The Kick OFF
How football began in South Australia – 1840 to 1915
The beginning of football (soccer) in South Australia is precisely the same time that association football is gaining an identity and formal rules in Britain. Little is known about exactly how football came to be played in South Australia, how the game evolved, and what motivated the people who drove this development.
Join this journey of discovery using the Timeline, the Story Map, and the Profiles to learn about this football history, and also South Australia’s early social history.
If you know more about the early football history – maybe you have a photograph, a diary, a journal, a letter, a newspaper article, or a club record – please get in touch using our Contact page.
This project is a living history and will continue to grow as more stories are uncovered.
The Kick Off Project © 2024 by Andrew Reilly is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
The Kick OFF
How football began in South Australia – 1840 to 1915
The beginning of football (soccer) in South Australia is precisely the same time that association football is gaining an identity and formal rules in Britain. Little is known about exactly how football came to be played in South Australia, how the game evolved, and what motivated the people who drove this development.
Join this journey of discovery using the Timeline, the Story Map, and the Profiles to learn about this football history, and also South Australia’s early social history.
If you know more about the early football history – maybe you have a photograph, a diary, a journal, a letter, a newspaper article, or a club record – please get in touch at [email protected]
This project is a living history and will continue to grow as more stories are uncovered.