1965 NSW First Division season

NSW First Division 1965 APIA Leichhardt FC South Coast United Jimmy Kelly John Giacometti (23) 90 (regular season) + 7 (finals) 4 goals (on three occasions) Cumberland United 0–10 APIA Leichhardt 10 goals (0–10 and 4–6) 8,860 Pan Hellenic v. APIA (regular season) 1964 1966 The 1965 NSW First Division season was the ninth season of soccer in New South Wales under the administration of the NSW Federation of Soccer Clubs since its breakaway from the NSW Soccer Football Association in January 1957. In a truncated season compared to the previous year, the home and away regular season comprised 18 rounds, beginning in March and ending in August. South Coast United finished first on the ladder to become regular season premiers for the second time. The finals series was primarily held throughout September with a four-team playoff series. APIA Leichhardt reached the grand final against St George-Budapest when they eventually defeated Yugal after three minor semi final replays and defeat of South Coast in the preliminary final. The club recorded their second consecutive championship with a 2–0 victory over St George, with Johnny Watkiss and Johnny Wong scoring in the decider. The pre-season Ampol Cup was won for a fifth time by Sydney FC Prague, defending the title from the previous season. Clubs Changes from last season: The division was contracted to a ten-team league, reducing its number from 12 teams. Canterbury, Bankstown SC and first time participants Corinthian BESC were relegated to NSW Second Division. Polonia-North Side were promoted from NSW Second Division. Club Ground Year formedApp Total appearance(s) in First Division Debut First season in NSW First Division Last season(Finals) Position in last season's NSW First Division (finals place in parenthesis) A.P.I.A. Lambert Park Sydney Sports Ground 1954 9th 1957 1st (W) St George-Budapest Hurstville Oval 1957 7th 1959 2nd (RU) Croatia Arlington Oval 1958 3rd 1963 7th Cumberland United Mona Park 1964Auburn and Gladesville merged keeping separate histories 2nd 1964 8th Hakoah Wentworth Park 1939 9th 1957 7th Pan Hellenic Wentworth Park 1957 5th 1961 6th Polonia-North Side Drummoyne Oval 1961North Side-E.P.T merged with Polonia keeping separate histories 3rd 1961 1st in Div. II Prague Sydney Athletics Field 1950 9th 1957 4th (SF) South Coast United Woonona Oval 1958Amalgamated with IDSA club Woonona-Bulli in 1961. Continues Corrimal United history 8th 1958 3rd (PF) Yugal Sydney Athletics Field 1961 4th 1962 8th Notes Table and results main WDL 5 2 complete https://rsssf.org/tablesa/aus1965.html#nsw Australia 1965 rsssf.org 28 February 2025 SCU South Coast United SGB St. George-Budapest API A.P.I.A. YUG Yugal-Ryde PRA Prague HAK Hakoah MET Metropolitan Adriatic CUM Cumberland United PAN Pan Hellenic PNS Polonia-North Side 11 0 7 51 28 C 11 4 3 44 25 12 2 4 45 23 8 2 8 31 28 9 4 5 30 23 3 6 9 32 47 5 6 7 34 40 6 1 11 27 53 5 3 10 31 48 4 4 10 21 31 R F F F F R QR green1 Qualification for Finals series red1 Relegated to Second Division Results main FBR grey API APIA CUM Cumberland United HAK Hakoah MET Metropolitan Adriatic PAN Pan Hellenic PNS Polonia-North Side PRA Prague SCU South Coast United SGB St George-Budapest YUG Yugal-Ryde 1–3 4–0 2–1 1–0 2–2 5–1 1–1 2–1 2–2 2–5 1–4 1–1 3–2 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 2–2 4–0 3–4 4–0 5–2 2–1 2–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 2–1 0–2 1–0 2–1 2–2 2–3 2–1 2–2 0–3 2–3 0–1 1–0 0–2 4–1 1–2 1–3 2–0 5–3 2–3 1–7 3–3 1–1 4–6 1–4 1–1 3–4 0–2 5–2 0–0 3–2 2–0 3–1 1–2 3–0 2–1 0–10 0–2 1–7 4–2 1–2 2–1 0–3 3–2 1–2 0–2 1–1 1–3 1–2 3–4 2–0 0–1 1–3 2–2 3–1 4–1 4–1 2–3 2–5 2–0 1–6 0–2 1–6 complete www.socceraust.co.ukhttp://www.socceraust.co.uk/1965/NSW/Div1/matrix.html 1965 NSW Div1 Matrix www.socceraust.co.uk 28 February 2025 Finals series yes yes Semi-finals 29 Aug.