The 1967 NSW First Division season was the eleventh season of soccer in New South Wales under the administration of the NSW Federation of Soccer Clubs since its breakaway from the NSW Soccer Football Association in January 1957. The league structure increased to 22 rounds of a home and away regular season, followed by a round robin group stage and closed with a grand final match.
APIA Leichhardt finished first on the ladder with 37 points, to become regular season premiers for the third time after winning their first in 1964. St George-Budapest and South Sydney-Croatia finished in second and third places with 31 and 27 points respectively. Pan Hellenic secured fourth place and a spot in the finals series, edging out Hakoah-Eastern Suburbs on goal difference.
The finals series was held throughout September with APIA Leichhardt and St George-Budapest qualifying for the grand final as the top two teams of the round robin stage. St George won the grand final 5âÂÂ2.
The pre-season Ampol Cup was also won by St George-Budapest, defeating Hakoah-Eastern Suburbs 2âÂÂ0.
Changes from last season:
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The Consolation Cup was a new knockout series held for the first time in the league for bottom eight teams not competing in the First Division semifinals and the top four teams of the Second Division. Teams ranked 9 to 12 (First Division) and 1 to 4 (Second Division) competed in the first round and were joined by teams ranked 5 to 8 (First Division) in the quarter-finals.
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Soccer World reporters awarded stars out of six to players throughout the 18 rounds. The player with the highest stars was Alan Westwater with 4.38. Only five players, half the amount from the previous year, averaged four points or more. Below left is the list of all five players and below right is the team of the year:
John Giacometti was the season's top goalscorer for the third consecutive year with 22 goals. Below is a list of the top ten goalscorers for the season:
Below is a list of attendances by club:
The season began with the eleventh edition of the floodlit pre-season night series (tenth as the Ampol Cup), culminating with the double-header third place playoff and Final in front of 7,000 spectators.
The tournament continued the same point scoring and round robin system from the previous year, with 12 points for a win, 5 points for a draw and 1 point for each goal scored. The four teams progressing from to the semifinals from the group stages were St George and APIA from Group A and Hakoah and Pan Hellenic from Group B. The semifinals, third place play-off and Final were all maintained from previous editions.
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