Perth Sports Soccer
The largest participator sport in Perth would be soccer as it is every where else around the country. The round ball game is a favourite amongst parents in Perth who want their kids to play sports like soccer and not have to worry about their child breaking limbs or worse.
Unlike games such as rugby it’s highly unlikely that you need to buy a helmet for your child if they are playing soccer in Perth. Sports are an important part of our daily lives and even if it’s a matter of keeping fit by playing soccer at a low level it still requires you to do some running.
Kids start playing soccer at underage levels with under 6 soccer available for your child to play in Perth. The age levels go right through to under 16- u18 and u21 levels.
Perth sports are easily accessible to the public with many different teams available to be a part of. If you want to play Soccer in Perth you can certainly start at an early age and play right through until you are a young man. You can play in either the amateur level or play in the state league level, which is just one step down from the national league.
The National league in Australia is called the Hyundai A-League and it has really captured the imagination of the public now that the ethnicity of the team names has been dumped in favour of teams named after cities. This gives each the national league teams as strong local support base with a wide spectrum of the community willing to barrack for what has now become their team.
Perth Glory was the first of the new consortiums to get involved in Australian soccer with success. While the early years didn’t produce instant results on the field, the Glory did kick plenty of goals off it with record crowds turning up to watch their home games.
The Shed was always a hive of activity with the Glory putting on free beers for their supporters pre game to ensure the supporters would be in fine voice well before the game started. With a large English community attending the Glory games the singing and chanting certainly added to the atmosphere. Before too long it was clear that a ticket to the Perth Glory home games was the hottest ticket in town.
Teams enjoyed heading to Perth to play against the Glory in those initial years with the Glory clearly averaging the largest crowds in the league. With the big crowds came the big name players with Perth waving the chequebook to buy the best available talent in Australia in their quest to win the title.
The Glory were twice beaten in grand Finals before finally breaking through for their maiden championship victory under coach Mich d'Avray.
Lady luck did smile upon the Glory Boys who won the title twice in the 2002-03 season and the 2003-04 season. Unfortunately since the advent of the A-League the team has failed to fire finishing 5th and 7th in the two years of the competition.