The Vel-Belles take on the Beauts (Azzurri and Graylands) in a friendly at Subiaco Oval as a curtain raiser to the WA men's State team game versus Moscow Dynamo match in February. The two teams play further games at the Silver Sands Soccer Festival in Rockingham and the Kwinana Soccer Carnival. 'Sunday Times' journalist Richard Bales forms the Australian Girls Soccer Association in July. Four months later, Oscar Mate becomes the first Chairman of the association, which is then renamed the Western Australian Girls Soccer Association. Clipping from Richard Kreider's Paddocks to Pitches.