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 01 October 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Kunz is a retired Canberra-based librarian and researcher who has worked for cultural institutions such as the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive. From the late 1960s he played amateur soccer in Canberra and was also a soccer referee and a correspondent for the Soccer World newspaper in the 1970s. He was a keen supporter of the defunct Canberra City and Canberra Cosmos NSL clubs. His principal interest has been historical research, which has led to investigation of the early development of soccer in Australia as well as the curation of Australian soccer memorabilia. Son of an Australian mother and a Hungarian immigrant, Peter's formative years were spent in Sydney in the early 1960s watching and supporting the St George-Budapest soccer club.

Reviews for Chronicles of Soccer in Australia: The Foundation Years 1859 to 1949

"""I had no idea football existed in some of these places back then let alone some of the fascinating insights such as the influence of the Chinese in Darwin's football history, or that the Coledale club sent off carrier pigeons to convey the half- and full-time scores against North Wollongong to its distant fans. ""Peter shows us that the fascinating social and international dimensions of soccer in Australia have been there from the start. His bold undertaking of covering club football in Australia up to 1949 reveals great insights into soccer and Australian society for the following decades."" Andrew Howe, Australian football statistician and author of the 'Encyclopedia of Socceroos' and 'Encyclopedia of Matildas'"