The aims of the Football Australia Hall of Fame are to celebrate and highlight the achievements of retired players and other participants who have contributed significantly to the game. These are made up of either Australian and/or non-Australian players, managers and other participants who have become significant figures in the history of the game in Australia. It was first established as the Soccer Hall of Fame in 1999. New members are generally added each year.
Selection
All nominees must be Australian citizens. For non-players, inclusion is based on criteria including and "overall sustained contribution to the game".
Awards
Originally, there were several categories based on the nature of an individual's contribution, including:
* Hall of Champions (players) / Hall of Honour (non-players)
* Medal of Excellence (players) / Roll of Honour (non-players)
* Award of Distinction (players) / Roll of Honour (non-players)
Jeff Olver
Jeffrey Olver (born 25 December 1960) is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Olver is a member of the Football Federation Australia - Football Hall of Fame.
Playing career Club career
Olver played for Heidelberg and Melbourne Croati ...
Sergio Melta
Sergio Melta (born 16 March 1954), is a former Australian footballer, who had an extensive career in Australia's National Soccer League, spent entirely with Adelaide City.
Playing career Club
Melta won the NSL's player of the year award in 1984 ...
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Gary Marocchi
Gary Donald Marocchi (born 24 April 1955, in Western Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) coach and former player. He is currently the President of the Perth Soccer Club.
Playing career
Marocchi represented Australia 13 times in fu ...
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Alan Johns
Alan Tutton Johns (22 May 1917 – 5 September 1997) was a New Zealand scientist, science administrator and university council member.
Early life
Johns was born on 22 May 1917 in Amberley, the son of Ada Constance Johns (née Tutton) and Alexa ...
Ron Adair
Ron Adair (born 1931 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an Australian former association footballer.
Playing career Club career
Adair played his junior football for Victoria Park in Western Australia before joining North Perth in 1952. After playing ...
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John Watkiss
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Ray Richards
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Richard ...
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Graham Jennings
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Charlie Yankos
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Charlie Yankos s ...
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Connie Selby
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Given name or nickname
Women
* Connie Achurra, Chilean chef
* Connie Binsfeld (1924–2014), American politician
* Connie Booth ...
Manfred Schaefer
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John Nyskohus
John Nyskohus (born 15 October 1951) is an Australian former soccer player who played as a forward for USC Lion in the South Australian State League and Adelaide City
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William Maunder
William "Podge" Maunder (30 November 1902 – 25 June 1964) was an Australian soccer player. Maunder is recognised as the player who scored Australia's first international goal.
Early life
Maunder was born in Newcastle in 1902. His father, kn ...
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Jimmy Mackay
James Birrell Mackay (19 December 1943, in Scotland – 11 December 1998) was a Scottish-born Australian association football player.
He was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany.
In late 1973, he scored the decisiv ...
Julie Dolan
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Ray Baartz
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Baartz was born in Newcastle, New South Wales and sp ...
Johnny Warren
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MBE
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Jimmy Rooney
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John Kosmina
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Attila Abonyi
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Abonyi made his senior international debut for Australia in 1967 at age 20, and h ...
Zoran Matić
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Biography
Playing career
After arriving in Adelaide 1973 from Yugoslavia Matić played for Beograd Woodville (White City) before moving to Adelaide City. While ...
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Jack Logan
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Donald Campbell
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Fred Barlow
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Les Scheinflug
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Biography
Arriving in Australia in the early 1950s he lived as a youth at Villawood Migrant Hostel and played for the hostel soccer team (Villawood ...
Frank Arok
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Career
Arok played for FK Jedinstvo in Yugoslavia during the 1950s before coach ...
Rale Rasic
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Playing career Club
Born in Dole, Littoral Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Bosnia ...
John Walter Fletcher
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Biography
Early life
Fletcher was born in London, t ...
Adrian Alston
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Eddie Krncevic
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Football career Club career
After playing his first four years of professional footbal ...
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Paul Wade
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Club career
Born in Cheshire, England, Wade moved to Australia w ...
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Oscar Crino
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Early life
Crino was born in 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina a ...
Murray Barnes
Murray Barnes (16 January 1954 – 31 December 2011) was an Australian soccer player. Barnes played for the Australian team for six years, captaining the team nine times.
Playing career
Club career
Barnes played for a number of junio ...
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Ron Corry
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Playin ...
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Alex Gibb
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Chris Bambridge
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Jim Connell
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Connell was born in the townland of Ra ...
Frank Farina
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Tony Henderson
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Playing career Club career
Henderson played youth football at Blackpool bef ...
David Ratcliffe
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Career
Born in Dewsbury, Ratcliffe joined Bradford City as an amateur in July 1972,Frost, p. 405 joini ...
Leo Baumgartner
Leo Baumgartner (March 14, 1932 - November 17, 2013) was an Austrian-Australian football player and coach.
References
1961 births
2013 deaths
Austrian men's footballers
Footballers from Vienna
Australian men's soccer players
Sydney F ...
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John Constantine
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Basil Scarsella
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George Wallace
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James Wilkinson
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He served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, b ...
Stan Ackerley
Stan Ackerley (born 12 July 1942 in Manchester, Lancashire, England) is an Australian former footballer and coach.
Playing career
Club career
Ackerley spent two seasons on the books of Manchester United from 1959 until 1961 where he played in ...
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Peter Ollerton
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Norman Conquest
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Eddie Thomson
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John Fraser John Fraser may refer to:
Politics
*John Simon Frederick Fraser (1765–1803), commanded the Fraser Fencibles in Ireland and was (M.P.) for Inverness-shire
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Dennis McDermott
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Born in Portsmo ...
Milan Ivanović
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Club career
Ivan ...
