title: Victoria state soccer team
text: # Victoria state soccer team
  
  The Victoria state soccer team is a representative side of Australian state Victoria. The team regularly played against New South Wales and other state teams from 1883.
  
  Throughout the 19th century, Victoria played their state representative matches only against New South Wales, then moved to playing against the rest of the state representative teams later in the early 1900s. Their first representative match against a club, was against Maccabi Tel Aviv in June 1939. The representative side continued to play many of their games against club opponents across the globe after the 1930s.
  
  ## History
  
  ### 1880s and 1890s
  
  Victoria played their first representative match against New South Wales on 16 August 1883 in a 2–2 draw at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground. Two days later, they played their second match which resulted in a 0–0 draw. Victoria won their first match (4–0 against New South Wales) on 16 July 1885.
  
  ## Results by opponent
  
      As of 15 August 2021
  
  | Opponent | P | W | D | L | %W | %D | %L |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | New South Wales | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 16.7 | 58.3 | 25 |
  | South Australia | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 57.1 | 0 | 42.9 |
  | Tasmania | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75 | 25 | 0 |
  | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33.3 | 0 | 66.7 |
  | Western Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
  | Fiji | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.7 | 33.3 | 0 |
  | South Africa | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Rapid Vienna | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Torpedo Moscow | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Cardiff City | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50 | 50 |
  | Dynamo Moscow | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50 | 50 |
  | Ferencváros | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | New Caledonia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
  | China PR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | South China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Austria Wien | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Eastern Athletic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Blackpool | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | South Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Newcastle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
  | Everton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Preußen Münster | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
  | Chelsea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Greece | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 |
  | Romania B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Werder Bremen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Toyo Kogyo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Bristol Rovers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
  | Legia Warsaw | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Glasgow Rangers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Benfica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Norwich City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | New York Cosmos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Red Star Belgrade | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
  | JEF United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
  | Northern New South Wales | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
  