1964 NSW First Division season

Football league season
NSW First Division
Season1964
ChampionsAPIA Leichhardt FC
PremiersAPIA Leichhardt FC
Matches played132
Goals scored532 (4.03 per match)
Best PlayerTrevor Edwards
Top goalscorerJohnny Watkiss (24)
← 1963
1965 →

The 1964 NSW First Division season was the eighth 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. The home and away regular season began March and ended in August after 22 rounds. APIA Leichhardt FC finished first on the ladder to become regular season premiers for the first time in its history with the federation.

The finals series was primarily held throughout September with a four-team playoff series. After two previous defeats in grand finals, regular season premiers APIA Leichhardt recorded their first championship with a 7–2 victory over Budapest in the grand final.

The pre-season Ampol Cup was won for a fourth time by Sydney FC Prague.

Clubs

Changes from last season:

  • Auburn and Gladesville-Ryde merged to form Cumberland United (therefore no team was relegated to Second Division).
  • Corinthian BESC were promoted from Second Division.
Club Ground Year formed App Debut Last season
(Finals)
A.P.I.A. Lambert Park
Sydney Sports Ground		 1954 8th 1957 2nd (RU)
Bankstown Bankstown Oval 1944 8th 1957 10th
Budapest Hurstville Oval 1957 6th 1959 6th
Canterbury-Marrickville Arlington Oval 1896[a] 8th 1957 7th
Corinthian BESC No fixed ground 1957 1st 1964 Div. II
Croatia Arlington Oval 1958 2nd 1963 11th
Cumberland United Mona Park 1964 1st 1964 [b]
Hakoah Wentworth Park 1939 8th 1957 9th
Pan Hellenic Wentworth Park 1957 4th 1961 4th (SF)
Prague Sydney Athletics Field 1950 8th 1957 1st (PF)
South Coast United Woonona Oval 1958[c] 7th 1958 3rd (W)
Yugal Sydney Athletics Field 1961 3rd 1962 8th

Notes

  1. ^ reformed in 1943 and 1951
  2. ^ Auburn were placed 12th and Gladesville-Ryde were placed 5th
  3. ^ Amalgamated with IDSA club Woonona-Bulli. Continues Corrimal United history

Table and results

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 A.P.I.A. (C) 22 14 3 5 59 35 +24 31 Qualification for Finals series
2 St. George-Budapest 22 12 4 6 53 34 +19 28
3 South Coast United 22 11 6 5 39 28 +11 28
4 Prague 22 13 1 8 50 32 +18 27
5 Yugal-Ryde 22 12 3 7 49 47 +2 27
6 Pan Hellenic 22 12 1 9 49 44 +5 25
7 Hakoah 22 11 2 9 44 40 +4 24
8 Cumberland United 22 9 4 9 53 40 +13 22
9 Croatia Maroubra 22 6 6 10 36 44 −8 18
10 Bankstown (R) 22 6 5 11 35 47 −12 17 Relegated to Second Division
11 Corinthian BESC (R) 22 3 4 15 39 62 −23 10
12 Canterbury-Marrickville (R) 22 3 1 18 26 79 −53 7
Source: [1]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away API BAN BUD CAN CRO COR CUM HAK PAN PRA SCU YUG
APIA 1–1 4–2 4–0 6–0 4–1 1–1 2–1 6–2 1–3 2–0 1–3
Bankstown 0–1 1–3 2–3 1–1 1–2 0–4 3–3 1–3 3–1 1–3 0–3
Budapest-St George 2–1 1–1 6–2 2–2 3–0 2–1 4–2 1–2 1–0 0–2 4–2
Canterbury-Marrickville 2–4 0–3 1–3 1–6 2–2 0–4 1–3 3–1 1–2 2–3 1–3
Croatia Maroubra 2–4 1–1 1–1 0–2 2–2 1–5 0–1 2–3 2–1 0–1 3–1
Corinthian BESC 2–5 2–3 0–2 4–0 2–3 0–2 0–3 2–3 3–5 2–5 3–3
Cumberland United 1–2 3–2 4–4 5–0 3–1 5–3 2–2 1–2 3–2 2–2 2–3
Hakoah 2–5 0–2 2–1 3–1 2–1 4–2 3–0 3–1 1–3 1–2 3–1
Pan Hellenic 6–2 5–1 1–2 5–0 2–4 2–0 3–2 0–4 2–1 0–1 2–2
Prague 2–3 0–2 4–3 5–0 1–0 4–0 1–0 5–1 2–1 4–2 1–2
South Coast United 0–0 3–5 1–0 5–0 1–1 1–1 3–1 2–0 0–3 0–0 2–3
Yugal-Ryde 2–0 4–1 0–6 6–4 1–3 0–6 3–2 2–0 4–0 1–3 0–0
Source: www.socceraust.co.uk[2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Finals series

Semi-finals
30 Aug.–6 Sep.		Preliminary final
13 Sep.		Grand final
20 September
Major Semifinal
1A.P.I.A.02Budapest2
2Budapest33A.P.I.A.7
1A.P.I.A.2
Minor Semifinal3South Coast1
3South Coast2
4Prague1

Semi-finals

South Coast United v Prague
30 August 1964 Minor semi-final South Coast United 2–1 Prague Moore Park, Sydney
  • Barnett 32'
  • Handorf 68' (o.g.)
 Report[3] Blitz 74' Stadium: Sydney Sports Ground
Attendance: 11,018
Referee: Jack Scarborough
A.P.I.A. v Budapest
6 September 1964 Major semi-final A.P.I.A. 0–3 Budapest Moore Park, Sydney
Report[4]
Stadium: Sydney Sports Ground
Attendance: 13,916
Referee: Hank Eilerts

