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Please refrain from renaming "football" to "soccer" in this or other A-League/FFA articles.

The majority of A-League articles specify Football (soccer) or Association football in the introductory paragraph.

Replacing all instances of "football" with "soccer" in Australia related articles makes them inconsistent with other Wikipedia articles from international sources. Fox Sports and News Limited publications now refer to "soccer" as "football", and many media outlets distinguish the codes by saying "AFL Football", "NRL Football", "Rugby Union" or just "Football".

Note that the governing body is now Football Federation of Australia. ViXx 12:42, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That's strange, clicking the football link on my local Murdoch paper's web site's front page gets me Aussie rules.Another Murdoch publication can't seem to decide; as I write this it has two columns, almost equally mindless, on the front page putting each side of the case. Maybe you're thinking of the SMH? Football Federation Australia's own ads for the A-League are careful to disambiguate it from other sports (not to mention previous Australian soccer leagues...) As for the official names, my understanding is that what counts on Wikipedia is local popular usage, officialdom be damned. My interpretation of that is that what West Coast Eagles fans call football trumps what Perth Glory fans call it in Perth-related articles, simply because there are more of the former. And calling it "soccer" has the added advantage of removing all confusion; there should not be a Category:Australian football clubs, for example, since it could just as easily be interpreted as Aussie rules clubs based anywhere in the world rather than Australian-based soccer clubs. J.K. 13:54, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well for my media consumption the SMH, Foxtel, the ABC (and SBS) even the Telegraph are using the term football. Its the name of the game. Shuld there be Category:Australian football clubs, of course there should be. There is also Category:Australian rules football clubs--Tancred 00:15, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

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	: Well for my media consumption the SMH, Foxtel, the ABC (and SBS) even the Telegraph are using the term football. Its the name of the game. Shuld there be [[:Category:Australian football clubs]], of course there should be. There is also [[:Category:Australian ~~Rules~~ football clubs]]--[[User:Tancred\|Tancred]] 00:15, August 20, 2005 (UTC)		: Well for my media consumption the SMH, Foxtel, the ABC (and SBS) even the Telegraph are using the term football. Its the name of the game. Shuld there be [[:Category:Australian football clubs]], of course there should be. There is also [[:Category:Australian rules football clubs]]--[[User:Tancred\|Tancred]] 00:15, August 20, 2005 (UTC)