andrew howe

Official @aleaguemen 2025-26 season guide is up! 484 pages of statsy goodness for our fave league. My 25th NSL/ALM official stats guide 🎂. Get on it => bit.ly/alm2526sg

We're proud to announce the induction of three extraordinary individuals into the Football Australia Hall of Fame for 2025! 🙌 Congratulations to Tim Cahill, Sharon Black and Roy Hay 👏 🗞️ Read more on this year's inductees: bit.ly/HoF-2025

Travelling around the Balkans... football highlight so far was a visit to Mark Viduka's kafe in Zagreb... had a lovely little chat, such a humble guy considering his achievements. My little fanboy story => facebook.com/share/p/14KhNf…

actually released last week but I've been trekking around the beautiful Balkans... today's stop, magnificent Makedonija 🇲🇰

Official @aleaguewomen 2025-26 season guide is up! 281 pages of statsy goodness for the 18th ALW season, including 270 player profiles. Check it out here => bit.ly/alw2526sg

@official_lesdog Ha nice! yeah 2 pages to a sheet/double-sided would make it much cheaper & less bulky

Official @aleaguemen season guide tidied a little (thanks to some polite spotters including @102megan) and reloaded => bit.ly/alm2526sg

Official @aleaguemen 2025-26 season guide is up! 484 pages of statsy goodness for our fave league. My 25th NSL/ALM official stats guide 🎂. Get on it => bit.ly/alm2526sg

@official_lesdog And it's still designed to read as two facing pages to a sheet (a big content juggling job that one) for anyone who wants to do it this way. So yeah viewing the guide as two page view in your PDF reader can make the almost 500 page doc easier to digest

@bw_youngy @aleaguemen Thank you! Have fixed

@AndyHowe_statto @aleaguemen Little correction: For the Newcastle Jets, you have 2 players listed as #22 (on page 170) - Bertolissio and Gibson. As far as I know, Gibson is #11

@Ryans_Rovers @aleaguemen Thank you! Will fix after drunken karaoke tonight 😆

@AndyHowe_statto @aleaguemen A Yellow Fever poster spotted some mistakes in your Nix section. Pg 250, the Nix finished 4th in 14/15, you have us finishing 5th. Pg 254, you have Steve McMahon coaching the Nix for 15 games. He never coached us & we didn't exist in 2005. yellowfever.co.nz/posts/1518462

Incidentally the previous time the @Socceroos played at a >1000m venue was also against US, at Ruimsig Stadium Johannesburg in 2010 (1480m). Tim Cahill also scored in the 19th min in that game

At 1590m above sea level, Bos' goal v US at Dick's Sporting Goods Park Denver is the highest goal scored by the @Socceroos since Scott Chipperfield scored at Esadio El Campin Bogota in 2001, 2550m above sea level.

@MarkBoric and 19 Japanese players (that I know of) played in Aus Cup final rounds this year, that's a significant chunk of the 530 total players

It appears the keys to the Australian Championship are the Japanese players

@NickStoll Longest *winning* runs in A games: 12 Venables (1997), 11 Arnold (2019-2021), 8 Vlasits (1967), 7* POPOVIC (2025-), 6 Arnold (again, 2023-2024), Farina (2001)

Maybe one for @AndyHowe_statto, but what's the longest undefeated run a new Socceroos coach has gone on? And what's the longest undefeated streak any Socceroos coach has had? Because Popa is about to make it 11 games undefeated

@NickStoll Longest undefeated streak by any Socceroos coach: 16 Terry Venables 1997 12 Frank Farina 2004–2005 11 Graham Arnold 2019–2021 11* TONY POPOVIC 2024–(Canada) 10 Jim Shoulder 1976–1977 Socceroo coach stats since 1964 only. NT 'coaches' Pre-Federation were done differently

@NickStoll Longest undefeated starts by a Socceroos coach in A internationals: 16 Terry Venables 18/01/1997 v NZL to 14/12/1997 v BRA 11* TONY POPOVIC 10/10/2024 v CHN to 10/10/2025 v CAN (ongoing) 10 Joe Vlasits 05/11/1967 v NZL to 31/03/1968 v JPN

Australia v Canada. Separated at birth: Australia’s George Best - Ulysses Kokkinos and Canada’s 80’s rock legend Gino Vannelli. Ours is better than yours. #CANvAUS

@official_lesdog And not only was some NSL Cup editions just NSL teams(like Pre-Season Cup just ALM teams), but NSL Cup was pre-season a few times. The AusCup Final media guide bit.ly/AUSCF25mg gives the Pre-Season Cup its due prominence as does the ALM Season Guide bit.ly/alm2425sg

@official_lesdog Seems the 'Pre-Season Cup' title makes it difficult to take seriously all these years later. But it was big, eg average crowd around 2X that of AusCup, and NSL Cup. In hindsight perhaps should've been called the A-League Cup. We need to start a Friends of the Pre-Season Cup group

Half-time #AustraliaCup final reading - Hahn Australia Cup Final 2025 media guide, 17 pages of Australian national cup statsy goodness ===> bit.ly/AUSCF25mg