Preliminary final

A.P.I.A. v South Coast United
13 September 1964 A.P.I.A. 2–1 South Coast United Moore Park, Sydney
Report[5]
  • J. Harris
Stadium: Sydney Sports Ground
Attendance: 13,783
Referee: Keith Lockrey

Grand Final

Budapest2–7A.P.I.A.
  • Hughes (o.g.)
  • Galambos
Attendance: 22,366
Referee: Tony Boskovic
GK 1 Australia Mel Clarke
RB 2 Austria Herbert Stegbauer
LB 3 Hungary Tibor Zuckermann
RH 4 Australia Manfred Schaefer
CH 5 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Peter Banicevic
LH 6 Australia Hugo Rodriguez
OR 7 England Alfie Stokes
IR 8 Australia Johnny Warren
CF 9 Australia Joe Galambos
IL 10 Argentina Vic Fernandez
OL 11 Australia L. Heredia
Coach:
Hungary Laurie Hegyes
GK 1 Spain Adauto Iglesias
RB 2 Australia Cliff van Blerk
LB 3 England Stan Ackerley
RH 4 Scotland Pat Hughes
CH 5 Australia R. Murua
LH 6 Australia Phil Bottalico
OR 7 Australia Duncan Falconer
IR 8 Australia John Giacometti
CF 9 Australia Johnny Watkiss
IL 10 Australia Johnny Wong
OL 11 Australia Karl Jaros
Coach:
Hungary Gyula Polgár

NSWSF First Division
1964 Premiers
Australia
A.P.I.A.
First Title

Statistics and awards

Stars of 1964

Soccer World reporters awarded stars out of six to players throughout the 22 rounds. The player with the highest stars was Trevor Edwards with 4.23 (from 17 matches). Only 11 players average four points or more. South Coast United and Sydney Croatia both had three players, Prague had three players, whilst Hakoah, APIA, Pan Hellenic, Canterbury and Prague all had one player that averaged four points or more. Below left is the list of all eleven players and below right is the team of the year:[6]

Player Team Rating
Trevor Edwards Hakoah 4.23
Pat Woods South Coast United 4.21
Alan Hetherington Croatia 4.09
Pat Hughes A.P.I.A. 4.09
Noberto Bischoff Croatia 4.05
Omar Collazo Croatia 4.05
Brian Smith Pan Hellenic 4.05
Ron Corry Canterbury-Marrickville 4.00
Fred Falzon Prague 4.00
Jim Harris South Coast United 4.00
Brian Rhodes South Coast United 4.00

Collazo
(Croatia)
Edwards
(Hakoah)
Ackerley
(APIA)
Hetherington
(Croatia)
Hughes
(APIA)
Bischoff
(Croatia)
B. Smith
(SCU)
Wong
(APIA)
Turner
(Cumberland)
Pearson
(Pan Hellenic)
Massey
(Croatia)
1964 Team of the Year

Top scorers

Johnny Watkiss was the season's top goalscorer with 24 goals, recording the lowest tally for a top goalscorer since the inception of the league in 1957. Below is a list of the top ten goalscorers for the season:[6]

Player Team Goals
Johnny Watkiss APIA 24
Joe Galambos Budapest 20
Doug Logan Pan Hellenic 17
Graham Barnett South Coast United 15
Herbert Ninaus Hakoah
Tony Nincevich Yugal-Ryde 14
Jim Richardson Cumberland United
Brian Tristram Prague 13
Peter Barnes Corinthian BESC 11
Vic Fernandez Budapest
B. Kelly Cumberland United
Les Scheinflug Prague

Attendances

Below is a list of attendances by club:[6]

Rank Club Attendance
1 APIA 150,000
2 Pan Hellenic 133,000
3 South Coast United 84,000
4 Hakoah 79,500
5 Prague 78,500
6 SSC Yugal 77,000
7 Budapest 66,000
8 Croatia 64,000
9 Cumberland United 54,500
10 Canterbury-Marrickville 40,500
11 Bankstown 38,000
12 Corinthian BESC 33,500

Other competitions

Ampol Cup

The season began with the eighth edition of the floodlight pre-season night series (seventh as the Ampol Cup) on Friday 31 January 1964, culminating with the double-header third place playoff and Final on Friday, 6 March 1964 in front of 8,400 spectators.[7]

Finals series

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
      
Budapest 3
South Coast 0
Budapest 1
A.P.I.A. 2
A.P.I.A. 3
Yugal 2
A.P.I.A. 1
Prague 2
Croatia 5
Pan Hellenic 3
Croatia 1 Third place playoff
Prague 2
Prague 3 Budapest 4
Hakoah 0 Croatia 1

Final

APIA1–2Prague
  • Sinclair
Report[7]
Attendance: 8,400
Referee: Tony Boskovic

See also

References

  1. ^ "Australia 1964". rsssf.org. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  2. ^ "1964 NSW Div1 Matrix". www.socceraust.co.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Soccer World Newspaper, Vol.07, No. 34". Soccer World. 4 September 1964. p. 4. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Soccer World Newspaper, Vol. 07, No. 35". 11 September 1964. p. 4. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Soccer World Annual". NSW Federation of Soccer Clubs. p. 8. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  6. ^ a b c "Soccer World, Vol.07, No.34". Soccer World. 4 September 1964. p. 7. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Soccer World Annual 1965". Soccer World. 1965. p. 22–23. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
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