History
The first recorded game played under Association Football rules (at the time known as British Association Rules) took place at the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum located in Wacol, Queensland, on the 7 August 1875 when the Asylum played Brisbane Football Club. The second earliest recorded game was played in Hobart on 10 May 1879 when the Cricketers Football Club played a scratch match. The first recorded inter-club match took place a month later when the Cricketers took on New Town FC on 7 June. This information predates what was thought to be the first recorded club, Wanderers, founded by a school teacher named John Walter Fletcher in Parramatta, New South Wales in 1880. The first game known to have occurred in New South Wales under Association Football rules took place the same year, when Wanderers played the Kings School rugby football team at Parramatta Common on 14 August. However, the oldest existing club is Balgownie Rangers, founded in 1883, which still competes in the Illawarra regional league.
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