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] The earliest known records of regular Association Football (soccer) games in Brisbane date from the early 1880s, when a group comprising mostly Scottish immigrants commenced playing at Queen's Park, adjacent to Alice and Edward Streets in the city (now part of the City Botanic Gardens) and vacant land in Melbourne Street South Brisbane, between Grey and Stanley Streets. This group of players subsequently formed the Anglo-Queensland Football Association in early 1884, and commenced playing fixtures at the sportsfield behind the Pineapple Hotel, in Main Street Kangaroo Point, and at Queen's Park, in June 1884. After a promising start, the game in Brisbane then developed erratically, hampered by the overwhelming popularity of the Rugby football codes: initially Rugby Union, which had commenced in Brisbane several years earlier, then Rugby League from the 1920s onwards. The game also suffered from ongoing periodic disunity, caused initially by disaffected clubs from nearby Ipswich and later by disagreements over funding of the game and payments to players. In contrast with this the game boomed in Ipswich, with clubs from that city dominating Brisbane and combined Brisbane-Ipswich competitions until around 1960. The large numbers of European and British immigrants arriving after World War II changed the character of the local game dramatically, as it led to the formation of wealthy ethnic-based clubs, which dominated Brisbane competitions during the 1960s and 70s. This also created a perception amongst many members of the public that Association Football (Soccer) was a 'migrants' game' (and as a result, sometimes referred to as 'wogball').〔(Sydney Morning Herald - 25 May 2006 )〕 From the 1980s onwards, the local game thrived in terms of participation by junior and senior males and large numbers of female players, but not at a professional level. Despite a promising start, the Brisbane Roar FC, which joined the re-formed national A-League competition in its inaugural year (2005) and won the premiership in 2010-11 and 2013-14, and championships in 2011, 2012 and 2014, is yet to make serious inroads into the popularity enjoyed by the other football codes. As well as this, the local game in Brisbane continues to suffer disunity, with disagreements between Brisbane clubs and both the Brisbane and State associations, regarding the structure of various junior and senior competitions and the allocation of resources. ==Mid-1800s: First football games in Brisbane== Football has been played in Brisbane from very early times, as evidenced by this notice in ''The Moreton Bay Courier'' in 1849 (a mere 25 years after the arrival of the first European settlers in the region), at which time the population was around 2000 people,〔(Queensland Places website )〕 many of whom were former convicts and poor Irish immigrants: :''ANNIVERSARY''. :''TO the SPORTING BLADES of BRISBANE.'' :''BEING determined that the Anniversary ''(called Australia Day )'' shall not pass over without a little fun, in addition to the usual English Sports, the Lads of Kangaroo Point '' :''CHALLENGE'' :''all comers to a Game of Foot Ball – preliminaries to be settled at the Commercial Inn, Kangaroo Point, on the evening of the 24th.''〔(Moreton Bay Courier - 20 January 1849 )〕 Given the inchoate nature of the various types of football at that time, they may have been playing simple mob football. Alternatively, they could have been playing in accordance with the recently published Rugby school rules (1845) or the Cambridge Rules (1848), the latter being the forerunner of the laws of Association Football. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of soccer in Brisbane, Queensland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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