1960 NSWSF season

The 1960 New South Wales Federation of Soccer Clubs season was the fourth season of football in New South Wales under the administration of the federation since its breakaway from the NSW Soccer Football Association in January of 1957. The home and away league season began on the 20th of March with fourteen teams, the same amount as the previous season. Sydney Prague were minor premiers for a second consecutive season after twenty-six rounds of competition.
Once again a finals series was used decide the First Division champions of New South Wales in the format of a four team page playoff system. Canterbury-Marrickville prevented Prague again winning the league double, defeating them 5–2 in the grand final.
Other tournaments held this season included the Ampol Cup and the third edition of the Federation Cup. Budapest won the Ampol Cup defeating APIA Leichhardt in the final and Bankstown defeated Canterbury in the Ascot Thousand Federation Cup final.

Clubs

; Changes from last season

Manly Warringah was promoted into the competition from Second Division
Concord was relegated to Second Division and was absorbed by Concordia.
North Side United merged with Illawarra District Soccer Association club, E.P.T. to form North Side United–E.P.T.

Club	Ground	Colours	Founded
A.P.I.A.	Lambert Park, Leichhardt	Maroon and blue	1954	4th	1957	2nd
Auburn SFC	Mona Park, Auburn	Green and gold	1957	4th	1957	6th
Balgownie Rangers	Judy Masters Oval, Balgownie	Black and white	1889	2nd	1959	13th
Bankstown SFC	Bankstown Oval, Bankstown	Green and gold	1944	4th	1957	12th
Budapest	Sydney Athletics Field, Moore Park	Red, white and green	1957	2nd	1959	11th
Canterbury-Marrickville	Arlington Oval, Dulwich Hill	Blue and gold	1896	4th	1957	5th
Corrimal United	Memorial Park, Corrimal	Red and white	1958	3rd	1958	3rd
Gladesville-Ryde	Gladesville Sports Ground, Gladesville	Amber and black	1951	4th	1957	8th
Granville AEK	Macarthur Park, Granville	Amber and black	1885	2nd	1959	10th
Hakoah	Sydney Athletics Field, Moore Park	Sky Blue and White	1953	4th	1957	4th
North Side United–E.P.T.	Chatswood Oval, Chatswood	Blue and gold	1953	4th	1957	7th
Prague	Sydney Athletics Field, Moore Park	Sky Blue	1952	4th	1957	1st
Sydney Austral	Sydney Cricket Ground No. 2, Moore Park	Red, white and blue	1952	4th	1957	9th

Regular season

Table and results

Finals series

Grand final

An Australian record crowd of 17,872 delivered £4,216 in gate takings. They saw the only second defeat of Prague throughout the season. Prague could not field Walter Tamandl, one of their Austrian stars, due to injury. The final was also broadcast on television by the ABC, albeit with a week delay. The trophy for the winner was name sponsored by Bisleri.

NSWSF First Division
1960 Premiers

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Awards and statistics

Attendance

Below is a list of total attendances per club in all matches, both home and away.

Club	Attendance
APIA Leichhardt FC	113,000
Sydney FC Prague	96,000
Canterbury-Marrickville	72,000
Sydney Hakoah	61,000
Auburn SFC	60,000
Budapest	58,000
Gladesville-Ryde DSFC	50,000
Corrimal United	34,000
Granville AEK	31,000
Bankstown SFC	30,000
North Side United–E.P.T.	26,000
Sydney Austral SFC	26,000
Balgownie Rangers FC	24,000
Manly Warringah	18,000

Other competitions

Ampol Cup

Originally formed in 1957 as the William Kennard Cup, this was the third year to be sponsored by Ampol.
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Ascot Thousand Federation Cup

This was the fourth year contesting the Federation Cup, named the Ascot Thousand for sponsorship reasons.
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