Where are the foundation NSL clubs today?

When the National Soccer League kicked-off in 1977, there were 14 foundation clubs from across NSW, Queensland, South Australia, the ACT and Victoria. Some teams have folded, many exist still. We go through those 14 clubs and see where they are today.

[@Thebirdmanishere]

South Melbourne Hellas 💙🤍 From Middle Park to the Maracana

[@ALeagueCouchCritics]

Incredible achievement

[@joshbithell2449]

Mooroolbark Soccer Club and the NSL is my favorite all-time Australian football story, I played at Mooroolbark and had no idea until years later.

[@philiptolot4136]

Frank Lowy who was the president of Sydney City withdrew the team at the beginning of 1987 because he did not like how the ASF was running the NSL. This would be a good video to do. Keep it up.

[@Shelmer75]

Cool video! Would’ve also loved to hear about a key player or two per club and maybe some notable members of the board/ownership/management/coaching or something. Obvious one would be Ange for South Melbourne etc.

[@trimmers09]

Lots of respect. Well played. Thank you.

[@Unsolicited_Freedom]

Great video

[@ALeagueCouchCritics]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kotchstevens2321]

Excellent video on the founding clubs, now i recon would be great to see another video on the other 29 clubs that joined the NSL in 1978 or after. Cheers

[@ArachKing]

@@kotchstevens2321 the now-defunct clubs from the ‘80s in particular, since I’d say most of us are familiar w/the ones from the ‘90s/final few years of the NSL

[@VelvetRiot-hz5mp]

If you watch NPL1 in Sydney or Melbourne it is basically the same as the old NSL, I don't bother with the other states.

[@Brucetiki1]

West Adelaide tried to build a new stadium in the early 2010’s in Kilburn but it was never finished. The half built stadium now just sits there as a bit of an eyesore

[@ALeagueCouchCritics]

Haven’t they built a new stadium now?

[@billba]

Heidelberg United won the 1980 NSL Grand Final.

[@ALeagueCouchCritics]

Heidelberg Utd won the grand final but it didn’t determine the champion.

[@iankinnell5643]

Not really relevant to this video but As a NZer who is born & bred in Auckland I love we've got a new A League side hopefully our efforts are better than the past 2 teams

[@attilakalman4480]

St George Budapest Soccer club

[@billba]

You must be from Sydney

[@Mick_4591]

What ever happened to Apia Leichhardt?

[@ALeagueCouchCritics]

Played NSL between 1979 to 1992. Now in NSW NPL. Foundation National Second Tier club

[@VelvetRiot-hz5mp]

The just won the NSW division 1 title(now called NPL 1). Basically just under A-League.

[@trimmers09]

Doing well until your anti SMFC sentiments came out... take it as a compliment... funny when you consider SMFC has a rivalry with most most AL clubs - yet, have never faced off... you know what we know - no AL club has a claim to our crown...

[@ALeagueCouchCritics]

It was clearly a joke 😂😂 Don’t read too much into it

[@strefion]

@@ALeagueCouchCriticsnext time pull your head in and show some respect.

[@SmilesMKD]

Pretty sure Sydney FC have a claim to that crown with 5 Australian championships as well as a OFC Champions League

[@havanadaurcy1321]

​@@SmilesMKDCentral Coast have the treble.

[@SmilesMKD]

@@havanadaurcy1321 And Wanderers have the AFC Champions League There are 3 teams that all have a better claim to the "crown" of Australian Football

[@mk2295]

Nice video. Sth Melbourne were awarded the Oceania Team of the century based on statistics on domestic competitions for oceania as opposed to intercontinental club competitions for other confederations. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFFHS