Australasia GAA

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The Australasia County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) , or Australasia GAA, or Gaelic Football & Hurling Association of Australasia is one of the county boards of the GAA outside Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games all across Australasia. The county board is also responsible for Australasia inter county teams . The board is made up of the following divisions New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia

History

The first reported games of Gaelic football in Australasia were played in South Australia in the 1840s, and this begins the recorded history of Australasian GAA.

Official associations, however, were not formed until the twentieth century.

The first Australasian GAA was formed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1953.

Victoria's GAA was formed in 1956, followed by New South Wales.

This was followed in 1963 by the formation of a South Australian association in South Australia and associations in Western Australia and Queensland soon after.

The first interstate championships in both codes were played between NSW, Victoria and South Australia in 1971.

In Sydney in 1974 representatives of state associations met and agreed to form the Gaelic Athletic Association of Australia to administer and promote Gaelic football and hurling on a national level. Subsequently, the Gaelic Athletic Association of Australia joined with the New Zealand associations of Auckland and Hutt Valley - Wellington from New Zealand to form the Gaelic Athletic Association of Australasia.

The last few years have been a time of expansion in the Association. New initiatives and developments, combined with GAA funding, have seen the number of teams competing in Gaelic football more than double.

Ladies' Gaelic football

The Australasia Ladies' football team have won the last three Women's World Cup competitions (the tournament does not include Irish sides)

Honours

Women's World Cup 2000, 2002, 2005

External links

• Australasia GAA site
• Young Irelands Gaelic Football Club Sydney

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