Written by Greg Stock. Thanks to John Punshon for the cross-referencing of material. For more details see credits.
| In December 1983 Australia was invited to participate in the 1983 Merlion Cup in Singapore. To warm up for this tournament Australia played a practise game against the Western Australian representative side. | ||||
| Played : November 26 1983 | Venue : Inglewood, Perth, Australia | |||
| Western Australia
Goals : S McCaffrey, R Campbell |
2 | - | 1 | Australia Terry Greedy, Jim Cant, Steve O'Connor, David Ratcliffe, Graham Jennings, Joe Watson (Peter Tredinnick 70), Peter Katholos (Jim Campbell 65), Tony Henderson, Ken Murphy (Mark Jankovics 46), John Kosmina, Phil O'Connor Goal : Kosmina |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia) | ||||
| A second training match was played before the Merlion Cup against the Malaysian club Kuala Lumpur. | ||||
| Played : November 30 1983 | Venue : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | |||
| Kuala Lumpur (MLY) (Lineup unavailable) |
1 | - | 4 | Australia Terry Greedy (Bruce James 60), Charlie Yankos, Steve O'Connor, David Ratcliffe, Graham Jennings, Joe Watson (Ken Murphy), Peter Katholos (Jim Campbell 70), Tony Henderson, Peter Tredinnick, John Kosmina (Mark Jankovics), Phil O'Connor Goals : Kosmina x2, Henderson, Katholos |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia) | ||||
| The second match of the Merlion Cup tournament was against the 'B' side of Singapore. Being against non 'A' opposition this match is in the B archive. The win against the Singapore B side put Australias quest for the trophy back on track, after they were beaten by China in the first game. | ||||
| Played (Date not known) December 1983 | Venue : Singapore | |||
| Singapore B (Lineup unavailable) |
1 | - | 3 | Australia Terry Greedy, Charlie Yankos, Steve O'Connor, David Ratcliffe, Graham Jennings, Peter Katholos (Ken Murphy), Tony Henderson, Peter Tredinnick (Jim Campbell), Mark Jankovics, John Kosmina, Phil O'Connor Goal : Kosmina |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia) | ||||