Gary Cole
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Steve O'Connor
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Background
Stephen (Steve) joineRevesby Roversas a 7-year-old and played representati ...
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Roy Crowhurst
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Ken Allen
Ken Allen (February 13, 1971 – December 1, 2000) was a Bornean orangutan at the San Diego Zoo. He became one of the most popular animals in the history of the zoo because of his many successful escapes from his enclosures. He was nickname ...
Graham Arnold
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Jack Hughes
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Fred Hutchinson
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Born and raised in Seattle, Washing ...
Robbie Slater
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He played as a midfielder from 1982 until 2001 notably in the Premier League for Blackburn Rovers where he was amongst the ...
Craig Johnston
Craig Peter Johnston (born 25 June 1960) is a South African-born Australian former professional footballer. He played as a midfielder in the English Football League between 1977 and 1988, winning the European Cup, five league titles and an FA Cu ...
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Bruce Morrow
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Phil Murphy
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Ernie Campbell
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Robert Zabica
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Playing career
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Raul Blanco
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Alex Tobin
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Terry Greedy
Terry Greedy (born 27 August 1955) is an Australian retired soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. He represented the Australian national team between 1983 and 1985, making 16 international appearances. At club level, he played in the National ...
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Steve Blair
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Anissa Tann
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Heather Reid
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Career
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Julie Murray
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Aurelio Vidmar
Aurelio Vidmar ( ; born 3 February 1967) is an Australian association football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Thai League 1 club Bangkok United.
He is a former captain of the Australia national team and former coach ...
Tony Vidmar
Antony Vidmar (born 4 July 1970) is an Australian soccer coach and former player, who serves as an assistant coach with the Australia national team. He was a member of the Australia national team, competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona ...
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Cheryl Salisbury
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Biography
She most recently played as a defender for the New Yor ...
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Paul Okon
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He previously captained the Australian National Team and has represented Australia Olympic Football Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Ba ...
Ned Zelić
Nedjeljko Zelic (born 4 July 1971), commonly known as Ned Zelic, is an Australian former footballer who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder.
Club career
Zelic started his career in the old Australian National Soccer League, where he ...
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Joanne Peters
Joanne Elsa Peters (born 11 March 1979) is an Australian former soccer player who last played for the Newcastle Jets in the Australian W-League.
Playing career
Club career
After attending the Australian Institute of Sport and the NSW Insti ...
Mark Shield
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2011 inductees
Players
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Craig Moore
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Dianne Alagich
Dianne Marie Alagich (born 12 May 1979) is an Australian former soccer player, who last played for Adelaide United in the W-League and the Matildas. A defender, she was capped 86 times, scoring on three occasions. She is 169 cm tall and ...
Participants
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Ted Simmons
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Alison Forman
Alison Leigh Forman (born 17 March 1969 in Maitland, New South Wales) is a retired Australian international soccer player. Among her accomplishments, Forman played for the Australia women's national soccer team at the 1995 and 1999 FIFA Women's ...
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Scott Chipperfield
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Sunni Hughes
Linda "Sunni" Hughes (born 9 June 1968) is an Australian former women's association football player. She participated in 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2000 Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad an ...
2014 inductees
Players
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Sandra Brentnall
Sandra Brentnall (born 27 June 1962) is an Australian former soccer player who played for the Australia women's national soccer team
The Australia women's national soccer team is overseen by the governing body for soccer in Australia, Foot ...
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Damian Mori
Damian Mori (born 30 September 1970) is an Australian former football player who is an assistant coach for Adelaide United. He won two Johnny Warren Medals, awarded to the best player in the Australian league and was top scorer on 5 occasions ...
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Mark Viduka
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Tom Sermanni
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2015 inductees
Players
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Lisa Casagrande
Lisa Maree Casagrande (born 29 May 1978, Lismore, New South Wales) is an Australian retired footballer. She played at the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1995 (scoring a goal) and 1999, and at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Club career
Casagran ...
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John Kundereri Moriarty
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Today ...
2016 inductees
Players
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Sacha Wainwright
Sacha Wainwright (born 6 February 1972) is an Australian retired soccer defender who played for the Australia women's national soccer team
The Australia women's national soccer team is overseen by the governing body for soccer in Austra ...
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Peter Raskopoulos
Peter Raskopoulos (born 22 February 1962) is an Australian former association football player.
Playing career Club career
Raskopoulos played his youth football for Earlwood Wanderers Football Club, Earlwood Wanderers before being signed for Syd ...
Participants
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Tammy Ogston
Tammy Ogston (born 26 July 1970) is a former Australian football referee from Brisbane, Queensland.
Ogston began playing football at age 14 before moving into officiating in 1993, aged 23, on recognising that there were not enough officials in ...
Mark Bresciano
Mark Bresciano ( ; ; born 11 February 1980) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder.
Born in Melbourne, Bresciano played youth football for Bulleen Lions, before moving into the National Soccer League w ...
Harry Kewell
Harry Kewell (born 22 September 1978) is an Australian association football coach, manager and former player. His most recent role as a club manager was at English National League side Barnet, and he is currently a first team coach at Celtic F.C ...
* Leigh Wardell
Participants
* Branko Culina
* Frank Lowy
2021 inductees
Players
* Heather Garriock
* Grace Gill
* Mark Schwarzer OAM
Participants
* Joe Honeysett
2022 inductees
Players
* Moya Dodd
* Collette McCallum
* Ange Postecoglou
* Ted Smith (soccer), Ted Smith
Participants
* Walter Pless
* Brendan Schwab
See also
* Football Hall of Fame Western Australia
References
External links
Official website
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Association football museums and halls of fame
Australian soccer trophies and awards
Halls of fame in Australia
Awards established in 1996
Australian sports trophies and awards
1999 establishments in Australia