–5 Sep. Major Semifinal 1 South Coast 1 2 St George-Budapest 3 Minor Semifinal (replay score) 3 A.P.I.A. 3 4 Yugal 0 Preliminary final 19 September 1 South Coast 0 3 A.P.I.A. 4 Grand final 26 September 2 St George-Budapest 0 3 A.P.I.A. 2 Semi-finals Minor semi-final 29 August 1965 1–1 Reporthttp://www.ozfootball.net/ark/States/NSW/1965/1965D1FS.html 1965 NSWSF First Division Finals Series www.ozfootball.net 28 February 2025 A.P.I.A. Watkiss 27 Yugal Mucillo 88 Sydney Sports Ground Moore Park, Sydney 10,400 N. Jones Major semi-final 5 September 1964 1–3 Report South Coast United Barnett 10 St George-Budapest Rodriguez 56 Todd 74 J. Warren 83 Moore Park, Sydney Sydney Sports Ground 7,319 D. Buchan Minor semi-final replay 1 8 September 1965 1–1 Report A.P.I.A. Wong 77 Yugal Vicevic 86 Sydney Sports Ground Moore Park, Sydney 11,374Double-header with Pan Hellenic v. Polonia-NS relegation decider N. Jones Minor semi-final replay 2 12 September 1965 3–3 yes Report A.P.I.A. Watkiss 36 115 Wong 87 pen Yugal Lalic 7 Dacevski 82 Vicevic 111 pen Sydney Sports Ground Moore Park, Sydney 8,850 H. Parsons Minor semi-final replay 3 15 September 1965 3–0 Report A.P.I.A. Hughes 40 McKinnon 58 80 Yugal Sydney Sports Ground Moore Park, Sydney 8,905 A.R. Brown Preliminary final 19 September 1965 0–4 Report South Coast United A.P.I.A. Watkiss 19 Campana 52 McKinnon 83 88 Moore Park, Sydney Sydney Sports Ground 10,540 H. Parsons Grand Final 26 September 1965 0–2 Report St George-Budapest A.P.I.A. Watkiss 54 Wong 57 Moore Park, Sydney Sydney Sports Ground 9,857 Tony Boskovic GK 1 SCO Frank Haffey RB 2 AUT Herbert Stegbauer LB 3 AUS Roger Hillary RH 4 AUS Manfred Schaefer CH 5 YUG Petar Banicevic LH 6 AUS Frank Lang OR 7AUS Dave Todd IR 8AUS Johnny Warren CF 9AUS Hugo Rodriguez IL 10 SCO George Yardley OL 11ARG Vic Fernandez Coach:HUN Laurie Hegyes |style="vertical-align:top;width:50%"| GK 1 AUS John Roberts RB 2 AUS Cliff van Blerk LB 3 ENG Stan Ackerley RH 4SCO Pat Hughes CH 5AUS Jimmy Sambrook LH 6 AUS Phil Bottalico OR 7AUS Graeme McKinnon IR 8AUS Ricardo Campana CF 9AUS Johnny Watkiss IL 10 AUS Johnny Wong OL 11 AUS John GiacomettiCoach: AUS Joe Marston NSWSF First Division1965 PremiersAustralia 100pxA.P.I.A.Second Title Statistics and awards Top Star Award Soccer World reporters awarded stars out of six to players throughout the 18 rounds. The player with the highest stars was Jimmy Kelly with 4.28, very narrowly beating Polonia-North Side halfback Ginter Gawlik. 15 players averaged four points or more. Below left is the list of all fifteen players and below right is the team of the year:https://archive.org/details/soccer-world-annual-1966/ Soccer World Annual 22–28 Soccer World 1966 28 February 2025 Player Team Rating Jimmy Kelly South Coast United 4.28 Ginter Gawlik Polonia-North Side 4.22 Dave Todd St. George-Budapest 4.17 Mita Stojanovic Yugal 4.16 Jim Harris South Coast United 4.12 Manfred Schaefer St. George-Budapest 4.11 Petar Banicevic St. George-Budapest 4.08 Jerzy Drewniak Polonia-North Side 4.05 Ferdo Dunaj Yugal 4.00 Phil Bottalico APIA 4.00 Fred Falzon Prague 4.00 Jim Fernie Pan Hellenic 4.00 Pat Hughes APIA 4.00 Grenville Jones Prague 4.00 Heinz Ringhoff Yugal 4.00 left 240 Drewniak(Polonia-NS) Ringhoff(Yugal) Falzon(Prague) Kelly(SCU) Stojanovic(Yugal) Dunaj(Yugal) Dacevski(Yugal) Wong(APIA) Fekete(Hakoah) Todd(St. George) Yardley(St. George) 1965 Team of the Year Top scorers John Giacometti was the season's top goalscorer with 23 goals. Below is a list of the top ten goalscorers for the season: Player Team Goals John Giacometti APIA 23 Graham Barnett South Coast United 18 Joe Galambos Metro Adriatic Tony Nincevich South Coast United 12 Herbert Ninaus Hakoah 11 Max Tolson South Coast United Johnny Watkiss APIA 10 Vic Fernandez St. George-Budapest 9 Doug Logan Pan Hellenic George Yardley St. George-Budapest Attendances Below is a list of attendances by club: Rank Club Total attendance Highest home attendance 1 APIA 94,000 8,574 2 Pan Hellenic 76,000 8,860 3 South Coast United 61,400 7,055 4 St. George-Budapest 56,200 5,945 5 Yugal 54,200 4,618 6 Prague 49,800 5,600 7 Hakoah 46,300 5,383 8 Polonia-North Side 38,200 3,500 9 Metro Adriatic 37,400 4,38010 Cumberland United 31,000 3,850 Other competitions Ampol Cup The season began with the ninth edition of the floodlit pre-season night series (eighth as the Ampol Cup), culminating with the double-header third place playoff and Final on Friday, 19 February in front of 5,800 spectators. http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/States/NSW/1965/1965ACR4.html 1965 Ampol Cup Results 1 March 2025 www.ozfootball.net Finals series no yes Semi-finals Finals Grand Final Third place playoff Yugal 3 Metro Adriatic 0 Prague 4 Hakoah 3 Yugal 2 Prague 6 Metro Adriatic 2 Hakoah 1 Final 19 February 1965 Sydney Yugal 2–6 Report Prague Palmer 32 Ninchevic 75 Badaracco 25 95 Blitz 74 Tristram 94 100 Scheinflug 103 pen Sydney Showground, Moore Park 5,800 Harold Parsons See also 1965 in Australian soccer 1965 NSWSF season 1965 NSW Federation Cup References Category:New South Wales Federation of Soccer Clubs seasons NSW First Division season NSW First Division season